June 2009

A New Paper, and Presenting It at Conferences This Week

1 Comment / Complexity, Economics, Electricity / By

Lynne Kiesling My co-author David Chassin and I have a new working paper available at SSRN from the GridWise Olympic Peninsula testbed demonstration project: Beneficial Complexity: A Field Experiment in Technology, Institutions, and Institutional Change in the Electric Power Industry This paper presents and analyzes the results of a recent field experiment in which residential …

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Coal in a World of Cheap Natural Gas

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Michael Giberson Natural gas has become cheap enough relative to coal that some gas-fired electric generators are able to underbid baseload coal generators.  Market-based switching from coal power to gas has increased demand for gas by three billion cubic feet per day according to a Merrill Lynch analysis cited in the Wall Street Journal today. …

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What Are the Best Books on the Economic History of Energy Technology and Development?

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Michael Giberson I know we have a few economic historians among our readers. You may be interested in Alexis Madrigal’s blog, Inventing Green, which he describes as research notes for his forthcoming book on the development of energy technology and institutions (previously mentioned here in an earlier post). Recently he wrote: The deeper I get …

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Water Footprint As the Next Big Thing

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Lynne Kiesling Wednesday’s Christian Science Monitor had an interesting article about burgeoning water scarcity issues: Move over, carbon, the next shoe to drop in the popular awareness of eco-issues is the “water footprint.” That’s the word in environmental circles these days. Just as the image of a heavy carbon foot made it possible for the …

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Will Wind Energy Follow Ethanol’s Path?

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Michael Giberson The ethanol industry is suffering and The Wichita Eagle asks, “Will wind energy follow ethanol’s path?“ The answer is: Possibly. It depends on politics, the health of the credit markets and the price of coal, oil and natural gas. Oil prices are moving up, recently exceeding $70 bbl in NYMEX trading, but gas …

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It’s the End of the School Year …

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Lynne Kiesling … replete with its reminder of the old aphorism, which I believe is completely accurate: we teach for free, but get paid to grade. Grading, grading, grading, awash in blue books. Trying to avoid being lured into the procrastination vortices of KP, Twitter, etc. OK, back to work …

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