January 2010

Why Hasn’t the Web Revolutionized Scholarly Publication?

1 Comment / Networks, Technology / By

Michael Giberson When Tim Berners-Lee created the Web in 1991, it was with the aim of better facilitating scientific communication and the dissemination of scientific research. Put another way, the Web was designed to disrupt scientific publishing. It was not designed to disrupt bookstores, telecommunications, matchmaking services, newspapers, pornography, stock trading, music distribution, or a …

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The Joys of Target

Economics / By

Lynne Kiesling A random observation on the plenitude of market processes: a single visit to Target this morning enabled me to solve several pressing needs as well as some unanticipated ones (and on sale, even!). I can’t even express how irrepressibly happy the whole experience left me. It’s those simple, frequently unacknowledged experiences that really …

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Planet Money: Do Smart Meters Curb Energy Use?

5 Comments / Economics, Electricity, Technology, Uncategorized / By

Lynne Kiesling Last Friday National Public Radio ran a Planet Money story called “Do smart meters curb energy use?” (first link is to program listing, second is to story transcript) Members of the KP community will not be surprised by any of the content in the report, but it does provide a good introduction to …

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Utilities Should Help Hackers Hack Smart Meters

1 Comment / Electricity, Technology / By

Michael Giberson I tend to believe that smart meter developers and their customers will devise sufficient protection for smart meters to carry on business with. The smarter of smart meters will not just measure power flowing through the device, in both directions, it will also communicate and perhaps execute instructions sent to it from authorized …

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Texas and the Tres Amigas Interconnection

1 Comment / Electricity, Energy markets / By

Michael Giberson Over the holiday NYTimes.com posted a story by ClimateWire reporter Peter Behr that does a pretty good job of describing the proposed Tres Amigas project (proposing to link the three main electric regions in the U.S. – Eastern, Western, and Texas) and surrounding issues.  Among other things, the story provides a good short …

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Is Real-time Pricing Worth the Trouble for Residential Customers?

6 Comments / Electricity, Energy markets / By

Michael Giberson A study of consumers’ responses to real time pricing, by Hunt Allcott, examines 2003 and 2006 data from the Center for Neighborhood Technology’s Energy Smart Pricing Plan.  Allcot observes: This is a particularly interesting time to be studying real time pricing. Most US households currently have electricity meters that simply record the total …

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Left-right Political Model “Obscures More Than It Reveals”

2 Comments / Politics / By

Lynne Kiesling I don’t really have an opinion about Tucker Carlson’s new online journalism enterprise The Daily Caller. I do, though, really like what Arianna Huffington said in her guest column there today about the uselessness of the left-right political model, and how the media do themselves and us a disservice by leaving on those …

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Home Energy Innovation from Direct Energy

3 Comments / Economics, Electricity, Technology / By

Lynne Kiesling Whirlpool and Direct Energy have long been two of the most forward-looking companies working in the electricity value chain. Whirlpool was the appliance partner on the GridWise Olympic Peninsula transactive network project, and have committed to all of their global products being grid friendly and transactive by 2015. Direct Energy, an energy retailer, …

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