Michael Giberson I bike to work almost every day, but contrarian that I am*, I kicked off Bike-to-Work Week** by walking to work on Monday. * Actually, my bike was in the shop over the weekend, I had no idea it was ‘Bike-to-Work Week’, and I’m not really that contrarian.*** ** For less hearty souls, …
May is Bike Month and May 11-15 is Bike-to-Work Week Read More »
Michael Giberson Tyler Hamilton has a pair of stories in the Toronto Star addressing concerns about wind power developments in Ontario. The first article examines health-related claims and indicates that no scientific evidence yet finds evidence of adverse health affects, but research in the area in increasing. The second article considers a number of other …
Articles on Wind Power in Ontario Address Effects on Emissions, Other Issues Read More »
Michael Giberson An example: The biggest reason the human brain will always remain irrational is because Wall Street wants it that way. Wall Street can control irrational Americans better using its high-tech neuroeconomic data, strategies and algorithms. I’d rate the whole thing as somewhere between car-crash bad and train-wreck bad. There might be a good …
This Anti-Neuroeconomics Screed on Marketwatch is So Bad You Have to Stop and Look Read More »
Michael Giberson Reading and writing about Jeremy Rifkind’s distributed energy proposal has been made much easier for me this morning because I’ve had Pandora running music in the background. More specifically, Pandora has been playing my “A message to you Rudy” station, and by clicking here you can listen, too. It has been a beautiful …
Michael Giberson I’m not generally a fan of Jeremy Rifkind’s work. But, as a commenter is quoted as saying at the end of this BBC News report on Rifkind’s latest ideas for energy policy, “The world has room for visionaries.” At a Prague conference, Rifkind outlined a grand scheme for solving economic and energy problems …
Jeremy Rifkind, Thinking Big About Distributed Energy Resources Read More »
Michael Giberson From the Hartford Courant (May 11, 2009): A bill in the General Assembly that would force gasoline wholesalers to charge the same price to retail dealers across Connecticut would likely raise the price of fuel for most motorists and make the market less responsive to competition. Legislation to ban so-called zone pricing has …
Hartford Courant Editorializes Against Zone Pricing Ban in Connecticut Read More »
Michael Giberson Richard Munson’s book From Edison to Enron provides a pretty engaging run through the history of the electric power business in the United States. The title actually understates the scope just a bit on each end, with Munson touching briefly on developments before Thomas Edison gets involved and discussing developments after Enron’s 2001 …
What is unusual about the retail electric power market in Lubbock? Is this regard is Lubbock a harbinger of the industry’s future or a relic of the industry’s past? Why?
Michael Giberson An NJBIZ story reports that non-utility electric retailers in New Jersey are having more success attracting smaller and mid-size customers in recent months, largely because the non-utility retailers can provide a price based on currently-low spot energy prices while utilities have their energy costs established in the state’s periodic “basic generation service” auction. …
Electric Power Consumers in New Jersey Are Pursuing Lower Prices Read More »
Michael Giberson “Will you step into my parlor?” said the spider to the fly; “’Tis the prettiest little parlor that ever you did spy. The way into my parlor is up a winding stair, And I have many pretty things to show when you are there.” Jon Wellinghoff, the chief spider at the Federal Energy …
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