Author name: Lynne Kiesling

Electricity Transmission And Rates Of Technological Diffusion

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According to this article, American Superconductor has achieved an important milestone in producing transmission wires from high temperature superconductor material: “American Superconductor Corporation announced it has achieved reproducible results in electrical performance over 10-meter lengths of its second generation, coated conductor composite, high temperature superconductor (HTS) wires that are significantly ahead of the goals set …

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My Weather Pixie’s A Bit Daft

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Okay, it’s snowing here, and my Weather Pixie is still not wearing any gloves! At some point I’d like to program her to wear jaunty, hand-knitted gloves, scarf and hat when the temp goes below 40F. In my copious free time …

Baby Steps Toward Market-based Retail Pricing

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Demand response programs at utilities and ISOs are not full-on market-based retail pricing, but they at least serve as evidence that demand incentives interacting with supply incentives can discipline prices very effectively. This article on PJM’s demand response program illustrates how sharing the benefits of load shaping kept peak hour wholesale prices down in summer …

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FERC’s Standard Market Design Proposal

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Brian Mannix of the Mercatus Center and I have written a comment on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Standard Market Design proposal. The press release and the Reason policy study are available on the Reason Public Policy Institute website. From the press release: The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Standard Market Design proposal is a bold …

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Living Off The Grid

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And while you’re enjoying your glass of small-vineyard zinfandel that you have mail ordered from California, think about living disconnected from the electricity grid and having the quality of life to which you would like to become accustomed. This New York Times article provides some insight into living off the grid, which technology is now …

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The BBC And TV Regulation

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According to British television regulators, the CNBC TV show “The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board With Stuart Varney” is a marketing device for the Wall Street Journal, and is therefore not shown in the UK. Apparently this is a thinly-veiled attempt to retain market power for the government-run BBC television programming. The editorial on this …

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Coda To The Puget Sound Energy Demand Management Program

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On Wednesday PSE decided to terminate its residential demand management TOU program, according to this article. I am disappointed but not entirely surprised, as I think some poor strategic decisions were made in determining the residential focus of the program. Furthermore, halfway demand management approaches are more a creature of risk aversion than of courageous, …

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