Lynne Kiesling Here’s a good podcast from IBM: IBM and the Future of Energy: The next five years will be pivotal for the energy and utility industry. Consumers are no longer content to be recipients of energy, they want more choices about how they buy it, how they manage it, and the impact energy production …
Lynne Kiesling Last week I noted JetBlue’s eBay store for selling tickets, and I said … I agree with one of the commenters that I wish music concerts and sporting events would start doing the same. Well … what I had in mind was last-minute tickets for games and concerts, but here’s a variation on …
Lynne Kiesling Last month, Wired celebrated the 120th anniversary of the electricity meter. More specifically, the anniversary of the patent for the first really commercially viable electro-mechanical meter. Edison, being Edison, had come up with others before, but they “didn’t scale”, and were messy because they were chemical, not mechanical. This post provides a nice …
Lynne Kiesling Oil prices have declined since their July high, but the decrease has been particularly precipitous in the past week. As of 8:23 EDT this morning, the NYMEX future price is $91.73/bbl. Less than $100! Why? Here are my off-the-cuff thoughts: 1. Financial market instability Oil prices are a leading indicator of expectations of …
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Lynne Kiesling Headed home from a week’s vacation in England, which is the reason for my radio silence here! I was going to post, but traveling with the KP Spouse and two of our best friends meant for a fun and busy schedule! The primary event of/reason for the trip was Hamlet at the Royal …
Lynne Kiesling JetBlue has an eBay store, and they are auctioning off seats for lots of different flights, with starting bids as low as five cents. This is a good way to deal with excess capacity at the last minute, and I agree with one of the commenters that I wish music concerts and sporting …
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Lynne Kiesling The headline on this article in today’s USA Today says it all: Taxpayers take on trillions in risk in Fannie, Freddie takeover
Lynne Kiesling Sitting at O’Hare, waiting for a plane … what better time to share the myriad links I’ve collected this week on smart grid topics? Today I saw this post on smart grid technology at the Discovery News Powr Talk blog. Their post, titled “Grid, Ready to Talk”, hits hard on the point that …
Lynne Kiesling The smart grid technology space is growing. Nifty, clever, useful devices proliferate in the market, whether your interests lie in remote sensing and monitoring in the wires, in distribution automation (which is actually sexier than it sounds!), or in intelligent end-use devices and building automation. Many of the end use devices, especially for …
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Lynne Kiesling An article in today’s New York Times describes the difficulty of getting wind power to urban demand centers when transmission lines are congested: The dirty secret of clean energy is that while generating it is getting easier, moving it to market is not. The grid today, according to experts, is a system conceived …
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