Lynne Kiesling I pride myself on being a version 2.0 adopter, an early-but-not-bleeding edge adopter. I’m also a happy Mac user. Why, therefore, have I (of all people!) not bought an iPhone? Grant McCracken’s recent musings on his newly-acquired iPhone are what prompt my question: The question is “what took me so long?” My wife …
Am I a Pathetic Late Adopter, or Just a Curmudgeon? Read More »
Lynne Kiesling I declare our conference on the experience of electricity restructuring in Texas on Friday at AEI a success! In regulatory policy analysis we usually don’t do a good job of telling the stories of successful institutional change, so I thought it was really important to highlight the Texas experience so that other regulatory …
Texas Electric Choice: The Power is Yours. Use It. Read More »
Lynne Kiesling I am pleased to announce that I delivered my book manuscript to the publisher a week and a half ago. Here’s a teaser: Economic growth and technological change have brought the electric industry and its regulation to a crossroads. Technological change from outside the industry has prompted changes in both regulatory institutions and …
Lynne Kiesling Randy Barnett reminds us that January 19 was the bicentennial of Lysander Spooner’s birth. His post has pictures, and cake, and useful links to background on Spooner for those of you not familiar with him. He was a stalwart in the early American republic. I love that his tombstone reads “Champion of Liberty”. …
Lynne Kiesling Did you know that the numerical distribution of chocolate chips in commercially baked cookies is Poisson?
Lynne Kiesling My colleague Andy Kleit and I are co-editing a book on electricity restructuring in Texas: A number of states have recently sought to increase competition in the electricity industry to drive down prices, increase supply, and improve service quality. Yet in the aftermath of the rolling blackouts and power shortages that afflicted California …
Upcoming Aei Conference: Texas Electricity Restructuring Read More »
Lynne Kiesling OK, so I’m a little slow … and Mike’s gonna give me the big eyeroll I deserve when I say this … it wasn’t until I saw the title of this Burgh Diaspora post (I’m a definitive member of the Pittsburgher diaspora) that I consciously thought about this question: do prediction markets discover …
Lynne Kiesling Both overall energy use and data center/server farm energy use are pressing energy policy issues, and one of the reasons is the waste heat generated by computer chips. This Boing Boing article describes a new technique for creating cooler computer chips by building in something called a Peltier cooler: North Carolina’s Nextreme has …
Lynne Kiesling Since last week there’s been more discussion of the GridWise Olympic Peninsula Project that I discussed last week: a Business Week article on the project and a Gristmill post, a CNN Money article, the Solve Climate blog, and an Associated Press article that ran in USA Today. The last article also quotes me, …
More Coverage of the Gridwise Olympic Peninsula Project and Smart Grid Read More »
Lynne Kiesling Over the past week there has been quite a discussion online of the California Energy Commission’s proposal requiring mandatory customer thermostat reponse to emergency demand reduction signals. This New York Times article from Friday also discusses the CEC proposal, as does this ABC news affiliate story from San Francisco. See also the discussion …
Programmable Thermostat Regulations in California: Big Brother or Control Freaks? Read More »
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