Lynne Kiesling It was pretty hot on the East Coast a couple of weeks ago, wasn’t it? The kind of heat that drives up the use of air conditioning and creates electricity demand spikes near system capacity, threatening service reliability. But there were no blackouts, no brownouts … what gives? Price signals and demand response, …
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Lynne Kiesling In late June the KP Spouse and I were flying back from the ISNIE conference in Iceland, and we had a lengthy layover at BWI while awaiting our Southwest flight to Midway. Tired after a long flight from Reykjavik, we grabbed a crabcake dinner at the restaurant we knew of, then sauntered down …
Vino Volo: An Oasis of Civilization Beyond Airport Security Read More »
Lynne Kiesling Yesterday we had a terrible micro-burst in my neighborhood; it didn’t go rotational so it really wasn’t a tornado, but the winds were up to 78 m.p.h. at Wrigley Field. I was sitting in one of the second floor front bedrooms at the desk, writing, when the sky went greenish-black. A whistling wind …
Lynne Kiesling Today’s New York Times has a column by Thomas Friedman, “Go Green And Save Money” (TimesSelect $$), on the importance of energy efficiency for both reducing costs and reducing overall resource use. In it Friedman draws attention to the crucial fact that both electricity use and prices are determined by the interaction of …
Thomas Friedman on Energy Efficiency in the New York Times Today Read More »
Lynne Kiesling I just want to amplify what Mike just said about the difference between AMR and AMI, and why you, the non-energy-professional, should care. Over the past couple of decades, some utilities have been putting in new meters with AMR capabilities when they’ve had to replace meters. AMR meters are only capable of one-way …
Lynne Kiesling Here’s some new interdisciplinary research that is using nanotechnology to create energy storage in a paper-like material. Details of the project are outlined in the paper “Flexible Energy Storage Devices Based on Nanocomposite Paper” published Aug. 13 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The semblance to paper is no accident: …
Lynne Kiesling Last week the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ran an article discussing how our nearly century-old, analog wires network is not up to the challenge of being a modern, distributed system that includes renewable energy: The nation’s electric power transmission system, aka the grid, could be imagined as an overworked tangle of fraying household wires repeatedly …
Lynne Kiesling The headline of this Forbes article reads “What Would You Pay To Stay Cool?” Using pending Congressional energy legislation as the springboard for the article, Ashlea Ebeling does a very good job of discussing the combination of digital technology and dynamic pricing that can transform the electric power network into a more resilient, …
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Lynne Kiesling The other day I read this Wall Street Journal article about the effect of small jets on air traffic delays ($$), and the more I thought about it, the more annoyed I got. Here’s the punchline: At La Guardia, half of all flights now involve smaller planes: regional jets and turboprops. It’s the …
Small Jets Worsen Airport Delays, and the Faa Cannot/will Not Adapt Read More »
Lynne Kiesling Anything Greg Clark writes is worth reading, even if you don’t agree with his hypotheses or his conclusions. His new book, A Farewell to Alms, explores industrialization in detail and offers some novel hypotheses for why industrialization happened when, where and how it did. I have not yet read it, but I certainly …
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