Lynne Kiesling Without whom, there would be no induction-based generation of electricity, the modern electronic world as we know it would not exist, and I would have to write about something else. Three cheers to the genius of Faraday! And thanks to Wired for noting his birthday.
Michael Giberson In the wholesale power markets world, commercial energy storage concepts are commonly somewhat of an afterthought. None of the large regional wholesale power markets integrated into transmission operations put too much effort into thinking about energy storage as they developed their market rules. A part of the problem is that the transmission system …
Energy Storage on the Grid: Transmission Equipment or Market Participant? Read More »
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 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 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 …
Nifty Smart Grid End Use Devices. But Are They Transactive? Read More »
Michael Giberson Just as Lynne was suggesting the importance of energy storage… If we had more efficient and distributed energy storage, then we could store wind-generated power near the source when lines are congested, and store it near demand by transmitting it when lines are not congested. Distributed energy storage gets us a one-two punch …
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 …
Michael Giberson EnergyBizInsider, Examining Texas: Like everything else in Texas, energy prices are getting big. But is it the cause of deregulation or other factors such as the price of underlying fuels? This is the question that the Governor’s Competiveness Council took up. … It acknowledges that prices have risen there the last few …
Retail Electric Power in Texas: Growing Pains or Just Pain? Read More »
Michael Giberson Today’s edition of Power Markets Week quotes me on the topic of resolving seams between RTO power markets. (I don’t have a link, the newsletter is by subscription only.) In the nature of shameless self-promotion, I’ll quote the interesting parts (i.e. the paragraphs mentioning me), along with only as much extraneous information as …
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