Electricity

Synapse Report on Ami Benefits for Residential Customers in New Jersey Undervalues Consumer Benefits Due to Its Narrow, Control-oriented Focus

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Lynne Kiesling On July 8, 2008, Synapse Energy Economics released a report titled “Advanced Metering Infrastructure — Implications for Residential Customers in New Jersey“, commissioned by the New Jersey Department of Public Advocate. The report’s primary focus is an analysis of the cost-effectiveness of investments in Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) from their definition of the …

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New Nanotech Material Uses Waste Heat to Generate Electricity

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Lynne Kiesling OK, here’s another one for the “how cool is this?” file: a new material than can generate electricity from engine waste heat in hot environments, such as automobile engines: The new material is called thallium-doped lead telluride. The development could have a direct application for converting car engine exhaust heat into electricity, according …

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New York Times on In-home Energy Monitoring Technologies

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Lynne Kiesling Boy, the New York Times is on a roll! First they have a great article on British home electricity technologies and retail price signals last week, which I mentioned in my post that critiqued Rebecca Smith’s recent Wall Street Journal article on Texas electricity markets. Now they have a really good article on …

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Severin Borenstein on Real-time Retail Electricity Pricing

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Lynne Kiesling Here’s a video of Severin Borenstein discussing real-time pricing in retail electricity markets, from a presentation at CITRIS in April 2007: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdD4sYvDa08&hl=en&fs=1] It’s a good overview of some of the applied economic and policy issues in retail electricity pricing. Recommended to all. One specific thing I would add, though, is that he characterizes …

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Green Tech Media

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If you like what we discuss here at KP and you have not been reading Green Tech Media, you should be. There’s lots of good stuff there on renewables, plug-in hybrid vehicles, and other energy technology topics.

Tom Friedman from Aspen on Energy and His New Book

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Lynne Kiesling Earlier this month Tom Friedman gave a talk at the Aspen Ideas Festival about his new book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded. I recommend all three of the video outtakes to all of you, regardless of your position on climate change, carbon policy, etc. In particular, the third clip where he discusses smart grid …

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Electricity Markets and Price Signals: Customer Technology in Britain, and a Misleading Wsj Article About Texas

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Lynne Kiesling Two recent news articles highlight the relevance of electricity price signals and intelligent end-use technology during a period of increasing fuel prices, and the juxtaposition of the two articles highlights consumers changing their behavior in the face of high energy prices. In short, the institutional change required to achieve thriving, healthy retail electricity …

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Many Texans Willing to Pay a Little More to Get Wind Power

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From the Houston Chronicle: A majority of Texans would be willing to pay $4 more on their monthly electric bills to create a network of power lines from wind farms, according to a recent poll. The survey, commissioned by a group of wind generation companies, is being released in advance of state utility regulators’ debate …

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Superconductor Electric Cables Move from Lab to Market

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Lynne Kiesling Over the past six years here at KP I’ve discussed the development of high-temperature superconductor technologies and their application to electric power systems, and today we have reached a milestone in that development: Power executives, engineers, and the media gathered recently to officially throw the switch at the $60 million Holbrook Superconductor project, …

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