Michael Giberson Generally we don’t air our dirty laundry in public around here. But that won’t stop me from pointing out that Alex Tabarrok has a good post on the Department of Energy’s energy efficiency standards for washing machines.
Michael Giberson “Some of the argument centers on just how smart a smart meter needs to be.” That’s a line out of a story from the Philadelphia Inquirer about smart meters and the upcoming special legislative session on energy beginning in Pennsylvania next week. Governor Ed Rendell is pushing for a retail real-time price option …
Michael Giberson The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has released its second annual report on electric power demand response and advanced metering. According to a news release issued on Friday: Demand response and advanced metering programs have grown significantly over the past year, according to a new Federal Energy Regulatory Commission report that charts progress in …
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Michael Giberson EPSA, an industry trade association for independent power generators, has also posted comments in response to the Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren editorial on electric industry restructuring. Given that their members are non-utility generators, you can imagine that they wouldn’t be too excited about the Taylor/Van Doren view that vertical integration is …
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Michael Giberson Jerry Taylor of the Cato Institute gives a thoughtful response to my criticisms of his editorial in the WSJ (with Peter Van Doren). He identifies two substantive arguments in my criticism and offers rebuttals, then he takes issue with my assertion that the editorial is little more than an implicit defense of the …
Michael Giberson There are more energy news items out there than I can keep up with. We may get around to some of these items in a day or two, but for the rest you’ll have to come up with your own pithy comments: NewsWatch: Energy posts on current gasoline market trends, citing the Energy …
Michael Giberson A forthcoming American Economic Review article was noted online by US News & World Report: Over the past two decades, huge swaths of the economy have been deregulated, from banking to electricity to airlines. But has competition increased efficiency? In a paper forthcoming in the American Economic Review, a group of academics from …
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Michael Giberson Thursday’s Wall Street Journal carried an essay by the Cato Institute’s Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, “Short-Circuited” (available free via Cato): After a pretty good 30-year run, deregulation is on the political ropes. Although loosening the shackles on banking, trucking, and airlines delivered lower prices, robust competition and political applause, it hasn’t …
Lynne Kiesling I have been remiss in not recommending to you the New Daedalus blog by Toby Considine, one of the most visionary folks I know in the intelligent buildings and IT space. His post about information and behavior changes discusses the visual information transmission technology used at Southern California Edison to signal price changes …
Lynne Kiesling Data center power use has become substantial over the past decade, as computing has increased and computing power has intensified, so we have smaller processors doing ever more work, requiring ever more electricity. These processors also give off more waste heat, requiring more cooling, which requires more electricity; indeed, data center cooling has …
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