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 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 …
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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 …
Michael Giberson An article about meter technology company Itron in the Spokane (WA) Journal of Business makes the distinction between the last hot new thing in metering — automatic meter reading (AMR) — and the latest new thing — advanced meter infrastructure (AMI). AMR provided a giant leap forward in reducing meter reading costs and …
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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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Michael Giberson The Washington Post story is headlined, “O’Malley Encouraging Utilities Commission To Assert Its Powers“: The hearing on the 16th floor of the state government building in Baltimore was as charged as a cross-examination. Two Verizon officials were called to appear before Maryland’s utility regulators to explain a 50 percent increase in customer complaints …
Michael Giberson PJM Interconnection filed plans today with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission seeking to reorganize the market monitoring function at the regional power market and transmission system operator. The proposal was filed in the form of a Offer of Settlement intended to resolve two complaints filed against PJM earlier this year. The proposal would …
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Michael Giberson Platts is reporting that the Maryland Public Service Commission is considering hiring an outside law firm to evaluate whether there is sufficient evidence of a lack of competitiveness in PJM’s power markets to bring a case before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. [Maryland PSC chairman Steven] Larsen told Platts his agency believes that …
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