Lynne Kiesling Here’s a great new source from the Wall Street Journal: Energy Roundup, an energy economics blog. Excellent! Welcome to the party. HT to Environmental Economics for the link; now let’s persuade Mr. Gongloff that KP should be on his list of “blogs we’re reading” …
Lynne Kiesling I’ve often wondered how nanotechnology can contribute to increased efficiency, load factor, and conservation of energy. My first thoughts were probably wrong; we don’t need nano-scale devices to perform remote monitoring and automated repair and self-correction within the wires network itself. Regular small-scale devices can do just fine for that. But here’s some …
Lynne Kiesling Check out this NPR story about the installation of smart digital electric meters in the Southern California Edison service territory. Millions of Californian consumers could soon know the real costs of their electricity with the debut of the Smart Meter. Environmentalists and economists believe this will make them more careful about how and …
Lynne Kiesling Monday’s front-page article on electricity metering and pricing by David Cay Johnston highlights two important developments in modernizing electricity policy. One overarching theme in the article is that markets cannot function up to their potential when buyers and sellers face systematic asymmetric information. In the case of electricity, retail customers do not see …
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Michael Giberson The Texas PUC has released its “2007 Scope of Competition in Electric Markets in Texas” report. The Dallas Morning News reported a story headlined Power company competition not working, report says. The story said: The report offered suggestions for the Legislature as it goes into session next month, including ideas that would cut …
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Michael Giberson A post at the Energy Legal Blog argues that a pair of recent court decisions will be the death of competitive wholesale power markets, at least in the Western United States, unless the Supreme Court reverses.
Lynne Kiesling Check out this Technology review article about using flexible electronics to enable wireless powering of devices through induction. Nikola Tesla, spin over in your grave and call your office! The power sheet, says Takao Someya, professor of engineering at the University of Tokyo, relies on the well-known physical principle of electromagnetic induction, used …
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Lynne Kiesling Mike beat me to it in commenting on David Cay Johnston’s NYT article from Wednesday about grid congestion. My thoughts are somewhat different from Mike’s, for what it’s worth. Johnston hits on one of the most pressing problems in electricity restructuring, although I’m going to frame it differently from how he does: technological …
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Michael Giberson David Cay Johnston is back with another in his series of articles on electric industry restructuring, this one concerning transmission congestion. Another important sign of worsening congestion is a sharp increase in requests by network operators to prevent overloads that could disrupt transmission on the PJM Interconnection, the network serving 51 million people …
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Michael Giberson If all the cars and light trucks in the nation switched from oil to electrons, idle capacity in the existing electric power system could generate most of the electricity consumed by plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. A new study for the Department of Energy finds that “off-peak” electricity production and transmission capacity could fuel …
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