Lynne Kiesling A belated shout-out to Sean Lynch at Catallarchy for his excellent post on electricity pricing and incentives to reduce use, creating system benefits in the bargain. It’s so good that I wish I had written it.
Lynne Kiesling Even though most of this article with investment analyst comments on generation capacity and the recent heat wave focuses on how growing demand means there’s profit in building more generation, the article does finally get to the good stuff at the end: Added generating capacity would boost the reserve cushion, but Hartley at …
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Lynne Kiesling There was a blackout in Queens, New York late last week, and some customers are still without power. At City Journal, Nicole Gelinas pins responsibility right where it belongs: political institutions do not have a profit motive for investing in infrastructure: This neglect goes unnoticed when the electricity is actually on. But beginning …
Lynne Kiesling Please do go over and welcome back Mr. Seat, who has been away for far too long. He offers sympathy to our Indian friends, and links to an Environmental Economics post about generating electricity from cow manure. One company I know of that does great energy things with manure is Real Energy. As …
Lynne Kiesling Today’s New York Times has an article about a possible new transmission project from northern New York southeast into Orange County (registration required). Here’s the deal: for the past decade there has been increasing anxiety about the ability of the existing high-voltage transmission network to support the increasingly distributed commercial transactions that have …
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Michael Giberson Electric rate regulation in Maryland has become so, uh, I can’t think of a nice way to say it. Here’s the short version of the story: Years ago when Maryland passed a law restructuring its state electric industry, it placed Baltimore Gas & Electric electric rates under a long-term rate cap. That rate …
Lynne Kiesling Have you noticed those AMD processor ads in airports, magazines, etc., that say things like “this processor saves enough power to steam the milk for 1,000 lattes”? I am fascinated by the fact that AMD sees value in a general marketing campaign focused on energy saving features of processors! We would see more …
Michael Giberson As Lynne noted, we have written a comment on the Electric Energy Market Competition Task Force Draft Report to Congress. [ Report PDF. ] About 45 comments have been posted online at FERC, and naturally I am curious as to what other people said. [ Link to comments. ] I thought that I …
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Lynne Kiesling On Friday the Mercatus Center filed a public interest comment, written by myself and Michael Giberson (the full comment in pdf form is at the link at the bottom of the page), on the Electric Energy Market Competition Task Force Draft Report to Congress. The Draft Report to Congress on Competition in the …
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Michael Giberson Reforming an African electricity company requires tough love, persistence — and a little luck. Just ask Jean-David Bile, a civil engineer in the central African country of Cameroon. Bile runs AES Corp.’s electricity operation in Cameroon, a national grid that is chiefly powered by two large dams and was formerly fully owned by …
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