Lynne Kiesling So what, you say? It amounts to the deregulation of DSL, through the vehicle of saying that phone companies no longer have to share their phone lines with competitors. It puts DSL on more equal regulatory footing with cable, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Brand X decision earlier this year that …
Lynne Kiesling Catching up on my reading … Ray Gifford has a nice post on the role broadband over power lines can play in creating the distributed, interactive, active-demand-enabling, smart and resilient electric power network. BPL potentially has a large role to play in enabling grid-friendly appliances and the customization of electric power service to …
Lynne Kiesling One long-standing conundrum in electric power is that digital information technology has the potential to create a lot of benefits and automate a lot of costly real-time functions, but that it is not widely enough deployed. Exciting work at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is contributing to resolving that conundrum, through transactive control …
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Lynne Kiesling I’m going to answer jdr’s comment about PUHCA from yesterday’s post about the Senate energy bill here instead of in comments. I am neither so foolish or so presumptuous that I think I can prognosticate the effects of PUHCA repeal, but based on some simple economics of organization and financial markets, I think …
Lynne Kiesling The Senate approved its version of the energy bill, which differs substantially from the House version. That means that the hard work remains to be done in conference. Many of the electricity provisions are common to both, so are unlikely to change. I have no great objections to the electricity provisions; I am …
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Lynne Kiesling John Atkinson’s New Energy Currents post over at Winds of Change is up. What a great resource. Just the information on the biofuel technologies alone is worth the read. And thanks to him for his link here! I’m up for a KP speaking tour, we just need to find the bucks. California is …
Lynne Kiesling Everyone’s talking about eBay’s 10th anniversary. NPR is running a series of stories on Morning Edition. The Economist’s print edition this week has a cover article on eBay, with clever art: Much of the analysis focuses on the lessons to learn from eBay’s success. The Economist article put it succinctly: To succeed, firms …
Lynne Kiesling One of the focal discussion topics at the Center for Advancement of Energy Markets convention was how to articulate the benefits of competition. Competition has been absent from the electricity industry since 1907, when the first states established public utility commissions and began granting monopolies to utilities in retorn for their obligation to …
Lynne Kiesling The radio silence here is a result of my being at the convention for supporters of energy markets sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Energy Markets. Yesterday was a full day of speakers, all of whom were styled “energy market enthusiasts”, topped off with a banquet. We talked a lot yesterday …
Lynne Kiesling For years Warren Buffett has been saying that there is a lot of untapped, uncreated value to be unleashed in the electricity industry. Berkshire Hathaway’s acquisition of PacifiCorp, a retail utility in the Pacific Northwest, is its first large acquisition in seven years. Long-time KP readers know that this is the kind of …
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