Lynne Kiesling I’ve got nothing more to say about the energy bill that I haven’t already said, and others have also said it better. It’s big, it’s wasteful, it’s got corporate welfare and farm bill written all over it, it induces people to buy cars that Toyota and Honda can’t keep in stock already because …
Lynne Kiesling A piece of evidence consistent with my hypothesis: the Wisconsin Farm Bureau welcomes the new energy bill, saying not only that increased ethanol production benefits Wisconsin farmers, but also that the state legislature should follow the Congressional example and pass bills to mandate ethanol use in fuel in Wisconsin. … deep sigh …
Lynne Kiesling Last week while I was off philosophizing, the Federal Trade Commission released a new report on the factors that influence retail gasoline prices (hat tip to Todd Zywicki). The FTC watches retail gasoline prices carefully, and every spring like clockwork when prices go up and my Senator (that would be Dick Durbin) rails …
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 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 Hold on to your wallets; the Senate is debating the energy bill today. I actually just heard John Thune say that ethanol is a clean fuel that will lessen our dependence on foreign oil. Spare me. Ethanol is neither clean nor a silver bullet to make us self-sufficient in energy. Ethanol production 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 …
Michael Giberson I was also among the energy market conventioneers, enjoying the day and a half of discussions among proponents of competition in energy markets. While the convention was filled with folks who support development of energy markets, there was a substantial diversity of views and a lot of healthy discussion. In the next several …
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