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Epa to Power Industry: Don’t Worry About Reliability, We Can Grant Waivers

2 Comments / Energy markets, Environmental policy, Politics / By Michael Giberson

Michael Giberson Even an article in the New York Times is characterizing the spate of EPA regulations, recently issued or coming shortly, affecting the electric power industry as a “cascade.” Regional power grid operators have been reviewing their reliability projections and becoming alarmed. Here’s Matthew Wald in the Times: WASHINGTON — As 58 million people …

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Dynamic Pricing for Foodies … and for Electricity?

4 Comments / Economics, Food and wine / By Lynne Kiesling

Lynne Kiesling If you like to cook and to eat well in Chicago, you can’t avoid chef Grant Achatz (nor should you want to!). His signature restaurant, Alinea, was recently named the best restaurant in the U.S. and one of the best restaurants in the world, and he is a creative, if controversial, innovator of …

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Geek Tourism for Electric Power Economists

3 Comments / Economics, Electricity, Energy markets, Travel / By Michael Giberson

Michael Giberson Last week I attended the Gulf Coast Power Association‘s spring conference. Very good time. More comments later this week after I have time to catch up. Just a note today on the pre-conference power plant tour featuring the Tenaska Frontier Generating Plant in Shiro, Texas (about 50 north of Houston). The 830-MW combined-cycle …

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Fundamentals of Spring Gasoline Price Increases

4 Comments / Economics, Energy markets, Environmental policy / By Lynne Kiesling

Lynne Kiesling The following is a post I wrote in March 2004 about the regular, annual, seasonal rise in gasoline prices that always occurs at this time of year. I am reposting it here because it generally still applies, and I am inserting some updated comments in bold below. Being systematic, here are the primary …

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Transmission, Congestion Charges, and the Smart/Modern/Intelligent Grid

4 Comments / Economics, Electricity, Energy markets / By Lynne Kiesling

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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Grid-friendly Appliances Can Avert Blackouts And Delay Investment

12 Comments / Economics, Electricity, Energy markets / By Lynne Kiesling

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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Why Are Gas Prices High And Rising?

19 Comments / Economics, Energy markets, Environmental policy / By Lynne Kiesling

Being systematic, here are the primary reasons for the rise in gasoline prices in March 2004: 1. High world crude oil prices. These prices are partly the consequence of conscious OPEC supply constriction to raise price. OPEC?s ability to do so is typically constrained by three interrelated factors: the world demand for oil, cheating on …

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