Lynne Kiesling I am attending a meeting of the Harvard Electricity Policy Group today and tomorrow, and am speaking on a panel about smart grid this afternoon. Thus I’m going to take this opportunity to clear some of my long-open browser tabs and offer up a selection of the readings I’ve found most interesting in …
Lynne Kiesling So far in this series I have stressed what I think are some important foundational concepts in defining smart grid, thinking about its scope and its potential for value creation, and distinguishing it as an investment category from traditional transmission construction. All of these concepts have some interaction with government policy, at either …
Recommendations for Smart Grid Policy (Part 5 of 5) Read More »
Lynne Kiesling Digital communication capabilities in the network, including in end-use devices, provides increasingly feature-rich, mobile, and customizable ways to create consumer awareness about electricity consumption, electricity expenditure, and the environmental impact of that consumption. It also provides ways to change electricity consumption, either manually or automatically, in the home or remotely. In yesterday’s post …
Intelligent End-use Devices Make a Transactive Smart Grid Valuable (Part 3 of 5) Read More »
Lynne Kiesling One of the hallmarks of smart grid technology is how it enables and reduces the cost of two-way communication. In electricity as in other industries, digital communication technology makes it possible and easy to have two-way communication, and to use that communication capability to automate individual actions. As we have seen throughout society …
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Lynne Kiesling [UPDATED to add live link to NPR story} NPR just ran a story on yesterday’s clean energy summit in Washington DC. The event was organized by Senator Harry Reid and included such luminaries as Boone Pickens, Bill Clinton, and Al Gore, in addition to political representatives such as Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Secretary …
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Michael Giberson Out in west Texas you can still see the occasional old-style wind mill on a farm or ranch, dutifully pumping up water when the wind blows. A much more common sight these days is the new, sleek wind power generator. A combination of good fundamentals for wind power, federal tax credits, state renewable …
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Michael Giberson A research paper describes the benefits of linking up wind power farms before connecting wind power to the grid. Discovery News reports: [R]esearch shows that if the farms were linked to each other first before delivering the electricity to the country’s grid, wind could offer steady, dependable power at a cost lower than …
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Lynne Kiesling There has been some attention to Whole Foods’ recent announcement that they will purchase sufficient wind energy credits to run all of their stores. The Austin-based company said it is purchasing 458,000 megawatt-hours of wind energy credits a year ? enough to power 44,000 homes annually ? from Renewable Choice Energy of Boulder, …
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