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Overlapping Transmission Grids in West Texas Will Give Power Plants the Power to Choose

Electricity, Energy markets / By Michael Giberson

Michael Giberson At the Gulf Coast Power Association meetings last week in Houston, Jay Caspary of the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) was discussing transmission expansion plans, and at slide 20 offered a map showing the overlapping transmission plans of SPP and ERCOT. The purple lines are proposed 765 kV lines in SPP, the red lines …

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Walk Score: Comparing My New and Old Neighborhoods

1 Comment / Miscellany, Networks / By Michael Giberson

Michael Giberson At the Freakonomics blog they mentioned Walk Score, a website that will calculate walk-ability for an address based on number of nearby stores, parks, and other useful places. They admit that there scoring formula doesn’t get everything, but it did a reasonable job comparing my new address in Lubbock, Texas and my old …

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Lower Prices for Electric Power in Texas

Electricity, Energy markets / By Michael Giberson

Michael Giberson Are your electric power rates falling? Are they below what they were two years ago? They might be if you live in parts of West Texas. The Abilene Reporter-News reports: Electric rates available to West Texans are less expensive, on average, than they were two years ago. In addition, residential rates offered in …

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My Benchmark Oil Price is Better Than Yours

1 Comment / Energy markets / By Michael Giberson

Michael Giberson The WSJ’s Environmental Capital blog notes that the price for “WTI”, which is to say the price for West Texas Intermediate grade of crude oil, a commonly used benchmark for quoting crude oil prices, has been drifting out of the usual relationships with other commonly used benchmarks, like Brent crude. (Here is Wikipedia …

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Driving Less, Biking More

3 Comments / Miscellany / By Michael Giberson

Michael Giberson As mentioned earlier, since moving to Lubbock to teach at Texas Tech, I’ve been bike commuting. This is actually not much of a sacrifice most of the time; it is only about a mile from home to office, and the trip takes me only 10 minutes on the bike. One week I acquired …

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A Bailout for Bicycle Commuters? Sweeeet!

6 Comments / Energy markets, Politics / By Michael Giberson

Michael Giberson Great news! I was reading through some bailout, uh, rescue commentary this morning, and found this political advice from Joel Stein at the L.A. Times: If I were in Congress, I’d hold out. Every representative who voted no on the bailout got something totally sweet in the bill that passed the Senate. Jim …

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Texas Court Favors Wind Turbines over Claims of Spoiled Views and Nuisance Noise

Electricity, Environmental policy / By Michael Giberson

Michael Giberson A couple of weekends ago I took a quick trip from Lubbock to Austin to visit my brothers and their families, the first time I’ve taken that trip since I moved back to Texas from Virginia. I knew a few wind turbines had popped up since my last drive down US 84, perhaps …

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