Lynne Kiesling is a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Purdue University and the Associate Director of the John H. Schnatter Center for Economic Research at Purdue. She was recently an Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of Economics at Northwestern University, and also Director of the Electricity Policy Program in the Searle …
Lynne Kiesling I have been playing around with Twitter for the past few weeks, and it sure is intriguing. Most of my Twitter stream is BBC news updates and playlist updates for a couple of online radio sites that I frequent, but the one about which I’m most excited is andy_house, which is the Twitter …
Lynne Kiesling Last month, Wired celebrated the 120th anniversary of the electricity meter. More specifically, the anniversary of the patent for the first really commercially viable electro-mechanical meter. Edison, being Edison, had come up with others before, but they “didn’t scale”, and were messy because they were chemical, not mechanical. This post provides a nice …
Lynne Kiesling Sitting at O’Hare, waiting for a plane … what better time to share the myriad links I’ve collected this week on smart grid topics? Today I saw this post on smart grid technology at the Discovery News Powr Talk blog. Their post, titled “Grid, Ready to Talk”, hits hard on the point that …
Lynne Kiesling The headline of this Forbes article reads “What Would You Pay To Stay Cool?” Using pending Congressional energy legislation as the springboard for the article, Ashlea Ebeling does a very good job of discussing the combination of digital technology and dynamic pricing that can transform the electric power network into a more resilient, …
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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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