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Public Versus Private Power - It Is Time To Reopen The Discussion

June 14, 2010 by Rod Adams
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As a student of the electrical power industry's history, I have found many stories of a long running competition between public and private power suppliers. For most of my life, this discussion has been rather muted, with private forces seeming to have conquered the battlefield. The vast majority of the electrical power in the US is... [read more]

Message from “the edge” - SmartGrid and Distribution

October 2, 2009 by Margaret Harding
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This is the fourth article in my series regarding SmartGrid and we are finally beginning to get near to direct consumer contact. All of this discussion has potentially significant impacts on electricity consumers, but are parts of the grid that are "behind the green curtain" to most consumers. Distribution is differentiated from... [read more]

Outsmarting the Smart Grid

February 18, 2009 by William Tucker
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The latest delusion about energy is the “smart grid.”  This bright new technological miracle will once again help us overcome the realities of physics and allow us to live in a world run on wind and sunshine.Al Gore, Thomas Friedman, Amory Lovins and Silicon Valley are the predictable originators of this story, but – as always –... [read more]

Leakage

May 14, 2008 by RyanAvent
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Can we say with certainty that a carbon price policy in this country will generate a leakage of dirty industries to other nations without such measures? I don’t think we can. The need to buy permits (or pay a tax) in America would provide an incentive to move production overseas. That seems clear. On the other hand, a carbon price would... [read more]