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Demand Response: What It Is & What It Means For You

August 24, 2011 by Peter Troast
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Utilities across the country are increasingly developing “demand response” programs in order to gain flexibility in reducing peak load stress on the grid. Maybe you’ve heard of these programs, and maybe you haven’t, but it’s important to gain an accurate understanding of what they are, and their possible effects, to become informed... [read more]

Using incentives to manage electricity use

January 24, 2010 by John Whitehead
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As saving energy becomes a rallying cry for utilities and the government, Idaho Power is in the vanguard. Since 2004, it has been paying farmers like Mr. Erwin to cut power use at crucial times, resulting in drop-offs of as much as 5.6 percent of peak power demand. In a related program, it pays homeowners to turn off their air-... [read more]

Cheap Oil

November 6, 2009 by Geoffrey Styles
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When the US invaded Ba'athist Iraq, many ascribed that action to a desire to seize the country's vast oil reserves and develop them on terms favorable to us, presumably to keep the days of cheap oil rolling on. After six years of oil prices far above their pre-war level, the last vestiges of that theory should be laid to rest by a... [read more]

Meme Watch: Peak Demand

October 9, 2009 by Geoffrey Styles
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To whatever degree the oil price spike of 2007-8 was driven by speculation, the latter was riding on a wave of concern about Peak Oil, which anticipates an imminent decline in maximum global oil production. For the moment, the weak global economy has eased such worries, though they have hardly vanished, as I noted two months ago. Lately... [read more]