According to SmartGridNews, there is a pilot project in Maryland and Washington DC to bring about “a transition by electric utilities… to new business relationships with their customers, regulators, and competitors that would better align utility compensation with consumer benefit…” I’d …
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U.S. Supreme Court Decision "Citizens United" Is Not Long For This World
OK, it was only #22 out of the top 25 victories in 2012 for progressive legislation, but at least it made the list. IMO, it’s the single most important, what its author dubs: “Challenging Citizens United.” Peter Dreier is professor …
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Bill McKibben: Obama Versus Physics
I remember learning about the “pathetic fallacy” in high school English, i.e., assigning human moral characteristics to inanimate objects, e.g., “the cruel sea.” Obviously, there is nothing cruel about the sea; it has no motives or intentions. Likewise, at least …
Strange Article on Solar Thermal and Energy Storage
I keep an eye out for articles like this that talk about concentrated solar power (CSP –aka solar thermal) and the use of energy storage to make that power dispatchable. Normally, they contemplate molten salt, as the cost of storing …
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Planning Guide on Smart-grid Data Privacy Issues
When I had my marketing consultancy, one of the main goals was to get high rates of return on the direct mail campaigns. My secret weapon: giving away highly valued content. To that end, I used to write “planning guides” …
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Environmentally Friendly Cars
The other day I asked my friend Paul Scott, who co-founded the EV advocacy group Plug-In America and currently sells the Leaf at the Nissan dealership in downtown Los Angeles, about environmentally friendly cars, specifically about the real environmental benefits …
The Market for MicroWind
Paul from Australia writes: I’d be interested in your views on the microwind market in the U.S., as here in Australia uptake has been generally slow apart from a few `demonstration` sites. To be honest, I believe that the best …
Jared Diamond's "Collapse"
In the course of the few years that 2GreenEnergy has been doing its thing, I’d estimate that at least two dozen people have asked me what I think about Jared Diamond’s writing — especially his book “Collapse.” I always reply …
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How Green Is Your Energy?
I just had one of those “small world” encounters I thought I’d relay. An old friend from college with whom I just reconnected at our 35th reunion asked me if I knew the start-up company GridMobility and its founder Jim …
Celebrating Isaac Newton's Birthday
In this age of ours, where we’re all rightfully fascinated with the paradigm shifts that are occurring far more frequently than they did in antiquity, perhaps it’s not a bad time to celebrate the birthday (yesterday) of Isaac Newton. According …
