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The Information River
By Joe KovacsInformation has become one of the most valuable commodities as emerging technologies help individuals manage data with ease and reliability. For utilities, the smart grid is creating opportunities to learn...
Solar India and its Parallel Universe
One can be driven to distraction trying to reconcile the buzz around Indian pronouncements on things solar, with a parallel universe of ground realities....
Maine's new CFL recycling program: Should manufacturers pay?
Maine is the first state in the United States to require manufacturers of compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) to pay for collection and recycling of the bulbs. "An Act to...
Energy Market Imperfections: Sizing the Fixed Price Penalty from DSM Expansion
The market for Energy Efficiency (EE) is large, highly fragmented, and includes many specific and challenging market 'imperfections' that need to be addressed before EE can live up to its...
Energy Trading Compliance Programs: Basic Components in a Changing Energy Regulatory Environment
Currently energy trading in the United States, both physical and financial, is regulated by the federal government. One of the theories behind such regulation is to facilitate just and reasonable...
Energy Economics and Some Energy Myths for the 21st Century
By Ferdinand E. BanksThe title of this contribution is almost identical to the one I used for a paper that I published in the OPEC Bulletin ten years ago. During those wonderful days...
Term and Spot Contracts -- Finding a Balance
Trade flows are fundamentally driven by the "supply-demand" balance in any market, be it oil, money, consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, apparel, etc. The footprint of "supply-demand" is apparent in each and...
Sensing Limbs: Electronic Vegetation Management in Action
By William AtkinsonFor most utilities, using smart grid technology for vegetation management information is still in the theoretical stages, and it will be well into the future before it is actually implemented....
Digging for Coal Will Gradually End in Digging Our Own Graves
The 'God Almighty' or 'Mother Nature' had given us an enchanting planet, a planet that had everything in its surface for the humankind to live a happy and peaceful life....
BLM: The Colossal Snafu of the 21st Century
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has come under harsh criticism during the last part of 2008 and the early part of 2009 for creating a monstrous backlog of solar...
