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Black & Veatch CEO Urges Infrastructure Investments That Deliver Greater Job Growth and Productivity
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Show-Me the Way

Blogger Photo By Bill Opalka - I first met Tom Carnahan last spring on a renewable energy tour that made a stopover in his native Missouri. more...

Lots of work to do on smart grid; it’s expensive and some things haven’t yet been invented.

Blogger Photo By Warren Causey - The “smart grid” or “Intelligent Utility”, which is receiving a tremendous amount of press and promotion from the federal government more...

SMARTENING UP THE DUMB

Blogger Photo By Kate Rowland - If I see the words “dumb grid” used one more time in the popular media, I’m going to scream!   more...

Cyclics or Paradigm Shift?

Blogger Photo By Martin Rosenberg - There he was the cerebral, owlish power guy from Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Larry Makovich. Power demand is off but more...

Planning the Work and Working the Plan

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Smart Grids: How Smart?

By Mark Sardella, PE
President Obama's stimulus package, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, appropriates nearly $24 billion to modernize our country's electric power grid, including an $11 billion outlay to make it "smart". Those appropriations are stirring the more...
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Energy Policies are Complex Energy Solutions Are Even More So -- The Pickens Plan --

By Andrew C. Givens
The energy market is extremely complex and crosses international boundaries. On the supply side there are many participants including sovereign nations that own and develop reserves; multinational integrated producers; regional and local fossil fuel developers, more...
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Even More Than Paris

By Roger Feldman
With the Olympics over and the World Series just out of sight, it seems that the only circus for the American people to focus on--to keep their minds off the price of bread and oil--is more...
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Competition vs. Regulation: Have We Achieved Conversational Clarity?

By Scott Hempling
The "central, continuing responsibility of legislatures and regulatory commissions [is] finding the best possible mix of inevitably imperfect regulation and inevitably imperfect competition." This quote says it all. Resist either/or, expect imperfection, show curiosity continuously. more...
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Finding Middle Ground in our Energy Future

By Ben Cipiti
In the battle between climate change, energy policy, and capitalism the weakest voice at the table is that of the average person. While industrial lobbies have tremendous power in the government and while environmental organizations more...
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