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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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