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Posted By: Sarah Battaglia
- Energy Consultant, Energy Curtailment Specialists, Inc.
On: April 22, 2013
On: April 22, 2013
When you hear the phrase "electricity theft," you may automatically picture places like India or Brazil where the number of power outages is astounding. Unfortunately, electricity thieves can be found in nearly every country across the globe, including the U.S. Whether it's performing illegal hookups, tampering with meters, or stealing more...
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If you're new to the energy world, the term microgrid may not have crossed your mind recently, if ever. But within the industry, it's becoming a very popular buzzword of late. Your Energy Blog first addressed the microgrid back in February, speaking of the growing level of popularity within the more...
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As most readers of this short paper probably know, Dr. Steven Chu is the energy secretary of the United States, a physicist, and a Nobel Laureate. Discovery Magazine, in its latest issue (2011), selected what it called the "100 Top Stories of 2010", one of which was authored by an more...
The credit crisis that has dominated the international agenda for the last year has been largely driven by systemic shocks to global financial markets, yet one of the biggest shocks to individual financial institutions came from within: the boards and senior management of many companies had failed to understand adequately more...
The most important of all the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the "Stimulus Act" or "ARRA") initiatives could be the reformulation of the DoE Renewable Energy Loan Guarantee Program. This could be true not because of what facilities actually commence construction before the September 30, 2011, cut off more...
I would like to begin by stating that while the subject of energy economics has still not attained its 'critical mass' where book-length literature is concerned, there are an increasing number of short, non-technical papers that everyone should attempt to read and understand. Where my energy economics students are concerned, more...
In preparing the new printing of my energy economics textbook, several widely publicized topics were deliberately omitted. One of these was the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change. On several occasions I heard this document mentioned when I was visiting professor at the Asian Institute of Technology (Bangkok), more...
Abstract: Public Service Company of Colorado (PSCo)'s 2003 resource selection process selected electrical generating resources that will cost ratepayers billions of dollars in avoidable costs. PSCo advocated the use of the same procedure in its 2007 resource plan.1 PSCo's assumptions for discount rate, fuel price escalation, and CO2 costs favor more...
The U.S. goal of energy independence, typically defined as complete self-sufficiency for indigenous energy requirements, is an ill-conceived and unachievable objective. This holds for the foreseeable future and most likely beyond. A more realistic -- and achievable -- goal is to reduce and diversify energy dependence on any one fuel, more...
The Look Ahead for the 2009-2010 U.S. Power Utility Construction Market Credit crisis. Economic stimulus package. Housing slump. Infrastructure spending. Recession. There is both good and bad news on the horizon and unfortunately, 2009 will likely hold more bad than good for power utility-related construction. What is not in doubt more...
