I started this journey long before I posted my first paper on Energy Central. Long before I retired in 2013 and actually in the mid-1980s. I worked for a small company that was owned by Landis & Gyr (now Landis+Gyr). At that time my small company produced Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Systems and Electric Utility Energy Management Systems (EMS). This company was in PG&E’s service territory (in San Jose, CA), and PG&E needed a replacement automatic generation control (AGC) system for their Geysers geothermal generating facility, then, and still, the largest geothermal facility in the world. We developed this system, and it was successful.
Cut to the present – after I retired, I started posting papers regarding a range of energy, mobility and environmental subjects, including (eventually, in 2021) geothermal power. I called the first four of these “Hot Rocks…”