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Tag Archives: electricity
Who’s Stranded Now?
Utility costs are like taxes. Everyone knows they have to be paid, but most people have a reason that their own share should be smaller. And, just as with taxes, there are limitless ways to divide up the revenue burden. … Continue reading
Do Energy Efficiency Investments Deliver During Crunch Time?
(Today’s post is co-authored with Judson Boomhower, who recently received his Ph.D. at Berkeley where he was a graduate student researcher at the Energy Institute and is now a post-doc at Stanford) Along with everyone else in Berkeley, we’ve enjoyed … Continue reading
The Duck has Landed
May has arrived and days are getting longer and warmer. This is good news for baseball fans, barbecue enthusiasts, and grid operators concerned about integrating unprecedented levels of solar energy onto the California grid. Source: Solar panels at Busch Baseball … Continue reading
Is Distributed Generation the Answer to Regulatory Dysfunction?
One delightful aspect of teaching an MBA course in energy and environmental markets is getting together with my former students as they pursue careers in the industries I study. I learn so much about the latest trends and ideas in … Continue reading
Is “Community Choice” Electric Supply a Solution or a Problem?
Big news! If you live in California, Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, or a few other states you may soon have the opportunity to ditch your local investor-owned utility and buy your electricity from a competing retailer. And in a few … Continue reading
“Real” Electricity Still Comes from the Grid
A recent article in the New York Times describes how a solar home provider will, “help some of the 1.2 billion people in the world who don’t have electricity to leapfrog the coal-dependent grid straight to renewable energy sources.” Does … Continue reading
Double Counting Virtue
If you’ve installed solar at your home and are now basking in the I’m-saving-the-planet warm glow, you may be in for a splash of ice water. There’s a good chance someone else has purchased your halo and is wearing it … Continue reading
Billing Tweaks Don’t Make Net Metering Good Policy
Just before Christmas, an administrative law judge at the California Public Utilities Commission put a shiny package with a big bow under the tree for distributed solar PV companies, and gave the state’s regulated utilities a lump of coal. That … Continue reading
Don’t Be a Grinch When It Comes to Holiday Lights
We bought them more than a decade ago. Several sets of Christmas lights. Every year we decorate the tree listening to Willie Nelson’s Pretty Paper, the greatest Christmas album of all time. We have two boxes, adding up to a … Continue reading
