by Jeff Ihnen | Oct 4, 2022 | Energy Rant
Last week I cracked open the most recent edition of Public Utilities Fortnightly and discovered an interesting topic worth sharing. It is an attorney’s commentary on the Supreme Court’s 6-3 opinion, West Virginia v EPA. You may not have heard of this directional case...
by Jeff Ihnen | Sep 27, 2022 | Energy Rant
I update my electrification slides for the Wisconsin Public Utilities Institute’s Utility Basics course every year with the latest technologies, sales data, and energy, commodity, and equipment/vehicle prices. Year over year, electricity prices at my home have...
by Jeff Ihnen | Sep 20, 2022 | Energy Rant
Last week a Yahoo News reporter headlined an article, Biden Administration Seeks to Lower Industrial Greenhouse Gas Emissions-and-That-Won’t Be Easy. My first reaction: It won’t be easy to decarbonize any sector: residential, commercial, industrial, and...
by Jeff Ihnen | Sep 13, 2022 | Energy Rant
I don’t think my mom played football, but she thought she knew how to take down a ball carrier. “Hit them low! Take out their legs.” This was her solution to arm tackling up high where the defender grabs on around the shoulder pads and goes for a ride – like a...
by Jeff Ihnen | Sep 6, 2022 | Energy Rant
Of 34 personality characteristics, my top strength, according to Gallup CliftonStrengths®, is “context.” What does context mean, according to Gallup? History. Gallup describes the history strength: “You look back. You look back because that is where the answers lie....
by Jeff Ihnen | Aug 30, 2022 | Energy Rant
This is the finale of better than best commercial and industrial program practices – including a summary cheat sheet for program administrators. Energy Analyses Utilities want to build efficiency businesses in their service territories, which is very important....
