Energy Rant
Cut through the fluff with candid, expert takes on energy policy, programs, and industry trends. Written by our CEO, Jeff Ihnen, the Energy Rant is a blog that challenges assumptions, questions status quos, and delivers sharp insights with just the right dose of irreverence.
Wholesale Electricity Market Mechanisms
PSA
I thought of making some wisecracks about the trial balloon that the Chinese Communist Party drifted over the ...
Power Grid Vulnerabilities; Eyes on the Prize
In this year’s twelve-pack of predictions for 2023, I forecast that the attacks on the U.S. power grid would ...
Flowing Water at 22 Degrees Fahrenheit
As undergraduate mechanical engineering students, we took materials science courses and studied phase diagrams ...
Decarb Warriors
Last week I read a statement from a retail energy provider. It said, “100% green rates, always.” It doesn’t work ...
A Twelve-Pack for 2023
A Twelve-Pack for 2023
Last year Las Vegas booked my predictions at 1:1.5 odds. This year I’m being more ...
2022’s Lucky Seven Lookback
This post features the results of my Lucky 7 predictions I made a year ago, a grade for each omen, and a little ...
Deep Thoughts from a Scatterbrain
With most people off this week, it is a good time to probe the mysteries of life that I have accumulated in recent ...
Fusion Power May Not Be Giants
Just before last week’s finale on permanent peak demand reduction went to press, news dropped that nuclear fusion ...
Demand Management for Good
The last few posts[1][2] featured an overview and complete report card on load management to get beyond net zero ...
A Ten-Dimensional Demand Response Examination
This is the third installment of this series in demand response (DR) and load management. In the first post, ...
Demand Response Primer
Last week I described how net zero sounds grand, it’s easy to do, but it doesn’t work to support the transition to ...
Cure Net Zero with Demand Response
I lambasted net zero many times, one time calling it an unserious weapon against climate change. Why is that? ...
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