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.
Inclusive, Bottom-Up Energy Conversations
According to elites, we mortals need merely 75 gigajoules of energy, aka 75 million Newton-meters per year, to ...
Utility Relationships and Hookup Puns
I attended Peak Load Management Alliance’s 45th Conference in Baltimore last week, where I captured a quote that ...
A Franchise Organization for Decarb
About every six months, while participating in a strategic planning, leadership, marketing, or business ...
Learning from Energy Mistakes Past
There are no such things as unintended consequences. There are consequences and ignorance, and as I’ll show in ...
P4P’s Incompatibility with DEI
When I first heard the term “value proposition” years ago, I thought, what the heck does this obtuse phrase mean? ...
Resilience for a Power Grid Green Swan Event
Last week’s Reckoning post featured findings from a Wall Street Journal article that demonstrated our power grid ...
The Power Grid’s Glide Path to Reckoning
“The U.S. electrical system is becoming less dependable. The problem is likely to get worse before it gets ...
100 Years and 50,000 Feet Over Ukraine
I’m breaking my word from last week’s natural gas shakedown in which I noted I would write about customer ...
Natural Gas – Shakedown, 1979
My, how quickly some things can change, almost overnight, like natural gas markets. It seems only a year ago we ...
Specious Beliefs in Code Gods
I received a lot of feedback on last week’s Code Compliance Villains, which described blunders that occurred as ...
Indestructible Code Compliance Villains
In case you missed last week’s post, you’ll need to go back and review the setup for this week’s demonstration of ...
Code Compliance Setup – A Boiler Project
Over the last forty years, computers have become orders of magnitude more powerful while they have become much ...
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