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.
Lithium-Ion Lessons
I bet you didn’t see or hear on your favorite news platform, whether it’s NPR, MSNBC, CNN, FNC, Axios, Facebook ...
Rumblings of Utility Reregulation
Eight and a half years ago in Betting with Deregulation – A Risky Proposition, I wrote the following in this blog, ...
2025 In One Word: Dowzh
These are quite the times in which we live, energy and otherwise. It makes predictions tricky, especially when ...
Seven Chicken Bones Scorecard
Here is my annual scorecard against energy predictions I made 51 weeks ago in Seven Chicken Bones for ...
A Better Value of Economic Dispatch
Last week and many other times, I've written about soaring electricity loads and prices climbing even faster. The ...
Two Questions for Electric Utility Stakeholders
Remember the theory that deregulation in the late 1990s would waive the need for energy efficiency programs? If ...
Tire Shopping for Christmas
This week, we capitalize on last week's basics of tire rolling resistance, how it translates to passenger vehicle ...
Energy Efficiency and Tires 101
Back in the day, when I interviewed engineers for potential employment, I would ask what they've done in their ...
Electricity Price Drivers
The race is on to decarbonize the grid, and those states that are forcing it too quickly are seeing soaring ...
The Future of Automobile Decarbonization
Two weeks ago, I described the chasm before mass-market electric vehicle adoption. The chasm, as shown in Figure 1 ...
The Energy Transition’s Reverse Chasm
In September, I wrote a series of five Rants on data centers, a concise and comprehensive collection that might ...
Herding Chickens Through Modern Energyscapes
A recent study, Stacked Energyscapes, led by professors at Loyola Marymount University and Penn State University, ...
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