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.
Michaels Energy – The Early Years Through Deregulation
1984
This year is our company's 40th anniversary. Michaels Engineering launched on Friday, March 23, 1984. What ...
Reporting from the Mid-America Regulatory Conference
I attended the Mid-America Regulator Conference in Minneapolis last week. This post features issues of the day ...
A Twofer: Syncing Power Generation With Soaring Loads
One of many sources of information that fuel my brain to write this blog is the American Energy Society’s Energy ...
A More Cost-Effective Energy Transition
A recent Realclearwire.com article noted that since 2021, the cumulative effect of persistent inflation has ...
Portfolio Struggling? Paradigm Revolution
I have detected a pattern unfolding across multiple large energy efficiency portfolios: commercial and industrial ...
Full Spectrum Virtual Power Plants
A couple timely articles and posts have dropped since I reintroduced virtual power plants (VPPs) last week. First, ...
Virtual Power Plants Order in Load Management
Virtual power plants (VPPs) represent a considerable slice of the clean energy race these days, and for a good ...
Resonating Fugitive Radical Renegades and GHGs
Think you're a climate change genius? Strap in and prepare for whiplash.
To close out last week's post, I ...
Theory #2 For Batteries Increasing Emissions
As a glutton for punishment (I look forward to getting past sciatica so I can run marathons again), I tasked ...
Solar Wars
A year ago, I introduced the mantle curve to illustrate California's overgeneration of solar power and the ...
Wildfire Dynamics – Utilities Save Lives
In this week's rant, we are excited to include an epilogue written by Michaels Energy employee, Andrea Salazar. ...
Distributed Energy Threats
It’s been a little over a year since I reported on grid attacks, mainly of the physical type but also of the cyber ...
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