Efficiency’s Problem: Cyborgs, Fragments, and Climate

NMEC Jedi and NRE Troopers

In theory, normalized metered energy consumption, or NMEC, would allow demand-side resources, whether dispatchable (demand response) or non-dispatchable (efficiency, demand rates, time of use, peak rates, etc.), to be precisely measured with equipment customers have...
Efficiency’s Problem: Cyborgs, Fragments, and Climate

Stifling Impacts of Jurassic Evaluation Dogma

If efficiency programs were telephones, the evaluation community would still be using wall-mounted analog dial-ups rather than the iPhone. Yes, I’m going to tell you why programs are designed to be evaluated and not to be effective, part 2, herein. The following is...
Efficiency’s Problem: Cyborgs, Fragments, and Climate

A Prolific Coincidence in Power Generation

When I dig in to research a topic for the Rant, it’s a bit like American Pickers with Mike and Frank, but not drama. Pickers cover thousands of square feet of junk or treasure. I suppose the contents of this blog could be described as thousands of words of junk or...
Efficiency’s Problem: Cyborgs, Fragments, and Climate

Carbon tax – avoid the slow-mo sucker punch

If polling managers were competent, we would have election day rather than the election playoffs. For several days they were finding ballots in the usual places anyone normal would stash them, like elementary school classrooms, rental car trunks, vans, and the bottoms...