by Jeff Ihnen | May 9, 2023 | Energy Rant
Last year I wrote that the Supreme Court of the United States, SCOTUS, ruling in the West Virginia case, is a sign of things to come. That case buried a fork in the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan. The legislative and executive branches would have to modify...
by Teri Lutz | May 2, 2023 | Energy Rant
This week’s Energy Rant was guest written by Teri Lutz, Director of Sales & Marketing at Michaels Energy. Teri believes in a fair and just energy economy and hopes this Rant edition will inspire our readers to get involved and advocate for environmental justice...
by Jeff Ihnen | Sep 27, 2022 | Energy Rant
I update my electrification slides for the Wisconsin Public Utilities Institute’s Utility Basics course every year with the latest technologies, sales data, and energy, commodity, and equipment/vehicle prices. Year over year, electricity prices at my home have...
by Jeff Ihnen | Sep 20, 2022 | Energy Rant
Last week a Yahoo News reporter headlined an article, Biden Administration Seeks to Lower Industrial Greenhouse Gas Emissions-and-That-Won’t Be Easy. My first reaction: It won’t be easy to decarbonize any sector: residential, commercial, industrial, and...
by Jeff Ihnen | Jul 12, 2022 | Energy Rant
I attended Electric Power Research Institute’s Electrification 2022 Conference in Charlotte a couple of weeks ago. As a critical thinker and engineer, I often listened and thought, what about this or that, what does that look like at scale, or what you really need to...
