by Jeff Ihnen | Apr 7, 2026 | Energy Rant
I’m taking a detour off the industrial efficiency road this week to mention a few things about soaring electricity prices and what’s causing them. Like big oil, big tech is an easy target because trillions of dollars are involved, and who feels sorry for Elon Musk,...
by Liz Haworth | Mar 16, 2026 | Energy Rant
Written by guest blogger Liz Haworth, VP of Marketing at Michaels Energy Jeff is out of town, which means the Energy Rant microphone landed on my desk. As Michaels Energy’s marketing lead and current Chair of the AESP Board, I spend a lot of time thinking about how...
by Jeff Ihnen | Mar 10, 2026 | Energy Rant
To my surprise, it’s been over half a year, 27 weeks to be exact, since I’ve written about soaring electricity prices. DNYUZ, “an Armenian website that plagiarizes content word for word from major news sources,” according to...
by Jeff Ihnen | Feb 23, 2026 | Energy Rant
A year or two ago, around the time Hertz flooded the market with its fleet of electric vehicles, I heard from EV industry enthusiasts that the electric vehicle revolution was going through some chop, and that no transformation grows straight up. Correct. Usually,...
by Jeff Ihnen | Jan 27, 2026 | Energy Rant
Last week, I mentioned I planned to write about toothpaste, only to be overtaken by more urgent headlines around data center moratoriums, power shortages, grid unreliability, and soaring electricity prices. This week I’m circling back to toothpaste, not because...
