by Jeff Ihnen | Oct 10, 2023 | Energy Rant
Here are my last words, for now, on artificial intelligence: I do not claim to understand the computations or systems behind AI whatsoever. However, I do understand human behavior very well, so when I saw a headline last week, JPMorgan CEO: AI Will Eventually Lead to...				
					
			
					
											
								
							
					
															
					
					 by Jeff Ihnen | Apr 10, 2023 | Energy Rant
As we prepare to take our energy storage solutions to market, I gathered recent news reports, analyzed them all, and came to some conclusions. I concluded that utilities, and especially regulators, need to think differently. What got us here – constant load growth and...				
					
			
					
											
								
							
					
															
					
					 by Jeff Ihnen | Nov 15, 2022 | Energy Rant
I have run enough marathons to have lost count, most of them in the last ten years, with the total approaching 20. Why would you do that, Jeff? I like the grind, double, especially when I can run negative splits and pass people the entire race rather than being passed...				
					
			
					
											
								
							
					
															
					
					 by Jeff Ihnen | May 24, 2022 | Energy Rant
NERC sounds alarm on solar tripping in sobering summer reliability report, May 19, 2022, UtilityDive.com. This seems like a timely sequel to last week’s Blistering Wind and Solar Energy post, in which I summarized the results of a renewables integration study...				
					
			
					
											
								
							
					
															
					
					 by Jeff Ihnen | Apr 5, 2022 | Energy Rant
About every six months, while participating in a strategic planning, leadership, marketing, or business development meeting, I hear “we should be doing decarb,” or “we’ve been talking about decarb for years, and that’s all we do is talk about it.” “We’ll be right back...