Commentary
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Nov 16, 2011 |
The DoD leadership is pressing for innovation from Utility participants, equipment vendors, and ESCO implementers to deliver a diverse range of secure onsite clean energy projects and EPC measures. Opportunities are now on the table that could free up the military's Demand Response capability to offer energy to the local Texas grid communities and develop a national model. -
Nov 08, 2011 |
Spontaneous combustion of coal is a common concern within the coal stockyard of thermal power plants due to the direct effect that energy losses have on financial performance. As coal is the primary fuel for a thermal power plant, adequate emphasis needs to be given for its proper handling and storage. It's also essential because of related safety and environmental implications of spontaneous combustion of coal. -
Oct 27, 2011 |
While the call for reduced dependence on coal-fired power plants and nuclear reactors to fuel the U.S. electricity grid is not a new concept, it is one that continues to grow louder. Renewable energy is the alternative generation source preferred by many, but non-hydro renewables made up less than five percent of the fuel mix in 2010, despite net generation from renewable sources more than doubling over the last decade. -
Oct 20, 2011 |
Many of us have heard of the Smart Grid and its potential to improve the electricity delivery system. Moving to a two-way digital grid will improve the grid's reliability and offer a variety of new potential applications. Rather than shut down wind turbines at night when there is more power generated than the grid can absorb, a Smart Grid could use hot water heaters and commercial freezers to store excess energy. -
Oct 13, 2011 |
The firm and seemingly irrevocable conclusion of Professor Ferdinand Banks in his article "A New Lecture on Electric Deregulatory Failure" Energy Pulse October 24 2007 and repeated in his latest article "A Short but Disobliging Version of my Recent Lecture on Electric Deregulation", has placed a wet blanket on my research efforts towards creation of a realistic and sustainable power capacity in energy deficient third world countries. -
Oct 06, 2011 |
There was a time prior to the year 1900 when electric power generation was privately own and essentially free from political regulation. The development of the electric light bulb and the electrically powered streetcar encouraged the development of large-scale electric power generation. -
Sep 28, 2011 |
Reports of the death of the solar industry are greatly exaggerated. Yes, there have been some high profile bankruptcies of US solar companies -- Solyndra, Evergreen, Spectrawatt -- in 2011. But the solar industry as a whole is on a boom that is only going to increase in coming years. -
Sep 20, 2011 |
There are many definitions of DSM and Demand Response, Demand Response is a new name possibly the most charming for the Demand Side Management - DSM. The proponents of the Demand Response argue that the two terms are not necessarily equal. -
Sep 15, 2011 |When recently asked why the (West Texas Intermediate) oil price at the end of June (2011) had declined from 112 dollars per barrel (=$112/b) to almost 90$/b in a fairly short time, I informed some visitors to the 2011 international meeting of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE, Stockholm) that it was probably because the OPEC directors were on their vacations instead of at their desks in Vienna
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Sep 09, 2011 |
A friend of mine called the other day very agitated because she heard a commentator/professor from MIT say on a national news cast "solar is too expensive". The news cast was about the nuclear plant meltdown in Fukushima, Japan.
