Lynne Kiesling
Dynamic pricing is one of the most valuable direct consumer benefits enabled by a Smart Grid. Dynamic pricing makes the value and cost of their energy use transparent to consumers, and it enables consumers to see when cost exceeds value. Dynamic pricing particularly benefits consumers whose consumption is flexible; however, it does not […]
Lynne Kiesling
As authorized by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, the U.S. Department of Energy has , the L Prize (here’s the prize website). Cash prizes and other inducements for the development of solid state lighting to replace standard incandescent and fluorescent bulbs.
is a big deal. The light is emitted from a […]
Michael Giberson
Julio J. Rotemberg has a paper out about emotional reactions to prices and their policy implications. (”Behavioral aspects of price setting, and their policy implications.”) I think he is working on some interesting issues, but he comes up with such lousy “policy implications” at the end of the article that it ruined it for […]
Michael Giberson
Grant McCracken cries out: “JSTOR, get out of the way!“
[T]his stuff is bought and paid for. It is time to release it into the public domain. Surely, there is a university server somewhere that would assume the costs. Google, I am quite sure, would be willing to shoulder the burden.
The […]
Lynne Kiesling
With that same childlike fascination I am pleased to announce that you can now pre-order my forthcoming book on electricity restructuring at Amazon. And I just put the edited page proofs in the mail to the publisher yesterday. Here’s a summary of what it’s about:
Over the past 50 years the US economy has experienced […]
Lynne Kiesling
This weekend the KP Spouse told me about a couple of his colleagues, both of whom drive Chevy Avalanches, live in the suburbs, and used to drive to work. One of them has started taking the train and is trying to sell his Avalanche, because he doesn’t want to keep spending what he has […]
Lynne Kiesling
The WSJ Environmental Capital blog has been doing a great job of keeping up with the wind power industry in the U.S. lately. Today’s is a good summary, with links to some of their other recent posts on the subject.
How to read this? For starters, it’s another sign the U.S. wind power market […]
Michael Giberson
We’ve played the food-into-fuel answer to the title question in previous posts, but Ajay Shah posts in which biofuel subsidies and mandates just barely warrant a mention.
He is not persuaded by the hypothesis that the “pike in world food prices is caused by increased demand in China and India, particularly the […]
