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Author Archives: Enerdynamics
Gas and Electric Industries Seek a Happy Codependence, Part I
by Bill Malcolm, guest author “Gas is from Venus, electricity is from Mars,” quipped Sue Kelly of the American Public Power Association to me in July at the NARUC Conference in Denver. In a nutshell, this summarizes the complex challenge of helping … Continue reading
Mexico: Long-term Gas Producer but Short-term Gas Importer
by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor In the energy industry, it is important to distinguish between short-term trends and long-term trends. Just seeing the short-term can result in missing a contrary long-term trend. For instance, in 2008 natural gas … Continue reading
130 Years after Edison’s First Power Plant, Is Energy Storage Finally a Reality?
by Dan Bihn, Enerdynamics Instructor In 1882, the Edison Illumination Company opened two electric power plants – the famous coal-fired Pearl Street Station in downtown Manhattan and the river-powered Vulcan Street Station near Green Bay, Wis. Thomas Edison faced two of the biggest … Continue reading
Posted in Electricity, Renewables
Tagged Electric utility, Energy, Energy storage, Power station, Renewable Energy, Thermal loads
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Infographic Helps Demonstrate U.S. Electricity Flow from Source to Use
By John Ferrare, Enerdynamics CEO Let’s face it: sifting through data doesn’t typically excite the senses. But for those in the rapidly changing electricity business, understanding the meaning behind industry data is often essential to our jobs. Here at Enerdynamics we … Continue reading
Update on Mexico – The Next Paradigm Buster
by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor “Regarding petroleum and solid, liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons … neither concessions nor contracts will be granted, nor will any that have been granted persist and the Nation will carry out the exploitation … Continue reading
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Is Net Metering a Net Benefit or a Net Cost?
by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor The historical utility business model is for utilities to build large power plants at remote locations, build transmission lines to transport it to load centers, and build distribution lines to distribute the … Continue reading
Update on Natural Gas Fracking
In August 2011, Enerdynamics wrote an Energy Insider article on the issue of natural gas fracking[1]. There we described what fracking is, what it had done for gas reserves as of 2011, and some of the concerns relative to fracking. … Continue reading
Does Locational Marginal Pricing Matter to Customers?
by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor A number of years ago, I was teaching our Electric Market Dynamics course in New York City when a developer new to the power plant business described a project he was going to … Continue reading
Fracking and Solar: Friends, Foes or the Bridge to Clean Energy Adoption?
This week we’re sharing another guest post from our friends at SolarReviews.com by Emily Hois, SolarReviews.com Hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” has been widely criticized by environmentalists who cite concerns with water pollution and methane leakage from this high-volume method of extracting … Continue reading
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How will utilities cope with shrinking electric demand growth? Part II
by Matthew Rose, Enerdynamics Instructor In last week’s post and Part I of this discussion, I examined the situation that electric utilities are facing as electric demand requirements across the country have steadily declined over recent decades. So what does … Continue reading
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