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Author Archives: Enerdynamics
Xcel Energy Tackles Beetle-Kill Trees in Colorado With Biogas Generation
We are excited to feature the following post from the blog team at SolarReviews.com. Read more of its insightful articles at http://www.solarreviews.com/blog. by Chris Meehan Colorado’s pine and spruce forests are being devastated by beetles that bore under their bark, reproducing and … Continue reading
Posted in Electricity, Renewables
Tagged biogas, Electricity generation, Electricity Training, Energy Education, Renewable Energy
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What are the impacts of carbon pricing in California?
by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor President Obama recently announced that he will request the EPA to develop greenhouse gas (GHG) regulations designed to reduce GHG emissions from existing power plants. In light of this development, we can again … Continue reading
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Tagged Carbon pricing, Emissions trading, Environment, Greenhouse gas
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Should Utilities Consider Small Modular Nuclear Reactors?
by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor President Obama has announced that the EPA will move forward with developing greenhouse gas regulation for existing power plants, with a goal of implementing regulations by mid-2014. Natural gas prices have risen 42% … Continue reading
Gas Industry Overview is Enerdynamics’ latest online course to benefit from update and revamp
By John Ferrare, Enerdynamics CEO Enerdynamics recently released an updated version of its popular online course Gas Industry Overview. I’m often asked about how we handle updates to our online curriculum. Following is a brief discussion on the behind-the-scenes process of ensuring … Continue reading
Will Renewables Finally Drive a Distributed Generation Revolution?
by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor My first job in the utility industry was as a cogeneration engineer with Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E). PG&E was years behind schedule in getting its nuclear power plant Diablo Canyon … Continue reading
Is the World Entering the Age of Long-term Natural Gas Prosperity?
by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor Sometimes in life, we find out that what we thought we knew to be true actually isn’t. Saturday’s Wall Street Journal ran a review of Mario Livio’s book titled Brilliant Blunders. The … Continue reading
Demand Response Need Not Cause Customer Pain
by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor At least in some parts of the U.S., demand response has been an important factor in energy planning since the 1980s. When I was an account representative in Northern California in the … Continue reading
Gas Utilities Caught Between Safety Upgrades and Rate Cases
by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor In the wake of recent tragic natural gas pipeline incidents, federal safety regulators have pushed gas distribution utilities and pipelines to thoroughly survey their systems to identify infrastructure that should be overhauled. And given … Continue reading
Will China transform the world of energy?
by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor When I started in the energy business back in the early 1980’s, the utility paradigm was to continually build more power plants to serve growing customer loads. This lead to environmental and … Continue reading
Mexican Natural Gas – The Next Paradigm Buster?
by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor Back when I worked in Calgary in the early 1990s, a consultant’s study made the rounds suggesting that Canadian producers should be alert to a possible competitive threat from the south. Specifically … Continue reading
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