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Category Archives: Electricity
The Future of Electric Utilities, Part I
Image via Wikipedia by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics’ President and Lead Instructor At Enerdynamics, we often end our classroom sessions with a quote from business guru Peter Drucker: “The corporation as we know it, which is now 120 years old, is … Continue reading
Are We On the Cusp of a Transformation in Electric Generation Technology?
by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics’ President and Lead Instructor The U.S. electric power industry was born in 1882 when Thomas Edison’s Edison Electric Illuminating Company opened a central generating station at Manhattan’s Pearl Street. Soon thereafter a number of small distribution … Continue reading
IT’s Growing Need for Energy Business Training
By John Ferrare, Enerdynamics’ CEO There is little argument that the energy industry needs to learn more about information technology (IT). On the electric side, IT is critical to running power plants, operating transmission systems, scheduling power flows, and accurately … Continue reading
How to Understand Electric Market Structures
By Bob Shively, Enerdynamics’ President and Lead Instructor Understanding how electric markets are structured used to be simple. Just figure out who the vertically integrated utility is, then who regulates it and how. But since the days of deregulation (or … Continue reading
Why Bill Gates Still Believes in Nuclear Power
Image via Wikipedia by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor Nuclear, once the bane of environmentalists, found more and more acceptance as concerns over global warming shifted from radiation to greenhouse gas emissions. Some environmentalists spoke in favor of … Continue reading
Posted in Electricity, Renewables
Tagged Bill Gates, Energy, Energy development, Energy Training, Nuclear, Nuclear power, Steven Chu
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How to Deal with Low Probability, High Impact Risks
By Bob Shively, Enerdynamics’ President and Lead Instructor A pipeline explodes and bursts into flames in California. An earthquake followed by a tsunami results in nuclear disaster in Japan. Once the initial impacts have been addressed, serious questions follow: What … Continue reading
Solar Installations Up 66 Percent in Q1 2011 Compared to Q1 2010
by Enerdynamics staff Based on reports of exponential growth from Q1 2010 to Q1 2011, the U.S. solar industry’s future seems as bright as the sun that fuels it. According to the U.S. Solar Market Insight™: Q1 2011 released in … Continue reading
Posted in Electricity, Renewables
Tagged CSP, Energy, Photovoltaic, PV, Renewable, Solar cell, Solar Energy Industries Association, Solar Power
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Can Flexible Generation Make for a Happy Marriage between Renewables and Natural Gas?
by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Instructor Renewable power and natural gas generation have somewhat of a love-hate relationship. On one hand, they are symbiotic: Variable renewable resources need flexible generation resources to pick up load when the wind doesn’t … Continue reading
Texas Outages Due to Physical Problems, not Market Failure
by Greg Stark, Enerdynamics Instructor Back in February, I wrote a blog post titled Why Does Cold Create Outages in Texas?, which examined the series of events leading up to and the possible reasons for central Texas’ rolling blackouts of … Continue reading
Japan Looks to Renewable Energy Technology to Maintain, Rebuild in the Wake of Disaster
by Dan Bihn, Enerdynamics Instructor Aftershocks are still being felt in Tokyo more than two months after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the coastline of northeastern Japan. But the repercussions of the subsequent meltdown of the Fukushima … Continue reading
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