Category Archives: Electricity

Are Capacity Markets Necessary in Competitive Wholesale Markets?

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Enerdynamics

By Bob Shively, Enerdynamics’ President At a recent Enerdynamics seminar, I was asked if capacity markets are necessary in a competitive wholesale market.  With Entergy planning to join MISO, competitive wholesale markets are becoming an increasingly large portion of the … Continue reading →

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Smart Meters: Helping Customers Understand What’s In It for Them

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Enerdynamics

By Dan Bihn, Enerdynamics Instructor In case you’ve missed the news, not everyone wants a smart meter. According to StopSmartMeters.org (I’m not making this up), no less than 8 counties and 28 cities and towns in California now have a … Continue reading →

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Electric Storage Revolution Coming Soon?

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Enerdynamics

by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President For the last century, electric grids have been designed and operated with the paradigm that electricity cannot economically be stored except in very limited cases. However, new storage technologies are developing rapidly and those currently … Continue reading →

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Another Smart Grid Application: Harnessing the Benefits of a Microgrid

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Enerdynamics

By Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President So far we have discussed Smart Grid applications that improve the way energy companies currently deliver services as well as applications that may offer consumers the opportunity to become directly involved in dynamic electric markets.  … Continue reading →

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Why Does Cold Create Electric Outages in Texas?

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Enerdynamics

By Greg Stark, Enerdynamics Instructor The recent cold snap that put central Texas in a deep freeze generated some buzz among those in the electric industry as the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) declared a System III emergency followed … Continue reading →

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Smart Grid Enables Electric Market Participation by All Customers

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Enerdynamics

by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President In continuing our discussion of Smart Grid applications, another key function of the Smart Grid is to use communications, monitoring and control technologies to enable a host of new services. Such services allow customers to … Continue reading →

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Smart Grid Increases Efficiency, Reliability of Transmission and Distribution Functions

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Enerdynamics

by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President In our latest blog post, What Is the Smart Grid?, we discussed three applications for the Smart Grid. One such Smart Grid application is performing the functions that transmission owners and distribution utilities do today … Continue reading →

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What Is the Smart Grid?

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Enerdynamics

by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President Enerdynamics instructor Dan Bihn and I spent 3 days at the IEEE conference on Smart Grids this past week in Anaheim. One of everyone’s key questions was “What is the Smart Grid?” We learned there is no … Continue reading →

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