Category Archives: Electricity

Electricity Will Bypass Any Border Walls

Posted on December 16, 2016 by Enerdynamics

  by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Facilitator In recent years, U.S. imports of electricity from Mexico have grown significantly, mostly through bilateral energy sales into California. As Mexico implemented its electricity market reform earlier this year, Mexican officials … Continue reading →

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Are Zero Marginal Costs Transforming the Energy Industry?

Posted on December 8, 2016 by Enerdynamics

by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Facilitator In his 2014 book The Zero Marginal Cost Society, futurist Jeremy Rifkin states his view that  “the emerging Internet of Things is speeding us to an era of nearly free goods and … Continue reading →

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Are E-Bay Style Transactions and Blockchains Ready to Transform Electricity Markets?

Posted on November 25, 2016 by Enerdynamics

by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor Over the last 20 years, the electric industry has gradually transitioned how its consumers purchase electric services. Prior to the 1990s, all consumers bought bundled service from their monopoly local utility. Beginning … Continue reading →

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Is the End of Baseload Generation a Reality?

Posted on November 10, 2016 by Enerdynamics

by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor Since the mid-20th century, it’s been widely accepted wisdom: For electric utilities to economically serve customers they must build generating systems rooted in large baseload plants. But with the recent growth of … Continue reading →

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A Look at Japan’s Post-disaster Grid Resilience

Posted on October 18, 2016 by Enerdynamics

Introduction by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Facilitator Presentation by Dan Bihn, Enerdynamics Facilitator Sure everyone wants a more resilient electric grid. Especially after a recent natural disaster that caused long outages. But few consumers want to pay the increased … Continue reading →

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Mexico’s Electricity Market Reforms Create New Opportunities

Posted on September 30, 2016 by Enerdynamics

by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Facilitator In a recent blog post we compared the current deregulation of Mexico’s gas market to the 1990s in the United States. But unlike the U.S., which phased gas and electricity restructuring, Mexico … Continue reading →

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Can Wyoming Reinvigorate the Coal Industry?

Posted on September 23, 2016 by Enerdynamics

by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Facilitator Texas and Wyoming are perhaps the two states most associated with fossil fuels production – Texas with its oil and natural gas, and Wyoming with its coal. Concerns about global warming, evolution of … Continue reading →

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What Services Can Distributed Energy Resources (DER) Provide to the Grid? Part II

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Enerdynamics

by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Facilitator Our last blog post discussed the transformation from an electric grid driven by centralized generation to a grid powered by distributed energy resources (DER). For this transformation to successfully occur, industry insiders must understand … Continue reading →

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What Services Can Distributed Energy Resources (DER) Provide to the Grid?

Posted on September 2, 2016 by Enerdynamics

by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Facilitator Some key regions around the world – New York, California, and Germany among others – are amidst a major transformation from an electric grid driven by centralized generation to a grid powered by … Continue reading →

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What Does the Future Utility Look Like?

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Enerdynamics

by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Facilitator When I was growing up in the 1960s and 70s, phone service meant one thing – the service delivered by my local Bell company through copper lines connected to my house. Ask … Continue reading →

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