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Tag Archives: Energy
Customized Course Answers the Question “How Does a Utility Make Money?”
By John Ferrare, Enerdynamics CEO Earlier this year one of our utility clients came to me with an interesting challenge. Years after it had been filed, a rate case decision was coming and would result in substantial rate increases for 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
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
Electric and Gas Utilities’ Response to Wildfires
by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor Here in Enerdynamics’ Laporte office we can see the smoke from the High Park Fire – reportedly the third largest wildfire in Colorado history – as it burns in the hills west … Continue reading
Integrating Renewables into the Electric Generation Resource Mix
We recently posted the following graph (of California ISO Hourly Breakdown of Total Production by Resource Type for May 1, 2012) on our Facebook page and asked followers to guess what resource the red section represented: Below is the same … Continue reading
Natural Gas Wellhead: What It Does and How It Works
As part of our “What in the World Wednesday” contest on our Facebook page, we posted this photo and asked our followers to tell us what it is. Below is the answer as well as a quick summary of what … Continue reading
Posted in Natural Gas
Tagged Drilling, Energy, Hydraulic fracturing, Natural Gas, Natural Gas Training, Oil and Gas, Wellhead
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How LNG Exports May Impact the Natural Gas Marketplace
by Christina Nagy McKenna, Enerdynamics Instructor Natural gas producers are searching for options to increase their revenues as gas prices in the United States have sunk to levels not seen in more than 10 years. As this year’s mild winter … Continue reading
Is Europe Still Leading the Charge on Renewables?
by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor For most of the 30 years I have spent working in the energy industry, renewables have been viewed as an interesting yet impracticable source of electricity except in a few unique circumstances. … Continue reading