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Michael Giberson
From the Central Penn Business Journal , two views on electric utility industry restructuring in Pennsylvania :
First from Matt Brouillette:
Pennsylvania’s electricity rate caps have kept prices artificially low, preventing competitors from entering the marketplace ...
Stocks
PPL
Lynne Kiesling
Ed Glaeser has a very interesting post and an accompanying working paper on differences in entrepreneurship across cities. His post covers some history of entrepreneurship in economics (he mentions Smith, Marshall, Schumpeter, Knight, and Chinitz, but not Cantillon), how to ...
Other
Michael Giberson
One paper presented at the recent Second Annual Conference on Competition and Regulation in Network Industries in Brussels addressed the topic of regulation as an imperfect institution.
The abstract seemed a bit of a mess, but I’m interested in views of utility ...
Other
Lynne Kiesling
Tim Haab helpfully points out an article from Time about EnergyHub , a device for consumers to see more, and more timely, information about their energy consumption. I’ve written about EnergyHub here before , and honestly, they have not been among the most ...
Other
Retail Industry
Michael Giberson
I am mildly amazed that it is possible to take something as simple as, say, palm oil or soybean oil, and – with a few relatively simple chemical tricks – turn it into motor vehicle fuel. [ See it on YouTube .] However, I’m not so amazed that I’m ...
Other
Michael Giberson
Al Roth surveys development of the market design course and field of study in economics at Harvard:
[M]arket design is an eclectic field, drawing on game theory , experiments, computation, and field observation of all sorts (rules are data!).”
… When Paul ...
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Harvard University
Lynne Kiesling
Britain’s legal institutions may be about to get even more Orwellian than they already are (which is pretty Orwellian, given their widespread use of government CCTV surveillance cameras and their penchant for euphemism). The Digital Economy Bill , introduced in the ...
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Bill Clinton
Michael Giberson
Tom Fowler, at NewsWatch: Energy , takes note of commentary by Tudor Pickering concerning a FERC investigation into whether three natural gas pipeline companies were over-recovering on their regulated rates. (See FERC press release here ; a Reuters article .)
Tudor ...
Commodities
Natural Gas
Michael Giberson
My most recent 15 seconds of fame*: The Environment Report : The ‘Tres Amigas’ Project . (Or, if you prefer, you can listen to today’s full 4:00 minute news segment .)
In the segment I make the outrageous claim** that the project is located in an area ...
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Lynne Kiesling
Over the past year or so I’ve been following the debate and research 0n Vitamin D intake. Initially Vitamin D supplementation was recommended simply to reduce the incidence of rickets in children, but increasingly Vitamin D is associated with a wide range of health ...
Stocks
Lynne Kiesling
I’ve recommended Jonah Lehrer’s The Frontal Cortex blog before, and if you haven’t checked it out, here are two more reasons to do so. His most recent post discusses Bill Belichick’s decision to go for the first down from 4th and 2 in Sunday ...
Government
Michael Giberson
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram has a story on shale gas production critic Art Berman :
Arthur Berman runs a one-man energy consulting firm out of his home near Houston, producing research that says forecasts for natural gas production in the U.S. are flawed. He’s won the ...
Commodities
Natural Gas
Chesapeake Energy
Devon Energy
Oil
Michael Giberson
A few weeks ago we mentioned commentary by John Harrell of the Institute for Local Self Reliance asserting that the “last thing renewable energy needs right now are new transmission lines.” The ILSR has a recent study suggesting the almost every state could be energy self ...
Other
Michael Giberson
Paul Walker at Anti-Dismal sees the economic content in the recent Wall Street Journal article on football, helmets, and head injuries . Here’s a piece of the story:
Why do football players wear helmets in the first place? And more important, could the helmets be ...
Stocks
Aflac
Michael Giberson
Ed Yong, at Not exactly rocket science , describes recent research into, uh, I guess you could describe it as the socioeconomic life of bacteria :
Bacteria may not strike you as expert co-operators but at high concentrations, they pull together to build microscopic ...
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Michael Giberson
Reuter’s reports remarks of Daniel Yergin made in Singapore:
“Oil prices today do not reflect the world’s supply and demand fundamentals. Instead, prices are reflective of the weak dollar and expectations of a strong economic recovery,” Yergin told ...
Commodities
Oil Prices
Oil
Michael Giberson
Thinking about wishful thinking (see previous post ), I am reminded of a minor error in George Stigler and Claire Friedland’s classic article, “ What Can Regulators Regulate? The Case of Electricity .”
As part of their introduction, they write:
And if ...
Stocks
Claire's
Michael Giberson
Earth2tech offers “ 3 Questions for 3 Energy Storage Experts .” The three questions:
Why is energy storage so essential to the new energy economy?
What is the most important use or implementation of energy storage?
Which energy storage innovation do you ...
Other
Lynne Kiesling
Hi! How are you? I’m well, thanks. Long time no chat.
Frankly, I’ve been tired, and have had too many work obligations stretching me in too many disparate directions. This has been bad for my KP writing, because much of what is happening with electricity ...
Stocks
Michael Giberson
Infused by the $3.4 billion in federal grants handed out last week, utilities will ramp up production and installation of digital smart meters by more than 19 percent, with 250 million predicted to be rolled out by 2015, according to a new report out today from Pike ...
