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Utilities: A Formula for Contraction
In the Energy Rant, I cover subjects I know well, subjects I don’t know well but can analyze with bookends and say, “that will never fly”, and things I don’t know well. It takes viscera, and that’s...
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Outcomes Rather than Energy Codes- One Piece at a Time
A couple weeks ago in Building Energy Codes – A Blutonian D-, I explained how many/all states are sailing forth with increasingly stringent energy codes, and based on anecdotal and personal experience,...
View ArticleUtility Reference RIP; Thank You Litigious Loser
In case you are new to this blog, or somehow haven’t noticed, I tread where no mortals tread, through the valley of the shadow of death. I discuss the all important bowels of the industry, and this...
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Utilities and Using Less- Making the Abstract Concrete
The utility business is fascinating and bizarre to me, and this can only mean I’m a hapless, pathetically boring person. But that is what it may look like to the uninformed. It’s like soccer,...
View ArticleUtility Investors: Chillax and Find a Mirror
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View ArticleTrade Allies; Care for a Nail, Sir
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View ArticleNatural Gas is a Wonderful Fuel, Btu, er But,,,
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View ArticleInvesting in Utilities
Most readers have likely seen the business triangle: cheap, fast, good [or accurate]; pick two. My first emotional reaction to the triangle was that it was something a lazy bum[1] would say. However,...
View ArticleEnergy Rant – Best of I Told You So
Don’t you hate it when the holidays come, and the A-Team of whatever it may be – radio show hosts, NPR, WPR, other talk radio and news stations – play their “best of” broadcasts? It is essentially...
View ArticleProgram Evaluation – Most Excellent Avocado Practices
Everyone has applied for health insurance[1], and many of you have applied for life insurance. Anyone over, oh, 40, 50, or for sure 60, knows health flaws start to accumulate like the dumpster’s worth...
View ArticleI’ll Take Smart Grid for $200, Alex – What is AMI?
Last week, in a moment of weakness, I was on my Pinterest board (is that what it’s called?), when I came upon this excellent tip sheet from a marketing blog[1]. I noted that the “emotional”...
View ArticleUtilities – We all Un-Bundle
Our theme the last few weeks has covered technological change, consumer emotions, and irrational ways of thinking. The regulated monopoly and its cost-of-service model will not last forever. Someday it...
View ArticleMindbender: Efficiency Thrashes Supply
A couple months ago in Outside the Boxer, we considered efficiency as a resource to be compared with supply-side resources. In May, we challenged minds with We All Un-Bundle, suggesting that utilities...
View ArticleUtilities v Big Tech Google and Facebook
“Don’t be evil.” That was the tagline for Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the founders of Google, er Alphabet. Hahahaha! For some reason, they ditched this motto three years ago. They also used the name...
View ArticleEnergy Policy – Stay in Your Lane, Bro
Ohio lawmakers are again at the beck and call of deregulated power producing titans as they pass a nuclear and coal plant bailout at the expense of energy efficiency. They also dumped mandates for...
View ArticleRegulation v Deregulation in True Color
Recent projects have led me to examine how deregulated electricity markets work. Since I am naturally curious, I wanted to investigate differences between electricity price performance of deregulated...
View ArticleAre Electric Utilities in for a Taxi Ride?
I spent part of last week at the Smart Electric Power Alliance’s Grid Evolution Summit. In my notes I wrote, SEPA is out of the closet. They are full-throated in support of decarbonization of the grid....
View ArticleElectricity – Breakpoints, Tipping Points and Imagination
The Wall Street Journal published an interesting article last week – it would be fascinating if it weren’t sadly true. The title: Everyone Hates Customer Service. It is a perfect addition to my...
View ArticlePerformance-Based Programs; Do You Have the Delusion?
Employees at Michaels get a free psych-x profile (it’s not my area of expertise) to determine personal strengths through Gallup. My top strength is “context,” which means I’m a historian. What does...
View ArticlePerformance Programs, Ouija Boards, and Mark Twain
I could not compete with my former self and Gene Simons from last week, but I went back to the Gallup psychoanalysis barrel for more inspiration. I don’t want to write about myself unless it helps you...
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