Thanks for this posting; I'll be reading it later and I look forward to the transcript. Wherever we live - there is a 'safe capital driven' dynamic of regulated vs. unregulated transmission, provider and payers ... and whenever things whipsaw, it is the voiceless payers who pay and the 'administrative law' bureaucracies who tell everyone 'how it must be done'. Two things in my experience confound this: terrain and 'the greater good'. Those who 'have the gold' make the rules. If we liken the pipeline companies, and power transmission companies, to being 'the truck' that takes the goods to market, we should ask about the future roles everyone plays. LNG needs a pipeline first before it can get compressed and put on a ship. One might think of 'other examples where outside-the-box thinking is needed.' Demand drives supply. I like the idea of large data centres being built close to the power generation source (i.e. hydro dams), but you can't move the damn dam, can you? We build cars close to where the consumers and workers are. We produce factory goods close to large population centres, for the same reasons. I wonder, at the pace at which tech is reordering the world at a pace we are hard-pressed to adjust to, if there is a 'different solution' for where the data centre/data should be, should control over it rest with the 'truck owners' or the 'data owners'? Surely, it should not rest with the data centre owners/developers? They might own the real estate, own the development, which makes the users who own the data and pay to deliver the 'outcomes' of all that data processing the ones who should determine/design the business model, right? We are in a hurry to be in a hurry - but maybe we should slow down in finding a magic solution, eh?
I’d really like to know with the incoming administration do you think the chips act will still be happening?
I’ve had a very bad experience with a solar company using my address for their business name. Ughhh I’m so glad they have been denied. Shady people.
Is there anyway in a place like Maine where our elitric company is owned by a company from Spain ( CMP) I have the perfect place on my barn and house for solar panels. All sun. Is there anyway a low income person can get this? Is there a trustworthy company in southern Maine? We have a bit of solar paying for some electric bills ( a community solar farm that sells to CMP ) there is no transparency in how many or what credits you have and how they are spent. It’s extremely confusing.
The solar company using my address had a project CMP didn’t have a transformer large enough or something.
Why are we, as an industry, not visibly pricing everything in Tonnes (Avoided) Carbon? We have been including carbon footprint in our structural planning models (I am retired Henwood/ABB) for many years, and our models support alternative currencies.
How did the LADWP/Anschultz wind--and-transmission project get modelled. My guess: LADWP used Prosym with their own home-rolled interface, which is capable of catching the primary value proposition of the project, which is the different (wind-blown in some cases) price shapes on either side of the WECC donut...
Thanks for this posting; I'll be reading it later and I look forward to the transcript. Wherever we live - there is a 'safe capital driven' dynamic of regulated vs. unregulated transmission, provider and payers ... and whenever things whipsaw, it is the voiceless payers who pay and the 'administrative law' bureaucracies who tell everyone 'how it must be done'. Two things in my experience confound this: terrain and 'the greater good'. Those who 'have the gold' make the rules. If we liken the pipeline companies, and power transmission companies, to being 'the truck' that takes the goods to market, we should ask about the future roles everyone plays. LNG needs a pipeline first before it can get compressed and put on a ship. One might think of 'other examples where outside-the-box thinking is needed.' Demand drives supply. I like the idea of large data centres being built close to the power generation source (i.e. hydro dams), but you can't move the damn dam, can you? We build cars close to where the consumers and workers are. We produce factory goods close to large population centres, for the same reasons. I wonder, at the pace at which tech is reordering the world at a pace we are hard-pressed to adjust to, if there is a 'different solution' for where the data centre/data should be, should control over it rest with the 'truck owners' or the 'data owners'? Surely, it should not rest with the data centre owners/developers? They might own the real estate, own the development, which makes the users who own the data and pay to deliver the 'outcomes' of all that data processing the ones who should determine/design the business model, right? We are in a hurry to be in a hurry - but maybe we should slow down in finding a magic solution, eh?
Please talk to CMP . Maine has some of the highest cost in the states for electricity
I’d really like to know with the incoming administration do you think the chips act will still be happening?
I’ve had a very bad experience with a solar company using my address for their business name. Ughhh I’m so glad they have been denied. Shady people.
Is there anyway in a place like Maine where our elitric company is owned by a company from Spain ( CMP) I have the perfect place on my barn and house for solar panels. All sun. Is there anyway a low income person can get this? Is there a trustworthy company in southern Maine? We have a bit of solar paying for some electric bills ( a community solar farm that sells to CMP ) there is no transparency in how many or what credits you have and how they are spent. It’s extremely confusing.
The solar company using my address had a project CMP didn’t have a transformer large enough or something.
Why are we, as an industry, not visibly pricing everything in Tonnes (Avoided) Carbon? We have been including carbon footprint in our structural planning models (I am retired Henwood/ABB) for many years, and our models support alternative currencies.
How did the LADWP/Anschultz wind--and-transmission project get modelled. My guess: LADWP used Prosym with their own home-rolled interface, which is capable of catching the primary value proposition of the project, which is the different (wind-blown in some cases) price shapes on either side of the WECC donut...