Baseball, Baylor, electricity policy nerd, and free markets. Former CA and MN PUC staff. Opinions reflected here are my own.
Twin Cities, Minnesota
Joined September 2009
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PUC appointments matter.
Inside the ‘pressure cooker’: Electric utility regulators gather in wake of electoral earthquake
Newly elected leaders and customers are “questioning our foundational regulatory approaches,” said Ann Rendahl, president of NARUC.
utilitydive.com/news/grid-in…
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Why the hell was Aranda playing for a 49 yard field goal with 2 TOs and plenty of time??? Knowing kicking had been a problem?
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Game 6 and Cleveland doing a bullpen game. @MLB must do something about this problem.
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Time for another fun piece of timely advice from my Xcel energy bill. This is from my October bill.
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I cannot understand how @MLB doesn't see the problem with these games being nothing more than a parade of relievers. It should be embarrassing that any playoff team uses bullpen games in the playoffs.
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Time for a personal share- 120 Minutes changed my life, as much as anything can change a high schoolers life. It was an important weekly stop for me and was a huge factor in who I am and where I am today. I was lucky growing up in the Bay Area with Live105, but.... 1/
Heartbroken to hear about the passing of Dave Kendall.
Dave was one of the true believers. Long before alternative music found its way into the mainstream, he was there every week on 120 Minutes, introducing people to bands that would go on to define an era. He didn’t just host a show. He gave a home to music that deserved to be heard.
He loved the music, respected the artists, and connected with fans in a way that always felt authentic. That’s a rare gift.
Sending love to everyone whose life he touched.
Rest easy, Dave.
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Customers paid for this investment, they should be allowed to benefit from it.
Third-party demand response provider @voltusinc and @mission_data say utility barriers to accessing smart meter data are blocking gigawatts of grid relief in PJM, the biggest U.S. energy market — and they're asking regulators to step in:
canarymedia.com/articles/uti…
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On CPUC staff, I lead the development of PUC rules to do just that. So, technically, any customer has been allowed to bring their own HAN device and connect it to their meter since 2013 in California. Although i'm guessing things have changed since I left. 1/
Access to real-time electricity data should be a basic consumer right
The technology exists. What is missing is a requirement that customers have access to data on their electricity use, writes Joel Hicks at the University of Oregon.
utilitydive.com/news/access-…
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I can also.say that flying into Denver sucks right now.
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In order to know where there is headroom, seems we need more access to grid data, including HCA which can provide indications of places w/available capacity. Also- need markets & policy to enable positive flexibility, not harmful flexibility.
New independent research from @BrattleGroup, out today: the U.S. grid runs at ~50% capacity. Rates are up 5.6%/year since 2020. A 10% increase in grid utilization could save American consumers $110–170B over the next decade.
Read it: brattle.com/the-untapped-gri…
#TheUntappedGrid #UtilizeCoalition
Jeff covers a lot of ground in one fell swoop here. The bastion of people well-versed in Bonbright & cost allocation have to deal w/new entrants who don't care as much about tradeoffs. Maybe they're degrowthers, as some say, but, like the grid, we have new load coming on fast.
"So he had someone DVR the broadcast of the game 1960’s style."
I guess that is one way to describe how someone in the 60s would do that.
One of my favorite baseball stories ever…
The only reason this footage exists is because Bing Crosby, then part-owner of the Pirates, was too nervous to watch Game 7 of the 1960 World Series.
Bing went to Paris for Game 7 to not jinx the team, but wanted to watch the game upon his return home. So he had someone DVR the broadcast of the game 1960’s style.
After decades of thinking video of one of the greatest games of all time was lost to time, the film was rediscovered in Crosby’s wine cellar in 2009 by his estate.
So the only reason I was able to post this video is because the White Christmas guy fled the country to successfully avoid jinxing the Pirates lol
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Briana Kobor (Goolge) makes the point that not all costs are fixed, so their portion of costs needs to reflect what is fixed vs variable. I do note that ppl seem to discount time, b/c I'd suggest that system costs can be more variable than fixed than assumed. #NARUCWinter26
Wondering if anyone on this large load tariff panel will bring up allowing large loads to procure their own generation as alternative to taking service from monopoly. Would put gen risk on large loads rather than ratebase and avoid some of these contract terms. #NARUCWinter26
Oh boy do i have thoughts. I've long supported this idea. However, without AMI and a robust energy mgmt space, it is challenging to implement well. Yet, Illinois has allowed resi customers to do this using day ahead hourly prices to mostly success and customer savings.
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This sounds familiar but I can quite put my finger on it.
hotel industry and unions basically made a pact where they essentially banned new hotel construction so existing hotels had a monopoly and hotel workers got higher wages and it’s a politically impossible knot to unwind because the people screwed by definition can’t vote in NYC
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