Interest in demand response, which enables consumers to adjust their electricity use when the power system is stressed, has sharpened recently thanks in part to its potential to help integrate wind energy into the power system.Traditionally, demand response involved enlisting
In an earlier post, we talked about how batteries could help to integrate renewable resources like wind and solar energy into the power system.In another twist on this, Oregon Public Broadcasting is reporting on an unusual partnership between a high-tech
Two years ago, we had the pleasure of talking with Theddi Wright Chappell, the managing director for Cushman & Wakefield's National Green Building and Sustainability Practice and Valuation Services team in Seattle, Washington. Chappell specializes in analyzing the potential value
Interesting story in today's New York Times on using batteries to store electricity:The rapid growth of wind farms, whose output is hard to schedule reliably or even predict, has the nation's electricity providers scrambling to develop energy storage to ensure
One of the interesting trends noted in the Council's Sixth Power Plan was the region's shift from a winter-peaking power system to summer-peaking. This is happening primarily because more homes use air conditioning.Among other things, Northwest energy planners consider three
California is in the midst of an intense debate over its ambitious clean energy initiatives. In 2006, Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law an emissions reduction measure known as AB 32. The law includes both a statewide cap-and-trade plan and aggressive
What began with the discovery of a non-native species of mussels in the Great Lakes has now become a major source of alarm for Western states. The small, thumbnail-sized mollusks were brought into U.S. waters by ocean-going vessels from Eastern
Several weeks ago, a couple of thought-provoking stories came out: Paul Greenberg's Tuna's End in the New York Times and Adam Frank's Inventing the Fish: Science and the Collapse of Ecologies on NPR. Both explore the limits of natural resources
In 2008, we had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Richard R. Whitney for our newsletter. From 1974 to 1979, he served as technical advisor to the Hon. George H. Boldt in the United States District Court for Western Washington
One of the ways we expect to meet our future energy needs is through improved efficiency, and a linchpin to achieving this is innovative lighting. For over a century, Thomas Edison's incandescent light bulb has been the dominant lighting product.
