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Lynne Kiesling

Economics, regulation, technology, governance

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You Can’t Just Plug in a Data Center

Source: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-data-center-inside

Most of us experience electricity as a subscription service. We move in, call the utility, set up an account, and expect the electrons to arrive. The power system is one...

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"An attempt to remedy the consequences of a distortionary policy with another distortionary policy"

Source: Yet another productive conversation I had with ChatGPT.

PJM’s recent white paper, Powering Reliability Through Market Design, does not solve the problem underlying its title. But the paper is extremely valuable because it acknowled...

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The Distributed Grid and the End of the One-Way Electricity System

Source: An iterative conversation about Michael’s series with ChatGPT

Michael Lee’s Distributed Grid series reads like a field report from the institutional frontier. Lee, formerly CEO of Octopus Energy US, is writing from inside the pract...

20 days ago
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Data Centers, Flexibility, and the Architecture of the Grid

Flexibility is the buzzword du jour in electricity. Don’t read that as criticism; buzzwords often become buzzwords for the same reason that clichés are usually grounded in truth. The problem is that buzzwords have to do too much work before...

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Is Our 20th-Century Grid Up to the Current Task?

Why does electricity suddenly seem to matter so much again? This week, I dig into two of my favorite topics: the technological and economic history of electricity, and the economic theory underlying how we regulate an industry that serves n...

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