Meshing our existing systems with new technological capacity and 21st Century strategy to deliver economic-centric carbon outcomes we not only desire, but require to sort this mess we’ve created together this past century.
- Energy Companies of the Future & A Rare Opportunity? – 18 August 2019
- Energy Companies of the Future are not just a “thing” you can put a finger on, they are an idea and concept, that only come to realization through true openness of thought and transgressing traditional “siloed” groupthink. They are the companies whom we (Bryce Johanneck & myself) want to be active, valued participants within, not just “just some guys” from North Dakota & Energy Wasteland New York.
- The Allusive White Whale of Energy Sectors Collaboration – Org. Pub. in June 2015 from Belgrade, Serbia
- Hey! It is not about what you would like to see happen, it is about what IS happening. How do you want to alter the course of The Titanic, knowing full well its course is already set regardless your actions?
- Bryce Johanneck‘s Special Guest Post #1 – 16 April 2019
- Knowledge indeed – isn’t static. It’s time all organizations value human characteristics in all positions. Certification & box checking is valid, but secondary.
- The Energy Transition Disconnect – California & New York – 15 April 2019
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Buckle up, we’re taking a deep dive into our Energy Transition and the disconnects between citizen ambition and actual action in California & New York! From the trenches of #rural #America to the highest echelons of NYC & San Francisco/Silicon Valley.
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- California’s Inverse Condemnation, Wildfires & Utilities Nexus – My Look Inside – 17 January 2019
- California’s Inverse Condemnation & Wild Fires – unique in its application within the legal system, and how it impacts California’s 3 IOUs (Investor Owned Utilities), from the perspective of one who’s worked in the utility Vegetation Management industry and directly throughout much of Pacific Gas Electric; and San Diego Gas & Electric’s service territories.
- Why the US Energy Space Struggles Instead of Surging – 16 May 2016
- Our systems are complex. Some times they work together, other times against one another. Like the human body, they somehow manage to function efficiently and reliably, with very few hiccups noticed in our daily activities. But…
- An Open Letter to EPRI – Electric Power Research Institute – 12 April 2019 with key updates on 17 April 2019; Spoiler Alert – EPRI Sucks!
- An Open Letter to #EPRI – Electric Power Research Institute requesting admission to a “collaborative meeting” on hydropower flexibility.
- Are Solar+Storage Closing Gas Plants? Is that really what’s most important [to our energy transition objectives]? – 30 March 2019
- Are solar+storage projects really closing natural gas plants, specifically “peakers”? If they are, is that what’s really important? What happened to our focus on coal and carbon emissions? How about our partners in this struggle? We didn’t forget about them did we?
- An Invisible Hand is Not Solving Our Distribution System [Operations] Problems – 20 March 2019
- Yes, let us continue acting like Manifest Destiny and the Wild West mentality that followed, solved itself through some incarnation of Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand magically bestowing itself upon our distribution systems.
- Support for NY Carbon Reduction Projects [All of the above collaborations needed] – 11 January 2019
- Let’s build all the wind and solar we can, but let’s not forget we are fighting high carbon emissions, and the next “low hanging fruit” on our list is …
- Fighting Strong Headwinds Against Wind in Middle America – 14 December 2018
- Simply put, if we don’t want to have surplus generation and no longer benefit in jobs, tax base and economic development from sending electricity to downstate and NYC, we could shut down any of the nuclear reactors along Lake Ontario… end of story.
- Hard Truths: Past Decade – Eastern US Renewable Energy Efforts Deliver Meiocre Results [How siloed technology-specific strategies are HURTing our progress] – 14 December 2018
- A hard, data-driven look at the energy transition in the US power generation sector with a focus on the Eastern US, by clearing up the opacity of US EIA’s antiquated reporting methodology. Is it living up to its commitments?
- Wind Turbines Increase Domestic Energy Resiliency – 29 December 2016
- The U.S. military has invested billions of taxpayer dollars in contingency planning, speaking in terms of “threat multiplier” and “accelerant of instability”. According to the American Security Project, “Climate change is a national security threat that America’s military [is] taking seriously. The science around climate security is definitive enough for action: the military knows that you cannot have 100% certainty before acting.”
- Our Carbon – Nuclear Conundrum – 14 May 2016
- more to be added (past and future)
Hans Hyde 