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August 2026

The Psychology of the Democratic Individual and the Science of Association
Essay 11 in Reading Tocqueville at 250
 • Lynne Kiesling
The Grid’s Expanding Feasible Set, Part 2: Opportunity Cost and Coordination
Power electronics enlarges the search space. Good institutions help us explore it.
 • Lynne Kiesling
The Grid’s Expanding Feasible Set, Part 1
Power electronics is changing what we can build, control, and connect, and may ultimately change the architecture of electricity itself.
 • Lynne Kiesling
Art After Aristocracy: Tocqueville on Democratic Culture
Essay 10 in Reading Tocqueville at 250
 • Lynne Kiesling
Prices, Commands, and the Flexible Grid, Part 2
Real-time electricity pricing and how transactive energy and VPPs are similar and different
 • Lynne Kiesling
The Democratic Mind: Tocqueville on Equality, Authority, and the Uses of Freedom
Essay 9 in Reading Tocqueville at 250
 • Lynne Kiesling
Prices, Commands, and the Flexible Grid, Part 1
What Boiteux, Schweppe, and two decades of experimentation add to the debate over real-time electricity pricing
 • Lynne Kiesling
Structure and Conduct: Tocqueville's Institutional Analysis at the End of Volume One
Essay 8 in Reading Tocqueville at 250
 • Lynne Kiesling
Data Center Electricity Use: Two Years After "Make or Buy?"
Data centers are taking far more control over how, when, and where their electricity gets produced
 • Lynne Kiesling

July 2026

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