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September 2026

The Grid's Expanding Feasible Set, Part 3: From Resource Adequacy to Capability Adequacy
Reliability is multidimensional. Our resource adequacy standard is a scalar. Something has to give.
 • Lynne Kiesling
Restless but Stationary: Tocqueville on Democratic Ambition
Essay 13 in Reading Tocqueville at 250
 • Lynne Kiesling
What America Can Learn From Australia’s Grid
Australia’s nested institutions work together to meet electricity generation and transmission needs
 • Lynne Kiesling
Milder Mores: Tocqueville on Life Among Equals
Essay 12 in Reading Tocqueville at 250
 • Lynne Kiesling
What Transactive Energy Already Knows About AI Governance
Combining mechanism design with market process economics and control theory creates self-correcting systems
 • Lynne Kiesling

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
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