Sitemap - 2009 - Knowledge Problem

Pro-liberty Reading to Take You into 2010

So Are You Fed Up Yet? I Am

Crandall & Winston on Financial Regulation

Thanks for the Kp Design Input

Sarewitz/thernstrom La Times Op-ed on Leaked Climate Research Documents

National Research Council Says Benefits from Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles Decades Away

Is Our Morality Derived from Our Biology?

I Think I'd Rather Be Westinghoused

Electric Power Rate Reforms Needed for Smart Grid to Create Value

Cato Unbound: Hayek and the Common Law

Texas Retail Electric Rates Remain Higher Than Neighboring States

U.S Government Becoming Clean Energy Venture Capitalist

New Book -- Electricity Restructuring: The Texas Story

Modern Manners Guy on Gift Etiquette

KP Facelift

Somin and Lambert on the Responsible Use of the Precautionary Principle

Ercot Begins to Settle Accounts Based on Data Rather Than Guesses

Repugnance, Outrage, and Other Moral Excuses

The Benefits of the Proposed Tres Amigas Interconnection

Steve Landsburg's Questions to Oberlin Honors Students

Digging into the Resource Curse: Research into Oil Revenue and Brazilian Municipalities

Ed Glaeser on Great Cities

More Tres Amigas Interconnection Details Revealed in FERC Filings

New Sharing Button

The Devil's Dictionary Meme Applied to Climate Politics and to Financial Markets

This American Life/planet Money and Market Dynamics

Bars Take Donations to Pay Smoking Fines

Rooftop Honey in Chicago

Beckham's Chances of Playing for England in the World Cup...

Tea Online: Rate Tea

Reduced Air Emissions Due to Wind Power: More

Thankful for Lax Security at Turkey Point?

Power Market Design Example

Easterly on the Civil War in Development Economics

Shale Gas As a Game Changer: A View from the Uk

Hamilton on Oil Prices and the Recession

Read Wilkinson on the Perils of Political Correctness

How to Build a Nuclear Power Plant Without Captive Ratepayers

Green Cloud Computing in Finland

Those Leaked Emails, and the Politicization of Climate Science

Is Florida Agency Price Gouging or Just Charging What the Market Will Bear?

Appliance Sales to Get ‘cash for Clunkers’ Boost? (2)

Two Views on Electric Utility Restructuring in Pennsylvania

Ed Glaeser on Why Some Cities Are More Entrepreneurial

Have We Failed Regulation?

Energy Information Devices Start to Go Mass Market

U.S. Biodiesel Continues to Need Taxpayer Support, or Else...

Market Design at Harvard

Britain's Digital Economy Bill is a Dud

Apparently "Light-handed Regulation" is Actually a Form of Regulation

Tres Amigas Project Discussed on Public Radio Show

Research Mounts Showing Vitamin D's Health Benefits

Jonah Lehrer Channels His Inner Economist

More on Natural Gas from Shale and Its Critic

Long-Distance Transmission Complements "Local Self Reliance"

Football Helmets and Head Injuries

Cooperation and Cheating Among Bacteria

Yergin: Oil Prices Not Driven by Supply and Demand...

If Wishes Were Horses, then What Should Venture Capitalists Do?

Energy Storage Questions and Answers

Hi Again; Some Reading Recommendations for the Holiday Season

Smart Meter Business is Booming

Reduced Air Emissions Due to Wind Power: Not As Much As You Might Think

"Hayek's Legacy ... is Still Brightly Promoted"

You Can't Always Get What You Want: Or, Why Oil Production Declines with Rock and Roll

New Meters Enabling New Rate Designs by Competitive Power Suppliers in Texas

Electricity and Water-understand the Relationship That is Causing Problems

Tres Amigas Presentation

The Key to Arizona's Energy Future

Designing Federal Programs That Work

Wholesale Power Markets for Beginners - The New Hampshire View

Blackouts in Brazil: Two Views

Tres Amigas Transmission Link Overview at Alt Energy Stocks

Buy American Sounds Great—until You Think About It

Nostalgia and Duran Duran

The Solar Panels That Pay for Themselves...

The Fall of the Berlin Wall

World Oil, but Apparently Not Local Shale Gas Skepticism

Austin Energy's Future Rate Hikes

Local TV News Coverage of the Proposed End of 90+ Years of Electric Competition in Lubbock

What the Fpl 2009 3q Earnings Call Transcript Says About the Texas Retail Market

The (soon to Be Revised) History of Electric Competition in Lubbock

Breaking News: Retail Power Competition To End In Lubbock After More Than 90 Years

Ghana and Its Newfound Oil: Can It Use the Alaska Model to Avoid the Resource Curse?

Natural Gas from Shale: Long Lasting or Going Fast?

Take-or-Pay Contracts: Lessons from Brazil and Bolivia

"Sanitized by Lawyering"

Gazprom, Europe, and Long-Term Take-or-Pay Contracts

Smart Meter Benefits Should Mostly Go to Utilities, Initially

Calling the Next Bubble: is There Currently a "Dollar-Led Asset Bubble"?

In Principle I'm in Favor of Spending Money on Economists

Unfair Prices and Moral Progress

Melissa Thomasson on This American Life on Health Insurance

Teece and Sidak on Dynamic Competition

Taxpayer Dollars to Support Utility Smart Grid Expenses

Mcardle on the Search for Financial Villians; Indiviglio on Electric Cars and Power Costs

More Post-season Tournament Design Issues: Mls Tiebreakers

Calomiris on Econtalk

Where Does Lithium Come From, Anyway?

Some Complexity-based Thoughts on Macro

Attorneys General in Virginia and North Carolina Continue to Prosecute Hurricane Ike Price Gouging Cases

Post-season Tournament Design: Seeding Issues

New Transmission Lines Are the Last Thing Renewable Power Needs, Says John Harrell

Power Consumers in New York and New England Markets Rely on Imports from Canada

Fake Chamber Press Conference? Funny. Fake Reporters? Not So Much.

Pandora+iphone = Excellent Car Radio Even in Lubbock

Raising a Generation of Grittier Children

Smart Meter Benefits Mostly Going to Utilities So Far

"Where the Wild Things Are"

Not Helping out Due to Anti-price Gouging Laws

A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud, and Policy Toward Devices That Emit Carbon Dioxide

Market Designs for Tres Amigas: How About Trilateral Market Coupling?

External Costs of Energy Production, Auditing the Energy Star Program, and More

Roads and Paths As Common-pool Resources, and the Problem of Governing Them

Is It Super Freaky?

Economics for Tres Amigas

Why Have 31 States Passed Anti-price Gouging Laws (and 19 Not)?

This Year's Berlin Wall 20th Anniversary

Florida Price Gouging Laws: Too Vague or Just Flexible?

Laura Levine Rock & Roll Photography

Only Possible in a Politics-free World ...

An Illustration of the Problem Discussed in an Earlier Post

Private Wires and the Electric Power Industry You Want

Tres Amigas Project Proposes to Connect Eastern, Western, and Texas Power Grids

California Adopts Feed-in Tariff for Distributed Wind and Solar Power Systems, with Nobel Prize Notes

Vincent and Elinor Ostrom and Public Ownership of Natural Resources

Paul Romer on the Nobel

Henderson, Smith on the Nobel and Its Implications for Economics

High Costs Drive Government to Take over Government-Owned Electric Utility in Mexico

Ostrom's Work Lends Insight on Regulation

More on Ostrom and Williamson, and Decentralized Coordination

Nobel: Ostrom and Williamson!

When Good Deals Go Bad for Economic Development Planners

Boom in Shale Natural Gas: Not Just for North America

New Economist Smart Grid Article

Oligopoly in Alaska's Wholesale Gasoline Market

Judge Says Kentucky's Anti-Price Gouging Law is Constitutional; Virginia Newspaper Says "Legalize It"

"Battery Investing for Beginners"

The Future of Natural Gas Prices: a View from October 2009

A Big Day for Google 2: Power Meter and Ted!

A Big Day for Google 1: Verizon and Google

Does Ferc Have Jurisdiction over Installed Capacity Requirements in Wholesale Power Systems?

Did Prediction Markets Miss the Call on Chicago's Olympic Bid?

New York Politicians Want to Expand Zone Pricing Ban to Protect Wealthy Customers from Slightly Higher Prices

Consumer Protection in the Texas Retail Power Market, Part 2

Is Consumer Protection Lacking in Texas Retail Electric Power Market?

New York's Zone Pricing Ban Not Eliminating Retail Gasoline Price Differences

No Market Allowed for Desired Prayer Spaces

No Results Found for "True Number May Be Lower or Higher"

Peer-based Comparisons Can Induce Consumers to Reduce Energy Use

"Gas Station Owners Were Surprisingly Altruistic During That Time of Crisis"

Weekend Jaunt from Chicago: New Glarus, Wisconsin

Deductive Economic Rationality and Its Limitations

"Blended Deceit from the Nanny State"

Price Signals and Free Markets Lead to Oil Exploration: Who'd a Thunk It?

An Illustration of Comparative Advantage from Professional Cycling

Can a Keynesian Beauty Contest Improve Obama's Suggestion Box for Federal Employees?

Power Prices Work Best to Support Reliability when Prices Are Locational

Paternalistic Regulation and the Knowledge Problem

More on Michael Sandel, Justice and Price Gouging

Energy Secretary Steven Chu: Not Exactly Making Friends and Influencing People

Life Imitates Art: Nissan to Give Electric Car a “Beautiful and Futuristic” Noise

Grant Mccracken: Concatenating Capitalism

Iea: Recession => Lower Carbon Emissions

Justice, Promoting Virtue and Price Gouging

Sun is Always Shining for Solar Power Proponent

Walmart Says Iso Power Markets Offer Best Programs for Supporting Demand Response

The Business Cycle As a Recalculation Problem

Price Gouging and the "Dark Side of Cooperation"

Will Ethanol Become an Environmentally-friendly Fuel Some Day?

Danish Wind Power Report by LER, and Views from the NRDC

Retail Gasoline Stations Shutting Down to Avoid Price Gouging Complaints

Recessions: An Especially Bad Time to Impose Bad Public Policies

Tyler's Nyt Article -- Important and Well Worth Reading

Economic Freedom of the World Annual Report

The Wisdom of Crowds Has No Use for Predicting the Lottery

Better Place Has Deal to Provide Taxis in Toyko

Reactions to Krugman on the State of Macroeconomics

Eichengreen on How Economists Went Astray

Jonah Lehrer, Autism, and Surfing

Toby Considine on Retail Electricity Issues

Choice and Competition Protect Consumers of Healthcare ... and Electricity

Emergent Orders Are All Around Us, Especially in Cities

Jane Smiley: "All I Need to Know About Economics I Learned in Kindergarten"

Thomas Friedman Wants to Make the Policy Trains Run on Time

OPEC, CFTC, and the International Oil Market

Shane Greenstein on Remote Connectivity

Another Reason Why Retail Regulation is Obsolete: Atrocious Incentives

Is a Reverse Auction Feed-in Tariff "Market-Based"?

Wsj Offers Nuclear Power Update

College Football Playoffs and Other Ideas Mike Leach Likes

Exile in Copenhagen

Another Darwin Voyage

Does the Wall Street Journal Employ Anyone Who Understands Energy Markets? Three Rejoinders

Friday Football Notes from Chris Dillow

The Trouble with Two-Handed Economists

New Oilfield Shifts Supply Curve, but Slowly

The U.s. Postal Service Projects Smart Grid Revenue Needed to Make Electric Vehicle Fleet Cost Effective

Unintended Consequences, Hybrid Vehicles Edition

Solar Makes Financial Sense in Austin, if You Are Subsidized...

Don't Worry, the City Council Will Plusgood Monitor Big Brother to Prevent Abuse

State Legislatures and Pucs Prefer High Annual Electricity Bills for Retail Customers

You Heard It Here First, but Others Are Catching On: Social Media and Electricity Information

Friday Fun: Itunes' Underplayed List

Eternal Truths About Those Who Are Attracted to Politics

Is Bicycling "Bad to the Bone"?

Should the Federal Government Use the Spr to Counter Speculators?

Joe Romm to Michael Lynch on Peak Oil: Wanna Bet?

150th Anniversary of Edwin Drake's First Oil Well in Pennsylvania

Peak Oiler Responds to Lynch Op-ed in Nyt

Health Care Economics Tidbits: Mackey, New York Times, Horwitz

Kauffman Economics Bloggers Video

Back from My Epic Travels!

Looking for a Good Forecast?

Give It Away Now: Wind Power and the Price of Electricity

Appliance Sales to Get 'cash for Clunkers' Boost?

On Peak Oil and National Energy Plans

Crabs and Crabbers: "Interests Are Not Always Aligned"

Highly Recommended Read on Waxman-markey: The Cap-and-trade Bait and Switch

If the E-fuel Microfueler Sounds Too Good to Be True...

The Cape Wind Power Project Counterfactual

The Real Meaning of Al Roth's Spam Blog Email: Time to Leave the Bargain Bin

The End of "Cash for Clunkers"

Will V2g Prove Profitable to Phev Owners?

Volatile Prices Decrease Consumer Satisfaction with Texas Competitive Retail Suppliers

More on Bicycle Prices in Portland...

Don't Follow the Swedish Health Care Model; Follow the Swedish Retail Electricity Model

I Still Don't Know Why I'd Want to Be on Facebook

A Customer's View of National Grid's Smart Meter Roll out

Gasoline Price Gouging After Hurricane Ike in South Carolina

Cash for Clunkers, Economics of

Peters: The Impact of Ferc Orders on the Value of Bidders in Pjm

Used Cars, Used Bikes; Phoenix, Seattle

Feed-in Tariffs Waste Resources and Make It Harder to Meet Europe's Renewable Energy Goals

Does "Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is" Make Betting a Free Speech Issue?

Who Controls Access to Consumer Power Consumption Data?

The Unequivocal Superiority of the Feed-in Tariffs for Renewable Power?

More on Dynamic Electric Power Prices for Residential Customers in Illinois

Blog Recommendation: Jay Hancock

Share the Road ...

Dynamic Electric Power Prices for Residential Customers in Illinois

Anniversary: Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments

Import? Export? Which Way for Lng in North America?

Vero Beach Florida Could Become a Hothouse of Dynamic Competition in Retail Electric Power

Evolving Competition: Whole Foods, Costco, Trader Joe's

Natural Gas Imports: From Russia, with Love?

My Own Private Idaho Stop Law

Wind Power, Birds, Public Policy, and the Irrational Fears of Non-voters

Home Energy Management and Home Security Product Bundling

7 Individual Energy Management Iphone Apps

Keeping Some Speculators out of the Oil Market May Lead to Higher Oil Prices

Newsweek Smart Grid Article

Nist Smart Grid Workshop

We Can "Cure" High Frequency Trading, but is It Really a Public Policy Problem?

On Integrating Wind Power to the Texas Grid

Same Old Advice Gets New Package

Energy Geeks Rejoice! Ecobee to Offer Thermostat Control Via Iphone App

Firstenergy Seeks Switch from Midwest Iso to Pjm

Refinery Outages Generally Have Small Effects on Gasoline Prices, Gao Says

Wind Energy Code of Conduct for New York

Do School Buses Use More Energy Than the Likely Alternatives?

Why is Selling Bottled Tap Water Odd?

Power from the Wind: the View from 1909

Blog Recommendation: Structured Thinking

Wind Power: My Advice to Free Market Critics

The Wind Industry Loves to Fret

Balancing Swings in Power from Wind Farms on the Bonneville Power Administration Grid

Pixies Us Tour

Retailing Gasoline: At Least Twice a Day Dan Checks Up on His Competition

A Monday Morning Smart Grid Roundup

The Gold in the Oceans and the Gold in Algae Biofuels

Jetstream Announces More Utility-scale, Zero-emissions Hydrogen Power Plants

Oh! Pandora

Update on My Budget Customer Service Post

Still Here ...

Why Arizona Should Encourage Development of a Open, Competitive Electric Power Market

Negative Power Prices in Ercot West: Charts for Jan-june 2009

2009 Power Prices in Ercot’s West Zone: a Mix of Wind Power, Natural Gas Prices, Transmission Constraints, and (inefficient) Congestion Management Practices

Consumers, Utilities and the Smart Grid

Ftc Finds No Evidence of Illegal Activity After Investigation of Western New York Gasoline Prices

Endangered Species for Sale, for Their Own Good and Ours

Psa: Bad Customer Service from Budget Car Rental

Nine Months After the Zone Pricing Ban in New York...

Punishing Gasoline Customers for Non-Existent 'Price Gouging' by New Jersy Station

What's So Funny About Generating Power from Onion Juice?

Offshore Wind Power and Data Center?

Power Consumers in Ercot Should Keep an Eye on Puct Rulemaking Project 34577

John Cleese's Wine for the Confused

Informal Networks As Social Insurance

FERC's Smart Grid Policy Statement (And an Aside on Federal-State Jurisdictional Issues)

FERC Directs New York Power System Operator to Fix "Loop Flow" Scheduling Problem

World's First Utility-Scale, Zero-Emissions Hydrogen Power Plant?

Five Guys in Lubbock: The New Best Burger in Town

More on the FTC and Western New York Gasoline Prices

Kidney Markets and Exchanges

Who Likes Ticket Scalpers?

Never Did See That Ftc Report on Western New York Gasoline Prices

Race Report: Trek Women's Triathlon Wisconsin

Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla!

Micro-Curtailment

Geoff Styles on the CFTC's Desire to Fix Up Energy Futures Markets

This Year for the Tour I'm in the Vande Velde/Garmin Cheering Section

Ge's Light Bulb Development Pipeline

Health Care Policy, Individual Consumption Portfolios, and Liberty

Sources and Uses of Electric Power Consumed in the United States

Pickens New Plan: Not to Build the World's Largest Wind Power Farm

CFTC to Consider Position Limits on Energy Futures Contracts

Tdf Team Time Trial

The Economist, Computer World on Building the Smart Grid

Innovation in Incandescents

Crude Oil Price Volatility

Wired Guide to Following the Tour De France Online

Anderson/gladwell Debate Brings out All of the Web Intelligentsia

Latitude-Specific Solar Cells

Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles and the New York Electric Power System

Walmart Supports Employer Health Care to Raise Rivals' Costs

Technology and Changing the Business Model in the Electricity Industry

Open-Road Electronic Tolling Also Reduces Emissions

Boldrin, Romer, and Roberts on Intellectual Property

The Least Frequently Asked Question Ever

Onions, Oil, Speculators, Congress

Meet James Ensor, Belgium's Famous Painter, at New York's Moma

Smart Grid Device Update

Hohm, and Cloud Computing

Transparency and Representation in the Waxman-Markey Vote

NYT's Interactive Waxman-Markey Voting Map

Is Either Google or Facebook the Model of the Internet's Future?

Sunday Recipe Post: Lynne's Perfect Pancakes

Blog: The Next 100

Fixing Airport Security

Microsoft's Hohm Joins the Smart Grid Fray

Another Waxman-markey Blemish: Reinforcing the Obsolete Utility Business Model

A New Paper, and Presenting It at Conferences This Week

Coal in a World of Cheap Natural Gas

Another Note on Natural Gas Supply in the Us

What Are the Best Books on the Economic History of Energy Technology and Development?

A Bikey Bikey Weekend!

Water Footprint As the Next Big Thing

Will Wind Energy Follow Ethanol's Path?

And I Thought Texas Politics Was Entertaining...

It's the End of the School Year ...

Solar Project at Pearl Brewery in San Antonio

Power Trip Documentary to Be Aired

Estimated Wind Power Output in Ercot for Summer 2009

What Does Waxman-markey Have to Say About Kites?

Stay in School

Waxman-markey is Really a Command-and-control Energy Bill? No, Say It Ain't So!

The Economic and Environmental Value of Forests

On Ethanol's Subsidy and Related

Expectations Driving Gas Prices

Mankiw on the B-School Economist

A Century of Benny Goodman

Innovations in Solar Inverter Technologies, and Their Economic Impact

Economic Experiments on Growth Policy

KP Convergence in Chicago

Tim Haab: Michael Moore is a Bad Economist

Health Care Policy

Predictable Consequences of Anti-price Gouging Laws

About "Something Mostly Enjoyable That Also Performs a Function"

Solar Power: Policies Should Encourage Thoughtful Development

Want Better Electricity Information? Do It Yourself!

More Smart Grid Q and A at Greentech Media

Smart Grid Q and A at Greentech Media

Is the Zone Pricing Ban Raising Average Gasoline Prices in New York?

Legislators from Wealthy Fairfield County, Connecticut Hope a Zone Pricing Ban Will Save Constituents Money

My Smart Grid Article in Reason

What is Economics, Exactly?

Glaeser and Florida on Urbanization, and Nashville's Lure

Auctions As Tools to Limit Government Discretion

Price Gouging Policy As Rendered in Everyday Politics

Lng Possibilities Keeping Natural Gas Prices Down in U.S.

Arizona Commissioners' Views on a Non-jurisdictional Utility's Cost-Cutting Plan

Bootleggers and Baptists and Carbon Policy

Flywheel Technology Now Ready for Takeoff? Nyiso Tariff Changes Accomodate Energy Storage Technology

Consequences of Dynamic Transmission Line Rating for Renewable Power

Origins of State Electric Utility Regulation: Was It Protection of Quasi-rents Not Creation of Monopoly Rents?

Independence Pass!

Jazz at the Village Vanguard on NPR

No Regulator Has or Will Have the Information, Expertise, or Esp Required to Do This

The Bicycle Paved the Road for Automobiles

Perennial Gale of Creative Destruction, Personal Wireless Division

Gasoline Retailer Opposes a Zone Pricing Ban in Connecticut

Where I Am Not Shopping for Alcohol in Lubbock, Texas

Congressman to Western New York Gasoline Retailers: We Will Be Watching You

Price Fishback on the Great Depression and Today

2009 Energy Efficiency Indicator Survey

Another Celebrity Knitter!

Sorting out Some Claims About Danish Wind Power

A Triathlete's Favorite New Yorker Cartoon

Anti-price Gouging Laws and Economic Efficiency: On Rapp and Skarbek on Price Gouging

Administration Abandons Airport Landing Slot Auction

Todd Zywicki: the Commerce Clause is in the Constitution for a Reason

Price Gouging: Is It Wrong? Should It Be Against the Law?

Price Gouging and Behavioral Economics – More Work Needed

May is Bike Month and May 11-15 is Bike-to-Work Week

Articles on Wind Power in Ontario Address Effects on Emissions, Other Issues

This Anti-Neuroeconomics Screed on Marketwatch is So Bad You Have to Stop and Look

A Message to You Rudy

Jeremy Rifkind, Thinking Big About Distributed Energy Resources

Illinois Smart Grid Initiative Final Report

Hartford Courant Editorializes Against Zone Pricing Ban in Connecticut

Whirlpool: Smart Grid Appliances by 2015

Munson: From Edison to Enron to Casten

My Favorite Question on My Electric Power Industry Final Exam

Electric Power Consumers in New Jersey Are Pursuing Lower Prices

FERC is to Ercot As Spider is to ______.

Some Smart Grid Consumer Value Propositions

Resilience, Sustainability, and Loosely-coupled Systems

A Good NYT Smart Grid Article

More on Carbon Offsets

Western Swing is Dead! Long Live Western Swing!

A Problem with Market-Based Approaches to Emission Reductions

Smart Grid Policy Heats Up

A Solar Panel, a Jug of Wine and Thou

Pirates Paying for Music

Lubbock Cycling Chic

Connecticut Attorney General Proposes New State Energy Agency to Combat Incentives for Economic Efficiency

NYT Article on Shai Agassi

Using Brain Waves to Write/Type

Oil Shocker: Energy Economist Bids to Get Back on the Front Page

Wind Power and Bird Deaths and Frederic Bastiat

Ge-fpl Smart Grid Investments in Florida

Estimates of Net Cost of Waxman-Markey Bill

Peer-to-peer Power Through Microgrids

Experiments in Business

Risk Amnesia

No "Magic Number" for Renewable Power

What if Power Companies Became More Like Banks?

Headed to Lubbock ...

Regulated Utilities, Wall Street, and Smart Grid Investment

Edmund Phelps Explains "Knowledge Problem"

Flawed Report, Subsequent Debate Should Advance Understanding of Nyiso Market

Lobbying Pays -- Is Anyone Surprised?

Uneconomical Cogeneration

Smart Grid, Complexity, and Swarm Logic

New Cbo Study on Ethanol

Can Congress Be Trusted to Design Effective Carbon Policy? I Doubt It

Sunday Drive-by Grassroots Economics

Can Green Bank Proposal Pass the Laugh Test?

Training Log Update: Buckeye Outdoors

An All Solar City? Not Exactly

Follow Kp on Twitter!

Hey, Someone in Bakersfield Just Bought Purple Converse Hi-Tops!

A Thursday Afternoon Links Roundup

Cap-And-Trade and Politics

Cybersecurity and the Smart Grid

Itunes and Music Price Discrimination

Overlapping Transmission Grids in West Texas Will Give Power Plants the Power to Choose

Vampire Killers

Yo Athletes! What's Your Preferred Online Training Log?

Pete Leeson: Why Failure is Valuable

Playing with Color Schemes

Geek Tourism for Electric Power Economists

Some Monday Morning Links

Recovery is About Entrepreneurship

Spring Has Sprung, with Lamb Stew and Cinsault

The Role of Universities and Taxpayer-Funded Research in Economic Growth

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies!

Is "First in Time, First in Right" the Best Way to Allocate Rights to Wind Energy?

Are Wind Power Producers the Low Cost Suppliers of Frequency Control Service in Ercot?

Music and Online Radio

Smart Flora

Cringely on Google's Power Meter

Battery Technology and the Electric Power Grid and Unreliable Power Sources

Building New Transmission ? Smart Grid

Consumers Asked to Pay More Next Year for Last Year's Increases in Utility Costs

Former Steeler, Now Knitter

How to Write with Confidence

Greentech Media Asks, Will Utilities or Customers Lead in Smart Grid?

"Twitter Marks an Advance in Freedom"

Becoming a Pull Organization, or an Industry of Pull Organizations

Daily Reading: Al Daily and The Browser

Walk Score: Comparing My New and Old Neighborhoods

Reiham Salam on the Angelheaded Hipsters at Sxsw Interactive

An Update of Smart Grid Links

FERC's Smart Grid Policy Statement

Peculiar, Missouri and Retroactive Policymaking

A Few Thoughts on the Aig Outrage

Slate on Winning Your Ncaa Pool

Aig-Ency Problems

Environmental Benefits and the Production Tax Credit for Wind Power

Smart Grid Federal Policy

Monday and Tuesday: Gridecon in Chicago

Chicago Half Marathon

Will Pricing Carbon Raise Electricity Prices?

Also in the Wsj: "There is No Such Thing As Nuclear Waste"

Because It is Not News Until It is on Comedy Central; Or, Carbon Taxes Their Brains

Some Smart Grid Reading Recommendations

Recommendations for Smart Grid Policy (Part 5 of 5)

Power Market Seams and the Role of Arbitragers in Market Design

Wind Power is Dispatchable, Down

Awol Today with a Headache

The Ethanol Drag on Consumer Value and Government Revenue

Smart Grid and Renewables Interconnection (Part 4 of 5)

Why is Chris Masse Making a Big Deal About a Little Article on Prediction Markets in The Economist?

The Natural Gas Industry is Adapting to Changing Conditions

Intelligent End-use Devices Make a Transactive Smart Grid Valuable (Part 3 of 5)

Retail Electric Power Market Shakeout in Texas, Ii

One Aspect of Auction Design That May Need Greater Attention

A Smart Grid is a Transactive Grid (Part 2 of 5)

Smart Grid Technology, Economics, and Policy (Part 1 of 5)

The Retail Electric Power Market Shakeout in Texas

Lower Prices for Electric Power in Texas

Does "Competitive Electricity Markets" Want to Be Free?

Who Needs Charitable Giving when You Can Have Big Government?

Should Advocates of Electric Industry Restructuring Have Not Promised Lower Rates?

Lng and the Future of Natural Gas Prices in the U.S.

Animal Conservation Through Prices

Who Invented the Automobile?

Does Anyone Care About Oil and Gas Reserves Reports Included in Year-end Financial Statements?

Smart Grid Rhetoric at Yesterday's Clean Energy Summit

An Economic History Lesson on Fiscal Responsibility

KP RSS Feed

Gridecon 2009

The Continuing Relevance of the Bootlegger-And-Baptist Model

British Government Desire for Surveillance Expropriates Private Property

Update: The Tea Party's Brewing ...

Mortgage Bailouts and the Chicago Tea Party

A New Paper from Me: Increasing Energy Efficiency Through Decentralized Coordination

Coffee Shop Builds Business with Twitter

Why Are Gasoline Prices So High? (February 2009 Version).

Twitter's Gonna Transform Professional Cycling

P.G. O'Rourke's Adam Smith Column

Chris Masse: The Truth About Prediction Markets

Luminant to Idle 15 Natural Gas Fired Generators in Texas

Negative Power Prices in Ercot West - 2009 So Far

Google Enters Smart Grid; Will They Pass the Transactive Test?

The Wind Power 'chicken and Egg' Problem in the Eastern Interconnection

Lower Prices for Electric Power

Current Status of Bio-diesel from Algae: "Your Fishtank is Not a Goldmine."

Poetry in Traffic

I Can Haz Bailout?

Is Matt Welch My Alter Ego? I Can Haz Wit?

Knowledge, Uncertainty, and Government Spending Links for Today

What to Make of the Fiscal Policy Discussion?

Bailouts, Stimulus, and Debt: John Cochrane and Russ Roberts on Econtalk

My Three Favorite Things About the Super Bowl

Working at Wal-mart

Contango and Storage Arbitrage

Texas Regulators Choose Companies to Build Transmission to Reach Wind Power

Updated: Negative Power Prices in the West Region of Ercot in 2008

Most Expensive Gasoline in America - a Zone Pricing Protest

More on Airline Fuel Cost Hedging: Air New Zealand Takes Hit

Zayed Future Energy Prize Awarded to Dipal Chandra Barua

Any Good Analyses Comparing Renewable and Nuclear Costs?

Fuel Hedging: Sometimes You Get the Bear, Sometimes the Bear Gets You

"Fixing" the Economy: How Do You "Fix" an Ecosystem?

What Provisions Might a Federal Power Act of 2009 Contain?

Falling Carbon Permit Prices in Europe: Threat or Menace?

Airport Kabuki: Bruce Schneier on "Security Theater"

Monopoly, Competition, and the Fear of Failure

How to Deal with Toxic Assets

Carbon Tax Vs. Cap-and-trade, Again

Uscap's Blueprint for Climate Policy

Even in Texas Competition Between Electric Wires Companies is Prohibited, Except in Lubbock

A Roundup of Some Smart Grid Links

Eric Morris: Why You'll Love Paying for Roads That You Don't Pay for Now

The History of Air: Nick Gillespie on Joseph Priestley

Nudging Down Food Waste in Cafeterias

What Fixed Vs. Flexible Retail Power Rates in Texas Tell Us About Wind Power in the Ercot Market

Cass Sunstein, Oira, and Nudging

Green Cars at the Auto Show

Russia and Ukraine Natural Gas Disputes Illustrate the Bilateral Monopoly Problem

Low Entry Barriers in Electric Car Market

My Predictable Comment on the Nfl Playoffs

Culinary Notes: Foods That Are Good for You, Including ... Duck Fat?

My Benchmark Oil Price is Better Than Yours

What Model for the Financial System Breakdown? Falling Dominoes? Cascading Outages?

Aviation Biofuels Tested

Itq Story on Npr This Morning

Alex Has More to Say on Smart Grid and Stimulus

Russia Throwing Its Gassy Weight Around, Again

News from the Ces: Induction Chargers Ftw?

New Energy Blog: Master Resource

Apple's New Itunes Pricing and Drm-free Songs: the Results of Competition

Gates Mend Risk is an Anagram for Market Designs

More Nuanced Net Neutrality Discussions

Happy New Year!