Observations about natural gas and observations

If you follow energy news at all, and have not lived in a cave the last year or so, it is inevitable that you have heard about natural gas produced from shale and how the abundant supply of such gas in the United States will allow us to drastically reduce foreign fuel imports, transition the nation’s fleet of coal-fired generating plants and provide transportation fuel.  Moreover, it will do so for estimates that range from « … read more of Observations about natural gas and observations »

Systems

If you are reading this blog, if you are an involved stakeholder of energy utilities, then I assume you likely have knowledge about energy and energy utilities.  Some of you, however, may not know much about systems in the sense that I intend to use them.  This will serve as a short introduction.

There are many ways to see systems, to define systems, and to work with systems concepts in addressing opportunities and challenges.  Although the « … read more of Systems »