The Economist’s Technology Quarterly came out this past week. As usual lots of great articles including this one about the smart grid. In particular the story makes the following point: without standards many of the devices that could take advantage of the smart grid and smart meters, and thereby tell you how much [...]
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Energy dashboard update
May 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Energy Markets, Information Design
I may not always have time to keep up to date on energy dashboards, but thanks to blogging technology and it’s popularity among smart, informed people we need not be at a loss. This time information aesthetics has picked up the ball and has a nice post on the topic.
Energy Circle’s dashboard is perhaps [...]
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More energy charts … or the tyranny of little blinking lights
February 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Energy Markets, Information Design
Thanks to helpful reader Jed Christiansen (blogger in chief at Mercury’s Blog) for sourcing the chart I presented previously on energy usage and sources in the US (US Energy Flow Trends, Gina V. Kaiper, June, 2004), and then happening to have the file on his computer (or somehow easily accessible). He was kind enough [...]
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Google at the (smart) meter
February 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Energy Markets, Information Design
The good folks at Google.org have apparently been testing out some visualization software for smart meters (or meters which have a much better understanding of how power gets used in your home, when, and by what appliances, and can communicate that back to the “network”).
On their site they point one to a YouTube video, and [...]
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Fascinating (yet somewhat confusing) chart of US energy flow / usage
February 11th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Energy Markets, Information Design
HT to Clean Tech Investing
(click to enlarge)
Perhaps the most fascinating thing to note is how much of our energy goes up in smoke (or is otherwise “lost energy”).
And please don’t ask me what the numbers mean. It seems like there’s some labeling missing from this chart. (Nor do I know what “~97 Quads” [...]
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Where is the great carbon / energy efficiency dashboard? (Or, why can’t we just move beyond smiley faces?)
February 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · Energy Markets, Information Design
This weekend there was an article in the NYTImes about how some electric utility companies are using information design — in the form of smiley faces — to reinforce energy efficient behavior. (Also picked up here and here.) If you do well in energy usage compared to your neighbors, you get a smiley [...]
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Oddity of the day: Saudi Arabia backs green fuel
December 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Energy Markets
The FT reports that Saudi Arabia will support green fuels … by allowing for a higher price of oil.
As the article states:
Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil supplier, will on Friday voice its support for the development of alternative energy to complement fossil fuels.
Ali Naimi, Saudi Arabia’s oil minister, is expected to tell a meeting [...]
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Chart fun: Oil vs Gas vs Carbon
December 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Energy Markets, Information Design
With today’s announcement that OPEC (or at least Saudi Arabia) is going to cut back on production, I thought it would be neat to look at the price of gas vs. the price of oil vs. the price of carbon and see what relationships there are, visually speaking.
Percent change on the prices of [...]
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How OPEC Welcomes Obama …?
December 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Energy Markets
I was reading Zoom (and excellent book, review soon), about Big Oil, Big Auto, and the future of energy, when I came across this stunning paragraph.
What is more, the OPEC cartel is suspected by some of engineering occasional price collapses to bankrupt investment in alternative energy. Khosla himself says that after he made his [...]
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