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These increasingly awkward rollout events make me pine for the days of George Blankenship, master showman, who managed to work Elon’s awkward...
@dave4444 Bean's isn't being entirely altruistic installing these chargers, they're trying to get people to stay longer and spend more! In the...
I reached out to my friend, Fortunat Mueller, who owns ReVision Energy about the J1772s at Bean's. His project manager writes: Sorry to have...
@longshadows Welcome! We Tesla-Maniacs are few but fervent, and delighted to add another to the ranks. I live in Portland and summer in South...
So here's a question: why would Hydro-Québec sell power to New England for anything less than the market price? New Englanders have the choice of...
@Gwgan -- very excited that you've got your X! I hope you'll take a run down to Portland sometime.
I'm not going to either place, but Dedham is likely to be more fun because *everyone* there is going to be excited about Tesla. OTOH, at Natick...
Anecdotes that illustrate trends are helpful in getting people's hearts engaged. The comparison I use is to dice: rolling boxcars (6-6) once...
Ah -- I see. You're partially right and partially wrong. The tariff for any particular installation is fixed for 20 years, based on when it is...
I'm puzzled by the question. If/when the Standard Offer rate goes up, the value of not buying power at that rate goes up. The value of your net...
Even if the delivery charge were waived for factory delivery, you'd be stuck paying state and local sales taxes in California (which has very...
This could be important: Governor LePage and Quebec Premier Couillard Announce Electric Vehicle Corridor Initiative The electric vehicle corridor...
Once again, it looks like unusually warm waters in the Gulf of Maine is going to impact the lobster industry here. Between the clear impacts of...
The Public Advocate's spreadsheet calculating costs and benefits is available at the Maine PUC website, item #95. I worked a lot on this case and...
Or even 50 seats and the White House (because the VPOTUS is the President of the Senate and therefore breaks ties). FWIW, the Iowa Electronic...
Hi, all— The good news is that I've taken on a challenging new job. The bad news is that said job is going to demand my full attention, so I need...
Long answer: browse this thread. Short answer: Model S is great in the snow, but proper snow tires are highly recommended. The Nokian Happ'a R2...
Thanks, RiverBrick. I've been debating about buying a CHAdeMO adapter, as Maine has a surprisingly large number of CHAdeMO points.
Current inventory is 695 million barrels, very near the design capacity of 714 million barrels.
Central Boston is doing okay for EV charging infrastructure, mostly because garage owners saw a strategic advantage of putting them in. Tesla...
One of my favorite acceleration spots is from the east-bound toll booth on I-90, just past the Mem Drive exit. There's a nice curve there, too,...
The City of Boston requires property owners to clear sidewalks within 24 hours after a storm. I was ticketed once for inadequate shoveling (a...
My cynical answer to your question: NextEra could choose where to build its project and therefore demand a competitive price from your utility....
Using the term "the Arabs" implies more cohesion there than exists. Iran and the Saudis are barely speaking; Iraq has a weak central government...
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New England, like most other organized markets (but unlike California) has an "forward capacity market" which has the effect of gating new...
Golden Pizza makes very good pizza, but unfortunately has effectively zero seating—it's set up for pick-up and delivery customers. They do have...
From a truly short-term marginal perspective, you can safely assume in California that the marginal source of electricity is natural gas. The...
I've added "Boston" to the thread title to help clarify. Of course, now the folks in the UK will complain that I didn't specify WHICH Boston.... :-)
OPEC is pretty much irrelevant today. All discipline has broken down, now that the Saudis are no longer willing to curtail pumping.
Sorry for the slow reply. The $40/month covers the T&D; 7¢/kWh is the cost of the energy (+losses) itself.
75%, which is typical of a modern gas CC (at least at today's gas prices). I'm using a capacity rate of $11/kW-month, which is ISO New England's...
I'm disgusted that any city would expect its residents to use water like that for any purpose other than flushing toilets. The better-off...
I haven't run the numbers, but I think the $40+7¢ tariff is approximately revenue-neutral to the utility. It also better reflects the true cost to...
Unfortunately the ROI on renewable energy projects is getting crushed by the low prices of natgas -- it dipped to $1.70/MMBtu in December, with...
The Iranian nuclear deal has had a huge impact on the oil price. Suddenly Iran's production is on the world market (legally), and Iran has the...
FWIW, I've been using touchless car washes as needed to keep salt off my MS. I'm not going to spring for a hand exterior detail every week, which...
Does it bother anyone else that Michigan is asking everyone else in the country to pay for cleaning up this mess? Why don't I hear the GOP...
FWIW, Maine is in a similar situation. Net metering is up for review when solar hits 1% of load (yeah, *one* percent), which milestone was just...
There's a serious problem with the idea of "competition of regulation": when the harm created by weak regulation is primarily borne by other...
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We aren't going to see any big policy moves on energy from Congress this year. Why negotiate with a lame-duck president when the GOP might control...
Eversource/NStar does indeed have a residential TOU plan; the rates vary both by day/night and by season. It's the Optional Residential...
Fixed for posterity.
I highly recommend the article in a recent issue of The Atlantic, "What was VW Thinking?" which provides an interesting perspective on how...
Bhutan uses a Gross Happiness Index working from the sound principle that money can't buy happiness. There are some challenges with this approach,...
I find it mind-boggling that, after over 3 years the set of voice commands has not been expanded.
The Atlanta Fed recently updated the estimate of the 2015 Q4 GDP growth, revised upwards to 1.0%: The upward revision was largely due to stronger...
XOM is worth $322B, making it the third most-valuable publicly traded company in the world, after Google and Apple, each worth about 2x XOM....
This post was in moderation for a bit, so I wanted to make sure everyone saw it: