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I’m back from Finland, and slowly catching up on everything that happened while I was away. In the meantime, however, you can all head over to the Menlo Energy Economics blog, where I have just posted the sample article from the July EEnergy Informer. Titled “Time Has Arrived For Time Variant Pricing, But What Kind?”, it looks at how California’s priorities for retail tariffs have changed as the issues facing the state regulators have changed.

The table of contents for the July issue of EEnergy Informer has been posted over at the Menlo Energy Economics blog.

Well, that has been a rather busy two years, and blogging rather fell by the wayside. Things are a little calmer now. Also Lynne Kiesling at Knowledge Problem has been lamenting the lack of women economists in the blogosphere. So I’m going to try to get this thing back on a regular schedule.

One of the things I have been doing over the past couple of years is maintaining a website for my friend and colleague, Perry Sioshansi. You can find it here. The articles there are all from his magazine, EEnergy Informer.

I’ll be based mainly in Europe for the foreseeable future, so most of what I write will be about European issues. There will be no prizes for guessing what the main topic of conversation is here.

The May 2009 issue of EEnergy Informer is now available. Here is the contents list:

• US Poised To Fire On All Cylinders In Copenhagen
• Does it Make Sense For Oil Rich UAE To Go Nuclear?
• What To Do About Carbon’s Deeply Unequal Effects
• No More Free Carbon: EPA Requires Carbon Reporting
• Abu Dhabi’s Masdar Project: Desert Mirage Or Miracle?
• How Many Green Jobs Will There Be?
• Missing Headline: CAISO Goes Nodal And Nothing Happens
• Wind’s Global Contribution to Grow
• Global Solar PV Installations Reach 6 GW Milestone in 2008

The article on the Masdar Project is available for free. All other articles currently require a subscription to the paper edition of the magazine. To request a sample copy of EEnergy Informer click here.

The April 2009 issue of EEnergy Informer is now available. Here is the contents list:

• Does Clean And Green Rhyme With Recession And Unemployment?
• EDF And ENEL to Launch Italy’s Nuclear Future
• Coal Fighting For Survival
• A Dying Breed: AAA Rating
• Will Obama’s Climate Plan Be Too Taxing On Sputtering Economy?
• In Search Of Elusive Carbon Neutrality
• Don’t Like Coal? Try More Energy Efficiency
• Greening of Michigan And New York
• Will AMI Investments Pay Off?
• USCAP: Being At The Table And Ending Up As Lunch
• Disappointed With Markets, Maryland Toys With Re-Regulation

The article on the US climate plan is available for free. All other articles currently require a subscription to the paper edition of the magazine. To subscribe to EEnergy Informer click here.

The March 2009 issue of EEnergy Informer is now available. Here is the contents list:

• Renewable Stimulus Creating Jobs Overseas?
• Sweden to Reverse Nuclear Ban
• IRENA: Do We Need Yet Another Energy Agency?
• Will A LNG Flood Lead To The Collapse Of Natural Gas Prices?
• Grid Operators Envision Windy Future
• A National Renewable Portfolio Standard: What Is There Not To Like?
• PJM Puts Price Tag On Climate Change Proposals
• Renewables Now Come In GW Size
• Southern Company Unit Applies For IGCC
• A Better Shade Of Green

The article on LNG is available for free. All other articles currently require a subscription to the paper edition of the magazine. To subscribe to EEnergy Informer click here.

The January 2009 issue of EEnergy Informer is now available. Here is the contents list:

• Dawn of a new energy era?
• Bending to Pressures, EU Waters Down Its Cap and Trade Scheme
• California Forges Ahead On Carbon Diet Despite Economic Woes
• Coal Gets A Wakeup Call On Both Sides Of The Atlantic
• Poznan As A Precursor To Copenhagen?
• Buffett Gets The Last Laugh As EDP Snaps Constellation
• Drowning In Cheap Oil? Enjoy It While It Lasts
• Can China Meet Its Ambitious Wind Targets?
• Environmentalists Wish Comes True: Un-damming The Dams
• Hawaii To Get Off Its Extreme Oil Addiction
• Energy Conservation South African Style: Cut Back Or Else
• Energy Efficiency Can Cut US Electricity Demand In Half

The article on dam removal is available for free. All other articles currently require a subscription to the paper edition of the magazine. To subscribe to EEnergy Informer click here.

The December 2008 issue of EEnergy Informer is now available. Here is the contents list:

• Draconian Measures Needed To Avert Climate Change
• Don’t Be Fooled By Current Low Oil Prices
• Schwarzenegger Orders 33% RPS For California
• FERC Institutionalizes DR
• NERC: Wind Major Factor In Coming Decade
• No Reprieve For Coal
• PHEVs More About The Grid Than The Vehicles
• Wind To Supply 30% Of Global Energy By 2050?
• Ausra’s First Solar Plant Goes On Line
• New World Order
• Sustainable Capitalism?
• Financial Turmoil Hits CleanTech Along With Everything Else

The article demand response is available for free. All other articles currently require a subscription to the paper edition of the magazine. To subscribe to EEnergy Informer click here.

The November issue of EEnergy Informer is now available. Here is the contents list:

• Gore vs. Coal
• Australia Approaches Climate Change With Apprehension
• OFGEM: No Cartel In British Market
• RGGI Goes Live
• Is ERCOT Market Performing Well?
• California Tops ACEEE Rankings On Energy Efficiency
• CCS Technology Viable
• What Is Google Doing In Energy Space?
• Acceptable Nuclear?
• US Nuclear Agreement Opens Doors To India
• Market Woes May Be A Blessing In Disguise
• Germany Moving Towards A National Grid
• Financial Turmoil Affects Dynamics of Power Markets

And it appears that due to rush projects elsewhere I completely forgot to bring you the contents list for the October issue, so here it is:

• CA Regulators Adopt 33% RPS Despite Rising Costs
• Turmoil In Financial Markets Overspills To Energy
• Who Delivers Better Results? Markets Or Central Planners?
• GE And Google To Promote Smart Grid
• Data Centers Belatedly Go Green
• US Wind $60 Billion Business By 2013
• Xcel Finds No Reprieve For Coal
• Germany To Reconsider Nuclear Phase-out
• Give Us Our Daily Juice
• Marketing Green Electricity: How Much Is too Much?
• Megawatts vs. Negawatts: How So Little Can Do So Much
• Book review: Hot, Flat & Crowded

The articles on Australia and data centers are available for free. All other articles currently require a subscription to the paper edition of the magazine. To subscribe to EEnergy Informer click here.

The September issue of EEnergy Informer is now available. Here is the contents list:

• California Utilities Playing Catch-up With Ever Rising RPS Targets
• US To Lose Top Manufacturing Slot To China – Surprised?
• Nuclear Waste: A Distant And Expensive Mirage
• Why Does Everything Cost More?
• ESKOM’s Massive Investment Hits New Snag
• Why Sun Shines On Cloudy Germany
• Sustainability Moving Up Management’s Agenda
• Is California Spending Money Like Drunken Sailors?
• California’s Efficiency Targets Gets Another Boost
• CFL Sales: Slowly But Surely On The Rise
• Texas To Stick With Competition Despite The Flaws
• Women Against Coal: What Next?
• Another First: Volunteering To Shut Down Coal Plants

The article on sustainability is available for free. All other articles currently require a subscription to the paper edition of the magazine. To subscribe to EEnergy Informer click here.