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  Amazingdrx is asking us to “try to explain this from the point of view of taxpayers, farmers, consumers, and small business owners.” I suggest that is exactly the marketing and education translation role of 2GRs. Is this approach to draw the line between an expert discussion and the general public fair and reasonable?

  On Energy efficiency vs. neoliberal economics posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago 28 Responses

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  Alec's simple and timely change of Lincoln's quote seems to support the idea that we live in revolutionary times.

  Raphsperry’s post and Enviroperk’s reply may be leaving the landlord and the tenant without key information risks on utility future prices.

  Under EWPC, competitive Second Generation Retailers - 2GRs will be able to coordinate investments of resources on the demand side. As 2GRs emerge in these revolutionary times to compete with other 2GRs, natural decoupling of sales and profits appears, as 2GRs market their business propositions to landlords, which will then make complete sense.

   

  This is what @gmh_upsa was doing in Twitter: Posting Natural Decoupling of Profits and Sales http://twurl.nl/z4dp0z #EWPC

   

   

   

   

  On Energy efficiency vs. neoliberal economics posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago 28 Responses

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  AAADDD,

  Please take a look to the EWPC article Forget Decoupling Under Price Controls and give us your feedback.

  On Energy efficiency vs. neoliberal economics posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago 28 Responses

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  Sean,

   

  Thank you for your timely and generally positive response. The need for fully functional and complete retail and wholesale markets is crucial. To enable them, there is a need to keep electricity transportation (T&D) regulated to make sure that the open market transactions correspond to high performance electricity: no congestion, nor price spikes.

   

  I used to be asking for reform for many months, until last weekend I found out that reform is the wrong word in this case. Incremental extensions of the IOUs Regulatory Framework are correctly call reform.

   

  To be in accordance with the properly named Green Tech Revolution, the EWPC Regulatory Framework is therefore a revolutionary change. If the Obama administration is committed to the Green Tech Revolution, they will be making a huge mistake if billions of taxpayer moneys are expended in unnecessarily overextending the obsolete IOUs Regulatory Framework.

   

  I believe that a good introduction to this issue is the latest EWPC article Competitive Markets for COMPETE Coalition Potential Losers.

   

   

   

   

  On Energy efficiency vs. neoliberal economics posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago 28 Responses

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  Sean and AAADDD,

   

  Only with a revolutionary move that eliminates the obsolete IOUs business model of winning rate cases to the regulator can enable the needed transformation. No incremental reform is able to open the IOUs barrier on the demand side.

   

  The answer to the 30 year old debate is the need for a proper market structure for the delivery of an innovative financing mechanism. Such mechanism is an integral part of the new mind set involved in 2GRs’ business models, which considers for long term investment of all resources (not just energy efficiency) of the demand side available to the customer. So the name of the game is business model competition that also considers power system expansion to enable business model innovations to reap all economic value available for a given customer. Such mechanism is not available under the IOUs Regulatory Framework.

   

  Earlier I explained that to find the long hanging fruits first you need the proper regulatory framework. The summary of the EWPC post Steven Chu: Four Years of Low Hanging Fruits  is “Dr. Steven Chu can get plenty of results in the next four years, by placing into operation the financial mechanism to exploit the lowest-hanging fruits in the demand side. Such mechanism, enabled by the EWPC EPAct, will shift us away of the fossil fuel era vicious pervasiveness into the emerging digital era virtuous pervasiveness that will spread the clean energy revolution.”

   

   

   

  On Energy efficiency vs. neoliberal economics posted 6 months, 4 weeks ago 28 Responses