Originally posted by Energy Central August 8, 2005 | By Stephen Heins The most recent Wisconsin Public Service Commission (PSC) decision on July 20, 2005, must be considered an important ruling for the future of energy policy in Wisconsin. With this decision, Wisconsin became the first state in the U.S. to take the bold step of [...]
Originally posted by Energy Central October 22, 2004 | By Stephen Heins Dear Governor Schwarzenegger: In a recent article in the New York Times Magazine section, David Brooks - a columnist on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times, a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, a contributing editor at Newsweek and the Atlantic Monthly, [...]
Originally posted by Energy Central September 8, 2004 | By Stephen Heins Energy Efficiency is finally being recognized as an important component to America's energy future. In particular, states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have begun discussion about including Energy Efficiency into what many states call Renewable portfolios and Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS). The whole idea being [...]
Originally posted by Energy Central August 24, 2004 | By Stephen Heins On August 13th and 14th, 2003, Americans and Canadians received a vivid illustration of the potential damage caused by electrical outages when a massive blackout hit both Canada and the U.S. in the Northeast and Upper Midwest. While headlines screamed "third-world electrical infrastructure" and [...]
13 Jul 2004 | by Stephen Heins Six months ago I wrote an article which the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published, titled "Barron's Article Knocks the Rust Off State Manufacturing outlook," that recounted the predictions of a hedgefund manager named Jeff Gendell in an interview from a December edition of Barron's Magazine. In "Rust Removal," Gendell stated [...]
Originally posted in Marketplace 15 June 2004 | by Stephen Heins, The Word Merchant Companies throughout Northeast Wisconsin are finding that one of the fastest ways to save on energy costs is to use less of it in the first place. Those same companies have found the best way to use less energy is to invest [...]
Originally posted by Energy Central March 21, 2004 | By Stephen Heins While the worst part of the economic recovery process is probably past, the gut-wrenching changes brought on by the manufacturing sector's recession of 2001-2003 are likely to be permanent. One clear economic theme has emerged: The necessity to transform as many fixed costs into [...]
Originally posted by Energy Central September 18, 2003 | By Stephen Heins September 8, 2003. As of August 14th, 2003, Americans with short memories or no memory at all about previous blackouts received a vivid illustration of the potential damage caused by electrical outages. While the headlines screamed third-world electrical infrastructure and $100 billion needed to [...]
Original Post in EnergyCentral **SEE ORIGINAL POST** 21 Jul 2003 | by Stephen Heins The Virtual Power Plant (VPP) is a new approach to solving our country's electrical energy problems by utilizing innovative products with a creative funding mechanism. The VPP provides displaced electrical capacity to the consumer and the utilities by installing energy efficient devices, which [...]
Originally posted by Energy Central May 7, 2003 | By Stephen Heins With deregulation of the retail electric utility industry a distant memory for all but a few states, it appears to be a good time to return to basics for regulation of the utility sector. This means that the U.S Government along with the 50 [...]
