by Graham Palmer | May 14, 2018 | Electricity
The social contract of electricity service In an address to a group of British engineers in 1892, Hopkinson articulated many of what we would now identify as contemporary problems faced by electricity regulators. Hopkinson explored the issue of fixed versus variable...
by Graham Palmer | May 17, 2017 | Networks
Electricity networks and disruption Clayton Christensen’s theory of disruption was originally based on his observations about disc drives. He saw that the manufacturers of 14” drives for mainframes had been driven out of business by manufacturers of 8” drives for...
by Graham Palmer | May 4, 2017 | Electricity
A few thoughts on the electricity ‘death spiral’ One of Germany’s exports has been the idea of ‘energy democratisation’ – the Energiewende is not just a transition to renewable energy but a switch to energy democracy. But was does energy democracy...
by Graham Palmer | Mar 22, 2017 | EROI
EROI of the Australian electricity supply industry I recently did a presentation on the EROI of the Australian electricity supply industry. The key aims were – Calculate how much energy it takes to build, run and maintain the Australian electricity supply...
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