I though Dirk Andreas of Navigant Consulting had some interesting observations on merchant wind and ethanol in this SNL Energy interview regarding Renewables.
“If you’re rate-based, wind is great because it’s high capital. You’re essentially prepaying for fuel, so from a shareholder’s viewpoint it’s a great investment if you’re a utility”
“[ethanol is] a lot riskier than [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2006
Navigant and Renewables
Sep 29th – 9pm
Meralco’s Catastrophe
Sep 29th – 11am
Meralco’s customers are in the midst of a catastrophe. So I go to Meralco’s home page and … wala! There’s nothing there related to what’s happening all around us. No weblog updating customers on what’s happening, no way to communicate, no way to share experiences, no way to let customers in or information [...]
Cult of Expertise
Sep 28th – 8pm
Dr. David Weinberger talks here about:
… getting past the cult of expertise, moving instead to a view of knowledge as social.
That means showing work in progress and capturing the discussion during and after publication.
We need way more of this in the Philippine energy advisory sector.
Way down in the last paragraph of this brilliant [...]