by David Brooks | Dec 14, 2015 | Curiosities, Lifestyle
Fans of America’s Stonehenge will tell you that the site predates Europeans by hundreds, maybe thousands of years, but unfortunately there’s no evidence to back them up. It would be cool to think the chambers and “sacrifice stone” and other structures were assembled...
by David Brooks | Dec 8, 2015 | None, Science-Technology
Energy efficiency and demand response are paid for via something called the Forward Capacity Market, an auction run by ISO-New England at which generators and others bid on electricity production three years from now. Basically, ISO-New England predicts how much...
by David Brooks | Dec 8, 2015 | None, Science-Technology
If you take a close look at the winter electricity forecast from the folks who run New England’s power grid – that sounds like fun, doesn’t it? – you’ll see an interesting line amid all the numbers and verbiage: “Forecasts take into account the 1,663 megawatts in...
by David Brooks | Dec 8, 2015 | Gov-Local, None
For people in the electricity business, there was only one thing surprising about Saturday’s power outage in Concord, in which an errant hawk left 13,000 customers in the dark: The culprit had feathers rather than fur. “About 15 percent of outages can be attributed to...
by David Brooks | Dec 1, 2015 | Economy-Business, None
New England has more than enough capacity to meet electricity demands this winter, but the organization that oversees the regional grid continues to warn that the region needs more reliable supplies of natural gas to avoid future problems. ISO New England, which...
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