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A race car in the Australian outback improves solar performance in US

Engineers

Engineering, sometimes forgotten but is the cause of so much of the “cool” gadgets, buildings, machines and working stuff in the world.

Ever wonder what gets engineers excited, it’s to win!  

In this case, the World Solar Challenge run in Australia challenges the world’s engineering schools to develop a car to run 1,800 miles on only solar power.

….and, if you are going to compete you want to win.

Their win thou give us all benefits. Improving solar performance for automobiles will improve solar performance on your house and will ultimately be used in cars.

So, Go Blue….University of Michigan and bring home the win and the benefits to us all.

Realgy Energy Services is a registered Retail Energy Marketer in the states of Illinois, Michigan and Indiana. We offer Service Plans that will provide electric and natural gas at wholesale pricing direct to customers without any utility markup. Our Service Plans work with the local utility to provide seamless service and annual energy savings. Service Plans include Guaranteed SavingsTM, ManagedPriceTM, ManagedGreenTM and Index, Fixed pricing.

Additional information: www.realgyenergyservices.com

Supporting Article:

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/car-racing-outback-can-boost-solar-us/

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The Debate Over Michigan’s Electricity Deregulation: Should be in favor of Energy Consumers

Customer Choice programs are well established in the utility market.  In fact, a recent study covering the last 20 years concludes that monopoly utilities that have no customer choice program pricing went up over 19% more than in utility markets with customer choice.

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The debate is over; customer choice lowers prices for consumers, improves power plant utilization and supports local jobs.

It does so by utilizing the wholesale market (which has abundant power reserves), buying the energy at market pricing (ensuring jobs) and utilizes the existing utilities for delivering the energy (strengthening utilities by making them more competitive so companies won’t leave for less expensive energy).

The argument of subsidy, loss of state jobs or not enough power have all been proven to be false.

Michigan should fully embrace customer choice for the benefit of its residents and the strengthening of its economy and environment.

Realgy Energy Services is a registered Retail Energy Marketer in the states of Illinois, Michigan and Indiana. We offer Service Plans that will provide electric and natural gas at wholesale pricing direct to customers without any utility markup. Our Service Plans work with the local utility to provide seamless service and annual energy savings. Service Plans include Guaranteed SavingsTM, MangedPriceTM, ManagedGreenTM and Index, Fixed pricing.

Additional information: www.realgyenergyservices.com

Supporting Article:
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2015/09/27/the-debate-over-michigans-electricity-deregulation-what-you-need-to-know/
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http://www.governing.com/blogs/view/gov-local-government-electricity-competition-monopoly-challenge.html

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20 Years of Customer Choice: Savings of 19%

Do you remember what you were doing 20 years ago? That’s how long ago many customer choice programs have been around.

Customer Choice is approved by a state and offered by a utility as an alternative to a utilities’ default service. By choosing a customer choice program, you are in fact, choosing only to buy direct wholesale power without ANY utility cost applied. The utility continues to provide all their traditional services such as billing, meter reading, emergency response, etc. So, the only reason to choose a customer choice offer is to provide savings compared to the utility default service. Energy marketers, those approved by the state and local utilities, contact with customer directly to serve them the wholesale power.

So after 20 years how does customer choice compare to utility default service. How does 19% sound?

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That’s right. Utilities with only default service were 19% higher than utilities with customer choice over the last 20 years.

Many detractors have tried to make arguments that customer choice wouldn’t work by suggesting subsidies, not enough power is available, it would weaken the utility, loss of jobs, etc. However, this study, and others like it, have demonstrated that a customer choice program offers energy consumers a viable option other than default service by the utility. Energy marketers, in turn, purchase energy in the wholesale market (improving utilization of existing power plants), delivery it through the utility (increasing their revenues) and saving residents money (retain local jobs as business don’t move to chase lower energy costs).

Realgy Energy Services is a registered Retail Energy Marketer in the states of Illinois, Michigan and Indiana. We offer Service Plans that will provide electric and natural gas at wholesale pricing direct to customers without any utility markup. Our Service Plans work with the local utility to provide seamless service and annual energy savings. Service Plans include Guaranteed SavingsTM, MangedPriceTM, ManagedGreenTM and Index, Fixed pricing.

Additional information: www.realgyenergyservices.com

Supporting Article:

http://www.governing.com/blogs/view/gov-local-government-electricity-competition-monopoly-challenge.html

 

 

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We live in a dumb grid, but we can drink Smart Water!

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Smart water right; filter it, juice it up with some vitamins and its smart. Not sure paying more for it qualifies as smart, but you don’t have to buy vitamins separate from water ….

The distribution systems, those complex networks of pipes and wires that delivery natural gas and electricity, are called grids.

Putting meters on them and connecting them to the internet; smart right?

Utilities get paid based upon measuring how much energy you use and charging you for it; in fact, energy marketers receive the same information from the utilities. However, does collecting information on your usage every 15 minutes instead of every month make anyone a better energy consumer, utility or energy marketer?

Certainly, putting measurement devices (not called meters anymore) in the grid is expensive and the utilities want you to pay for it. Is it cost effective; that is, do the measurement devices provide a benefit that is equal to or match to the investment? The answer at present is definitely no.

So why proceed? That answer lies in the realm of politics and utilities earnings based on spending money (see link for more on utility operation of metering)   http://realgyenergyservices.com/chicago-homeowners-get-zapped/).

Evolving toward measuring energy consumption in near real-time will mean that consumers will be exposed to market pricing with little to no damping by the utility or energy marketer. This, of course, is what we are used to; supply and demand in an e-commerce world. However, it might be different with utilities as it is with water.

Realgy supports the investment by utilities in technology that is cost effective and provides benefits to the consumer.

Realgy Energy Services is a registered Retail Energy Marketer in the states of Illinois, Michigan and Indiana. We offer Service Plans that will provide electric and natural gas at wholesale pricing direct to customers without any utility markup. Our Service Plans work with the local utility to provide seamless service and annual energy savings. Service Plans include Guaranteed SavingsTM, MangedPriceTM, ManagedGreenTM as well as Index, Fixed pricing.

Additional information: www.realgyenergyservices.com

Supporting Documentation:

http://www.energybiz.com/article/15/09/dumb-grid

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Weekly Basis Report 09/16/15

If you look at the chart below, you will see a lot of volatility in the short run and continuing all the to March and April 2016.  This is more or less due to uncertainty in the market place where financial basis markets were mixed with Northeast prompt-month basis prices moving higher, while months further along the curve mostly fell. The NYMEX October natural gas futures contract fell 5.9 cents to settle at $2.651/MMBtu on expectations of a bearish weekly natural gas storage report.

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DOE EIA Weekly Gas Storage Report 9/10/15

Working gas in storage was 3,261 Bcf as of Friday, September 4, 2015, according to EIA estimates. This represents a net increase of 68 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 473 Bcf higher than last year at this time and 127 Bcf above the 5-year average of 3,134 Bcf.

EIA estimated 72-76 Bcf

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Actual Injection 68 Bcf

A consensus of analysts surveyed by Platts expects the US Energy Information Administration on Thursday will estimate a natural gas storage injection of between 72 Bcf and 76 Bcf for the reporting week that ended September 4. A build within expectations would be less than the 90 Bcf injection reported at this time in 2014 but more than the 63 Bcf five-year average increase, according to EIA data. The wider range of analysts’ expectations for this week was for an injection of 69 Bcf to 81 Bcf. “Injection activity fell compared to the previous week within the East and Producing regions, as demand picked up on higher temperatures,” said Platts unit Bentek Energy in its Weekly Storage Report. Power demand rose by more than 1.6 Bcf/d compared with the previous week, Bentek said, mostly in the East Region. Most storage facilities reported smaller injections across the Midwest and Northeast.

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