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How Electric Cars Can Make Your Electricity Cheaper And More Reliable (From Forbes) Electric cars, specifically their batteries, can help balance supply and demand on the grid. In fact, Pacific Gas & Electric and BMW recently released results from a pilot program that demonstrates how electric vehicles can be used as a flexible gr ...
How To Charge Your Electric Vehicle (And Other Devices) When The Grid Is Down (From Forbes) The aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico has shown the devastating potential consequences of not having electricity for an extended period of time. As electric cars become more popular, how would a driver charge his or her vehicle when such a po ...
Minuteman III Replacement: Key to Nuclear Deterrence (From RealClearDefense) In order to deter nuclear aggression against its homeland and vital interests, the U.S. must demonstrate that its strategic arsenal is capable of surviving an attack and then retaliating with devastating force against the aggressor. In other words, the ...
Will the U.S. Army Tolerate a U.S. Air Force ‘Bait And Switch’ On J-Stars Replacement?  (From The National Interest) Since it was first deployed during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System (J-Stars) airborne ground surveillance aircraft has made a major contribution to the U.S. Army and Marine Corps’ attainment of decisive ...
Will Business As Usual in Acquisition Defeat the U.S. Army? (From RealClearDefense) The Army leadership hasn’t effectively communicated the message to the acquisition system that war may soon be coming and that the priority is to field systems that ameliorate critical capabilities gaps as soon as possible. Instead, for the acquisition ...
How Electric Cars Could Help the Power Grid Become More Efficient, Less Expensive (From Forbes) A recent analysis from Bloomberg New Energy Finance suggested that electric vehicles could account for half of all new cars sold by 2040. While electric vehicles consume electricity, they can also export power to the grid as mobile energy storage units ...
Alarmed Allies Prepare to Defend Against North Korea’s Missiles (From RealClearDefense) North Korea’s repeated nuclear and missile tests have caused panic in the region. Japan is frightened because the ballistic missiles are flying over its territory. In addition, North Korea has threatened retaliation in response to military drills, stat ...
Curtail International Mail’s Role In Opioid Crisis (From The Columbus Dispatch) With Ohio at the center of America’s opioid crisis, seemingly all the stops are being pulled out at the state level to address this epidemic. An important and often overlooked area where the federal government can step in is to more vigorously scrutini ...
Utilities Will Spend Billions on Cybersecurity As Threat Grows The National Institute of Standards and Technology released a report in May identifying products available to enhance the electric grid’s cybersecurity. New technologies employed onto the grid are multiplying the number of access points for cyber threa ...
California Presses Grid Operators To Substitute Non-Traditional Sources For New Investment (From Forbes) As of December 2016, the California Public Utilities Commission began a pilot program aimed at incentivizing utilities to adopt distributed resources. The ultimate goal is to allow the three investor-owned utilities, Pacific Gas and Electric, San Diego Gas and Electric and Southern California Edison, to make a profit when distributed resources replace a traditional upgrade. I have written a commentary on this topic for Forbes here.
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