I’m reading Ralph Waldo Emerson … again. It’s been over 35 years since I’ve visited with him. In 1838 the Senior Class at Harvard’s Divinity School  – there was like six or seven of them in all – invited a young man, 35-years old, from Concord, with some very radical ideas, to give the commencement [...]

Electric cooperatives (ECs) in the Philippines are characterized as not-for-profit. I believe that it’s deceptive and misleading to think that the government doesn’t tax ECs in the Philippines because they somehow “need a break.” It’s also deceptively misleading and even fallacious to think that ECs don’t make (or need to make) any surplus (i.e. “profit”) [...]

I remember sitting around the 2nd floor conference room table at the California Energy Commission along 9th Street between “P” and “O” Streets in downtown Sacramento in the Spring of 2003. All state government agencies with influence on the electricity supply supply had been called to devise ad-hoc initiatives for avoiding brownouts in the State [...]