The Looney and the Huntsman
Today is my grandson’s birthday. I don’t know his name yet. I haven’t even seen his picture. I haven’t heard him wail aloud. I haven’t…
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Time Again to Repair the World
Tonight is the beginning of the Jewish New Year. For me, it marks the passage of time in a nostalgic way. Most of myimmediate family…
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Progress by One Mistake at a Time
Two weeks absent from Burrito writing and I must remind myself how to start. I could talk about what I did over the last fortnight…
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Make it Real Compared to What?
My 36-year-old son informed me that my grandfathering status has been moved up three weeks. My daughter-in-law has a delivery complication for which the doctors…
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THere Must Be Some Way Out OF Here
July is Busting Out All Over As Burrito readers know, each month since last December I have been tracking year-over-year energy output of theCAISO natural…
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Year Over Year
The summer seasonal heat arrived without much fanfare. The weather has been pleasantly sub-normal until last weekend. The only weather-related alarm I received last week…
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Tied Up in Nots
Time to Get Real. With the CAISO past the quarter century mark, it is time to assess the progress made toward regional expansion. Although I…
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Part II: Reflecting on CAISO’s 25th Anniversary
Soon will be the silver anniversary of the California ISO. It was 25 years ago, on March 31, 1998, that the ISO ushered in a…
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Reflecting on CAISO’s 25th Anniversary
Soon will be the silver anniversary of the California ISO. It was 25 years ago, on March 31, 1998, that the ISO ushered in a…
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Don’t count on batteries to be available when they are most needed!
Hybrid and Co-Located Resources The CAISO has two options for representing resources that combine variable energy resources (VERs) with battery energy storage systems (BESS), which…
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