energy security Archives - Energy Vanguard https://www.energyvanguard.com/tag/energy-security/ Building science knowledge, HVAC design, & fun Sat, 30 Jul 2022 13:44:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Electricity Demand and the Duck Curve https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/electricity-demand-and-the-duck-curve/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/electricity-demand-and-the-duck-curve/#view_comments Fri, 06 Nov 2015 05:00:00 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=electricity-demand-and-the-duck-curve You may think there’s no more boring topic than electric utilities. Power plants. Transmission lines. Engineers with flat top haircuts and pocket protectors full of pens in their white short-sleeved shirts. Well, let me say two words that might help…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/electricity-demand-and-the-duck-curve/feed/ 42 4 Ways to Define Net Zero Energy Use in Buildings https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/4-ways-to-define-net-zero-energy-use-in-buildings/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/4-ways-to-define-net-zero-energy-use-in-buildings/#view_comments Sun, 23 Jun 2013 04:00:00 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=4-ways-to-define-net-zero-energy-use-in-buildings ASHRAE† is meeting in Denver this week, and my friend Robert Bean, the mastermind behind the Healthy Heating website, tweeted the other day that they’re going on a tour of NREL’s new net zero energy building. I’d love to go—both…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/4-ways-to-define-net-zero-energy-use-in-buildings/feed/ 8 Why the IEA’s 2012 World Energy Outlook Could Be Wrong https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/why-the-ieas-2012-world-energy-outlook-could-be-wrong/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/why-the-ieas-2012-world-energy-outlook-could-be-wrong/#view_comments Fri, 16 Nov 2012 05:00:00 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=why-the-ieas-2012-world-energy-outlook-could-be-wrong “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.” The Danish physicist Niels Bohr first said this, and it’s true. Of course, we all like to try anyway, and I’ve done so myself with my articles on peak oil and the…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/why-the-ieas-2012-world-energy-outlook-could-be-wrong/feed/ 7 ACEEE’s 2012 State Energy Efficiency Scorecard Has Your Number https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/aceees-2012-state-energy-efficiency-scorecard-has-your-number/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/aceees-2012-state-energy-efficiency-scorecard-has-your-number/#view_comments Wed, 10 Oct 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=aceees-2012-state-energy-efficiency-scorecard-has-your-number ACEEE’s 2012 State Energy Efficiency Scorecard came out last week, and if you haven’t seen it yet, download it now and have a look. Massachusetts, which stole the top spot from California last year, held onto the title of the…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/aceees-2012-state-energy-efficiency-scorecard-has-your-number/feed/ 3 US Energy Flows — Inputs and Outputs 1995 to 2010 https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/us-energy-flows-inputs-and-outputs-1995-to-2010/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/us-energy-flows-inputs-and-outputs-1995-to-2010/#view_comments Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=us-energy-flows-inputs-and-outputs-1995-to-2010 I like to talk about the big picture of energy occasionally here. I also love data! Today, I’m not going to do a whole lot of talking at all. I mainly want to show you what I consider to be…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/us-energy-flows-inputs-and-outputs-1995-to-2010/feed/ 15 Two More Scary Indicators of the Peak Oil Problem https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/two-more-scary-indicators-of-the-peak-oil-problem/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/two-more-scary-indicators-of-the-peak-oil-problem/#view_comments Mon, 04 Jun 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=two-more-scary-indicators-of-the-peak-oil-problem It’s been a while since my last post on the big picture of energy, so today I present to you two more metrics that show we have a serious problem. Peak oil, as I’ve written here before, brings about a…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/two-more-scary-indicators-of-the-peak-oil-problem/feed/ 15 The ACI Home Energy Leadership Summit – Big Thinking for Our Industry https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/the-aci-home-energy-leadership-summit-big-thinking-for-our-industry/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/the-aci-home-energy-leadership-summit-big-thinking-for-our-industry/#view_comments Fri, 16 Mar 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=the-aci-home-energy-leadership-summit-big-thinking-for-our-industry The ACI Home Energy Leadership Summit is an event sorely needed in our industry. Most of us focus almost entirely on understanding building science and figuring out the best home energy improvement measures or assessment techniques, but stepping back and…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/the-aci-home-energy-leadership-summit-big-thinking-for-our-industry/feed/ 3 An Elderly Couple in Maine Offers to Trade Their Car for Fuel Oil https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/an-elderly-couple-in-maine-offers-to-trade-their-car-for-fuel-oil/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/an-elderly-couple-in-maine-offers-to-trade-their-car-for-fuel-oil/#view_comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=an-elderly-couple-in-maine-offers-to-trade-their-car-for-fuel-oil On Friday, the New York Times published an article about the Hartfords, an elderly couple in Dixfield, Maine who couldn’t afford to pay for fuel oil for their leaky, inefficient home. I heard about it through social media from a…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/an-elderly-couple-in-maine-offers-to-trade-their-car-for-fuel-oil/feed/ 10 The Architecture 2030 Challenge and US EIA Projections https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/the-architecture-2030-challenge-and-us-eia-projections/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/the-architecture-2030-challenge-and-us-eia-projections/#view_comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=the-architecture-2030-challenge-and-us-eia-projections Buildings use a lot of energy. We spend the majority of our time inside them, controlling the temperature, using computers, charging cell phones, keeping our food cold, getting our food hot, taking hot showers…all those things we do in our…

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]]> https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/the-architecture-2030-challenge-and-us-eia-projections/feed/ 6 State of the Union Address Missed the Boat on Energy Efficiency https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/state-of-the-union-address-missed-the-boat-on-energy-efficiency/ https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/state-of-the-union-address-missed-the-boat-on-energy-efficiency/#view_comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000 http://energyvanguard.flywheelsites.com/?blog_post=state-of-the-union-address-missed-the-boat-on-energy-efficiency President Obama delivered the 2012 State of the Union address last night. In a 7000 word speech, he devoted about 800 words to energy. The majority of those words were about oil, natural gas, and clean energy – the supply…

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