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I have re-designed the company website to be as simple as possible. I hope you like it.

Is there any Hive based services that will post to the blockchain based on RSS? Or maybe a python library that would allow me to add a plugin to pelican? I have switched over my personal site to the SSG,

All of last year I had to use alligator clips to "switch on" the heating elements in the ETS. Lift off the programmable thermostat and clip them on. Last week I decided that its time to update

For the foreseeable future I'm planning to be spending at least an hour a day finding 5 great posts to give 100% upvotes to. For a few details of what this curation trail looks like you can see my launch

If you are tired of hearing from politicians this may be the exact source of expert information from experts about what is happening with the Texas Electric Power Crisis. I encourage you to register and

I'm starting to prepare a series of posts that follow up on the feasibility study post discussing ways to price responses to RFPs, tradeoffs between more inverters vs fewer, etc. These will be focused

I am really interested in upping the curation game in 2021. This is something that I am having a hard time doing for a couple of reasons: There isn't a single tag that I promote I don't have the HP right

2021 is almost here, and I am working on the editorial calendar for the year. There are a bunch of projects that got kicked down the road because of #covid19, but we still have some space. On of the ideas

There is a lot of activity around adding renewable projects to isolated system and/or behind the meter. Renewable generation development has matured a lot in the last 10 years, and solar has come down

This post is all about how I'm updating the current control of the ETS that we installed last November. When it was installed we had the contractor do the least control they could to get going, with the

There is a lot of talk about chemical based energy storage (batteries), but before batteries there was thermal storage. Thermal storage is similar to using bricks or water for thermal mass, it limits the

I have been working with a couple regulated utilities over the last few years. Neither of these utilities have a lot of small independent power producers (IPPs). There may be a couple of edge cases, or

One of the things that I miss since starting my own company are the lunch and learns. When I was at H2E Inc. we would have a lunch and learn every month or so that would cover a specific topic from the

The purpose of this post is to define the terms that I use elsewhere on this site, including documents, articles, tutorials, etc. If you ask most electrical engineers what's low voltage, or high voltage

Back in April I started a curation trail here on HIVE, since then there were some challenges with the business and I hadn't had a lot of time to spend curating content on the blockchain. However, most

Something that I have been thinking about a lot lately is the idea of using solar power to charge batteries and then use that for "emergency" power at homes. Manaufactured Portable electric makes

When I'm really digging into the research level regarding distributed energy, I spend a lot of time roaming around the IEEE Smart Grid website. A great example of what you are expected to find there, is

Have you ever arrived at a site and there is no password for the device? You have to log on the PLC or RTU but the owner doesn't know the password and it isn't written down anywhere? Or maybe you have

So, you have been out of school for a couple of years and are really comfortable with the basics. You can size cables for lighting and motors, layout a room with fixtures, and troubleshoot control circuits.

Someday I hope that it will be standard for utilities to provide a API that customers can use to calculate the current rates for energy, etc. Today however, we have to do it by hand. My last post was a