Jon Wellinghoff is the Chairman of the United States Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) – the FERC is the agency that regulates the interstate transmission of electricity, natural gas, and oil.
I recorded an interview with Jon a few weeks back. The resulting video was too good to reduce to a single piece, so I split it into two. I published the first part of the interview a couple of weeks ago, this is part two.
In this second video we discussed:
- Why it is a good thing for utilities that customers consume less electricity – 0:36
- How smart grids help increase the penetration of renewables on the grid – 2:12
- How electric vehicle owners are being paid up to $3,600 per annum to provide regulation services for utilities while charging! – 2:54
- How renewable energy sources can be used as baseload power (no coal or nuclear baseload need ever be built) – 4:34
Making a good compost available to city people is an important task. In the meantime, we go to the finest source we can find, pick up a small load and bring it home to brew it up. This is cheaper and less bulky than hauling a mass of it. We learn to give back in quality some of what we take out. The life in it can chew thru some of the toxins and change them, given tending.