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Eliminating Obstacles and Delivering the Benefits of the Smart Grid - IBM's Optimized Energy Value Chain (OEVC) Sep 14 2010 - 2010-01-01 12:00:00 - Your City The convergence of power and information technologies in the smart grid has created opportunities for finer grained and broader controls of energy flows. These opportunities can improve electric service in multiple dimensions: lower cost, greater reliability, greater customer satisfaction, and more... Achieving Operational Excellence - What to Consider Before Implementing or Upgrading Your Distribution Management Solutions Sep 16 2010 - 2010-01-01 12:00:00 - Your City Significant cost over runs. Changing business requirements. A well thought out plan is essential. Attend this free webcast discussion to hear inside hear three experts in utility operations discuss what utilities need to evaluate when they are considering upgrading or more... 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Tam Hunt

Director of Energy Programs Community Environmental Council
	Member Since: 09/29/03 Author Rating: Gold Article Count: 17 Email this author Phone: 805-963-0583

Background

Tam Hunt is president of Community Renewable Solutions, LLC, and a Lecturer in climate change law and policy at the UC Santa Barbara Bren School of Environmental Science & Management.

Articles

7.21.10	Net Fossil Fuel Exports and the Unipolar Moment Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 1341 Times; 38 comments The neoconservative Charles Krauthammer wrote in 2004 that the predominance of US power in the world after the fall of the Soviet Union was a "staggering development in history, not seen since the fall of Rome." Krauthammer and his fellow neocons famously concluded from this disparity in power that the US needed to adopt an aggressive foreign policy agenda to enhance and continue its dominance in the "New American Century."

8.24.09	The Right FIT for California Topic: Policy, Regulatory & Legal Article Viewed 3829 Times; 18 comments California is on the precipice of passing into law a game-changing Feed-In Tariff (FIT) policy that will unleash the tremendous potential of renewable energy and provide a massive economic boost in California.

1.23.09	The magically deflating oil price: Is it all about speculation? Topic: Risk & Operations Article Viewed 6212 Times; 82 comments Question: Are speculators and Enron ex-employees behind oil price turbulence, as 60 Minutes recently asserted? Answer: No.

11.13.08	A great day for renewable energy Topic: Policy, Regulatory & Legal Article Viewed 5363 Times; 48 comments With President-elect Obama closing the deal in a resounding manner, let's review his proposed energy policies. Obama has long called for action to mitigate climate change and to decrease foreign energy dependence. Obama has not to my knowledge ever discussed peak oil, but the general rubric of "energy independence" captures some of the key features of the peak oil discussion.

4.4.08	The State of Large-Scale Solar Topic: Solar Article Viewed 7490 Times; 49 comments Large-scale solar is about to rise on the energy scene with unprecedented impact. The revolution in small-scale solar is well-known, with installation of small solar systems in California, New Jersey, Germany, Japan and Spain setting records each year. But the time for 5 megawatt and over systems seems to have arrived.

2.11.08	What does $100 per barrel oil mean for us? Topic: Business & Corporate Article Viewed 7377 Times; 71 comments On the first trading day of 2008, oil prices reached exactly $100 a barrel. Even adjusted for inflation, this is far higher than the highest prices reached in the 70s and early 80s.

1.16.08	Santa Barbara Explores the Art of the Possible Topic: Energy Efficiency Article Viewed 5500 Times; 172 comments Some say governments move too slowly and that bureaucracies can impede progress. But in October the Santa Barbara City Council and staff bucked the stereotype and moved to approve a potentially momentous change in the building code. With broad support from developers, architects, contractors, and the environmental community, the City increased the energy efficiency standards for all new construction.

11.28.07	Local governments get serious about energy and climate change Topic: Environmental, Emissions & Carbon Management Article Viewed 5224 Times; 69 comments Despite the Democratic takeover of Congress last year and the President's acknowledgment that "we are addicted to oil," the federal government can't get its act together when it comes to energy and climate change. Democrats have now controlled Congress for almost a year, with climate change as a top priority for action. Yet nothing has happened.

4.10.07	Rebutting the Naysayers on Global Warming, Part II Topic: Environmental, Emissions & Carbon Management Article Viewed 7386 Times; 56 comments A new television documentary is igniting a mini-backlash against the global warming consensus: that human-related greenhouse gas emissions are responsible for most of the warming over the last 50 years.

2.26.07	How do we get off fossil fuels? Topic: Demand Response Article Viewed 6893 Times; 85 comments Moving away from fossil fuels should be the top environmental and economic priority for the Central Coast region of California and our nation. Simply put, we can no longer afford to rely on fossil fuels - oil, coal, and gas - for most of our energy. The key problems stemming from our reliance on fossil fuels are climate change, oil and gas depletion ("peak oil"), national security issues arising from having to import foreign oil, and air pollution.

7.12.06	Rebutting the naysayers on climate change Topic: Environmental, Emissions & Carbon Management Article Viewed 9343 Times; 62 comments A healthy popular debate over climate change has emerged since An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary featuring Al Gore and his traveling slideshow, hit theaters last month. Gore, in his cinematic slideshow, makes a compelling case for the notion that humans are monkeying with the atmosphere in a very dangerous way.

5.30.06	If Sweden Can Do It, Can't Santa Barbara? Topic: Environmental, Emissions & Carbon Management Article Viewed 8721 Times; 23 comments Sweden surprised the world last year by announcing its intention to get off oil by 2020. We'd like to think the Swedes got the idea here in Santa Barbara, California - the Community Environmental Council, based in Santa Barbara, has been calling for "fossil free by 2033" for a couple of years, and the City of Santa Barbara is performing a greenhouse gas inventory and is on its way to adopting similarly ambitious goals for its energy use.

5.11.06	Does California Need Liquefied Natural Gas? The Potential for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy to Replace Future Natural Gas Demand -- Part 2 Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 6353 Times; 45 comments First things first: California's energy efficiency potential. According to the state's own Energy Action Plan, "Energy efficiency is the least cost, most reliable, and most environmentally-sensitive resource, and minimizes our contribution to climate change. California's energy efficiency programs are the most successful in the nation and we want to continue to build upon those successes."

5.10.06	Does California Need Liquefied Natural Gas? The Potential for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy to Replace Future Natural Gas Demand -- Part 1 Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 7769 Times; 3 comments The future of California's energy supply is at an important crossroads. The first path is the path we're on now, which leads to increased dependence on fossil fuels to provide energy for our growing population and industry. If we continue down this path, we can predict some of the environmental and economic outcomes. The second path leads to a very different future.

4.28.06	Does Nuclear Power Really Make Sense? Topic: Nuclear Article Viewed 15949 Times; 172 comments With Earth Day upon us, it's important to refresh our memories about the dangers of nuclear power. The promoters of nuclear power, corporate and political, are attempting to make nuclear power the wave of the future, in the U.S. and much of the world. In doing so, most of the negative aspects of nuclear power -- those common-sense reasons that prevented nuclear power plants from being built in the U.S. for some 30 years -- are being swept under the rug.

2.1.06	We don't need LNG in California Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 14616 Times; 45 comments January 28, 1969. It was the largest oil spill our nation had seen up until that point - a catastrophic blowout from an oil platform off of Santa Barbara in southern California that spread an 800 square-mile oil slick along a thirty mile coastline.

10.2.03	Community Choice Good for Pocketbooks and Environment Topic: Business & Corporate Article Viewed 4814 Times; 1 comments Renewable energy has come of age. A recent report on the state of the renewable energy industry concludes: "Dramatic improvements in performance, as well as government incentives, have resulted in reduced costs that are quickly making renewable energy technologies competitive with traditional forms of electricity generation...." .

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