“To the degree different industry stakeholders may now have a challenge on their hands related to the court’s decision, the root cause is a flawed regulatory construct.” -- The DC Circuit Court Decision on Order No. 745
To address the Demand Response root cause, please take a look at the EWPC Blog post A complete and fully functional electricity restructuring proposal. It will be easy to see in that post that the source of that root cause is in the 1992 United States Energy Policy Act. Further support for the marketplace can be found through the post EWPC Blog full access index update now with over 890,000 total views,
Such a proposal can be said to have socially started with the article “a Dominican strategy: customer-oriented risk management,” published in the May/June 2006 issue of the IEEE Power & Energy magazine. During the acceptance and publication process of that article, it seems that the first article that addressed the root cause is An Alternative Business Case for Demand Response, published by EnergyPulse on November 2005. While the first article was considered to have a scope for developing countries, the second might now be considered a seminal article, not just for the US, but for the whole global electric power industry.
At last, the DC Circuit Court Decision, fully supports the alternative: “The natural place for DR is on the retail side of the markets, where customers can observe electricity prices and make a choice about whether to consume energy or to curtail their demand for that energy. By necessity under the FPA, this will require FERC to actively engage the states, which have the retail jurisdiction FERC lacks. In my mind, enabling functioning price-responsive demand is the right answer to the conundrum in which we now find ourselves, and it is where the Commission should expend the bulk of its efforts. Price-responsive demand cuts to the heart of the matter. It provides all of the proper price-forming benefits the Commission seeks, but without concocting unwieldy, convoluted and bureaucratically complex schemes to pay consumers not to consume power. It pierces the veil that exists between the wholesale and retail sides of the electricity business; a veil made thick by the statutory construct that separates federal jurisdiction from that of the states. In a world of robust price-responsive demand, end-use consumers, aided by advanced demand side management devices enabled by a smarter grid, are able to fulfill their role on the demand side of the equation. The result, in short, would be a properly functioning marketplace.”
viernes, junio 13, 2014
Para @ANJE_RD mis tweets más populares semana: por #PactoElectrico y #AFPs que se refuercen rentablemente en #DRCAFTA
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martes, junio 10, 2014
Pregunta respetuosa sobre diseño del Foro #PactoElectrico ANJE
Con respeto a @Lpenaizquierdo ¿será debilidad diseño foro #PactoElectrico @ANJE_RD que proteja "viejos empresarios"? http://t.co/mJzPKOePGb
— Jose A Vanderhorst S (@gmh_upsa) June 10, 2014viernes, junio 06, 2014
MY MOST POPULAR TWEETS FOR THE WEEK OF 30 MAY 2014
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jueves, junio 05, 2014
#PactoElectrico que impulsa Rueda Volante via acceso competitivo a Fondos de Pensión
¿Por qué será que @airdmedia @ONEC_RD @Adozona_rd @AIRENNorte @ASONAHORES1 respaldan ciclo fatal #PactoElectrico ? http://t.co/Z7aRTICZyd
— Jose A Vanderhorst S (@gmh_upsa) June 4, 2014
@fjmep @airdmedia @ONEC_RD @Adozona_rd @AIRENNorte @ASONAHORES1 Mejor #PactoElectrico con volante que ayude a competir por p/Fondos Pensión.
— Jose A Vanderhorst S (@gmh_upsa) June 5, 2014
@pousuazo @ElDia_do @finjusrd alternativa a #Bandex con #PactoElectrico que se refuerza competitivamente con AFPs http://t.co/mJzPKOePGb
— Jose A Vanderhorst S (@gmh_upsa) June 5, 2014
@Telenoticiasrd @ANJE_RD Mesa 3 Foro #PactoElectrico | Rueda Volante via acceso competitivo a Fondos de Pensión en http://t.co/mJzPKOePGb
— Jose A Vanderhorst S (@gmh_upsa) June 5, 2014
@listindiario @KatNaut alternativa a #Bandex suma valor agregado con un #PactoElectrico que se refuerza con AFPs http://t.co/mJzPKOePGb
— Jose A Vanderhorst S (@gmh_upsa) June 5, 2014
@cabreradiputado @ZOLFM1065 Vea por ej. nota (ya superada) de 2008 Fondos de Pensión, Subsidios y Ahorro de Energía http://t.co/MxE9uCgGW4
— Jose A Vanderhorst S (@gmh_upsa) June 5, 2014
Tolalmente de acuerdo @UCiudadanocomun | @fcapellan1 la propuesta http://t.co/mJzPKOePGb es que se refuercen mutuamente de forma rentable.
— Jose A Vanderhorst S (@gmh_upsa) June 7, 2014lunes, junio 02, 2014
Primero @giovannida responde por favor el siguiente dilemma sobre la inversión del video
El 24 de mayo del 2014, en el Grupo de Facebook MENTIRAS Y VERDADES - VERDADES A MEDIAS, Miriam Then colocó un video como ese, escribió mi nombre y agregó " a ver qué opina." Mi respuesta, en la que cité el artículo A Capitalist’s Dilemma, Whoever Wins on Tuesday, de CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN, del 3 de novembre del 2012, fue "Before I am able to respond you, please answer this dilemma:"
The Fed has been injecting more and more capital into the economy because — at least in theory — capital fuels capitalism. And yet cash hoards in the billions are sitting unused on the pristine balance sheets of Fortune 500 corporations. Billions in capital is also sitting inert and uninvested at private equity funds.
Capitalists seem almost uninterested in capitalism, even as entrepreneurs eager to start companies find that they can’t get financing. Businesses and investors sound like the Ancient Mariner, who complained of “Water, water everywhere — nor any drop to drink.”
domingo, junio 01, 2014
Two systemic crises that no one can fix: Veteran Heath Administration and electric power services
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." -- Albert Einstein.Like President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President Barack Obama is facing a critical systemic problem in the Veteran Administration (VA). Roosevelt addressed a systemic banking crisis with a limited insurance savings proposal that people were not expecting but love.
In the case of the VA a proposal with support to eventually end the need for wars is something no one is expecting but will love. It is easy to anticipate that as societies get more civilized, the opportunity for deeper and authentic dialogue to deal with differences reduces even further the need for war.
My humble suggestion is to use a new kind of thinking to facilitate a shift from the industrial civilization to the post industrial one. The VA case is a specific instance of a large number of wicked or systemic problems being mishandled all over the world, which were created probably as unintended consequences of using the industrial civilization kind of thinking.
In general, the suggestion is that systemic problems need to first find a beachhead to be able to cross what Geoffrey A. Moore named “the Chasm.” He says that to cross it you first need a pragmatist in pain to address an intractable problem, like president Roosevelt did during the Great Depression. After a leader shows that’s possible, they need a few other systemic problems to also cross the Chasm, which he calls a Bowling Pin strategy. Then they get into a Tornado strategy where all kinds of wicked problems are addressed to let leading his community to change to a new civilization.
The above come from his book “Crossing the Chasm,” a BusinessWeek Bestseller, where he said “The real news, however, is not the two cracks in the bell curve, the one between the innovators and the early adopters, the other between early and late majority. No, the real news is the deep and dividing chasm that separates the early adopters from the early majority. This is by far the most formidable and unforgiving transition in the Technology Adoption Life Cycle and it is the more dangerous because it typically goes unrecognized.”
In this humble suggestion to leaders of the world, I urge that both presidents Obama and Danilo Medina need to recognize they are pragmatists in pain with respect to the Chasm relative to the VA and electricity crises. As we will see below, President Medina, with the support of President Obama, can use the systemic electricity problem of the Dominican Republic to be the first to cross the Chasm to show that it is possible. I am quite sure that many people before me have made proposals to address systemic problems that have ended in the Chasm.
Here is another argument, for example, in support of a future without the incentive for war. While the US was heading to lead the 4th technological revolution, as described by Carlota Pérez, in her book “TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTIONS AND FINANCIAL CAPITAL: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages,” other countries decided to fight to remain in the 3rd technological revolution. In a longer time period, that was similar to what happened during the revolutionary wars for independence between the agricultural revolution and the industrial revolution.
In his book The Third Wave, Alvin Toffler shows repeatedly a surprising insight that the shift from the First Wave agricultural civilization to the Second Wave industrial civilization was totally neutral of the political, social, cultural fundamental differences between countries that led to wars. In addition, their new book Revolutionary Wealth he and his wife Heidi further explain why the waves shift had nothing to do with those fundamental differences, but with what they identify as deep fundamentals.
After learning from that recent book that those deep fundamentals “form a system,” I recognized them as systems essentials. The examples of systems essentials, for example, work, time, space and knowledge, shown in chapters 4 to 22, are shifting greatly without most people awareness to strongly support the civilization leap in the making even without wars.
That’s the main motive to suggest diplomatic efforts to agree on the emergence of the post industrial civilization, that I have suggested elsewhere is the systemic civilization, in which will be able to even dissolve (not need to be solved) many systemic problems. The reasons why I suggest world leaders to take such risks is based on insights that emerged while dealing with the electricity systemic problem which can be seen under the post Alternative EWPC scenario (hyperlinks added) to IEEE Spectrum's The Rise of the Personal Power.
Here is the reason of the suggestion to address the systemic electricity crisis as the first to cross the Chasm. Using two interesting systemic metaphors, we can see from the EWPC scenario how the Dominican electricity crisis is just the tip of the iceberg of an essential system crisis that is already transforming the U.S. electric power industry that’s under a severe avalanche discovered and documented during April and May 2014. Next is how important those metaphors are.
In “Managing the Metaphors for Change,” Robert Marshak, suggested that paying attention to metaphors “… become a critical competency for leaders and change agents.” As it happened, at the outset of my involvement on the Dominican Republic electricity crisis, in 1996, I am happy to recall that I started from the solid foundations of Marshak’s insides.
In the case of the VA systemic crisis the underlying quote “We don’t have time for distractions,” Mr. Obama said. “We need to fix the problem,” is that of a non systemic mechanical thinking metaphor. Taking it at face value, with industrial civilization thinking, this article can be easily dismissed as an off topic distraction. Please don’t.
Giving me instead the benefit of the doubt, if we look closely at what By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. wrote on MAY 30, 2014 edition of the New York Times, under the article “V.A. Chief Resigns in Face of Furor on Delayed Care,” we see a distraction behind the reporters thinking in that “Fixing the problem at the department now becomes an urgent political matter for the president, once again raising questions about whether the candidate who pledged in 2008 and 2012 to make government work efficiently has lost grasp of the government he now leads.”
But Mr. Obama and Mr. Medina are not alone on the many systemic problems being faced all over the world. In the VA systemic problem Mr. Obama is facing, for example, cause and effect are not close in the essential system variables of time (other presidents started the wars before him) and space (Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan). In the post-industrial civilization it is no longer acceptable to get stuck under machine metaphor thinking, but that kind of thinking continuous still widespread. We need to cross the Chasm from the industrial civilization to the systemic civilization as soon as possible.
Are these the only systemic crises that no one can’t fix? In his article, Marshak describes two other kinds of metaphors: developmental and transitional neither of which is able to deal with systemic crises. It is easy to see that we should not be dealing either with the images “build and develop,” or those with “move and relocate.”
Without getting involved here in the details, the metaphor being considered in IEEE Spectrum's The Rise of the Personal Power is the transitional one to move the electric power industry into the digital world. With EWPC we are actually dealing with the transformational metaphor of the “liberate and recreate” image as part of an emergent civilization. That’s how we will be able to add the much needed systemic leverage to the industry.
What’s needed is to reinvent government by introducing the systemic civilization. In fact, the Access Audit findings reveal “a systemic lack of integrity within some Veteran Health Administration facilities.” That only some were discovered in Phase One of the audit is not to be taken lightly, because as wicked (systemic) problems behave as icebergs, from which can easily see only the tip of the problem, as many were flagged for further review. As the audit might lead to a witch hunt “… suspected willful misconduct” to be fixed with “appropriate personnel actions” that “ will be pursued promptly.”
jueves, mayo 29, 2014
José Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio global citizen engagement footpint for May 2014
This post main message is that I have decided to consider myself an Engaged Global Citizen.
Below you can see the global footprint of my tweets from April 30 to May 29, 2014. Please take a look at the distribution of 359 clicks on bitly links.
Below you can see the global footprint of my tweets from April 30 to May 29, 2014. Please take a look at the distribution of 359 clicks on bitly links.
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- United States ( US )155
- Dominican Republic ( DO )64
- Spain ( ES )20
- Mexico ( MX )18
- Philippines ( PH )13
- Canada ( CA )11
- Australia ( AU )8
- Ecuador ( EC )7
- United Kingdom ( GB )7
- Germany ( DE )6
- France ( FR )4
- Hong Kong ( HK )4
- India ( IN )4
- Saudi Arabia ( SA )4
- Italy ( IT )3
- Malaysia ( MY )3
- Japan ( JP )2
- Netherlands ( NL )2
- Portugal ( PT )2
- Poland ( PL )2
- Slovakia ( SK )2
- Belgium ( BE )1
- Switzerland ( CH )1
- Honduras ( HN )1
- Brazil ( BR )1
- Puerto Rico ( PR )1
- Nicaragua ( NI )1
- Taiwan ( TW )1
- New Zealand ( NZ )1
- Egypt ( EG )1
- Guatemala ( GT )1
- South Africa ( ZA )1
- European Union ( EU )1
- Jamaica ( JM )1
- Singapore ( SG )1
- Korea, Republic of ( KR )1
- Kuwait ( KW )1
- Israel ( IL )1
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