Imagine a vast, dimly lit library of dusty old books. There is no librarian, and the indexing is so faded that it’s not useful. A daunting starting point for a hopeful researcher, but the books contain essential secrets that can predict the future and bring the reader great wealth. This is the world of electric utility filings and dockets — specifically Integrated Resource Plans (IRPs) and rate cases.
Last week, New York City hosted two events which wear out the shoe leather (and sometimes the patience) of New Yorkers and visitors alike: the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), and Climate Week NYC.
In April, I attended an SF Climate Week panel on the ways in which artificial intelligence solutions could support the transition to net zero electricity. When the session opened for comments, I was a bit surprised that the first ten audience members confronted the four panelists with variations of the exact same pointed question: “Aren’t your data centers going to overwhelm the electric grid and ensure climate disaster?”
When Bruce and I were initially discussing what Halcyon would become, the question of what data and information to prefer in our ingestion processes, at first, was important. Perhaps I did not help matters much when Bruce asked me “what information do you want?” and I responded “all of it.”
Every asset has value. In the energy world, we can define that value in multiple ways.
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