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Articles by Eamonn McCormick
Solving The Challenge of Digital Transformation for Small and Medium Sized Utilities
How can these complex, smaller utilities embrace innovation and address the evolving energy landscape while maintaining reliable and affordable services with fewer resources than larger investor-owned utilities (IOUs), while protecting against the growing risk of cyber-attacks?
Public Power Decarbonization Series - Part 3: Public Power Decarbonization Requires Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Integration
Public Power Decarbonization Series By Stuart McCafferty, John Cooper, and Eamonn McCormick This article is Part 3 of a three-part series on the role of Public Power in decarbonizing and electrifying our society and economy. The first article discussed the imperative to decarbonize and what it means for Public Power. The second article reviewed the Crisis of Slow Public Power Decarbonization, and the confusing narrative and lack of leadership from various government agencies.
Public Power Decarbonization Series - The Current Crisis of Slow Utility Decarbonization
Public Power Decarbonization Series By Stuart McCafferty, John Cooper, and Eamonn McCormick This article is Part 2 of a three-part series on the role of Public Power in decarbonizing and electrifying our society and economy. In the first article we establish the clear imperative to decarbonize and what that means for Public Power. In Part 2, we review the Crisis of Slow Public Power Decarbonization.
CREATING DER INTEGRATION SOLUTION ARCHITECTURES USING IEEE 2030.5 AND THE ENERGYIOT COMMON REFERENCE MODEL
Figure 1: The EnergyIoT Common Reference Model CREATING DER INTEGRATION SOLUTION ARCHITECTURES USING IEEE 2030.5 AND THE ENERGYIOT COMMON REFERENCE MODEL By Stuart McCafferty, Eamonn McCormick, & David Forfia California has it right! In 2019, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) created the “Rule 21” mandate for integrating behind the meter Distributed Energy Resources (DER).
THE COMING TRICKY PEAK LOAD WAVE OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES - AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT
THE COMING TRICKY PEAK LOAD WAVE OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES By Eamonn McCormick, Stuart McCafferty, & Hans-Arild Bredesen NEWS FLASH! Today’s grid was not designed for today’s electrified, intermittent generation, green ecosystem – and meeting tomorrow’s electricity needs will be even more challenging! Ok, so maybe that isn’t a surprise to anyone anywhere.
Local Energy Flexibility Markets Part 2: Could They Help with Black Swan Weather Rolling Outage Grid Events?
Local Energy Flexibility Markets Part 2: Could They Help with Black Swan Weather Rolling Outage Grid Events? By Eamonn McCormick, Stuart McCafferty, David Forfia, & Hans-Arild Bredesen Figure 1: ISO Territories and Power Outages February 2021 (source: FERC and PowerOutage.US) Black swan weather week disrupts power delivery across the US In February 2021, 150M people were under winter advisories as 'unprecedented' snow and ice storms involving 25 states across the middle of the country.
Local Energy Flexibility Markets: The Hidden Key to Solving the Energy Transformation?
By Eamonn McCormick, Stuart McCafferty, Hans-Arild Bredesen, & David Forfia These are exciting times in the energy industry. The transition to a sustainable, clean, and distributed grid is underway worldwide. The positive drivers of the energy transition include political climate goals, enormous funding and investment opportunities, and the available technology to integrate buildings, renewables, batteries, controllable loads, and electric vehicles with the grid.
Part 2 - Biofuels: Really? Don’t Fuel Yourself
Part 2 - Biofuels: Really? Don’t Fuel Yourself By Stuart McCafferty and Eamonn McCormick This is Part 2 of a 2-part series on the oil and gas industry, their part in the current global climate crisis, and a conversation on biofuels and their efficacy within a sustainable energy economy.
Part 1 - Biofuels: Really? Don’t Fuel Yourself
Part 1 - Biofuels: Really? Don’t Fuel Yourself By Stuart McCafferty and Eamonn McCormick The major oil and gas companies are all enthusiastically jumping into the biofuel market, telling the world that it is “carbon-neutral” and that they are addressing climate change as good stewards of the environment. Really? In 2015, Inside Climate News performed eight months of investigation interviewing ExxonMobil’s former employees and reviewing internal company documents.
DECARBONIZATION: The Pattern that has Emerged
WARNING: SIGN-IN You need to be a member of Energy Central to access some features and content. Please sign-in or register to continue. By Stuart McCafferty, Eamonn McCormick, and David Forfia Utility and transportation decarbonization is rapidly gaining traction as the economic advantages of renewable energy, technology acceleration, and a social mandate for clean energy propel us into a much different world than we have experienced over the previous century.
EnergyIoT Article 6 - Energy Services (DevOps) Domain - The Heart of the Ecosystem
EnergyIoT Article 6 – Energy Services (DevOps) Domain - The Heart of the Ecosystem By Stuart McCafferty, Eamonn McCormick, and David Forfia Disclaimer: The viewpoints in this article and others in the series are the personal views of the authors and in no way are meant to imply or represent those of the companies they work for.
EnergyIoT Article 5 - Energy Systems Cloud Domain
EnergyIoT Article 5 – Energy Systems Cloud Domain By Stuart McCafferty, Eamonn McCormick, David Forfia Disclaimer: The viewpoints in this article and others in the series are the personal views of the authors and in no way are meant to imply or represent those of the companies they work for. This is the fifth in a series of articles introducing an EnergyIoT Conceptual Model.
EnergyIoT Article 4 - Operational Technology (OT) Domain - Evolving The Future Grid
EnergyIoT Article 4 – Operational Technology (OT) Domain – Evolving the Future Grid By Stuart McCafferty, Eamonn McCormick, David Forfia Disclaimer: The viewpoints in this article and others in the series are the personal views of the authors and in no way are meant to imply or represent those of the companies they work for.
EnergyIoT Article 3 - IoT Architecture Big Picture
EnergyIoT Article 3 – IoT Architecture Big Picture By Stuart McCafferty, Eamonn McCormick, Ty Jagerson, and David Forfia Disclaimer: The viewpoints in this article and others in the series are the personal views of the authors and in no way are meant to imply or represent those of the companies they work for.
EnergyIoT Article 2 - Architectural Challenges to the Energy Transformation
EnergyIoT Article 2 – Architectural Challenges to the Energy Transformation By Stuart McCafferty, David Forfia, and Eamonn McCormick Disclaimer: The viewpoints in this article and others in the series are the personal views of the authors and in no way are meant to imply or represent those of the companies they work for. In today’s electric power ecosystem, adding new capabilities is tedious, time-consuming, and expensive.
EnergyIoT Article 1 - Get Your Head in the Cloud - A Call to Action
EnergyIoT Article 1 – Get Your Head in the Cloud - A Call to Action By Stuart McCafferty, Eamonn McCormick, David Forfia Disclaimer: The viewpoints in this article and others in the series are the personal views of the authors and in no way are meant to imply or represent those of the companies they work for. What if we could create a bridge between the world of physical devices in the energy industry and the world of virtual processes in the cloud?
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