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Mapping 10,000 Points of Hourly Power Use – Making $ense of Energy

Biomass Rules Posted on April 29, 2025 by Mark JennerApril 29, 2025

In February, I asked my Electric Cooperative for help in understanding our solar panel output for 2024.   They responded with 10,000 data hourly power consumption points over the 12 months of 2024 and the first two months of 2025. As … Continue reading →

Posted in analytics, economics, firm, Making $ense of Energy, policy, production, Renewable Fuel, science | Tagged 5-minute increment, daily, daylight, demand, electric cooperative, historical data, hourly, hypothetical data, kilowatt (kW), Making $ense of Energy, making sense of energy, mapping 10000 points of hourly power use, modeling total household demand, monthly, nighttime, off-peak, sales, solar offsets, solar production, supply | Leave a reply

The Heartbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza

Biomass Rules Posted on March 5, 2025 by Mark JennerMarch 5, 2025

Last Thursday and Friday, (2/27 & 2/28/2025), the USDA held their annual February, Agricultural Outlook Forum in DC.  This marks the start of another growing season.  The February date allows for last year’s crop year data to be tabulated and … Continue reading →

Posted in economics, farm, firm, macro, policy, production, science | Tagged Agricultural Outlook Forum, Chief Economist, declining flock size, declining hens mean increasing egg prices, demand, egg laying hens, heartbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza, HPAI, increase egg prices, Seth Meyer, sick chickens, supply, USDA | Leave a reply

A Century of Lessons in US Soybean Production – Real Adventures in Economics

Biomass Rules Posted on January 24, 2025 by Mark JennerJanuary 24, 2025

One hundred and one years ago, USDA began counting the production of soybeans on US farms.  This is not because that is when farmers began harvesting soybeans for grain.  No.  This is when the quantity of soybean production was sufficient … Continue reading →

Posted in analytics, economics, firm, macro, policy, Real Adventures in Economics, science | Tagged 1924, 2024, a century of lessons in US soybean production - real adventures in economics, century of lessons, consumer choice, demand, macroeconomic policy, microeconomic technology, production is increasing, real adventures in economics, soybean growth like biofuel industry growth., supply, US soybean production | Leave a reply

Two Data Points Do Not a Trendline Make

Biomass Rules Posted on July 22, 2024 by Mark JennerJuly 22, 2024

Economic information these days, influenced by election-year passions, spawned economic claims that do not represent actual underlying economic trends.  This post looks at the compelling nature of authentic data that does not have any meaningful forecasting value. Biomass Rules is … Continue reading →

Posted in analytics, economics, policy, science | Tagged $/MMBTU., authentic analyses, biofuel, commodities, demand, economy, feedstocks, fossil, fuels, inflation, not a trendline, perfect competition, retail prices, supply, two data points, two data points do not a trendline make | Leave a reply

Demand for Corn Stocks to Use – Real Adventures in Economics

Biomass Rules Posted on March 27, 2024 by Mark JennerApril 30, 2024

Most economic demand today manifests itself in report charts and news as a change over time. But traditional economic supply and demand curves do not have time in them (price x quantity). Demand drives any economy, but it doesn’t look … Continue reading →

Posted in analytics, science | Tagged after corn ethanol, before corn ethanol, corn stocks to use, demand, demand for corn stocks to use - real adventures in economics, elastic, grain merchandizing, inelastic, Kansas State University, price, real adventures in economics, reduced substitutes, supply and demand, University of Illinois | Leave a reply

Bioenergy Success Depends on Local Markets that ‘Are in the Neighborhood’

Biomass Rules Posted on March 25, 2024 by Mark JennerDecember 12, 2024

Local markets are defined in more than one way which distracts from agreement on the value of local markets. In calculus, local maxima, are defined as a relative measure rather than an absolute boundary. No explicit boundary is defined. Local … Continue reading →

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