Herman K. Trabish
Contributing EditorHerman K. Trabish, D.C., has been a Doctor of Chiropractic in private practice for 25 years but some years ago he realized his strategy to fix the planet one person at a time was moving too slowly. An accidental encounter with Daniel Yergin's The Prize led to a protracted study of the bloody, fiery history of oil and then to Trabish's Oil In Their Blood "trilogy" (http://www.oilintheirblood.com), a pair of historical novels on oil history still waiting to find a happy ending.
Trabish was raised up from the horrific side of energy's history by mentor Paul MacCready, one of the founding fathers of the modern renewable energy business. A five-year apprenticeship as the sole force behind NewEnergyNews (http://www.newenergynews.net) followed. His best effort to achieve competence on the energy generation beat is ongoing at Utility Dive under the tutelage of an unusually tolerant editorial staff.
1784 articles by Herman K. Trabish
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3 big advances coming as distributed energy resources take newer, bigger roles in 2023
Jan. 23, 2023 -
Transmission as a reliability and affordability strategy drives CAISO and SPP regional market ambitions
Dec. 12, 2022 -
High electricity rates impede crucial but costly technology investments to manage rising DER levels: utilities
Nov. 29, 2022 -
US can reach 100% clean power by 2035, DOE finds, but tough reliability and land use questions lie ahead
Nov. 15, 2022 -
Putin-focused and other hacks of charging stations drive new cybersecurity steps for an EV boom
Nov. 8, 2022 -
As FERC’s transmission proposal sparks clashes, potential solutions emerge from MISO, elsewhere
Nov. 7, 2022 -
Bringing equity to electricity service through home, power sector and regulatory innovation
Oct. 27, 2022 -
97% of smart meters fail to provide promised customer benefits. Can $3B in new funding change that?
Oct. 5, 2022 -
Real-time pricing, new rates and enabling technologies target demand flexibility to ease California outages
Sept. 13, 2022 -
DOE to attack CO2 emissions with billions in funding from inflation reduction, infrastructure laws
Aug. 22, 2022 -
NextEra’s ‘game-changing’ Real Zero emissions goal spurs questions about hydrogen, demand-side management
Aug. 3, 2022 -
Biden executive order on power system cybersecurity leaves critical operations vulnerable, experts say
July 25, 2022 -
High energy prices, Ukraine war and rising demand response potential spur energy efficiency efforts
July 11, 2022 -
Upheaval in utility regulation emerging nationally as Hawaii validates a performance-based approach
July 5, 2022 -
Rethinking California distribution system operations and grid services markets for a high-DER future
June 7, 2022 -
'Dramatic shift' in utility regulations, better pilot designs needed to propel energy transition, DOE report finds
May 31, 2022 -
California's 'affordability crisis' attracts innovative ratemaking and regulatory proposals
May 19, 2022 -
The fight for a national clean energy transmission system emerges on three fronts
May 3, 2022 -
Reliability concerns drive need for energy market design reforms, but regions diverge in FERC proceeding
April 11, 2022 -
Ukraine war could extend bump in US coal use, but utilities remain confident in decarbonization path
March 24, 2022 -
Texas just dodged a repeat of 2021 outages, but its power sector has a long way to go, analysts say
Feb. 25, 2022 -
Utility regulators eye new tools to ensure equity efforts don't impinge on other policy goals
Feb. 21, 2022 -
Breakthroughs in generation and system integration are driving the utility of the future, analysts say
Jan. 31, 2022 -
2022 Outlook: A new recognition is coming of rate design's critical role in the energy transition
Jan. 19, 2022 -
Duke, SCE, other grid modernization proposals faced big cost questions, more regulator scrutiny in 2021
Jan. 4, 2022