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Tom Arnold

Three autonomous vehicle questions for real estate
Three autonomous vehicle questions for real estate

Google's Waymo launch has us asking if AVs will be fast or slow, shared or owned, and will they roam the open range? The answers here would mean big changes to real estate.

Will Tesla lower your power bill?
Will Tesla lower your power bill?

We look at load growth in Palo Alto, CA with assumptions about Tesla sales there to measure the impact of electric vehicles on the local utility's sales figures and budgets.

Buildings and the grid: Twin Peaks?
Buildings and the grid: Twin Peaks?

We turn to Gridium customer data to explore if a building's peak demand is related to the grid's peak demand