Energetics: Year Two

I started this blog about one year ago (actually, Energetics had its inaugural post on March 22, 2010). Since then, I've posted 116 entries, averaging somewhere between 5-15 per month (with the exception of April 2010, which had 47 separate posts, a pace which I apparently could not sustain). Energetics has had, as of this writing, 3,851 pageviews, not including my own. The vast majority of those originate in the US, not surprisingly. Canada, Russia, South Korea and the Netherlands pitched in about 150 a piece last year (thanks!). My most viewed post was "Chunks: A(nother) New Approach to Energy Policy?"

This blog has brought me tremendous personal and professional satisfaction. I greatly enjoy writing for it, and I enjoy the conversations with friends and acquaintances about energy/climate issues and blogging in general. Energetics has given me a channel through which to focus my academic and professional research and advocacy, and I imagine my opinions and knowledge would be significantly weaker without it. Paired with my Twitter (@atrembath), it has also been an excellent venue to make connections with other bloggers and professionals interested and working in energy policy. As I wrote in my first post on Energetics, "The most efficient and productive utility for sites like Facebook and Twitter are, in my opinion, the new forms of media dissemination and filtration that they offer." This has proved more true than I could have predicted.

Since I started this blog, I have begun to post regularly at Americans for Energy Leadership, The Energy Collective, and WattHead - Energy News and Commentary. I can't imagine these doors would have been opened for me if not for Energetics. It's an honor and a joy to write for these publications, and I look forward to continuing in the future. Energetics will always be my personal home base, but I can't express how much I enjoy sharing the stage with the other exceptional bloggers who publish at those sites.

I can't overemphasize the value of my Twitter in promoting and complementing my blog. The degree to which I can share my content, and find content to share and discuss, via Twitter is enormous, and I don't expect I'll find a better combination of social networking tools to explore the energy policy arena. Google Reader, the RSS reader I use to aggregate over 60 choice blogs, is similarly indispensable.

I plan on continuing to blog at Energetics for the foreseeable future. I plan on enjoying it and discussing it with all of you. Thanks so much for reading this past year, and I look forward to the next!