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Two questions. What is the price you pay to run a load of laundry at home? Now, what is the actual cost of running that load of laundry?
Recently, IBM unveiled the results of its 2011 Global Utility Consumer Survey, reveali...
Posted Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 at 12:58 pm | Filed in: Electric Utilities, Electricity
By the time August arrived, the thick of summer had ensnarled the nation in a record-breaking drought. Nearly 12 percent of the United States experienced “exceptional” drought conditions in July – the National Drought Miti...
Posted Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011 at 1:15 pm | Filed in: Electric Utilities, Energy Supply
This summer, both Congress and the electricity industry must face, head on, their respective roles in cases of severe weather situations. This coming Thursday, the Senate will meet to discuss the federal role in such disasters. ...
Posted Monday, July 25th, 2011 at 2:07 pm | Filed in: Electric Utilities, Electricity, Energy Demand, Energy Supply, Renewables
Back in the day when there was bipartisanship, an overwhelming bipartisan majority of the Congress enacted, and President George W. Bush signed into law, the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Before "all of the above" became a mantra, ...
Posted Thursday, July 14th, 2011 at 6:41 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electric Utilities, Electricity, Electrification, Energy Supply, Environment, Legislation, National Security, Oil Dependence
Recently, there have been several articles written about the future outlook for grid-enabled vehicles, their impact the electric grid, and how utilities must begin preparing for the additional demand. One report, released by the...
Posted Monday, May 2nd, 2011 at 1:44 pm | Filed in: Electric Utilities, Electricity, Electrification
While they may not be in the same league as fusion in terms of being permanently just decades away from making a strong contribution to the US energy mix, renewables are not making the gains forecast by proponents -- and with nat...
Posted Thursday, March 31st, 2011 at 8:30 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electric Utilities
With natural gas hovering around $4 per MMBtu, it's an interesting time to be proposing a feed-in tariff for offshore wind energy. But that's exactly what's happening in Maryland, and this morning's WaPo has an interesting piec...
Posted Thursday, March 24th, 2011 at 9:05 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electric Utilities, Electricity, Renewables
Of course the big news this week has been the unfolding -- and not yet over -- nuclear reactor crisis in Japan following the historic earthquakes and tsunami of last Friday. The WSJ this morning reports (http://online.wsj.com/ar...
Posted Thursday, March 17th, 2011 at 6:58 am | Filed in: Electric Utilities, National Security
In Tuesday's State of the Union, President Obama set a goal of "80 by 35" -- 80% clean electricity by 2035. This deserves more attention. Clean electricity has been previously thought of by enviros as renewables and by conserv...
Posted Thursday, January 27th, 2011 at 9:59 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electric Utilities, Electricity
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