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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
Anne Mulkern in this morning's E&E Daily has a nice piece about so-called "clean energy standards" otherwise known as "clean energy portfolio standards" or "diverse energy standards." Whether CES, CEPS, or DES, the point is ...
Posted Thursday, January 20th, 2011 at 9:45 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electric Utilities, Electricity, Electrification, Legislation
According to the Energy Daily, (http://www.energy-daily.com/reports/US_Renewables_Now_Neck_And_Neck_With_Nuclear_Power_999.html), citing the most recent issue of the "Monthly Energy Review" by the U.S. Energy Information Administ...
Posted Thursday, December 30th, 2010 at 8:36 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electric Utilities, Electricity, Energy Security, Environment
Today's Energy Daily (www.theenergydaily.com, subscription required) puts an election-year spin on DOE's decision this week (http://www.energy.gov/news/9711.htm) to issue a $350 million conditional loan guarantee "to develop the ...
Posted Thursday, October 21st, 2010 at 6:40 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electric Utilities, Electricity, Energy Demand, Renewables
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