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Santee Cooper has a rate freeze. Does it really? A freeze for how long? Under what terms? Santee Cooper’s June 22 board meeting shows cracks in the much-publicized rate freeze for customers. Will Santee Cooper’s financial health break under the weight of reality, or “reform”? Do loopholes in the freeze offer wiggle room into customer […]
A simple question? Like so many energy questions, what is a battery, is changing. The racks upon racks of round and rectangular batteries in a big box store are a small part of the definition now. Those batteries rely on chemical reactions for power. Here’s one definition. “Battery” power can be created in non-chemical ways. […]
Halfway through 2020 and the year is nothing if not unusual. True for the world and also for energy. This Energy Consumers Weekend will look at the changes and a constant in energy. The boom busted early in 2020, across the board. People sequestered themselves. Businesses shut down. The economy sank. Old rules of business […]
Over several blogs we have looked at Greenhouse Gases. It is rather theoretical unless we can look at Greenhouse Gases in our own backyard. So, let’s look at North Carolina. The state issued a report in 2019 about its GHG profile. Here’s how the report describes the state’s emissions: Carbon dioxide was the major GHG […]
“Three years and $3 trillion.” The headline caught our eye. It was in Bloomberg News. “A new report from the International Energy Agency details what it will take to lock in this year’s drop in emissions.” Energy consumers take note. The IEA report is worth reading because it gets specific. Some background first. The COVID […]
Barry K. Worthington is the executive director of the United States Energy Association (USEA). Through its membership, USEA represents 150 members across the U.S. energy sector. In his role, he represents the broad interests of the U.S. energy industry and meets with domestic and international energy leaders to advance information and unearth partnerships to develop […]
Carbon dioxide has gotten a lot of press as a global warming element. Methane is the next chemical that gets attention. Why? Because methane is so potent as a greenhouse gas. A reminder: Methane is a “hydrocarbon gas produced both through natural sources and human activities, including the decomposition of wastes in landfills, agriculture, and […]
Summer has traditionally been a time for peak electric power use. How about this summer, which starts Saturday, June 20? How will you fare electrically this summer? How can you manage the “dog days of summer”? That’s this week’s energy consumer weekend. Patterns for summer heat and power use may not be like the past, […]
Carbon dioxide is the chemical that has captured the attention of people interested in energy and the environment. Another chemical will get increasing press – methane. Methane is a gas, one carbon atom and four hydrogen atoms. Methane is produced two ways. (Source) Biologic decomposition of organic matter at shallow depths. Think of swamps, landfills, […]
A fake industrial control system (ICS) tempted a lot of bad players on the web recently. Electric customers should take note. There’s a “pervasive the cyber risk is to the industrial sector,” say the people who ran the exercise, reported in a column, Utility ransomware attacks becoming more sophisticated. (Source) Here’s what was done. A cyber […]
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