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- Looking at the power grid up close - EF News
“The mind can not conceive,” said Thomas Edison in 1916, “what man will do in the twentieth century with his chained lightning ” And a lot we did, to be sure But now it’s time to start conceiving what we’ll do in the 21st century — and there’s no time to waste
- New Calls for Re-Regulation - EF News - electricityforum. com
As a result, Pacific Gas Electric Company filed for bankruptcy while Southern California Edison teetered on the brink for several months Consumers were forced to pay higher and higher rates while the state budget surplus was wiped out while the Department of Water Resources then took over the burden of purchasing electricity
- Network of nuclear waste sites proposed - EF News
YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NEVADA - The United States should develop temporary storage facilities to hold the waste produced by the country's nuclear reactors until a permanent burial site can be developed, a federal panel proposed recently The United States has debated what to do with radioactive waste for
- Winds too fickle at Boston City Hall - EF News
Three months after Mayor Thomas M Menino first floated the idea of installing a windmill somewhere on the bricked-over swale abutting the city's seat of government, engineers have concluded there are too many unpredictable and dangerous gusts and downdrafts as wind bounces off the nearby buildings
- IBM partners with industry to set efficiency agenda - EF News
Consolidated Edison — with more than 3 million customers in New York City and Westchester County, New York — is a pilot member of this initiative working with IBM around energy consumption awareness, co marketing and demand management with a focus on customer measuring and verifying energy reduction through Energy Efficiency Certificates
- Missouri senators consider bill to pay for power plants
MISSOURI - Senators grilled AmerenUE leaders during a hearing on legislation allowing utilities to charge electric customers for the costs of new power plants before they come online Missouri law bars investor-owned utilities from passing the expenses of building a power plant to their customers
- Churchill hydro project touted for “greenness” - EF News
Meanwhile, New Democrat Leader Jack Layton visited Montreal to help shore up support for Thomas Mulcair, his deputy leader and the NDP's sole MP in Quebec Layton believes he can gain ground in the province, which is also expected to be a prime target for the Conservatives and Liberals
- Coals future not in Carolinas - EF News - electricityforum. com
A lineup of speakers, including New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, traded ideas and delivered speeches about global warming and green energy Rogers was on one of the panels Coal-fired power plants are among the largest sources of carbon dioxide, blamed as a cause of global warming
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