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☆ Utility Bills Rise as Americans Pay Off Storm-Recovery Costs for Decades to Come
  + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Some of the heftiest fees to cover costs of recent storms are in Louisiana, where Hurricane Zeta tore through Grand Isle two years ago. After powerful storms wreaked havoc on America’s utility system in recent years, bills to cover recovery costs are coming due for customers. Electric and gas utilities are increasingly turning to lower-interest, ratepayer-backed bonds to finance mounting investments to fix and bolster their systems or cover extraordinary energy costs following hurricanes, wildfires and winter freezes. Customers are on the hook for repaying the loans, and the payback period could stretch for as long as 30 years.
☆ U.S. Opens First Auctions for California Offshore Wind Rights
  + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The sale of offshore wind rights is part of the Biden administration’s goal of generating 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030. The U.S. will launch the sale of offshore California wind rights on Tuesday, a first for the West Coast that would bring a new technology to the U.S. to try to shore up California’s power supplies. The auction is part of an ambitious schedule by the Biden administration to parcel out ocean blocks for new wind farms to ring the nation’s coastlines. But developers in California face a complex regulatory landscape, rising costs and project technical and financial risk that is considered greater than on the East Coast—all factors that could suppress auction prices, according to analysts.
☆ Why America Doesn’t Have Enough EV Charging Stations
  + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
One of the biggest roadblocks to the mass adoption of electric vehicles is the troubled business model for the commercial chargers that power them. The government is pouring billions of dollars into developing a national highway charging network. But businesses aren’t sure how they will make money, and the nascent industry looks messy.
☆ The U.S. Electric System Is Leaning on Customers to Avoid Blackouts
  + stars: | 2022-11-12 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The electricity industry is increasingly turning to a tool of last resort when power demand threatens to outstrip supply: asking users to turn off the lights. To get through temperature extremes and tight electricity supplies, grid operators are relying more on conservation pleas to everyone from homeowners to manufacturers and some of the biggest users, bitcoin miners.
☆ California Home Solar-Subsidy Revisions Boost Industry Stocks
  + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | Katherine Blunt | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Much of California’s rooftop solar growth in recent years has been fueled by net metering, which allows solar customers to sell their excess electricity back to the grid. California on Thursday released plans to revise a key rooftop solar subsidy, nearly a year after a proposed cut in payments to homeowners who send excess power to the grid sparked a backlash from clean-energy advocates and others. The new plans would reduce payments that homeowners with solar panels on their roofs can receive by selling electricity back to the grid, but they would not impose a monthly connection fee that was included in the earlier proposal.
☆ Georgia county removes 2 poll workers after social media posts emerge showing them at the January 6 attack on the US Capitol
  + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( John Haltiwanger | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Two poll workers were removed from their duties in Georgia's largest county on Tuesday. Facebook posts surfaced showing the poll workers at the deadly January 6 riot at the US Capitol. One post, shared with the Washington Post, read: "Mike Pence is a traitor." The poll workers, a mother and son, were removed shortly before voting started. Gabriel Sterling, the chief operating officer in the office of the Georgia Secretary of State, confirmed to CNN that the poll workers were removed.
☆ Trump and his far-right allies have stoked a dangerous climate that increases the likelihood of violence far beyond midterms, extremism experts warn
  + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( John Haltiwanger | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
Political violence experts warn that Trump and his allies are fomenting a dangerous climate. "Republican campaign ads have been riven with violent language and imagery," an expert on political violence said. Pelosi is one of the Democrats most vilified by former President Donald Trump and his far-right allies. Experts on extremism and political violence warn that Trump and his MAGA compatriots are fomenting a dangerous climate that increases the likelihood that opponents of the GOP will be targeted with violence, underscoring that the threat extends well beyond midterms. "This form of political violence is here to stay.
☆ America’s Only New Nuclear Plant Inches Closer to a Long-Delayed Start
  + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A reactor at the only nuclear power plant under construction in the U.S., which is billions over budget and years behind schedule, started loading fuel this month and could be delivering power by the end of March. Southern Co., the Atlanta-based utility company building the nuclear-power plant, said it expects the first new reactor at its Vogtle project to be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2023. The first sustained nuclear reaction could occur in January followed by testing electric power production and safety systems, while a second reactor could be completed by late 2023, the company said on Thursday.
☆ Solar Power Stayed On as Hurricane Ian Knocked Lights Out Across Florida
  + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Neighborhoods powered by solar panels with backup batteries weathered the direct onslaught of Hurricane Ian in Florida, utilities and developers said, keeping the lights on throughout the storm while millions of others lost power. At least three solar-powered communities near Fort Myers and Tampa made it through Ian without losing electricity. Some also had hardened electrical infrastructure, including buried lines and stronger power poles, that helped them weather the storm and its aftermath.
☆ Westinghouse Deal Latest Signal of a Nuclear Power Revival
  + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A deal by Brookfield Renewable Partners and Cameco Corp. to buy nuclear-services firm Westinghouse Electric Co. is the latest sign of revival in the nuclear-power industry after years of decline. The matchup would create something of a Western nuclear powerhouse, pairing a key nuclear-power service provider with the largest publicly traded uranium company and one of the world’s biggest owners of wind and solar projects. The transaction is a bet that nuclear will play an important role in the energy transition away from fossil fuels. Brookfield and Cameco announced the deal Tuesday, saying the total enterprise value for Westinghouse is roughly $7.88 billion.
☆ California’s EV Push Hinges on More Power—and Help From Drivers
  + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
California aims to add millions of new electric vehicles in the coming years. Charging them without impairing an aging grid will require more power generation and help from EV drivers. The state’s plan to ban the sale of new gasoline-powered cars and trucks by 2035 means more EVs will be using California’s power supplies to fuel up, adding pressure to the grid.
☆ Electric Bills Soar Across the Country as Winter Looms
  + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Katherine Blunt | Jennifer Hiller | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
U.S. utility customers, faced with some of their largest bills in years, are set to pay even more this winter as natural-gas prices continue to climb. Natural-gas prices have more than doubled this year because of a global supply shortage made worse by the war in Ukraine, and they are expected to remain elevated for months as fuel is needed to light and heat homes during the winter. The supply crunch has made it substantially more expensive for utilities to purchase or produce power, and those costs are being passed on to customers.
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