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CenterPoint Customers to See Rate Hike as Utility Recovers $200M Spent on...
CenterPoint used one of Life Cycle Power’s mobile generation units, shown here, to provide power to a community center in Lake Jackson after Hurricane Nicholas. CenterPoint has leased 500 megawatts of...
View ArticleNorth Carolina’s Carbon Plan Criticized for Lack of Specifics, Energy...
A plan to significantly reduce carbon emissions in North Carolina is receiving widespread criticism. Environmental groups believe the state’s first Carbon Plan lacks specifics while other critics are...
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Record High Electricity Rates Still Not Enough to Get Customers Thinking...
Utilities Intelligence Report March 2023 Electricity bills in the United States rose 13.1% on average in 2022, higher than the overall rate of inflation. Concurrent with this trend, utilities have...
View ArticleRisks Faced by Power Utility Companies
Unprecedented transformation and rising threats are a top focus for power and utilities. Meanwhile, the cleaner energy transition poses unique opportunities to move the industry forward. Leaders know...
View ArticleReorganize Portfolios and Redirect Incentives for 10X Impacts
A couple weeks ago, I quickly read this article, Cracking the Code – Aligned Incentives, on EnergyCentral.com. It concerns incentives for high-performance employees, but my read was about incentives...
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Stay In Your Lane of Strength, or Pay
My top “strength,” as scientifically assessed by Gallup CliftonStrengths®, is context, which may also be defined as a historian. My other top strengths include attention deficit, information hoarder,...
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The TRC Is Calling – Has Anyone Seen 1979?
Last week Michaels Energy delivered a webinar, Achieving Grid Resiliency with Thermal Energy Storage. There are about 70 gigawatts of refrigeration load in the United States frozen storage and...
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Iowa: Case Study in Major Renewable Supply
It seems like someone coined the line, “what others are saying,” but I can’t find it. So, maybe I’ll coin “what others are saying” with that; here is what others are saying: lawmakers and policymakers...
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Freeze on Nuclear Power is Thawing
It seems the laggards are finally realizing the planned energy transition to renewables and battery storage – maybe even throwing in a few million miles of 345 kV transmission lines – will not deliver...
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Case Studies in Decarbed Electricity
A colleague recommended a podcast, The Diary of a CEO, with Steven Bartlett. I especially resonated with the message from the “Savings Expert” episode dated November 6, 2023. The guest is an author who...
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