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Energy
News Digest Word Cloud for September 11, 2013
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Imagining
a Cyberattack on the Power Grid (NY Times)
Congressmen
Hastings, DeFazio Ask Energy Secretary Moniz to Help Keep Electricity
Affordable for Pacific Northwest Ratepayers (U-S House Natural Resources
Committee)
‘50
Dirtiest’ US Power Plants Emit More Greenhouse Gases than South Korea
(Christian Science Monitor)
Despite
Wave of Sales & Bankruptcies, ‘Thin-Film’ Solar Dream Still Alive (San Jose
Mercury News, CA)
Federal Wildlife Officials Approve Owl-Killing
Experiment (Associated Press)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Imagining a Cyberattack on the Power Grid
- Congressmen Hastings, DeFazio Ask Energy Secretary Moniz to Help Keep Electricity Affordable for Pacific Northwest Ratepayers
- Swift 2 Canal Repairs Will Cost Cowlitz PUD $500,000
- Oregon: Prospect Pacific Power Facility Burglarized Four Times Last Month
- Snohomish PUD to Break Ground For New Operations Facility Thursday
- Consultant: Wyoming Could Cash In On Demand for Natural Gas Electricity
- Texas Electric Grid Ranks No. 1 in the Country
- The Case for Continued Deployment of Smart Grids
- New Hampshire: Lots of Noise Means Work on Nashua Dam Is in Order
- Federal Wildlife Officials Approve Owl-Killing Experiment
- For 75 Years, Hatchery Fish Have Fed Community, Economy
- Ouch! Yellow Jackets Having a ‘Banner Year’ in Pacific Northwest
- Put a Cork in It, Anacortes Bottling Plant Scrubbed
- Dan Morain: Blazing a New Trail, Sierra Club Risks Losing Its Relevancy
- Despite Wave of Sales & Bankruptcies, ‘Thin-Film’ Solar Dream Still Alive
- ittee Hearing Scheduled on the Energy Independence Act (I-937)
- Europe’s Utilities Unite Against Renewable Energy
- Tidal Power: Energy’s Wave of the Future?
- New Power Source: Wood Waste
- Montana: Renewable Energy Advocates Sponsor ‘Green’ Tour Wednesday
- How Utilities Use Solar Energy to Woo Customers
- Op/Ed: Whistling Ridge Plan is Unneeded Nonstarter
- Efficiency Offers a Glimmer of Hope on Energy in Washington D-C
- ‘50 Dirtiest’ US Power Plants Emit More Greenhouse Gases than South Korea
- Solar Panel Is Next Granite Countertop for Homebuilders
- Editorial: Corndoggle - The Federal Renewable Fuel Program
- Comcast Boosts Speeds for Low-Cost Internet Service for Low-Income Families
- Little Ephrata, Washington Has Nation’s Fastest Internet
- Change of Plans: Verizon Brings Fiber Optic Network to Storm-Hit Fire Island
- What is ‘Net Neutrality,’ And Why the War of Words?
- Can Phone Companies Own Colors? New Tussles over “Magenta,” & “Champagne” for Apple
- 9/11 Anniversary a Time of Remembrance, Reflection
- We’re Having a Heat Wave
- Montana Newlywed Charged in Husband’s Death at Glacier
- Seattle’s Unsettling Ebb of Local News
- Four-Legged Impostors Give Service Dog Owners Pause
WORD OF THE DAY
Malapert
• \mal-uh-PERT\ • Adjective - Impudently bold: saucy.
“Great,”
sighed the aging monarch. “I advertise for edgy talent, a performer full of
malapert energy, and human resources sends me Steven Wright.”
(That’s
the comic folks, NOT the manager): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Wright
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Imagining
a Cyberattack on the Power Grid (NY Times)
Congressmen
Hastings, DeFazio Ask Energy Secretary Moniz to Help Keep Electricity
Affordable for Pacific Northwest Ratepayers (U-S House Natural Resources
Committee)
Swift
2 Canal Repairs Will Cost Cowlitz PUD $500,000 (Longview
Daily News, WA)
Oregon:
Prospect Pacific Power Facility Burglarized Four Times Last Month (Medford Mail-Tribune,
OR)
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130910/NEWS07/309100338/-1/NEWSMAP
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130910/NEWS07/309100338/-1/NEWSMAP
Snohomish
PUD to Break Ground For New Operations Facility Thursday (Mountlake Terrace
News, WA)
Consultant:
Wyoming Could Cash in on Demand for Natural Gas Electricity (Casper Star-Tribune,
WY)
Texas
Electric Grid Ranks No. 1 in the Country (Dallas Business Journal, TX)
2013
Grid Modernization Index (Gridwise Alliance)
The
Case for Continued Deployment of Smart Grids (USA
Today)
New
Hampshire: Lots of Noise Means Work on Nashua Dam Is in Order (Nashua Telegraph,
NH)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Federal Wildlife Officials Approve Owl-Killing
Experiment (Associated Press)
For 75 Years, Hatchery Fish Have Fed Community,
Economy (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Ouch! Yellow Jackets Having a ‘Banner Year’ in Pacific
Northwest (Northwest Public Radio)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Put
a Cork in It, Anacortes Bottling Plant Scrubbed (KING-TV,
Seattle, WA)
Dan
Morain: Blazing a New Trail, Sierra Club Risks Losing Its Relevancy (Sacramento Bee, CA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Despite
Wave of Sales & Bankruptcies, ‘Thin-Film’ Solar Dream Still Alive (San Jose
Mercury News, CA)
September
16 - Senate Energy, Environment & Telecommunications Committee Hearing
Scheduled on the Energy Independence Act (I-937)
Europe’s
Utilities Unite Against Renewable Energy (Forbes Magazine)
Tidal
Power: Energy’s Wave of the Future? (Christian Science Monitor)
http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Energy-Voices/2013/0910/Tidal-power-Energy-s-wave-of-the-future
New
Power Source: Wood Waste (Electric Co-op Today)
Montana:
Renewable Energy Advocates Sponsor ‘Green’ Tour Wednesday (The Missoulian, MT)
http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/renewable-energy-advocates-sponsor-green-tour-wednesday/article_90a04aa8-1a7d-11e3-b301-0019bb2963f4.html
http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/renewable-energy-advocates-sponsor-green-tour-wednesday/article_90a04aa8-1a7d-11e3-b301-0019bb2963f4.html
How
Utilities Use Solar Energy to Woo Customers (Forbes Magazine)
Op/Ed:
Whistling Ridge Plan is Unneeded Nonstarter (Hood River News, OR)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Efficiency
Offers a Glimmer of Hope on Energy in Washington D-C (Greentech Media)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
‘50
Dirtiest’ US Power Plants Emit More Greenhouse Gases than South Korea (Christian
Science Monitor)
America’s
Dirtiest Power Plants (Environment America – Glory Be! Neither Boardman nor
Centralia are on this list….)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Solar
Panel Is Next Granite Countertop for Homebuilders (Bloomberg News)
Editorial:
Corndoggle - The Federal Renewable Fuel Program (Futures Trading)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Comcast Boosts Speeds for Low-Cost Internet Service
for Low-Income Families (Oregonian, Portland, OR)
Little Ephrata, Washington Has Nation’s Fastest
Internet (Seattle Times - Paywall Advisory)
Change of Plans: Verizon Brings Fiber Optic Network
to Storm-Hit Fire Island (Washington Post)
What is ‘Net Neutrality,’ And Why the War of Words?
(USA Today)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Can Phone Companies Own Colors? New Tussles over “Magenta,”
& “Champagne” for Apple (GigaOM)
GENERAL NEWS
9/11 Anniversary a Time of Remembrance, Reflection (USA
Today)
We’re Having a Heat Wave (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Montana Newlywed Charged in Husband’s Death at Glacier
(Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Seattle’s Unsettling Ebb of Local News (Puget Sound
Business Journal, WA)
Four-Legged Impostors Give Service Dog Owners Pause
(National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/2013/09/11/221017467/four-legged-impostors-give-service-dog-owners-pause?ft=1&f=3
DIVERSIONS
Chanel
as Collateral: Hong Kong Firm Gives Handbag-Backed Loans
Stowaway
from Mexico Found Pickled in Load of Peppers at U-S Border
Nigerian
Boy Flies to Lagos from Home Town Hiding in Airplane Wheel Cavity
South
Korean ‘Armadillo’ Car Folds Up for Easy Parking
SONG OF THE DAY
Going to California - Led Zeppelin
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