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Energy
News Digest Word Cloud for January 17, 2014
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Oregon
Panel Close To Fixing Renewable Energy Mandate to Avoid Ballot Fight
(Oregonian, Portland)
Low
Snowpack Prompts USDA to Issue Early Water Warning (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
Tennessee Valley Authority Asks for Resignations,
Retirements to Cut Expenses (Chattanooga Times-Free Press, TN)
Group: Protect Orcas in West Coast Waters
(Associated Press)
Air Stagnation Advisory in Effect Until January 24
(National Weather Service, Seattle)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Tennessee Valley Authority Asks for Resignations, Retirements to Cut Expenses
- Canadian Hydro: Site C Hearings BC Hydro Proposes $20-Million Fund for Farmers
- Douglas PUD Improves Security for Web Customers
- Mason PUD 3 Commission Report for the January 14, 2014 Business Meeting
- Energy Grid ‘Duck Chart’ Used to Wade into Timing Issues
- How Smart Meters Are Helping Utilities with Voltage Management
- Report: How Transmission Line Developers Can Ease Opposition
- Group: Protect Orcas in West Coast Waters
- Anglers Irked at Green/North Toutle Wild Steelhead Proposal
- Low Snowpack Prompts USDA to Issue Early Water Warning
- Oregon Panel Close To Fixing Renewable Energy Mandate to Avoid Ballot Fight
- Washington State Bill Seeks Green Status for Spokane Waste-to-Energy Plant
- Snohomish PUD Investing in Manure Power
- Solar on a Grand Scale: Big Power Plants Coming Online in the West
- European Union Renewable Energy Targets to Be Significantly Scaled Back
- Dimmer Switch on Enforcement Unlikely to Darken Light Bulb Efficiency Standards
- Washington State Governor Inslee Says GOP Senator ‘Fear Mongering’ on Carbon Fuel Standard
- More Americans Don’t Believe Global Warming Is Happening: Survey
- Portland Utility to Install Natural Gas Truck Filling Stations
- Just Add Compost: How To Turn Your Grassland Ranch into a Carbon Sink
- IBM to Spend $1.2 Billion to Expand Cloud Services
- Crown Castle Scoops Up More Wireless Towers
- Editorial: Make Broadband a Common Carrier
- The State of Broadband
- Apple to Pay $32.5 Million over Kids’ App Purchases
- Air Stagnation Advisory in Effect Until January 24
- New “Wild Olympics” Legislation Submitted
- Underground, Bertha’s Still Stuck; Above Ground, Sniping Heats Up
- What the Media Are Saying Ahead of Seahawks vs. 49ers
- Remember When Seahawks Got An ‘F’ for Drafting Russell Wilson?
WORD OF THE DAY
Focus • \FOE-kuss\
• Noun - A subject that is being discussed or studied: the subject on which
people’s attention is focused - A main purpose or interest - A point at which
rays of light, heat, or sound meet or from which they move apart or appear to
move apart; especially: the point at which an image is formed by a mirror, a
lens, etc.
Plural foci also
focuses
Focus or Foci
Multiple focuses,
huh?
Oxymoron, yup.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Tennessee Valley Authority Asks for Resignations,
Retirements to Cut Expenses (Chattanooga Times-Free Press, TN)
Canadian Hydro: Site C Hearings BC Hydro Proposes
$20-Million Fund for Farmers (Victoria Times Colonist, BC)
Douglas PUD Improves Security for Web Customers (Wenatchee World, WA)
Mason PUD 3 Commission Report for the January 14,
2014 Business Meeting (Mason County PUD 3, Shelton, WA)
Energy Grid ‘Duck Chart’ Used to Wade into Timing
Issues (SF Chronicle, CA)
How Smart Meters Are Helping Utilities with Voltage
Management (The Energy Collective)
Co-ops Leveraging Technology (Electric Co-op Today)
Report: How Transmission Line Developers Can Ease
Opposition (Midwest Energy News)
http://www.midwestenergynews.com/2014/01/15/analysis-finds-common-themes-in-transmission-opposition/
FISH & WILDLIFE
Group: Protect Orcas in West Coast Waters (Associated
Press)
Anglers Irked at Green/North Toutle Wild
Steelhead Proposal (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Low
Snowpack Prompts USDA to Issue Early Water Warning (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Oregon
Panel Close To Fixing Renewable Energy Mandate to Avoid Ballot Fight (Oregonian,
Portland)
Washington
State Bill Seeks Green Status for Spokane Waste-to-Energy Plant (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Snohomish
PUD Investing in Manure Power (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Solar
on a Grand Scale: Big Power Plants Coming Online in the West (Washington Post)
European
Union Renewable Energy Targets to Be Significantly Scaled Back (The Irish Times,
Dublin)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Dimmer Switch on Enforcement Unlikely to Darken
Light Bulb Efficiency Standards (Consumerist)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Washington
State Governor Inslee Says GOP Senator ‘Fear Mongering’ on Carbon Fuel Standard
(Everett Herald, WA)
More
Americans Don’t Believe Global Warming Is Happening: Survey (Weather
Underground)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Portland
Utility to Install Natural Gas Truck Filling Stations (Northwest Public Radio)
Just
Add Compost: How To Turn Your Grassland Ranch into a Carbon Sink (Grist Online)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
IBM to Spend $1.2 Billion to Expand Cloud Services (Reuters)
Crown Castle Scoops Up More Wireless Towers (Houston
Business Journal, TX)
Editorial: Make Broadband a Common Carrier (USA
Today)
The State of Broadband (Information Week)
SOCIAL MEDIA & MARKETING
Apple to Pay $32.5 Million over Kids’ App Purchases
(Associated Press)
GENERAL NEWS
Air Stagnation Advisory in Effect Until January 24
(National Weather Service, Seattle)
New “Wild Olympics” Legislation Submitted (KONP Radio, Port Angeles, WA)
Underground, Bertha’s Still Stuck; Above Ground,
Sniping Heats Up (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
What the Media Are Saying Ahead of Seahawks vs.
49ers (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Remember When Seahawks Got An ‘F’ for Drafting Russell
Wilson? (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Pope
to Sell His Harley for Charity
Man
Finds Lost Envelope Containing $40,000, Returns It to Owner
Elderly
Colorblind Man Sees Color after Hitting Head
Russell Johnson, ‘Gilligan’ Professor, Dies on Bainbridge
Island
http://www.nwcn.com/news/Russell-Johnson-Gilligan-professor-dies-on-Bainbridge-Island-240611641.html
SONG OF THE DAY
For
the Pope:
Steppenwolf - Born to be Wild
For
the Professor:
Little
Roger & The Goosebumps – Gilligan’s Island (Sung to Stairway to Heaven)
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