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Energy
News Digest Word Cloud for March 27, 2014
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Lawsuit Claims Nest Thermostats Fail to Save Money
or Correctly Measure Temperature (GigaOM)
Cracked
Dam Causes Water Emergency in Washington State (National Public Radio)
Pacific County: Pot Has Potential to Pull Too
Much Power (Chinook Observer, Long Beach, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Landers: Record Salmon Forecast Sparks Record
Optimism (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Gone
With the Wind? New Turbine Installation Down 93% in the U-S in 2013 (Dallas
Business Journal, TX)
http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2014/03/26/gone-with-the-wind-new-turbine-installation-down.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2014/03/26/gone-with-the-wind-new-turbine-installation-down.html
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Pacific County: Pot Has Potential to Pull Too Much Power (Chinook Observer, Long Beach, WA – Paywall Advisory)
- Backers of Jordan Cove LNG Project in Coos Bay Looking to Raise Up to $250 Million to Finance Development (Oregonian, Portland)
- Montana: Bankrupt Power Co-Op, Creditors Reach Deal (Associated Press)
- Lake Cushman Power Line Rebuild, LED Streetlights - Mason PUD 3 Project Updates (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
- Mason PUD 3 Commission Report for March 25 Business Meeting (Mason PUD 3, Shelton, WA)
- Bonneville Power Administration Dispatchers & Operators Get a Charge Out of Discovery at Olympia Substation (Bonneville Power Administration)
- Sacramento Municipal Utility District Chooses Internal Candidate for CEO, General Manager (Sacramento Business Journal, CA)
- California: Pacific Gas & Electric Tree Removal Would Hit Walnut Creek Hard (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
- Bill Would Give Feds New Power to Protect Electric Grid (The Hill, Washington, DC)
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Bulk Electricity System Revisions Could Boost Reliability (Fierce Smart Grid)
- Southwest Utilities Studying, But Not Sold On, Regional Energy Imbalance Market (SNL Financial)
- Three Utilities Most Likely to Fall in Death Spiral, According to Morningstar (Forbes Magazine)
- Landers: Record Salmon Forecast Sparks Record Optimism (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
- Yakama Habitat Restoration Takes Wing (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA – With A Little Help From The Bonneville Power Administration)
- Cracked Dam Causes Water Emergency in Washington State (National Public Radio)
- California Drought: NASA to Conduct Snowpack Surveys (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
- California Drought Spurs Surge of Neo-49ers as Low Sierra Water Levels Bring Gold Hopes (Associated Press)
- Colorado River Flowing into Mexican Delta under Landmark 2012 Water Agreement with U-S (Associated Press)
- Gone With the Wind? New Turbine Installation Down 93% in the U-S in 2013 (Dallas Business Journal, TX)
- House Republicans: Administration ‘Slow Rolling’ Documents on Bird Deaths at Wind Farms (U-S News & World Report)
- Op/Ed: Saving the Mojave from the Solar Threat (Los Angeles Times, CA – Build renewable energy projects, we DARE you…)
- Kansas House Rejects Senate Plan to Drop Renewable Energy Rules (Bloomberg News)
- Germany’s $2.8 Billion Undersea Power Link with Norway Threatened (Renewable Energy World)
- Lawsuit Claims Nest Thermostats Fail to Save Money or Correctly Measure Temperature (GigaOM)
- Energy Adviser: New Energy Ratings Push Super Efficiency (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
- New Samsung Connected LED Bulbs Can Brighten Your Smart Home (GigaOM)
- The Pyramid of Conservation Prioritizes Home Energy Savings Projects (Lifehacker)
- Here’s Why British Columbia’s Carbon Tax is Super Popular - And Effective (Grist Online)
- The Tallest Wind Turbine Ever Will Float Above Alaska (Gizmodo)
- Colorado: Will Bills to Expand Rural Broadband Gut Consumer Protections? (The Colorado Independent)
- Dish, DirecTV Talk Merger in Response to Comcast-Time Warner Deal (Oregonian, Portland)
- OpenRoute Starts Selling Rugged Wi-Fi Systems (Seattle Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
- Social Media, Marketing & PR: Who’s Responsible for What? (Mashable)
- Twitter Ban Reversed by Turkish Court (Silicon Valley Business Journal, CA)
- How Alleged Social Media Leaks Are Shaping Politics in Ukraine & Turkey (Washington Post)
- Death Toll Expected to Rise from Oso Mudslide as Search Crews Continue to Seek Missing (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
- Deadly Mix of Loose Sediments & Heavy Rain in Washington (NY Times)
- Coastal Flooding: Emergency Declared in Taholah, Voluntary Evacuation Issued (KXRO Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
- Western Washington March Expected to be Wettest on Record (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
- Geologists Record 31 Small Quakes on Mt. Hood since Sunday (KGW-TV, Portland, OR)
- Port Townsend High School: Redhawks, Sasquatch, Rip Tide: Students Have Three Choices for New Mascot (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
- Growers of Thirsty Pot Are Under Fire in Drought-Struck California (Tri-City Herald, WA)
WORD OF THE DAY
Sallow
• \SALL-oe\ • Adjective - Of a grayish greenish yellow color suggesting
sickliness
The
planks in the vast dreadnaught creaked with stress, as the mighty sailing ship
met the Atlantic rollers for the first of many battles against the elements to
make its way to the surging seas now battering Spanish shorelines. Hornblower
the famous, the decorated, the celebrated did not partake in the glorious first
meeting of his vessel with the howling banshees of the winter storm. Sallow,
sunken cheeked and miserable, he rolled in his tiny captain’s berth, mouthing
endless oaths at the convulsive seasickness that marked the beginnings of each
posting he had the honor to accept.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Pacific County: Pot Has Potential to Pull Too
Much Power (Chinook Observer, Long Beach, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Backers of Jordan Cove LNG Project in Coos Bay Looking
to Raise Up to $250 Million to Finance Development (Oregonian, Portland)
Montana: Bankrupt Power Co-Op, Creditors Reach
Deal (Associated Press)
Lake Cushman Power Line Rebuild, LED Streetlights
- Mason PUD 3 Project Updates (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
Mason PUD 3 Commission Report for March 25
Business Meeting (Mason PUD 3, Shelton, WA)
Bonneville Power Administration Dispatchers &
Operators Get a Charge Out of Discovery at Olympia Substation (Bonneville Power
Administration)
Sacramento Municipal Utility District Chooses
Internal Candidate for CEO, General Manager (Sacramento Business Journal, CA)
California: Pacific Gas & Electric Tree
Removal Would Hit Walnut Creek Hard (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
Bill Would Give Feds New Power to Protect
Electric Grid (The Hill, Washington, DC)
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Bulk Electricity
System Revisions Could Boost Reliability (Fierce Smart Grid)
Southwest Utilities Studying, But Not Sold On,
Regional Energy Imbalance Market (SNL Financial)
Three Utilities Most Likely to Fall in Death
Spiral, According to Morningstar (Forbes Magazine)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Landers: Record Salmon Forecast Sparks Record
Optimism (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Yakama Habitat Restoration Takes Wing (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA – With A Little Help From The Bonneville
Power Administration)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Cracked
Dam Causes Water Emergency in Washington State (National Public Radio)
California
Drought: NASA to Conduct Snowpack Surveys (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
California
Drought Spurs Surge of Neo-49ers as Low Sierra Water Levels Bring Gold Hopes (Associated Press)
Colorado
River Flowing into Mexican Delta under Landmark 2012 Water Agreement with U-S (Associated Press)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Gone
With the Wind? New Turbine Installation Down 93% in the U-S in 2013 (Dallas
Business Journal, TX)
http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2014/03/26/gone-with-the-wind-new-turbine-installation-down.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2014/03/26/gone-with-the-wind-new-turbine-installation-down.html
House
Republicans: Administration ‘Slow Rolling’ Documents on Bird Deaths at Wind
Farms (U-S News & World Report)
Op/Ed:
Saving the Mojave from the Solar Threat (Los Angeles Times, CA – Build renewable
energy projects, we DARE you…)
Kansas
House Rejects Senate Plan to Drop Renewable Energy Rules (Bloomberg News)
Germany’s $2.8 Billion Undersea Power Link with
Norway Threatened (Renewable Energy World)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Lawsuit Claims Nest Thermostats Fail to Save Money
or Correctly Measure Temperature (GigaOM)
Energy Adviser: New Energy Ratings Push Super
Efficiency (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
New Samsung Connected LED Bulbs Can Brighten Your
Smart Home (GigaOM)
The Pyramid of Conservation Prioritizes Home Energy
Savings Projects (Lifehacker)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Here’s
Why British Columbia’s Carbon Tax is Super Popular - And Effective (Grist Online)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
The
Tallest Wind Turbine Ever Will Float Above Alaska (Gizmodo)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Colorado: Will Bills to Expand Rural Broadband Gut Consumer
Protections? (The Colorado Independent)
Dish, DirecTV Talk Merger in Response to
Comcast-Time Warner Deal (Oregonian, Portland)
OpenRoute Starts Selling Rugged Wi-Fi Systems (Seattle
Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
SOCIAL MEDIA & MARKETING
Social Media, Marketing & PR: Who’s Responsible
for What? (Mashable)
Twitter Ban Reversed by Turkish Court (Silicon
Valley Business Journal, CA)
How Alleged Social Media Leaks Are Shaping Politics
in Ukraine & Turkey (Washington Post)
GENERAL NEWS
Death Toll Expected to Rise from Oso Mudslide as
Search Crews Continue to Seek Missing (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Deadly Mix of Loose Sediments & Heavy Rain in
Washington (NY Times)
Coastal Flooding: Emergency Declared in Taholah,
Voluntary Evacuation Issued (KXRO Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
Western Washington March Expected to be Wettest on
Record (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Geologists Record 31 Small Quakes on Mt. Hood since
Sunday (KGW-TV, Portland, OR)
Port Townsend High School: Redhawks, Sasquatch, Rip
Tide: Students Have Three Choices for New Mascot (Peninsula
Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Growers of Thirsty Pot Are Under Fire in
Drought-Struck California (Tri-City Herald, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Teen
Will Have Fun Explaining to Grandkids Why He’s Got a Tattoo of a McDonald’s
Receipt
This
Time Lapse of Fireflies Is Art in Motion
Man
in Kayak Hooks 11-Foot Hammerhead Shark, Gets Towed For 12 Miles
San
Diego County Spelling Bee Nearly Left Wordless
SONG OF THE DAY
Rufus
with Chaka Khan - Tell Me Something Good
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