Energy News Digest for October 5, 2015 – Hot Shots Edition

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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES

Bainbridge Takes Up Talk of Public Power (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA – Paywall Advisory)

http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/local-news/bainbridge-takes-up-talk-of-public-power_67682244

Kittitas PUD Rates Increase Set for November 1 (Ellensburg Daily Record, WA)

http://www.dailyrecordnews.com/members/pud-rates-increase-set-for-nov/article_7e188d74-691c-11e5-92e4-27ed05b05ae2.html

Complaints Say Washington State Commerce Officials Helped Snohomish PUD Score a Grant (Everett Herald, WA)

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20151003/NEWS01/151009659

Why Cheap Natural Gas Is Thwarting the Battery & Energy Storage Revolution (Washington Post)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/10/02/the-surprising-factor-thats-holding-back-the-energy-storage-revolution/

Tacoma Power to Build Community Solar Project, Invites Customers to Invest (Tacoma Power, WA)

http://energynewsfeed.blogspot.com/2015/10/tacoma-power-to-build-community-solar.html

Exelon, District of Columbia Mayor Reach Settlement on Pepco Merger (Utility Dive)

http://www.utilitydive.com/news/updated-exelon-dc-mayor-reach-settlement-on-pepco-merger/406686/

Salmon-Loving Seabird Causing Political Clash in Pacific Northwest (Courthouse News Service)

http://www.courthousenews.com/2015/10/02/salmon-loving-seabird-causing-political-clash-in-pacific-northwest.htm

2015’s Most and Least Energy Efficient States (WalletHub – the Pacific Northwest is the middle of the pack?)

https://wallethub.com/edu/most-and-least-energy-efficient-states/7354/

Bozeman Banks Rally behind Broadband Project (Bozeman Daily Chronicle, MT)

http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/city/bozeman-banks-rally-behind-broadband-project/article_10216b0b-ad5c-5d7a-bec6-730182f738be.html

Fantasy Football Is Illegal in Washington State (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)

http://www.king5.com/story/news/local/2015/10/04/fantasy-football-illegal-in-wa/73361834/

Clay Matthews Tells Colin Kaepernick: ‘You Ain’t Russell Wilson, Bro’ (Seattle Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)

http://www.seattletimes.com/sports/seahawks/clay-matthews-tells-colin-kaepernick-you-aint-russell-wilson-bro/

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