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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
WA State: Windstorm Blows Through Puget Sound as Falling
Tree Kills 1; Power Lost to 100,000 (Associated Press)
California: Pacific Gas & Electric Releases Timeline for
Wednesday Power Shutoffs (San Francisco Chronicle, CA)
Environmentalists & Dam Operators, at War for Years,
Start Making Peace (NY Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/climate/environmentalists-hydropower-dams.html
President Trump Makes Water Demand of Farms Priority for New
Office (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA)
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Trump-makes-water-demand-of-farms-priority-for-15645759.php
Green Group Pushes for Answers on Delayed Federal Climate
Report (The Hill, Washington, DC)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (See Stories Below)
1.
WA State: Windstorm Blows Through Puget Sound as
Falling Tree Kills 1; Power Lost to 100,000
2.
California: Pacific Gas & Electric Releases
Timeline for Wednesday Power Shutoffs
3.
Environmentalists & Dam Operators, at War
for Years, Start Making Peace
4.
Wyoming PSC: Socioeconomic Impact of Coal
Retirements Not within the Purview of an Integrated Resource Plan
5.
Time for President Trump to Renegotiate: The
Columbia River Treaty Is Yet Another Bad Deal for Americans
6.
Exelon Weighs Shedding Nuclear Plants, Other
Non-Utility Assets
7.
Oregon: Hillsboro Harnesses Renewable Power from
Water Pipes
8.
Nevada Writes Off Nearly $12 Million in
Federally Funded Clean Energy Loans as ‘Bad Debt’
9.
‘Electrification of Everything’: REC Silicon
Announces Deals
10.
Demand Response Works: It’s Time To ‘Shimmy’
Over & Unleash Flexiwatts
11.
New Rules Would Greatly Reduce Whale Watching
Around Endangered Orcas
12.
Op/Ed: Saving the Salmon in the Columbia River
Basin
13.
President Trump Makes Water Demand of Farms
Priority for New Office
14.
Green Group Pushes for Answers on Delayed
Federal Climate Report
15.
AP Explains: The Promise of 5G Wireless - Speed,
Hype, Risk
16.
Comcast’s President of Tech Falls Offline While
Boasting About How Great Cable Is for Connectivity
17. Electric Vehicle Firms Partner to Ramp Up Charging Station Access, Reliability
WORD OF THE DAY
Errant • \AIR-unt\ • adjective – 1: traveling or given to traveling 2*a: straying outside the proper path or bounds b: moving about aimlessly or irregularly c: behaving wrongly
Baby chicks spilled from shipping cartons at the post office. The tiny fluffballs scattered hither and yon in their errant travels through racks of “business direct” publications and tubs of regular mail. Days after the incident, postal clerks would stop still whenever a small chirp was heard to track down the missing chick. Finally, one employee decided to put a food dish out, which was appropriately dubbed the USPS “chick magnet”.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
1.
WA State: Windstorm Blows Through Puget Sound as
Falling Tree Kills 1; Power Lost to 100,000 (Associated Press)
2.
California: Pacific Gas & Electric Releases
Timeline for Wednesday Power Shutoffs (San Francisco Chronicle, CA)
3.
Environmentalists & Dam Operators, at War
for Years, Start Making Peace (NY Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/climate/environmentalists-hydropower-dams.html
4.
Wyoming PSC: Socioeconomic Impact of Coal
Retirements Not within the Purview of an Integrated Resource Plan (Utility
Dive)
5.
Time for President Trump to Renegotiate: The
Columbia River Treaty Is Yet Another Bad Deal for Americans (PJ Media)
6.
Exelon Weighs Shedding Nuclear Plants, Other
Non-Utility Assets (Bloomberg News)
RENEWABLE ENERGY & SELF STORAGE
7.
Oregon: Hillsboro Harnesses Renewable Power from
Water Pipes (KGW-TV, Portland, OR)
8.
Nevada Writes Off Nearly $12 Million in Federally
Funded Clean Energy Loans as ‘Bad Debt’ (Nevada Independent)
9.
‘Electrification of Everything’: REC Silicon Announces
Deals (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
https://columbiabasinherald.com/news/2020/oct/14/it-means-electrification-everything/
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
10.
Demand Response Works: It’s Time To ‘Shimmy’
Over & Unleash Flexiwatts (Utility Dive)
FISH & WILDLIFE
11.
New Rules Would Greatly Reduce Whale Watching
Around Endangered Orcas (Aberdeen Daily World, WA)
12.
Op/Ed: Saving the Salmon in the Columbia River
Basin (Longview Daily News, WA)
WATER, WATER, ANYWHERE?
13.
President Trump Makes Water Demand of Farms
Priority for New Office (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA)
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Trump-makes-water-demand-of-farms-priority-for-15645759.php
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
14.
Green Group Pushes for Answers on Delayed Federal
Climate Report (The Hill, Washington, DC)
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
15.
AP Explains: The Promise of 5G Wireless - Speed,
Hype, Risk (Associated Press)
16.
Comcast’s President of Tech Falls Offline While
Boasting About How Great Cable Is for Connectivity (The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/14/comcast_internet_interview_fail/
I SING THE CAR ELECTRIC
17.
Electric Vehicle Firms Partner to Ramp Up
Charging Station Access, Reliability (Utility Dive)
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER – DIVERSIONS
Zoo Scientists Revive Cells from 40-Year Deep Freeze to Clone
Endangered Horse
A Taste for Travel? Finnair to Sell Plane Food in Shops
Look Up: Mars Will Be at Its Brightest on Wednesday
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/mars-opposition-1.5755804
Blindfolded Man Smashes 50 Coconuts Around Another Man’s
Body
SONG OF THE DAY
Gustav Holst – Mars (From the “Planets” Suite)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmk5frp6-3Q
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