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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Blackouts Threaten
Entire U.S. West This Summer as Heat Awaits (Bloomberg News)
Gov. Inslee,
Washington State’s U.S. Senators Reject Idaho GOP Congressman’s Pitch on Lower
Snake River Dam Removal (Seattle Times, WA – Paywall Advisory)
https://energynewsfeed.blogspot.com/2021/05/gov-inslee-washington-states-us.html
Oregon: Lawsuit
Seeking Wildfire Damages from PacifiCorp Can Move Forward, Judge Rules
(Oregonian, Portland, OR)
Klamath River Basin:
Water Crisis ‘Couldn’t Be Worse’ on Oregon-California Border (Associated Press)
WA State Governor
Inslee Signs Public Broadband Authority Bills - One Partial Veto (Office of
Governor Jay Inslee, Washington State)
https://energynewsfeed.blogspot.com/2021/05/wa-state-governor-inslee-signs.html
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (See Stories Below)
1. Blackouts
Threaten Entire U.S. West This Summer as Heat Awaits
2. Extreme
Heat Could Cause U.S. Power Shortages This Summer – NERC
3. California
ISO ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ About Summer 2021, But Still Sees Causes for
Concern
4. Gov.
Inslee, Washington State’s U.S. Senators Reject Idaho GOP Congressman’s Pitch
on Lower Snake River Dam Removal
5. WA
Governor Inslee, U.S. Senators Murray, Cantwell Reject Idaho U.S. Rep Simpson’s
Dam-Breaching Proposal
6. One
Idea to Remove Snake River Dams May Be Dead in the Water as Inslee & Murray
Say They Oppose It
7. Tribe
Leaders Speak out After Inslee and Democrat Senators Come out Against Dam Removal
Proposal
8. Idaho
U.S. Rep Simpson Calls on His Challengers to Provide ‘Alternatives’ to His
Snake River Dam Proposal
9. Oregon:
Lawsuit Seeking Wildfire Damages from PacifiCorp Can Move Forward, Judge Rules
10. Oregon
Lawsuit Seeks $103M from Public Utilities Over Wildfire
11. America
Is Facing Unprecedented Utility Debt. Here’s What Might Help.
12. Oregon
Lawmakers Vote to Give ‘Energy Burdened’ Households a Break on Utility Bills
13. WA
State: Franklin PUD Offering Rental & Utility Assistance
14. WA
State: Bound for Bitcoin? Bankruptcy Judge Finalizes Sale of Ponderay Newsprint
15. Bonneville
Power Administration Selects Jamae Hilliard Creecy as Vice President of Energy
Efficiency
16. Hydro-Québec
& Transmission Developers to Deliver Renewable Energy to New York
17. New
York’s Public Power Bill Could Be a Model for the Rest of the Country
18. Coal
Transported to the U.S. Electric Power Sector Declined by 22% in 2020
19. Editorial:
Snake River Dams – Less Power, More Money Baker
20. Newsletter:
How Should Utility Companies Spend Your Money? A Debate Rages
21. REC
Silicon Hopes to Restart Production in Moses Lake in 2023
22. For
Clean Energy, Buy American or Buy It Quick and Cheap?
23. California:
Air Compression to Be Used in the World’s Largest Non-Hydro Energy Storage
System
24. Reclamation
& U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to Modernize Leavenworth Hatchery
25. King
County’s Culvert Hunters — And a $9 Billion Plan to Save Salmon Habitat
26. Groups
Call for Reintroduction of Jaguars in U.S. Southwest
27. Klamath
River Basin: Water Crisis ‘Couldn’t Be Worse’ on Oregon-California Border
28. In
the Klamath Basin, Pretty Much Everybody’s Feeling the Pain
29. After
Six Years, Teen Climate Suit Could End in Settlement
30. Nevada
Lawmakers Consider Massive Energy Infrastructure Proposal
31. WA
State Governor Inslee Signs Public Broadband Authority Bills - One Partial Veto
32. Port
of Garfield Cuts Ribbon on Gig Service Broadband Project, Facilitating
High-Speed Broadband Access to Pomeroy Area
33. WA
State: Skagit County Plans Broadband Boost with New State Funds
34. California
Governor Proposes $7 Billion Investment in Public Broadband
35. Internet
Prices Kick Off Washington, DC Brawl
36. Not
Everyone Is Getting Great Service with Starlink
37. Bitcoin
Plunges 12% After Elon Musk Tweets That Tesla Will Not Accept It as Payment
38. WA
Gov. Inslee Vetoes 2030 Gas Car Ban, Citing Road Usage Fee Concerns
39. Electric
Cooperatives, The Lone Shining Utility Star of the Texas 2021 Winter Storm
40. Google
Fiber Finally Has a Logo Over a Decade After Launch
41. Let the Good Times Roll! Gusher of Stimulus Funds a Gift for Governors Coast to Coast
WORD OF THE DAY
Scarlet Pimpernel \SCAR-lut – PIMP-per-nell\ Noun - 1: a European pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis) naturalized in North America and having scarlet, white, or purplish flowers that close in cloudy weather 2: a person who rescues others from mortal danger by smuggling them across a border.
See “Leslie Howard,” The Scarlet Pimpernel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Pimpernel_%281934_film%29
"We seek him
here, we seek him there
Those Frenchies seek
him everywhere!
Is he in heaven? Or is
he in hell?
That demmed Elusive (Scarlet) Pimpernel?"
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
1. Blackouts
Threaten Entire U.S. West This Summer as Heat Awaits (Bloomberg News)
2.
Extreme Heat Could Cause U.S. Power Shortages
This Summer – NERC (Reuters)
3.
California ISO ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ About
Summer 2021, But Still Sees Causes for Concern (Utility Dive)
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/caiso-cautiously-optimistic-summer-2021-concern/600177/
https://energynewsfeed.blogspot.com/2021/05/gov-inslee-washington-states-us.html
5.
WA Governor Inslee, U.S. Senators Murray, Cantwell
Reject Idaho U.S. Rep Simpson’s Dam-Breaching Proposal (Spokesman-Review, Spokane,
WA)
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/may/14/inslee-murray-cantwell-reject-simpsons-dam-breachi/
6.
One Idea to Remove Snake River Dams May Be Dead in
the Water as Inslee & Murray Say They Oppose It (Northwest Public
Broadcasting)
7.
Tribe Leaders Speak out After Inslee and
Democrat Senators Come out Against Dam Removal Proposal (Big Country News,
Clarkston, WA)
8.
Idaho U.S. Rep Simpson Calls on His Challengers to
Provide ‘Alternatives’ to His Snake River Dam Proposal (Lewiston Tribune, ID)
10.
Oregon Lawsuit Seeks $103M from Public Utilities
Over Wildfire (Associated Press)
11.
America Is Facing Unprecedented Utility Debt. Here’s
What Might Help. (Grist Online)
https://grist.org/equity/america-is-facing-unprecedented-utility-debt-heres-what-might-help/
12.
Oregon Lawmakers Vote to Give ‘Energy Burdened’
Households a Break on Utility Bills (Portland Business Journal, OR)
https://energynewsfeed.blogspot.com/2021/05/oregon-lawmakers-vote-to-give-energy.html
13.
WA State: Franklin PUD Offering Rental &
Utility Assistance (KNDO-KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
14.
WA State: Bound for Bitcoin? Bankruptcy Judge Finalizes
Sale of Ponderay Newsprint (Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA)
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/may/13/bankruptcy-judge-finalizes-sale-of-ponderay-newspr/
15.
Bonneville Power Administration Selects Jamae
Hilliard Creecy as Vice President of Energy Efficiency (Bonneville Power
Administration)
16.
Hydro-Québec & Transmission Developers to Deliver
Renewable Energy to New York (Energy Global)
17.
New York’s Public Power Bill Could Be a Model
for the Rest of the Country (Gizmodo)
https://earther.gizmodo.com/new-york-s-public-power-bill-could-be-a-model-for-the-r-1846874758
18.
Coal Transported to the U.S. Electric Power
Sector Declined by 22% in 2020 (U.S. Energy Information Administration)
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=47916
SOAPBOX SERENADE – VOX POPULI
19.
Editorial: Snake River Dams – Less Power, More
Money Baker (City Herald, OR)
20.
Newsletter: How Should Utility Companies Spend
Your Money? A Debate Rages (Los Angeles Times, CA)
RENEWABLE ENERGY & SELF STORAGE
21.
REC Silicon Hopes to Restart Production in Moses
Lake in 2023 (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
https://columbiabasinherald.com/news/2021/may/14/rec-silicon-hopes-restart-production-moses-lake-20/
22.
For Clean Energy, Buy American or Buy It Quick
and Cheap? (NY Times)
https://energynewsfeed.blogspot.com/2021/05/for-clean-energy-buy-american-or-buy-it.html
23.
California: Air Compression to Be Used in the World’s
Largest Non-Hydro Energy Storage System (Energy Matters)
FISH & WILDLIFE
24.
Reclamation & U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Service to Modernize Leavenworth Hatchery (Cashmere Valley Record, WA)
https://energynewsfeed.blogspot.com/2021/05/king-countys-culvert-hunters-and-9.html
26.
Groups Call for Reintroduction of Jaguars in U.S.
Southwest (Associated Press)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/groups-call-reintroduction-jaguars-us-southwest-77722233
WATER, WATER, ANYWHERE?
28.
In the Klamath Basin, Pretty Much Everybody’s
Feeling the Pain (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
https://www.opb.org/article/2021/05/16/klamath-basin-everybody-feeling-the-pain/
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
29.
After Six Years, Teen Climate Suit Could End in Settlement
(KLCC Radio, Eugene, OR)
https://www.klcc.org/post/after-six-years-teen-climate-suit-could-end-settlement
30.
Nevada Lawmakers Consider Massive Energy
Infrastructure Proposal (KRNV-TV, Reno, NV)
https://mynews4.com/news/local/nevada-lawmakers-consider-massive-energy-infrastructure-proposal
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
https://energynewsfeed.blogspot.com/2021/05/wa-state-governor-inslee-signs.html
32.
Port of Garfield Cuts Ribbon on Gig Service
Broadband Project, Facilitating High-Speed Broadband Access to Pomeroy Area
(Big Country News, Clarkston, WA)
33.
WA State: Skagit County Plans Broadband Boost with
New State Funds (GovTech)
https://www.govtech.com/network/washington-county-plans-broadband-boost-with-new-state-funds
34.
California Governor Proposes $7 Billion
Investment in Public Broadband (Yahoo Finance)
35.
Internet Prices Kick Off Washington, DC Brawl
(Axios)
36.
Not Everyone Is Getting Great Service with Starlink
(Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/not-everyone-is-getting-great-service-with-starlink-1846828289
THE WIZARDING WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY
37.
Bitcoin Plunges 12% After Elon Musk Tweets That Tesla
Will Not Accept It as Payment (Cable News Network)
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/12/tech/elon-musk-tesla-bitcoin/index.html
I SING THE CAR ELECTRIC
38.
WA Gov. Inslee Vetoes 2030 Gas Car Ban, Citing
Road Usage Fee Concerns (Electrek)
https://electrek.co/2021/05/13/wa-gov-inslee-vetoes-2030-gas-car-ban-citing-road-usage-fee-concerns/
PUBLIC RELATIONS, MARKETING & MEDIA
40. Google
Fiber Finally Has a Logo Over a Decade After Launch (9to5 Google)
https://9to5google.com/2021/05/12/new-google-fiber-logo/
GOVERNANCE & MANAGEMENT
41.
Let the Good Times Roll! Gusher of Stimulus
Funds a Gift for Governors Coast to Coast (Los Angeles Times, CA)
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER – DIVERSIONS
Japan: Popular Female
Biker Unmasked as 50-Year-Old Man
https://globalnews.ca/news/7730617/gender-swap-influencer-japan-woman-man/
Illinois 12-Year-Old Builds
World’s Tallest Popsicle Stick Structure
Website’s ‘Nap
Reviewer’ Dream Job Pays $1,500 for 30 Naps
Spanish Confectioners
Recreate Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ in Chocolate
SONG OF THE DAY
Ella Fitzgerald – Puttin’
on the Ritz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhX8CA1fjVE
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