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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
After Ida Outages,
Utility Proposals Include City of New Orleans Takeover of Its Grid (Associated
Press)
California Is Sued Over
Its Rule on Solar Power Installers (NY Times)
https://goodtimes.sc/santa-cruz-news/california-is-sued-over-its-rule-on-solar-power-installers/
WA State: Report –
Group of Douglas County Residents Rallying to Oppose Potential Purchase of Land
for Solar Farms (iFiberOne News, Ephrata, WA)
Montana: Initiative on
Nuclear Facility Approvals OK’d for Signature-Gathering (Helena
Independent-Record, MT)
This Year’s Monsoon Has
Been One of Arizona’s Wettest (Cronkite News, AZ)
https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2021/09/21/arizona-weather-2021-monsoon-season-among-wettest-ever/
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (See Stories Below)
1. After
Ida Outages, Utility Proposals Include City of New Orleans Takeover of Its Grid
2. Montana:
Initiative on Nuclear Facility Approvals OK’d for Signature-Gathering
3. A
Hotter Climate Means Falling Trees — And More Power Outages
4. Montana:
NorthWestern Changes Laurel Power Plant Plans
5. What
One City’s Struggle to Ban Natural Gas Says About the Challenge of Electrifying
Buildings
6. City
Council Votes to Have Los Angeles Department of Water & Power Help Bring
Power to Navajo Families
7. Molokai
Has an Electricity Problem. This Co-Op Wants to Change That
8. Chelan
County PUD Names New Manager to Take Office in 2022
9. California:
Trinity PUD Pursues $9 Million Loan, Discusses Rate Hike
10. New
Research Charts the Impact of Covid-19 on U.S. Electricity Demand in 2020
11. Guest
Essay: Renewables Are Montana’s Energy Key
12. Guest
Essay: Infrastructure Bill Critical to Protect Salmon & a Way of Life
13. California
Is Sued Over Its Rule on Solar Power Installers
14. WA
State: Report – Group of Douglas County Residents Rallying to Oppose Potential
Purchase of Land for Solar Farms
15. Idaho:
Proposed Wind Farm Raises Concerns Over Its Proximity to Minidoka Incarceration
Site
16. California:
Ocotillo Wind Turbine Collapses—Again
17. WA
State: Snohomish PUD’s Arlington Microgrid Project Now Operational
18. Solar
Industry Demand Raises Temperature in Silicon Market
19. All
Major Bering Sea Crab Stocks Are Down Alarmingly This Season, Surveys Indicate
20. British
Columbia Fishermen Say Ottawa Has Cast Them Adrift
21. Columbia
River Basin Pikeminnow Sport Reward Fishery Extended Two Weeks
22. Southern
Resident Grandmother Orca Missing, Likely Dead
23. This
Year’s Monsoon Has Been One of Arizona’s Wettest
24. A
Dry Year: Irrigators in the Columbia Basin Were Saved by Snowpack, But Dryland
Farmers Took a Hit
25. Drought
Continues to Strangle American West, With No Relief in Sight
26. U.S.
Can Meet Paris Climate Commitments, But Will Need to Rely Heavily on Electric
Utilities: Report
27. The
FCC Has Pledged to Update Its ‘Broken’ Broadband Mapping Process. Some States
Are Starting to Go It Alone
28. Portland
General Electric, Hillsboro Data Center Operator Seek Renewable Energy for
Facebook
29. Tracking Stolen Crypto Is a Booming Business: How Blockchain Sleuths Recover Digital Loot
WORD OF THE DAY
Inchoate \inn-COE-utt\ Adjective - Being only partly in existence or operation: incipient; especially: imperfectly formed or formulated: formless, incoherent.
Brandy was certain that her detailed presentation on the origins of the Sith Lords was precise and well understood by her audience. Had she been sitting in the audience, she would have been keenly aware that her inchoate babblings were going right over the heads of the attendees. Her first mistake was mixing “Star Wars” imagery with “Star Trek” vocabulary; most notably, using the Klingon language in her wandering treatise.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
3.
A Hotter Climate Means Falling Trees — And More
Power Outages (National Public Radio)
4.
Montana: NorthWestern Changes Laurel Power Plant
Plans (Billings Gazette, MT – Paywall Advisory)
5.
What One City’s Struggle to Ban Natural Gas Says
About the Challenge of Electrifying Buildings (Grist Online)
https://grist.org/buildings/bellingham-washington-natural-gas-ban-building-electrification/
6.
City Council Votes to Have Los Angeles
Department of Water & Power Help Bring Power to Navajo Families (Spectrum
News)
7.
Molokai Has an Electricity Problem. This Co-Op
Wants to Change That (Honolulu Civic Beat, HI)
8.
Chelan County PUD Names New Manager to Take
Office in 2022 (NCW News, East Wenatchee, WA)
https://www.ncwlife.com/chelan-county-pud-names-new-manager-to-take-office-in-2022/
9.
California: Trinity PUD Pursues $9 Million Loan,
Discusses Rate Hike (Trinity Journal, CA)
http://www.trinityjournal.com/news/local/article_93a1dce2-1b34-11ec-97bf-cb6e2555236f.html
10.
New Research Charts the Impact of Covid-19 on U.S.
Electricity Demand in 2020 (PCI News)
SOAPBOX SERENADE – VOX POPULI
11.
Guest Essay: Renewables Are Montana’s Energy Key
(Montana Standard, Butte, MT)
12.
Guest Essay: Infrastructure Bill Critical to
Protect Salmon & a Way of Life (Bellingham Herald, WA – Paywall Advisory)
https://www.bellinghamherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article254301183.html
RENEWABLE ENERGY & SELF STORAGE
13. California
Is Sued Over Its Rule on Solar Power Installers (NY Times)
https://goodtimes.sc/santa-cruz-news/california-is-sued-over-its-rule-on-solar-power-installers/
15.
Idaho: Proposed Wind Farm Raises Concerns Over
Its Proximity to Minidoka Incarceration Site (Boise State Public Radio, ID)
16.
California: Ocotillo Wind Turbine Collapses—Again
(East County Magazine, CA)
https://www.eastcountymagazine.org/ocotillo-wind-turbine-collapses-again
17.
WA State: Snohomish PUD’s Arlington Microgrid
Project Now Operational (North County Outlook, Marysville, WA)
18.
Solar Industry Demand Raises Temperature in
Silicon Market (Reuters)
FISH & WILDLIFE
19.
All Major Bering Sea Crab Stocks Are Down
Alarmingly This Season, Surveys Indicate (Anchorage Daily News, AK)
20.
British Columbia Fishermen Say Ottawa Has Cast
Them Adrift (Victoria Times-Colonist, BC)
https://www.timescolonist.com/business/b-c-fishermen-say-ottawa-has-cast-them-adrift-1.24359610
21.
Columbia River Basin Pikeminnow Sport Reward
Fishery Extended Two Weeks (Bonneville Power Administration)
https://www.bpa.gov/news/newsroom/Pages/Pikeminnow-sport-reward-fishery-extended-two-weeks.aspx
22.
Southern Resident Grandmother Orca Missing,
Likely Dead (Associated Press)
WATER, WATER, ANYWHERE?
23. This
Year’s Monsoon Has Been One of Arizona’s Wettest (Cronkite News, AZ)
https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2021/09/21/arizona-weather-2021-monsoon-season-among-wettest-ever/
24.
A Dry Year: Irrigators in the Columbia Basin Were
Saved by Snowpack, But Dryland Farmers Took a Hit (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses
Lake, WA)
https://columbiabasinherald.com/news/2021/sep/22/dry-year-irrigators-columbia-basin-were-saved-snow/
25.
Drought Continues to Strangle American West,
With No Relief in Sight (Courthouse News Service)
https://www.courthousenews.com/drought-grips-american-west-with-no-relief-in-sight/
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
26.
U.S. Can Meet Paris Climate Commitments, But
Will Need to Rely Heavily on Electric Utilities: Report (Utility Dive)
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
27.
The FCC Has Pledged to Update Its ‘Broken’
Broadband Mapping Process. Some States Are Starting to Go It Alone (Morning
Consult)
https://morningconsult.com/2021/09/20/state-level-broadband-mapping-fcc-data/
THE WIZARDING WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY
28.
Portland General Electric, Hillsboro Data Center
Operator Seek Renewable Energy for Facebook (Portland Business Journal, OR –
Paywall Advisory)
https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2021/09/21/pge-qts-facebook-hillsboro.html
29.
Tracking Stolen Crypto Is a Booming Business: How
Blockchain Sleuths Recover Digital Loot (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/22/stolen-crypto/
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER – DIVERSIONS
The ‘Devious Licks’
TikTok Trend Is Getting Teens Arrested
https://gizmodo.com/the-devious-licks-tiktok-trend-is-getting-teens-arreste-1847723234
In Pictures: Where Elephants
Help Make Paper
https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2021/0921/In-Pictures-Where-elephants-help-make-paper?icid=rss
Florida Woman’s Lost
Dog Turns Up on Facebook Nearly a Year Later
Colorado Town Pleads for
Return of Stolen Phone Booth
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/09/17/phone-booth-Cope-Colorado-stolen/6201631912735/
SONG OF THE DAY
The Clash – I Fought
the Law
