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Hotshots – Today’s Top Five Stories
Massive New Power
Corridor Proposed for Central Oregon (Columbia Insight)
https://columbiainsight.org/massive-new-power-corridor-proposed-for-central-oregon/
U.S. Says
Cyberattacks Against Water Supplies Are Rising, And Utilities Need to Do More
to Stop Them (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/water-utilities-cyberattack-epa-russia-1435b3e6a569aa046e05c7947f0a0f3d
Oregon: Clean
Energy Fund Surplus Sparks Tension in Pacific Northwest City (Utility Dive)
California
Congressman Urges Closer Consultation with Tribes on Offshore Wind (Associated
Press)
Oregon Man Accused
of Killing 18,000 Young Salmon Fails to Make Court Appearance (Oregon Public
Broadcasting)
News Highlights (See
Stories Below)
1. Massive
New Power Corridor Proposed for Central Oregon
2. WA
State: Clark Public Utilities Braces for Peak Energy Use This Summer
3. Why
Benton PUD, Other Agencies Turn Off Electricity During Wildfires
4. Another
Portland General Electric Rate Hike? Customers Say It’s ‘Inhumane’
5. WA
State: Wallen to Stay as Grant County PUD Chief Executive Officer
6. California:
The Diablo Dilemma: Nuclear Power Plant Faces Multiple Hurdles in Effort to
Keep Reactors in Operation
7. Video:
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee – Energy Stakeholders Testify on
the Increased Demand for Electric Power
8. Arizona:
Errant Balloon the Prime Suspect in Major Power Outage
9. California
Congressman Urges Closer Consultation with Tribes on Offshore Wind
10. WA
State: Orcas Power & Light Company Proposes to Harness Tidal Power for San
Juans
11. Hybrid
Projects Dominate Western Solar Proposals, Reflecting Higher Curtailment Rates:
S&P Global
12. Back
to Baseloads: DOE Unlocks Low-Carbon Energy Options
13. Oregon
Man Accused of Killing 18,000 Young Salmon Fails to Make Court Appearance
14. British
Columbia: Orca Calf’s Extended Family Spotted Near Vancouver Island
15. WA
State: Hundreds of Mountain Goats Were Flown to a New Home. Very Few Survived.
16. Officials
Search for Source of Oil That’s Coated, Killed Northwest Coastal Birds
17. Alaskan
Rivers Are Turning ‘Milky Orange’ & Toxic
18. Oregon:
Clean Energy Fund Surplus Sparks Tension in Pacific Northwest City
19. Sites
with Radioactive Material More Vulnerable as Climate Change Increases Wildfire,
Flood Risks
20. Antarctica’s
‘Doomsday Glacier’ Undergoing ‘Vigorous Ice Melt,’ Study Finds
21. Washington
Internet Service Provider Enters Partnership to Train New Fiber Technicians
22. Municipal
Broadband Advocates Fight Off Attacks from ‘Dark Money’ Groups
23. Oh
Sure, Everybody Loves Rural Broadband, Now
24. U.S.
Says Cyberattacks Against Water Supplies Are Rising, And Utilities Need to Do
More to Stop Them
25. Energy
Northwest Collaborates on EV Infrastructure Initiative
26. Meta
Walked Away from News. Now the Company’s Using It for Artificial Intelligence
Content.
27. Forecast
Strong Hurricane Season Presents Risk for U.S. Oil & Natural Gas Industry
28. Guest
Essay: We Need Long-Duration Storage for a Cleaner & Reliable Grid. Here’s
How Policymakers Can Help.
29.
Blog: News Story on Solar Power in Seattle Gets
the Facts Badly Wrong
Word of the Day
Hypnagogic \hipp-nuh-GAW-jick\ Adjective - Of, relating to, or occurring in the period of drowsiness immediately preceding sleep.
Jim Barrie was stuck. As an author of books for children, he wanted to be grammatically correct, but he didn’t want to write over his readers’ heads. For some reason, the penultimate sentence in his masterwork just didn’t feel right: “You know that hypnagogic place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you, Peter Pan. That’s where I’ll be waiting.” Not to mention the fact that it would be backwards to its original meaning.
Energy & Utility
Issues
1.
Massive New Power Corridor Proposed for Central Oregon
(Columbia Insight)
https://columbiainsight.org/massive-new-power-corridor-proposed-for-central-oregon/
2.
WA State: Clark Public Utilities Braces for Peak
Energy Use This Summer (Vancouver Columbian, WA – Paywall Advisory)
3.
Why Benton PUD, Other Agencies Turn Off
Electricity During Wildfires (KAPP-TV, Yakima, WA)
4.
Another Portland General Electric Rate Hike? Customers
Say It’s ‘Inhumane’ (KOIN-TV, Portland, OR)
https://www.koin.com/news/portland/another-pge-rate-hike-customers-say-its-inhumane/
5.
WA State: Wallen to Stay as Grant County PUD Chief
Executive Officer (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
6.
California: The Diablo Dilemma: Nuclear Power
Plant Faces Multiple Hurdles in Effort to Keep Reactors in Operation (KSBY-TV, San
Luis Obispo, CA)
7.
Video: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Committee – Energy Stakeholders Testify on the Increased Demand for Electric
Power (C-SPAN)
https://www.c-span.org/video/?535794-1/energy-stakeholders-testify-increased-demand-electric-power
8.
Arizona: Errant Balloon the Prime Suspect in Major
Power Outage (In Maricopa.Com – Maricopa, AZ)
https://www.inmaricopa.com/this-naughty-insulator-blamed-for-major-power-outage/
Renewable Energy & Self
Storage
9.
California Congressman Urges Closer Consultation
with Tribes on Offshore Wind (Associated Press)
10.
WA State: Orcas Power & Light Company Proposes
to Harness Tidal Power for San Juans (Salish Current)
11.
Hybrid Projects Dominate Western Solar
Proposals, Reflecting Higher Curtailment Rates: S&P Global (Utility Dive)
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/hybrid-western-solar-storage-curtailment-caiso-ercot/716552/
12.
Back to Baseloads: DOE Unlocks Low-Carbon Energy
Options (Western Area Power Administration)
https://www.wapa.gov/back-to-baseloads-doe-unlocks-low-carbon-energy-options/
Fish & Wildlife
13.
Oregon Man Accused of Killing 18,000 Young
Salmon Fails to Make Court Appearance (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
14.
British Columbia: Orca Calf’s Extended Family
Spotted Near Vancouver Island (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/orphan-orca-extended-family-1.7210151
15.
WA State: Hundreds of Mountain Goats Were Flown to
a New Home. Very Few Survived. (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/mountain-goats-washington-flown-cascades-died-rcna153090
Environmental Afflatus –
Clean Up on Aisle Three
16.
Officials Search for Source of Oil That’s
Coated, Killed Northwest Coastal Birds (Jefferson Public Radio, Ashland, OR)
17.
Alaskan Rivers Are Turning ‘Milky Orange’ &
Toxic (Newsweek)
https://www.newsweek.com/alaska-rivers-milky-orange-toxic-1902908
Climate Change
Sequestration Vault
18.
Oregon: Clean Energy Fund Surplus Sparks Tension
in Pacific Northwest City (Utility Dive)
19.
Sites with Radioactive Material More Vulnerable as
Climate Change Increases Wildfire, Flood Risks (Associated Press)
20.
Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ Undergoing ‘Vigorous
Ice Melt,’ Study Finds (MSN News)
London Calling
–Telecommunications
21.
Washington Internet Service Provider Enters
Partnership to Train New Fiber Technicians (Broadband Communities)
https://bbcmag.com/washington-isp-enters-partnership-to-train-new-fiber-technicians/
22.
Municipal Broadband Advocates Fight Off Attacks from
‘Dark Money’ Groups (Ars Technica)
23.
Oh Sure, Everybody Loves Rural Broadband, Now (Fierce
Telecom)
https://www.fierce-network.com/broadband/oh-sure-everybody-loves-rural-broadband-now
Beam Me Up, Scotty - The
Wizarding World of Technology & Cybersecurity
24.
U.S. Says Cyberattacks Against Water Supplies
Are Rising, And Utilities Need to Do More to Stop Them (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/water-utilities-cyberattack-epa-russia-1435b3e6a569aa046e05c7947f0a0f3d
I Sing the Car Electric
25.
Energy Northwest Collaborates on EV
Infrastructure Initiative (American Public Power Association)
Public Relations,
Marketing & Media
26.
Meta Walked Away from News. Now the Company’s
Using It for Artificial Intelligence Content. (MSN News)
Other Things to Know
About Today
27.
Forecast Strong Hurricane Season Presents Risk for
U.S. Oil & Natural Gas Industry (U.S. Energy Information Administration)
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=62104
Soapbox Serenade – Vox
Populi
28.
Guest Essay: We Need Long-Duration Storage for a
Cleaner & Reliable Grid. Here’s How Policymakers Can Help. (Utility Dive)
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/long-duration-energy-storage-decarbonize-reliability-grid/716647/
29.
Blog: News Story on Solar Power in Seattle Gets the
Facts Badly Wrong (Washington Policy Center)
Alligators in the Sewer – Diversions
Sherpa Guide Kami
Rita Climbs Mount Everest for His Record 30th Time, His Second One This Month
Feather from Extinct
Bird Sells for Record-Breaking $28,417
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/05/22/nz-huia-feather-auction-record/1781716396675/
Idaho Man Juggles
Blindfolded for Over an Hour
Nigerian woman
creates world’s widest wig at almost 12 feet
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/05/21/nigeria-Guinness-World-Records-widest-wig/5711716309559/
Song of the Day
Margery MacKay – Climb
Ev’ry Mountain (Sound of Music Soundtrack)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtCRBs5p4EQ
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