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Hotshots – Today’s Top Five Stories
Three Mile Island
Nuclear Reactor to Restart Under Microsoft Deal (Yahoo! News)
Natural Gas
Dominates U.S. Power Generation as Artificial Intelligence Drives Electricity
Demand (Bloomberg – Via MSN)
Includes Snake
River Dam Evaluation: DOE Launches Pacific Northwest Regional Energy Planning
Study to Explore Solutions to Energy Planning Challenges (U.S. Dept. of Energy)
Plan Would Make One
Million Acres of Federal Land in Oregon Available for Solar Energy Projects
(Oregon Public Broadcasting)
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/09/22/oregon-federal-land-solar-energy-projects/
Spending Deal
Averts a Possible Federal Shutdown & Funds the Federal Government into
December (Associated Press)
News Highlights (See
Stories Below)
1. Three
Mile Island Nuclear Reactor to Restart Under Microsoft Deal
2. Natural
Gas Dominates U.S. Power Generation as Artificial Intelligence Drives
Electricity Demand
3. Includes
Snake River Dam Evaluation: DOE Launches Pacific Northwest Regional Energy
Planning Study to Explore Solutions to Energy Planning Challenges
4. Rising
Demand Could Drive U.S. Wholesale Electricity Prices 19% Higher by 2028: ICF
5. NERC
Sounds Alarm Over Winter Gas Supplies, Potential Grid Impacts
6. Plan
Would Make One Million Acres of Federal Land in Oregon Available for Solar
Energy Projects
7. After
WA Gov. Inslee’s Push for Bigger Tri-Cities Wind Farm, Lawmaker Wants to Limit
His Authority
8. WA
State: Chehalis Awarded Nearly $1 Million Federal Grant for Hydrogen Project at
Airport
9. WA
State: REC, Sila Reach Multi-Year Silane Agreement After REC Announces First
Shipment
10. Solar
Panels Lead to Insurance Headaches for Some Canadians
11. The
Energy Department Promised This Tribal Nation a $32 Million Solar Grant. It’s
Nearly Impossible to Access
12. Paywall
Advisory: Grey Ghost – PNW Steelhead Ris Extinction Nearly Everywhere
13. Salmon
Fishing Expands on Columbia River
14. Pikeminnow
Bounty Program to End Slightly Early After ‘Outstanding Year of Fishing’
15. California
Scores Legal Win on Appeal Over Sites Reservoir Project
16. After
Two Years of Drought in the Yakima Basin, Could Relief Be on the Way?
17. Gas
Prices or Pollution? The High-Dollar Fight Over Washington State Cap &
Trade
18. Artificial
Intelligence Can Generate Recipes That Can Be Deadly. Food Bloggers Are Not
Happy
19. California’s
Backlogged Grid Is Holding Up Its Electric Truck Dreams
20. Elon
Musk Folds in Brazil to Let X Operate in the Country Again
21. The
Strongest Atmospheric River on Record for the Gulf of Alaska?
22. Spending
Deal Averts a Possible Federal Shutdown & Funds the Federal
23. Washington
Mourns Loss of Dan Evans, Former Governor & U.S. Senator
24. The
Benefits of a Four-Day Workweek According to a Champion of the Trend
25. A
La Niña Winter Is Expected, What Does That Mean?
26. U.S.
Senator Risch (ID) Statement on Northwest Energy Planning Project
27.
Podcast: Commissioner Ann Rendahl & the Eras
of the Electric Sector
Word of the Day – The Horrible Haiku Edition
Sui Generis /Soo-ee – JEN-er-uss/ Adjective – Constituting a class alone: unique, peculiar.
Tops at tiddlywinks
Athlete sui generis
He’s one of a kind
Energy & Utility
Issues
1.
Three Mile Island Nuclear Reactor to Restart
Under Microsoft Deal (Yahoo! News)
2.
Natural Gas Dominates U.S. Power Generation as Artificial
Intelligence Drives Electricity Demand (Bloomberg – Via MSN)
3.
Includes Snake River Dam Evaluation: DOE
Launches Pacific Northwest Regional Energy Planning Study to Explore Solutions
to Energy Planning Challenges (U.S. Dept. of Energy)
4.
Rising Demand Could Drive U.S. Wholesale
Electricity Prices 19% Higher by 2028: ICF (Utility Dive)
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/us-electricity-prices-19-percent-higher-2028-ICF/727317/
5.
NERC Sounds Alarm Over Winter Gas Supplies,
Potential Grid Impacts (Utility Dive)
Renewable Energy & Self
Storage
6.
Plan Would Make One Million Acres of Federal
Land in Oregon Available for Solar Energy Projects (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/09/22/oregon-federal-land-solar-energy-projects/
7.
After WA Gov. Inslee’s Push for Bigger Tri-Cities
Wind Farm, Lawmaker Wants to Limit His Authority (Tri-City Herald, WA – Via
Yahoo! News)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/inslee-push-bigger-tri-cities-192102905.html
8.
WA State: Chehalis Awarded Nearly $1 Million
Federal Grant for Hydrogen Project at Airport (The Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
9.
WA State: REC, Sila Reach Multi-Year Silane
Agreement After REC Announces First Shipment (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake,
WA)
10.
Solar Panels Lead to Insurance Headaches for Some
Canadians (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/solar-panel-insurance-1.7329712?cmp=rss
11.
The Energy Department Promised This Tribal
Nation a $32 Million Solar Grant. It’s Nearly Impossible to Access (High
Country News)
Fish & Wildlife
12.
Paywall Advisory: Grey Ghost – PNW Steelhead Ris
Extinction Nearly Everywhere (Seattle Times, WA)
13.
Salmon Fishing Expands on Columbia River (The Oregonian,
Portland, OR)
https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/2024/09/salmon-fishing-expands-on-columbia-river.html
14.
Pikeminnow Bounty Program to End Slightly Early
After ‘Outstanding Year of Fishing’ (Northwest Sportsman Magazine)
Water, Water, Anywhere?
15.
California Scores Legal Win on Appeal Over Sites
Reservoir Project (Courthouse News Service)
https://www.courthousenews.com/california-scores-legal-win-on-appeal-over-sites-reservoir-project/
16.
After Two Years of Drought in the Yakima Basin,
Could Relief Be on the Way? (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Climate Change
Sequestration Vault
17.
Gas Prices or Pollution? The High-Dollar Fight
Over Washington State Cap & Trade (The Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
Beam Me Up, Scotty - The
Wizarding World of Technology & Cybersecurity
18.
Artificial Intelligence Can Generate Recipes
That Can Be Deadly. Food Bloggers Are Not Happy (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
I Sing the Car Electric
19.
California’s Backlogged Grid Is Holding Up Its
Electric Truck Dreams (Canary Media)
Public Relations,
Marketing & Media
20.
Elon Musk Folds in Brazil to Let X Operate in
the Country Again (Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-folds-in-brazil-to-let-x-operate-in-the-country-again-2000502010
Barrel O’ Green
Potpourri – Seething Stew of Science
21.
The Strongest Atmospheric River on Record for
the Gulf of Alaska? (Cliff Mass Weather Blog)
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-strongest-atmospheric-river-on.html
Management &
Governance
22.
Spending Deal Averts a Possible Federal Shutdown
& Funds the Federal Government into December (Associated Press)
23.
Washington Mourns Loss of Dan Evans, Former
Governor & U.S. Senator (KOMO News, Seattle, WA)
24.
The Benefits of a Four-Day Workweek According to
a Champion of the Trend (Associated Press)
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/benefits-day-workweek-champion-trend-113924779
Other Things to Know
About Today
25.
A La Niña Winter Is Expected, What Does That
Mean? (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Soapbox Serenade – Vox
Populi
26.
U.S. Senator Risch (ID) Statement on Northwest
Energy Planning Project (U.S. Senator Jim Risch, ID)
https://www.risch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=9C7B6066-FC9D-4445-AB1C-6A5F1B56BF8C
27.
Podcast: Commissioner Ann Rendahl & the Eras
of the Electric Sector (Public Power Underground)
https://publicpowerunderground.substack.com/p/commissioner-ann-rendahl-and-the
Alligators in the Sewer – Diversions
One in Five
Washington Workers Have a Work Spouse – Do You?
https://kpq.com/work-spouse-relationships-survey/
Van Gogh’s ‘The
Starry Night’ Depicts Turbulence in the Sky with Remarkable Accuracy
Cards Against
Humanity Sues Elon Musk’s SpaceX for $15 Million Over Alleged Trespassing in Texas
https://apnews.com/article/cards-against-humanity-elon-musk-spacex-aa404db43f94fae76dc7524c7a646aca
New Mozart Just
Dropped: Lost Manuscript Reveals Centuries-Old Music
https://gizmodo.com/new-mozart-just-dropped-lost-manuscript-reveals-centuries-old-music-2000501987
Song of the Day
Mozart – Leipzig: Serenade
in C (Lost Manuscript)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmdD_Tds9AQ
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