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Hotshots – Today’s Top Five Stories
Pacific Gas &
Electric Shuts Off Power to Thousands of Bay Area, Northern California
Customers Because of Fire Danger (CBS News)
Man Arrested After
Federal Officials Say He Sought to Destroy Nashville Power Site (Associated
Press)
https://apnews.com/article/nashville-weapons-power-grid-818cab63e00c07e64c90638cb2fdd69d
Record Number of
States Facing Drought Conditions (The Hill, Washington, DC)
Bell Canada Buys
Northwest Telecom Company Ziply Fiber for $5 Billion (The Oregonian, Portland,
OR)
Washington Voters
Reject I-2117, Uphold Landmark Climate Commitment Act (KOMO News, Seattle, WA)
News Highlights (See
Stories Below)
1. Pacific
Gas & Electric Shuts Off Power to Thousands of Bay Area, Northern
California Customers Because of Fire Danger
2. Man
Arrested After Federal Officials Say He Sought to Destroy Nashville Power Site
3. Infrastructure
Investments, Cost-Of-Service Increases Drive Avista’s Oregon Rate Request
4. AEP,
Others Press for FERC Guidance on ‘Gargantuan’ Issue of Data Center Colocation
5. U.S.
Summer Nuclear Outages Declined in 2024, Returning to 2022 Levels
6. LIHEAP:
New $3.7B Federal Funding Award Supports Low-Income Households Reduce Energy
Costs
7. Yakama
Nation Seeks $40 Million from Pumped Storage Energy Developer
8. Crops,
Cows, And Solar Panels? Why Farmers Are Harvesting Sunlight.
9. Study
Examines Adding Battery Storage to Hydropower Plants
10. Trump
Return Likely to Slow, Not Stop, U.S. Clean-Energy Boom
11. Your
Sushi Isn’t What It Seems: New Study Exposes Rampant Salmon Fraud
12. Record
Number of States Facing Drought Conditions
13. Bell
Canada Buys Northwest Telecom Company Ziply Fiber for $5 Billion
14. Copper
Theft Is a Colossal Problem for Telcos. Here’s Why
15. Hamburgers
Contribute to Climate Change. OSU Researchers Say Kelp Is on the Way
16. Washington
Voters Reject I-2117, Uphold Landmark Climate Commitment Act
17. Telecoms
Bankroll More Misleading Attacks on Community Broadband Networks
18.
Still Talking About Poles
Word of the Day – The Horrible Haiku Edition
Psephology /see-FAH-luh-jee/ Noun – The scientific study of elections.
Now it’s history
Subject to psephology
Ballot post-mortem
Energy & Utility
Issues
1.
Pacific Gas & Electric Shuts Off Power to
Thousands of Bay Area, Northern California Customers Because of Fire Danger
(CBS News)
2.
Man Arrested After Federal Officials Say He
Sought to Destroy Nashville Power Site (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/nashville-weapons-power-grid-818cab63e00c07e64c90638cb2fdd69d
3.
Infrastructure Investments, Cost-Of-Service
Increases Drive Avista’s Oregon Rate Request (Daily Energy Insider)
4.
AEP, Others Press for FERC Guidance on ‘Gargantuan’
Issue of Data Center Colocation (Utility Dive)
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/ferc-colocated-load-conference-resource-adequacy/731861/
5.
U.S. Summer Nuclear Outages Declined in 2024,
Returning to 2022 Levels (U.S. Energy Information Administration)
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=63624
6.
LIHEAP: New $3.7B Federal Funding Award Supports
Low-Income Households Reduce Energy Costs (Daily Energy Insider)
Renewable Energy & Self
Storage
7.
Yakama Nation Seeks $40 Million from Pumped
Storage Energy Developer (Capital Press – Paywall Advisory)
8.
Crops, Cows, And Solar Panels? Why Farmers Are
Harvesting Sunlight. (Christian Science Monitor)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2024/1106/agrivoltaics-solar-power-farmers
9.
Study Examines Adding Battery Storage to
Hydropower Plants (American Public Power Association)
10.
Trump Return Likely to Slow, Not Stop, U.S. Clean-Energy
Boom (Reuters)
Fish & Wildlife
11.
Your Sushi Isn’t What It Seems: New Study
Exposes Rampant Salmon Fraud (Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/your-sushi-isnt-what-it-seems-new-study-exposes-rampant-salmon-fraud-2000521127
Water, Water, Anywhere?
12.
Record Number of States Facing Drought
Conditions (The Hill, Washington, DC)
London Calling
–Telecommunications
13.
Bell Canada Buys Northwest Telecom Company Ziply
Fiber for $5 Billion (The Oregonian, Portland, OR)
14.
Copper Theft Is a Colossal Problem for Telcos. Here’s
Why (Fierce Telecom)
https://www.fierce-network.com/broadband/copper-theft-colossal-problem-telcos-heres-why
Barrel O’ Green
Potpourri – Seething Stew of Science
15.
Hamburgers Contribute to Climate Change. OSU Researchers
Say Kelp Is on the Way (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/11/04/hamburgers-beef-cows-cattle-climate-seaweed-methane-oregon/
Management &
Governance
16.
Washington Voters Reject I-2117, Uphold Landmark
Climate Commitment Act (KOMO News, Seattle, WA)
Soapbox Serenade – Vox
Populi
17.
Telecoms Bankroll More Misleading Attacks on
Community Broadband Networks (TechDirt)
18.
Still Talking About Poles (Pots & Pans)
https://potsandpansbyccg.com/2024/11/05/still-talking-about-poles/
Alligators in the Sewer – Diversions
Remains of Nearly
30 Civil War Veterans Found in a Funeral Home’s Storage Are Laid to Rest
https://www.yahoo.com/news/remains-nearly-30-civil-war-211832979.html
Snowcap Finally
Spotted on Mount Fuji After Longest Delay in Recorded History
https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/mount-fuji-japan-snow-cap-weather-b2642181.html
Philippines Resort
Features World’s Largest Chicken-Shaped Building
Rare, Misprinted
Dime Minted in 1975 Sells for $506,250
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/11/05/dime-auctioned-GreatCollections/8781730841675/
Song of the Day
Lovin’ Spoonful – Rain
on the Roof
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwDh-xea40s
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