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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Puerto Rico to Privatize Its Hobbled Electric Power Company
(NBC News)
President Trump Issues 30% Tariff on Solar Panel Imports
(Utility Dive)
Northwest Power & Conservation Council: What’s the
Least-cost Way to Lower Northwest Carbon Emissions from the Power System?
(4-Traders)
Washington State Legislature Appeals to State Supreme Court
in Public-Records Case (Seattle Times, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Rural Broadband Experts: New Government Efforts Short on
Money, But Show Promise (KUNC, Greely, CO)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Puerto Rico to Privatize Its Hobbled Electric Power Company
- In Quebec, It’s Power versus A People on Hydroelectricity
- Extension Cords Blamed for Fire in Downtown Aberdeen Building
- Idaho Falls Agrees to Power New Data Center
- New Lewis County PUD Outage Map Gives Real-Time Data
- Fraud Claims against Pacific Gas & Electric Headed for Federal Trial
- Pay Attention Utilities, Your Customer’s Relationship with Electricity Is Changing
- Four Key Benefits of Advanced Small Modular Reactors
- Washington & State Observations Indicate Lower Steelhead Mortality
- Oregon: Coho Salmon Find Sanctuary at a Lane County Hatchery
- U-S Supreme Court Says “Waters of the U-S” Challenges Must Go Through District Courts
- President Trump Issues 30% Tariff on Solar Panel Imports
- The Latest: Solar Trade Group Anticipates Job Losses
- Bioenergy – It’s The Big New Idea for Stopping Climate Change – It Has Huge Environmental Problems of Its Own
- Grants Fund Cities’ Switch to LED Bulbs
- Energy News Digest Flashback – City, PUD 3 work to brighten Shelton
- Northwest Power & Conservation Council: What’s the Least-cost Way to Lower Northwest Carbon Emissions from the Power System?
- Audi & Nissan Join Ranks of Automakers Making Energy Storage Mainstream
- Rural Broadband Experts: New Government Efforts Short on Money, But Show Promise
- Rural America Has Terrible Internet – A Few Simple Solutions Could Bridge the Digital Divide
- See How the Telecom Industry Is Quietly Changing the Shape of Our Cities
- Netflix Shares Hit Record High after Blockbuster Results
- Bell Canada Alerts Customers after Data Breach
- Washington State Legislature Appeals to State Supreme Court in Public-Records Case
- Court Rules More of Pierce County Prosecutor’s Texts Are Public Record
- Governor: I Couldn't Tell Hawaiians Missile Alert Was a False Alarm Because I Didn't Know My Twitter Password
- Tsunami Watch for Oregon Canceled after Large Earthquake in Alaska
- Prepare For a ‘Parade of Frontal Systems’ in Washington State
- Flood Watch Continues for Mason County
- Can Experts Predict Collapse at Washington State’s Rattlesnake Ridge?
- Washington State Opens Probe into Shelton Mayor’s Use of City Computer for Campaign Contributions
- Fur & Fury at 40,000 Feet as More People Bring Animals on Planes
Solar System • \SOE-lerr SIS-tum\ • Noun - the sun together
with the group of celestial bodies that are held by its attraction and revolve
around it; also: a similar system centered on another star
When did unpermitted mystical creation become OK in
someone’s backyard, on their roof, or in the arid desert? “I just installed a
solar system at my house,” puffed the spectacled, weekend handyman to his
awestruck neighbor. “Wow,” the bystander exclaimed. “How many planets does it
have; and are any of them inhabited?”
It’s a solar energy system, solar PV system, solar power
system, solar array, but a “solar system”? Really? Maybe I’m a bit touchy today.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Puerto Rico to Privatize Its Hobbled Electric Power Company
(NBC News)
In Quebec, It’s Power versus A People on Hydroelectricity (Boston
Globe, MA)
Extension Cords Blamed for Fire in Downtown Aberdeen
Building (KBKW Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
Idaho Falls Agrees to Power New Data Center (KIFI-TV, Idaho
Falls, ID)
New Lewis County PUD Outage Map Gives Real-Time Data (The
Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
Fraud Claims against Pacific Gas & Electric Headed for
Federal Trial (Courthouse News Service)
Pay Attention Utilities, Your Customer’s Relationship with Electricity
Is Changing (The Energy Collective)
Four Key Benefits of Advanced Small Modular Reactors
(Breaking Energy – U-S Dept of Energy)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Washington & State Observations Indicate Lower Steelhead
Mortality (Associated Press)
Oregon: Coho Salmon Find Sanctuary at a Lane County Hatchery
(KEZI-TV, Eugene, OR)
WATER, THE SOURCE OF ALL LIFE
U-S Supreme Court Says “Waters of the U-S” Challenges Must
Go Through District Courts (American Public Power Association)
RENEWABLE ENERGY & SELF STORAGE
President Trump Issues 30% Tariff on Solar Panel Imports
(Utility Dive)
The Latest: Solar Trade Group Anticipates Job Losses
(Associated Press)
Bioenergy – It’s The Big New Idea for Stopping Climate
Change – It Has Huge Environmental Problems of Its Own (Washington Post)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Grants Fund Cities’ Switch to LED Bulbs (Spokesman Review,
Spokane, WA)
Energy News Digest Flashback – City, PUD 3 work to brighten
Shelton (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA – Paywall Advisory)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Northwest Power & Conservation Council: What’s the
Least-cost Way to Lower Northwest Carbon Emissions from the Power System?
(4-Traders)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI – DRIVING ON SUNSHINE
Audi & Nissan Join Ranks of Automakers Making Energy
Storage Mainstream (Utility Dive)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Rural Broadband Experts: New Government Efforts Short on Money,
But Show Promise (KUNC, Greely, CO)
Rural America Has Terrible Internet – A Few
Simple Solutions Could Bridge the Digital Divide (Business Insider)
See How the Telecom Industry Is Quietly Changing the Shape of
Our Cities (Fast Company)
Netflix Shares Hit Record High after Blockbuster Results (Reuters)
Bell Canada Alerts Customers after Data Breach (Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation)
GOVERNANCE & MANAGEMENT
Washington State Legislature Appeals to State Supreme Court
in Public-Records Case (Seattle Times, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Court Rules More of Pierce County Prosecutor’s Texts Are
Public Record (Seattle Times, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Governor: I Couldn't Tell Hawaiians Missile Alert Was a
False Alarm Because I Didn't Know My Twitter Password (Washington Examiner)
GENERAL NEWS
Tsunami Watch for Oregon Canceled after Large Earthquake in Alaska
(Oregonian, Portland)
Prepare For a ‘Parade of Frontal Systems’ in Washington
State (KIRO Radio, Seattle, WA)
Flood Watch Continues for Mason County (Mason Web TV,
Shelton, WA)
Can Experts Predict Collapse at Washington State’s
Rattlesnake Ridge? (Yakima Herald Republic, WA)
Washington State Opens Probe into Shelton Mayor’s Use of
City Computer for Campaign Contributions (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
Fur & Fury at 40,000 Feet as More People Bring Animals
on Planes (Washington Post)
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER – DIVERSIONS
Neil Diamond Announces Parkinson’s Diagnosis, Immediate
Retirement
Pearl Jam Flag Raised on Space Needle as Iconic Band
Announces Seattle Concerts
Frozen Ball of Human Waste Falls from Sky
Woman, Called Inspiration for Rosie the Riveter, Dies at 96
SONG OF THE DAY
Neil Diamond - Brother Love’s Travelling Salvation Show
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