What We're Reading: Page 164
Industry reads hand-picked by our editors
Aug 31, 2020
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CNN
Parts of Louisiana face long outages after deadly Hurricane Laura ravages power grid
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Indianapolis Star
'Those rooms couldn't be more white': Lack of diversity in utilities could hurt customers
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Hartford Courant
Connecticut’s new top utility regulator is an outsider who has signaled a new aggressiveness in the role
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Los Angeles Times
California Democrats scuttle wildfire utility fee plan, turn to Newsom in last-ditch effort
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Forbes
Bill Gates’ Nuclear Firm Says New Reactor Can Backstop Grid With Molten Salt Storage
Aug 28, 2020
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Greentech Media
Distributed Energy Helped Fight California's Grid Outages, But It Could Do Much More
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Morning Consult
Worldwide Denial-of-Service Cyberattacks on Utilities Up Five-Fold This Summer, Data Shows
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AP
Consultant to review utility CEO pay after Trump criticism
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RenewEconomy
Portugal government confirms record low solar energy price
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Bloomberg
Wind Turbine Behemoth Plans for Future by Getting Into Hydrogen
Aug 27, 2020
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nola.com
Hurricane Laura: Around 400,000 without power in Louisiana as storm moves inland
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POWER
Derecho Damage Results in Early Retirement of Duane Arnold Nuclear Power Plant
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The CT Mirror
CT keeps losing power when storms strike. But that doesn't have to happen.
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Quartz
Utility shutoff bans for 76 million Americans are being lifted
Aug 26, 2020
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Fox Business
Brouillette calls California's renewable energy push 'case study in how not to approach our electricity grid'
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Reuters
U.S. Senate Democrats unveil $400 billion-a-year plan to tackle climate change
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The Intercept
FBI Chased Imagined Eco-Activist Enemies, Documents Reveal
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E&E News
Study: Black turbine blades reduced bird mortality by 72%
Aug 25, 2020
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California Globe
Four Gas Power Plants May See Operation Extensions Due To Blackouts, Grid Issues
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Hartford Courant
At Connecticut hearing on Eversource rate increases, critics demand more accountability; Blumenthal calls for break-up of utility
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oregonlive.com
PGE says ‘ill conceived’ trades cost the utility at least $104 million; stock slides 8.3%
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S&P Global Platts
Renewable hydrogen projects 'at risk of government inaction, capital shortfall'
Aug 24, 2020
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Bloomberg News via YourSun.com
The day California went dark was a crisis years in the making
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Florida Times-Union
JEA prepared $1.9 billion offer for Plant Vogtle nuclear plant in 2019
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CleanTechnica
So Much For Saving Coal Jobs: More Offshore Wind Jobs Waiting In The Wings
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reNews
Green hydrogen ‘needs more backing’
Aug 21, 2020
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The Atlantic
Who Killed the Supergrid?: How Trump appointees short-circuited U.S. grid modernization to help the coal industry
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Chicago Sun Times
Pritzker pushes to tighten utility regulations after ComEd bribery charges to fight taint of ‘excessive clout and political contributions’
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The Guardian
Revealed: how the gas industry is waging war against climate action
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GreenTech Media
How Texas Turned Green
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E&E News
GM's new charging network is less than it seems