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LEDs Pose Same Threat As Solar & Net Metering For Utility Ratemaking
What is the difference between LEDs and residential solar panels? Plenty, clearly, but for a utility executive worried about slow or no load growth they amount to exactly the same thing—trouble. I have...
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Nuclear Power Economics Requires Believing In `Impossible Things’
It is increasingly clear that the economics of nuclear power don’t add up. Just in the past two and a half years, for example, seven plants at six sites have been shut down due to uneconomic...
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Corporate Interest In Green Energy Requires New Thinking From Electric Utilities
There was a news nugget in the American Wind Energy Association’s latest market report (released last week, the executive summary can be found here) that should be required reading for electric utility...
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Utility Execs’ New Worry: Economic Growth, Electricity Sales No Longer Linked
If you just glance at the chart below you will dismiss it out of hand—boring, you’ll yell, why are you wasting my time with that graphic, you’ll ask. But take a second, closer look and you’ll see that...
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What Is Prudent? Red Flags Clearly Ignored In Vogtle 3&4 Project
Georgia Power is in the midst of a prudence review of its spending at the Vogtle 3 and 4 nuclear project—a review that undoubtedly will be lengthy, comprehensive, and mind-numbingly dull, turning on...
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Time For A Reality Check: More Delays Are Coming For Georgia Power’s New...
Georgia Power executives certainly won’t say it and Georgia’s utility regulators certainly won’t acknowledge it, but the reality is there are going to be additional delays at Vogtle 3&4—the already...
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Dominion, SCE A Continent Apart On Distributed Energy
Dominion’s 2016 integrated resource plan is on the docket at Virginia’s State Corporation Commission this week: The hearings would be a perfect time to explore the utility’s plan for addressing the...
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Do You Hear That? It’s The Fat Lady Singing; Nuclear Revival Ends Almost...
Five years ago almost to the day (Feb. 9, 2012, actually), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted 4-1 to issue a construction and operating license to Southern Company for the 2,234 megawatt Vogtle...
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Storage Puts Utilities In A Big Bind On Demand Charges
Electric utility executives already fretting about slow/no growth in their service territories have another item to add to their growing list of worries: the prospect that many of their commercial...
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U.S. Battery Storage Nears Tipping Point, Drives Energy Transition
Merriam Webster defines tipping point as “the critical point…beyond which a significant and often unstoppable effect or change takes places.” While by definition it is impossible to identify a tipping...
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