Study: Residential Electric Utility
Expenditures Projected to Reach Record Levels, Highest in 10 years
"Due to the unprecedented rise in summer temperatures and higher rates of extreme heat events
over the last ten years, the cost of summer cooling has risen from $476 in 2014 to a predicted
$719 in 2024. (This increase has been calculated by NEADA, based on NOAA temperature data
and EIA electric usage and price data..."
SCE: Test Alerts Coming ⚠️ Dear Neighbors, from June 4-7, we are testing our Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) notification system to confirm recent improvements.
Since we are testing all phases of PSPS notifications, we’ll need to send multiple test emails to a limited number of customers in high fire risk areas.
NOTE: No power will be shut off in connection with these tests.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
These tests are important for us to be able to improve customer communications during PSPS events.
Another week, another day people in Texas have extensive power outages. 768K customers without power this morning in Texas, due to wind/tornado damage (once again). #TXwx#poweroutages#grid (snapshot of poweroutages.us)
73,856 people without power in TX; 40,741 people without power in Wisconsin; 19,933 people without power in Illinois per Poweroutage.us #grid#power#disasters
"The Department of Energy on Wednesday announced its initial selection of 10 federal corridors for the development of multistate, ultra-high-capacity electric transmission lines.
And acting under its own authority, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission could approve the right-of-way for a power line located within a national interest corridor, overriding the objections of state officials if necessary."
"#FERC said that reforms to transmission planning received over 30,000 pages of comments, creating the largest public record ever considered by the commission."
I would love to know how many of these comments come from individual people, and how many were in favour of making the #grid renewables-ready.