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Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits

DeSmogBlog

A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters. Faulty Meters Raise Questions About Profits.

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CalCom Energy’s $100M Fund Targets Farms for Solar-Battery Systems

GreenTechMedia

In California, it’s not just vulnerable families and critical services that could use battery-backed solar systems to ride through wildfire-prevention power outages. CalCom Energy, a long-time solar and energy services provider for California’s agricultural sector, thinks it has a solution.

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Calls for investment and easier permitting resonate at 2nd Budapest Geothermal Summit

ThinkGeoEnergy

Some 200 participants came together in Budapest, Hungary for the second edition of the Budapest Geothermal Energy Summit , organized by White Paper Consulting. We need more political love for geothermal energy […] and we need more people, because it’s going to grow, it’s booming,” Ms Brommer said. ukasz Koli?ski,

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ComEd’s Favorable Regulatory Treatment for Grid Investments Comes Under Fire

GreenTechMedia

For the past nine years, Chicago-based utility ComEd has earned excessive profits from a regulatory structure set in place by a 2011 state law whose passage has been linked to a bribery scandal that’s embroiled key state lawmakers and ComEd’s former CEO. The workings of the 2011 Energy Infrastructure Modernization Act.

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Progress made but too many still falling short, says EA on environmental performance of water and sewerage firms

Envirotec Magazine

These included the reduction of total pollution incidents by at least one-third compared with 2012 and for incident self-reporting to be at least 75%. Where these commitments are not achieved, companies will face underperformance penalties, with Ofwat having new powers to levy fines from 2020.

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Phantom Gas and Missing Documents Reveal Gaps in Utility Oversight

DeSmogBlog

He filed 21 internal complaints in 2012, then bumped them up to the Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC), the group that regulates utilities in the state, later that year. In late 2012, several months after Dye took his complaints to OPUC, NW Natural fired him. economy is increasingly rocked by climate chaos.

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Tesla says fire incidents are 11 times lower for its vehicles than for the average US vehicle

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From 2012 to 2020, there has been approximately one Tesla vehicle fire for every 205 million miles traveled,” Tesla tells us. “By They contain sensors that monitor acceleration, deceleration and tilting of the vehicle, in order to detect a crash, as well as sensors that detect smoke and overheating.