If it involves energy, I am interested! I write about energy and utility issues
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25 Feb 2024
Industrial Energy Users-Ohio lost millions in the FirstEnergy scandal, state investigators say. What is it and how did this happen? beaconjournal.com/story/news…
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John Funk retweeted
20 Feb 2024
This new video really humanizes the problem of utility bill hikes that benefit Big Coal and corrupt utilities like FirstEnergy with an eye opening look at West Virginia and beyond.
20 Feb 2024
NEW: Electric bills are too damn high.
Rates have increased as much as 90% over the last 15 years as utility companies hike prices more than ever before.
There’s a massive bribery and corruption scheme fueling the skyrocketing bills.
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22 Sep 2023
Investment fund lawyers suing FirstEnergy report the company is finding thousands of more documents. Meanwhile, the Justice Department isn't commenting on rumors that further charges might be filed next month in the biggest bribery scandal in Ohio history.
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/…
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30 Jun 2023
A federal judge in Cincinnati sentenced former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder to 20 years in prison Thursday for taking bribes from FirstEnergy to pass legislation subsidizing the company’s nuclear plants.
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30 Jun 2023
Former Ohio House Speaker Householder Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison //www.rtoinsider.com/49125-former-ohio-speaker-householder-sentenced/
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27 Jun 2023
At least half a dozen groups filed comments months ago with the U.S. departments of Energy and the Treasury to influence the creation of the rules that the IRS will use to determine the size of the production tax credits authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act.
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29 Jun 2023
EPA Launches $7B Solar for All Program //www.rtoinsider.com/49005-epa-solar-for-all-program/
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27 Jun 2023
Clean Hydrogen and Renewable Energy Feud over Tax Credit Rules //www.rtoinsider.com/48344-clean-hydrogen-renewable-energy-tax-credit-rules/ #hydrogen #renewable #Inflationreductionact
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15 Jun 2023
“This is going to take 20 years,” Watson Collins, a senior technical executive at EPRI said, adding he’s not concerned since utilities made a similar increase in the past few decades to electrify heating, air conditioning and myriad other electrical functions.
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15 Jun 2023
How Much Energy It Will Take to Electrify Trucking rtoinsider.com/articles/3238…
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13 Jun 2023
Top June 1982. Bottom 2023. 1982 became a super El Nino, 2023 maybe by late fall. You see the respective El Niño's in the Pacific, but what stands out is the red in 2023 across the oceans. This is what background climate heating has accomplished in 4 decades. H/T @ericfisher
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6 Jun 2023
Wondering where the Hydrogen Hubs will go? Below map not as hard as "Where's Waldo. "DOE Releases National Clean Hydrogen Strategy and Roadmap rtoinsider.com/articles/3233…
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29 May 2023
A Look at How Some Utilities are Planning to Use Hydrogen rtoinsider.com/articles/3227…
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John Funk retweeted
25 May 2023
The Biden administration’s decarbonization objectives have prompted gas and electric utilities to look at using hydrogen not only for energy storage and generation.
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24 May 2023
Report: Hydrogen Hubs Must Expand Beyond Those Chosen by DOE rtoinsider.com/articles/3226… #carbonsolutions #hydrogen #hydrogenhub #industrialemissions #IndustrialInnovationInitiative
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24 May 2023
The six regional industrial hydrogen hubs the U.S. Department of Energy will choose among dozens of applicants this year will not be enough to reach its stated production targets.
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18 May 2023
A number of companies are now using automation and AI to expedite utility-scale #solar installations, ease labor shortages and protect workers from unsafe conditions. Reporting by @ewesoff: bit.ly/3WcElGF
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18 May 2023
The project, located in #Maryland’s most populous county, will use a solar microgrid to produce enough “green” hydrogen for 13 new fuel-cell buses. Reporting by @mariagallucci: bit.ly/3BVAJ2B
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17 May 2023
Renewable Natural Gas Seen as Pathway to Low-carbon Hydrogen rtoinsider.com/articles/3219…
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John Funk retweeted
10 May 2023
Plug Power (@PlugPowerInc) is building fuel cells for stationary generation and EVs, large electrolyzers to produce hydrogen, and industrial-sized green hydrogen production factories in the U.S. to get ahead of the expected massive switch to hydrogen as a fuel.
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