Many power companies are focusing their hiring efforts on military veterans. According to human resources (HR) experts, it makes a lot sense—beyond pure patriotism. Vets are motivated, experienced, often well-trained,…
Power
Monthly Issue | June 26, 2009
The Obama administration in late May announced a major initiative to protect electronic communications networks, including the electric power supply grid, from terrorist attacks. The intent of the initiative, the…
While praising the Obama administration’s push to develop smart grid interoperability standards, leading electrical equipment manufacturers have warned of risks to their industry and utilities from the administration’s “aggressive strategy”…
Many who have followed fuel cell technology suspected that the Bush White House initiative for a hydrogen-powered, fuel cell car was a technical dead end from the day it kicked…
The Obama administration last month put another political dagger into the heart of the nation’s planned nuclear waste dump at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain, some 90 miles north of Las Vegas.…
The conventional wisdom that natural gas is a reasonable, but temporary, power-generating bridge fuel to a future of a nuclear and renewables generation may be dead wrong, according to recent…
The Obama administration and Congress should be very careful as they try to write comprehensive legislation aimed at changing the way Americans use energy. It’s time for a big slice…
Will cap-and-trade—setting an ever-declining limit on emissions and then letting a commodities market sort out the distribution—rule the day? It’s the chosen method of the Obama administration and many Democrats…
In 1996, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its “Second Assessment Report” and I was listed as one of approximately 3,000 “scientists” who agreed that there was a…
State utility regulatory commissions are realizing that their legacy practices—processing retail utility filings and intervening in federal cases—are too reactive. They wish to display more purposefulness, more decisiveness, more leadership.…