Washington
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Power Demand
Pot, Power, and Politics
Legal marijuana, cultivated indoors on a large scale, poses a growing threat to electrical safety and a booming new business demand for electric power. Legal marijuana cultivation is posing electrical problems in three of the four states where recreational cannabis use is now permitted. The problem is that indoor growing operations—long a production staple when […]
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T&D
Power Cuts Affect Wide Swath of D.C., Including the White House, Capitol
A dip in voltage prompted temporary power cuts to the White House, Capitol Hill, the State Department, and other parts of Washington, D.C., on Tuesday afternoon. D.C. utility PEPCO said in a statement that the disturbance that affected about 8,000 customers and left a wide swath of the nation’s capital in the dark was caused […]
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Legal & Regulatory
Six States Sound Off on EPA’s Clean Power Rule
Regulators from six states shared starkly different views on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) proposed carbon rules for existing power plants at a House hearing on Tuesday. Some state-level officials said the EPA’s overall emission targets and suggested means to achieve them are based on unworkable and unrealistic assumptions about how state and regional power […]