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Community Energy Storage Leads the Way to Electricity Storage on the Grid

October 4, 2011 by James Greenberger
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At the time the grid was designed, the impact of outages was generally shared and grudgingly accepted. There was no feasible technological fix. Today, however, there is, in the form of CES systems. Grid-connected energy storage will become a reality in the United States when consumers start demanding from their utilities and PUC’s the type of electricity reliability that 21st Century CES systems can provide. [read more]

Supreme Court Doubles Down on EPA and Clean Air Act

June 23, 2011 by Steve Seidel
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In a unanimous (8-0) decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in AEP v Conn that the state and land trust plaintiffs could not invoke a federal common law public nuisance claim against the five largest electric power companies.  The plaintiffs in the case were seeking controls on the carbon dioxide emissions from the utilities’ power... [read more]

Supreme Court Case on Carbon Emissions: Polluters' Game of 3 Card Monte Continues

April 21, 2011 by Peter Lehner
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Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City Tuesday the Supreme Court heard oral argument in American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut. In the case, six states and several other plaintiffs claimed that the nation’s five largest greenhouse gas polluters were contributing to a nuisance and that the court should order them to reduce... [read more]

Forest Offsets Scam Exposed, Not a Strategy to Mitigate Climate Change

October 16, 2009 by WattHead Guest Contributor
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Originally posted at the Breakthrough InstituteSerious doubts about the efficacy of carbon offsets projects to produce real, verifiable emissions reductions have been validated by a Greenpeace report, released this week, that exposes a prominent sub-national forest offset project as a "carbon scam." The Noel Kempff Climate Action... [read more]

American Electric Power hammered--but who pays?

October 10, 2007 by Tim Haab
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Econ 101:  An increase in input costs will cause a decrease (shift to the left) in supply.  Price will rise.  By how much depends on the price elasticity of demand.  If demand is highly inelastic, the majority of the increase in input costs will be passed through to customers.  Want real world evidence?From the... [read more]