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Links Of Interest.

Here are a few links we feel you might find useful to your position in the utility industry.  Enjoy!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Industry Headlines and

Utility Workshops Center News.

  • Biomass Breathing New Life Into Coal Plants
    Forbes, Ken Silverstein, Contributor
    02.07.13, 09:27 AM EST
    Coal-burning power plants may get a new life and one that is tied to the co-firing of biomass, or wood chips, that may result in less pollution. While some are saying that this is a harbinger of things to come,
    others . . .
  • Energy policy: 2013 outlook
    Another active year ahead
    FierceEnergy
    January 28, 2013 | By Travis Mitchell
    Energy policy is always a front-burner issue in the U.S., igniting partisan battles and debates between environmental groups, utilities, and energy industry vendors. It's a challenge to orchestrate, but at the same time . . .
  • Ralph Cavanagh’s Blog
    Report: "Decoupling" is Transforming the Utility Industry
    Switchboard, Posted January 31, 2013
    Half of the U.S. states now recognize that it’s a good thing for consumers to be rewarded with lower utility bills for saving energy but it shouldn’t lead to a lower credit rating for their hometown utility if electricity or natural gas sales decline, or grow more slowly, as a result.

    That’s great progress for an important concept known as “decoupling,” which . . .
  • How Deregulation Helps Companies Go Green
    Sustainable Business Forum
    Posted February 7, 2013 by Allison Finney
    State by state, region by region, our nation’s energy markets are swiftly transitioning to a deregulated model. It’s an exciting economic prospect for members of the energy industry and then some; not since the deregulation of the banking and transportation sectors has such a massive, wealthy whole decided to split apart and . . .