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Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits

DeSmogBlog

A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters.

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The Navajo Generating Station Coal Plant Officially Powers Down. Will Renewables Replace It?

GreenTechMedia

One of the nation’s largest coal plants permanently powered down this week after the owners determined it would be uneconomical to continue operating the facility as natural gas and renewable energy prices continue to drop. Other partial owners include Arizona Public Service, NV Energy and Tucson Electric Power.

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Phantom Gas and Missing Documents Reveal Gaps in Utility Oversight

DeSmogBlog

When Gary Dye, a former engineer with Oregon’s largest gas utility, began blowing the whistle on alleged unethical behavior by his employer, he never dreamed his nearly two-dozen complaints would amount to nothing. In late 2012, several months after Dye took his complaints to OPUC, NW Natural fired him.

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything. Jacobson’s Early Story.

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US Solar Industry Rallies Behind 20% Generation Target for 2030

GreenTechMedia

The hosts of Solar Power International claimed the mantle of largest energy conference in North America, but the goal is to grow much larger. The Solar Energy Industries Association industry group published a roadmap Monday to increase solar power to 20 percent of U.S. Solar contributed about 2 percent of U.S.

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Spike in German Finance For Gas Export Projects Harms U.S. Gulf Coast Communities, Report Finds

DeSmogBlog

gas export projects since the beginning of 2022, a sharp increase on the 1.86 The banks also underwrote 610 million euros of bonds for the projects from 2012-2021, the data showed. “I German banks like Deutsche Bank are funding this export of gas from the United States,” Rolfes told DeSmog. German banks lent 2.17

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

One accident there — a 2012 fire — sent a cloud of black smoke billowing over San Francisco Bay and left thousands of local residents struggling to breathe. Anytime to you have that kind of pay-to-pollute scheme, the communities that already were being sacrificed — that becomes a business decision," Zucker says.

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