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Peers sought to build urban resilience platform

Envirotec Magazine

A new peer-to-peer platform is helping municipalities and water utilities find reliable innovative solutions to their infrastructure resilience challenges, according to the firm behind it, Isle Utilities. It is against this background that Isle set up its Urban Resilience Technology Approval Group (UR TAG) in 2019.

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Oil Companies Can’t Find Any Buyers For Refineries Struggling Amid Pandemic Crisis

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Tags: Refining refinery utilization rates COVID-19 shell Marathon Petroleum Phillips 66 Read time: 9 mins Major players in the U.S. petroleum refining industry — which is experiencing a historic downturn due to the coronavirus pandemic — are attempting to sell refineries, with little luck.

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Electric Utilities Are Slow to Address the Climate Crisis, Reports Indicate

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Read time: 10 mins The electric utility sector is largely lagging when it comes to responding to the climate emergency, both in terms of rapidly slashing globe-warming emissions and planning for climate impacts like increasingly extreme weather.

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FirstEnergy Scandal is Latest Example of Utility Corruption, Deceit

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Federal agents arrested Ohio Speaker of the House Larry Householder, along with several lobbyists, on July 21 on charges that the group used $60 million of funds provided by the monopoly utility FirstEnergy Corp. Tags: electric utilities FirstEnergy Southern Company Entergy Corp exelon

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EV charging beyond the grid: Forecasts from a new report

Envirotec Magazine

However, this rapidly accelerating uptake poses an enormous challenge for aging utility grids. They are also unable to produce power at night or in inclement weather and have a hefty price tag, especially considering the charging rates.

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Texas, Maine Face Billion Dollar Ballots Tuesday

Energy Central

7) face contested energy-related ballot initiatives with billion dollar price tags. Texas and Maine voters tomorrow (Nov.

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San Antonio's City-Owned Energy Utility Is Paying a Quarter Million Dollars a Year to Gas Industry Groups

DeSmogBlog

But the key player in implementing the Alamo City’s energy transition — the local energy utility CPS Energy — remains committed to carbon-based fuels like coal and natural gas, even while it begins to invest more in renewable alternatives.