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New Year Faces Old Problems: War, Immigration and Energy
U.S. Electric Utilities Face More Demand, Less Generation
U.S. Electric Utilities Face More Demand, Less GenerationBy Llewellyn King The nation’s electric utilities are facing revolutionary changes as big as any they have faced since Thomas Edison got the whole…
Read MoreSpare Us the Thoughts and Prayers — We Are Past That
By Llewellyn King America, spare me your thoughts and prayers. Get off your backsides and do something. Wringing hands over the gun lobby, lamenting the love of guns by so…
Read MoreHow the Consumer Will Become a Partner on the Electric Grid
By Llewellyn KingIf the Biden administration genuinely wanted to get serious about weaning the electric power sector from fossil fuels, it would get serious about nuclear — not just patting…
Read MoreShutting Out Natural Gas Can Destabilize the Electric Grid
By Llewellyn King It has been an annus horribilis for the nation’s electric utility companies. Deadly storms and wildfires have left hundreds of thousands — and for short periods millions…
Read MoreThe Social Scolds Are Set To Take Up Global Warming
The latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change gives humanity a simple directive: Get a grip on greenhouse gas emissions or the dear old planet…
Read MoreGovernment Purchasing: Sustainability’s Best-Kept Secret?
By Mary Hoff Archimedes once observed that with a long enough lever he could move the world. In the case of moving the world to a more sustainable place, government…
Read MoreHow COVID-19 Points the Way to Faster Medicines in the Future
This is the month when the national spirit should start to lift: COVID-19 vaccines could be administered by mid-December. While we won’t reach the summit of a mighty mountain this…
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