By Paula Tracy
Concord -In a bit of a pleasant surprise (click here) just in time for the holidays Eversource has filed a petition to decrease electric rates by 10.3 percent for its small customer group for six months beginning in February....
It looks good and even like Santa with a 10.3 percent reduction in electricity costs. But, in actuality the reduction is not that much.
...The default service rate for electricity, which went from 10.669 cents per kilowatt hour in July to 22.566 cents per kilowatt hour in August and continues through January would go down to 20.22 cents per kilowatt hour if approved next week by the Public Utilities Commission....
...The default service rate for electricity, which went from 10.669 cents per kilowatt hour in July to 22.566 cents per kilowatt hour in August and continues through January would go down to 20.22 cents per kilowatt hour if approved next week by the Public Utilities Commission....
went from 10.669 cents per kilowatt hour in July to 22.566 cents per kilowatt hour in August
And what is Sununu doing? Nothing. He is bragging about the weather.
But Gov. Chris Sununu said Wednesday that the fact it has been warmer than normal both here and in Europe has allowed for some storage capacity to develop, possibly easing the demand and the cost.
No explanation for the change was given in the documents delivered to the PUC Thursday afternoon.
A hearing for the rate change is set for 9 a.m. next Tuesday, Dec. 13.
Jessica Chiavara, senior counsel for the state’s largest utility, wrote Daniel Goldner, chair of the
New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission, about its competitively procured default Energy Service rate, proposed to begin February 1, 2023....
This is nothing but exploitation of customers of natural gas as a heating fuel. There is no reason for this. There is no increase in production of natural gas. The industry is simply taking advantage of consumer dependency and the idea of inflation.
Petroleum products are sold at higher prices because of the volatile prices in the commodities market. Alternative energies are primarily locally controlled. There is no problem with costs for wind and sunshine.
Natural gas is not a clean fuel. It is methane and the industry is indifferent to all the leaks from their wells. I don't want to hear how stupid that thinking is because leaked methane is lost profits. No, leaked methane increases the commodity price.
By Steven Mufson and Timothy Puko
Emissions waft from ExxonMobil’s refinery in Baytown, Tex., in December 2021.
Some of the world’s major oil companies (click here) remain internally skeptical about the “energy transition” to a low-carbon economy, even as they publicly portray their firms as partners in the cause, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post that a House committee released Friday.
The documents are part of a trove obtained by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform during a year-long investigation. They reveal oil company executives dismissing the potential for renewable energy to quickly replace fossil fuels, while working to secure a future for natural gas. They also detail industry efforts to secure government tax credits for carbon capture projects that might relieve them of the need to drastically alter their business models.
The documents — many of them copies of internal emails between oil company officials — describe ExxonMobil’s efforts in 2021 to persuade big industrial firms and oil giants to co-sponsor a mammoth carbon capture project in Texas. Elsewhere, in one email string, officials at Shell discuss whether BP, Shell and TotalEnergies — a French oil firm — increased their carbon footprints by selling Canadian oil sands interests to more eager investors....
No government purchases going forward should be anything but electric.
November 21, 2022
Washington - With the gift-giving holiday season (click here) approaching and Black Friday around the corner, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Safety, and Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee, today led their colleagues Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) in a letter to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and United States Postal Service (USPS) Board of Governors Chair Roman Martinez calling for USPS to dramatically increase mail delivery fleet electrification efforts, including the Next Generation Delivery Vehicles (NGDV), an effort that would improve service on some 177,000 routes across the country. USPS estimates that the adoption of a fully electric NGDV fleet would roughly triple reductions in greenhouse gas emissions compared to a fleet that is only 10 percent electric.
USPS received an additional $3 billion in funds from the Inflation Reduction Act to invest in battery electric vehicles (BEV) and supporting infrastructure. The lawmakers urge USPS to make a commitment to increase its fleet electrification commitment to 95 percent from 40 percent, leveraging the additional funding provided through the Inflation Reduction Act to not simply meet its previous commitment, but rather to make further progress towards a more ambitious benchmark. In the letter, the lawmakers also push USPS to ensure the manufacturing workers producing the mail delivery vehicles have an opportunity to collectively bargain and join a union....
USPS received an additional $3 billion in funds from the Inflation Reduction Act to invest in battery electric vehicles (BEV) and supporting infrastructure. The lawmakers urge USPS to make a commitment to increase its fleet electrification commitment to 95 percent from 40 percent, leveraging the additional funding provided through the Inflation Reduction Act to not simply meet its previous commitment, but rather to make further progress towards a more ambitious benchmark. In the letter, the lawmakers also push USPS to ensure the manufacturing workers producing the mail delivery vehicles have an opportunity to collectively bargain and join a union....
