All posts tagged "Electricity"

Canada's energy minister is relishing the prospect of telling the United States "no" if it comes begging for more electricity.

According to an article by Politico, Canadian Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson said that his government is racing to build mines and electricity projects in response to President Donald Trump's economic aggression. Hodgson said that Canada doesn't plan to share the resources from those projects.

"Nothing would make me happier than when the United States asks us for more electricity to say, 'You know what, we've got a lot of mines we need to develop in northern British Columbia,'" Hodgson said. "Nothing would make me happier than just saying, 'You know what, we're going to use all our electricity here. We're going to build new mines, new processing facilities.'"...

This story was originally published by CalMatters, nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.

Update: On Nov. 16, the state Public Utilities Commission approved a rate hike for Pacific Gas & Electric that will increase residential rates by a monthly average of $22.20 for electric-only customers.

Angelica Vásquez’s anxiety soared when she read the notice on her most recent electric bill: “Please pay $135.81 by 10/26 to avoid service termination.” ...

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Making homes more efficient and more electric is critical to combating climate change. But the undertaking can be expensive and beyond the financial reach of many families.

Help, however, is on the way....

DETROIT — DTE Energy made progress restoring power to customers overnight but more than 60,000 remain without power Sunday morning. DTE reported about 220,000 customers without power following a wet and windy storm Friday, with snowfall totals above half a foot in several Michigan communities. At 10 a.m. Sunday, DTE reported 62,818 customers remain without power. The utility's outage map showed most of the outages were in central to southeast Michigan with more than 50,000 without power in Detroit and 10,000 in Ann Arbor. Trevor Lauer, DTE's president and CEO, said in the utility's outage upda......

Buenos Aires and other major cities in Argentina were left in the dark Wednesday afternoon. A large power outage, affecting more than half of the country was set off when a fire struck the its national electricity grid, BBC News reported. The blaze began in open fields, where it affected crucial power lines and put an entire nuclear power station offline. The outage came during a heatwave that has caused a drought in the region. Argentina is currently in its summer months, and temperatures have been hovering around 95 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s said to be the hottest summer on record in Buenos A......

Washington (AFP) - Vandalism at four power stations in the western US state of Washington over the weekend added to concerns of a possible nationwide campaign by right-wing extremists to stir fears and spark civil conflict. Local police on Tuesday gave no information on who they suspected was behind the vandalism, which knocked out power on Christmas Day for some 14,000 in Tacoma, a port city area south of Seattle. Tacoma Public Utilities, which owned two of the facilities targeted on Sunday, said in a statement that it was alerted by federal law enforcement in early December about threats to ......