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| | | | | In a startling turnabout, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Joe Manchin announced an expansive agreement Wednesday that had eluded them for months addressing health care and climate, raising taxes on high earners and large corporations and reducing federal debt. | | |
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| | | In a shocking turn of events late Wednesday afternoon, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia announced that he had reached a deal with Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on a budget reconciliation package that includes $369 billion for clean energy and climate change. | | |
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| | | In pursuit of the goal of “Building a Better Grid,” it is critical that we not only invest in updates to the grid’s hardware — we also need to upgrade the way that the grid works. | | |
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| | Listen to the latest episode of Hitachi Energy’s Power Pulse Podcast where they explore the impact of fleet electrification with National Grid's Brian Wilkie. | | |
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| | | Before the summer of 2022 even it began, predicted high temperatures prompted warnings from electric-grid operators about the struggle to match generation with demand - an all-too familiar scenario they say could lead to rolling blackouts during heat waves and other peak periods. | | |
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| | | Deployment and management of renewables and DER is one of the key areas where location intelligence is having a major impact – accelerating utilities’ ability to make progress toward their net zero goals. | | |
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| | | The California Public Utilities Commission opened a public process that it said seeks to enable widespread demand flexibility through electric rates. It said the concept of demand flexibility allows consumers to play a key role in the operation of the state’s electric grid. | | |
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| UPCOMING EVENTS  Starting August 1, we will be transitioning to a weekly schedule! If you have not already caught up on the first seven episodes, be sure to check them out! |
 Join our free webcast on August 2 with sponsor Hendrix at 10 AM CT. We will explore the challenges of designing aerial systems in harsh weather environments, and how covered conductor systems, both Spacer Cable as well as Tree Wire, may provide solutions, where other options are either less reliable, more costly, or both. Register today! |
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| | | A coalition of 17 states, the District of Columbia and Quebec signed off on an action plan that will provide state leaders a roadmap to achieve 30% zero-emission truck sales by 2030 and 100% sales no later than 2050. | | |
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| | | For September, the ongoing La Nina as well as the possibility of a positive NAO lead to slightly above normal temperatures forecast across the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Tennessee Valley, and Ohio Valley. | | |
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