Typical MAGA hatred. Divisiveness seems to be the mantra of Republican Evangelicals and Mormons.
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While the Grist article is not bad, it leaves out a lot of history. A utility spanning multiple states will have separate books for each and be governed by the PUC.
The states of Washington, Oregon, and California require utilities in their states to phase out fossil fuels and/or participate in carbon emission markets.
Pacificorp – Berkshire Hathaway Energy, with a lot of fossil generation in Utah, Wyoming, and some in Montana, seeing its coal and gas-fueled electricity sales falling in California, joined the California energy market, CAISO, with the Western EIM to sell unspecified source (fossil) energy to California.
They area major driver now of the Westside Pathways Initiative, to create a single Western grid dominated by California.
Utah, Wyoming, Montana with coal and gas don’t really have much load. And they have no buyers for their generation.
The article is about a single state legislator using the issue to get votes with no idea of the practicalities. If they want to keep their fossil fuel plants running, data centers and crypto are their only option, though they are low on water which data centers need.
And ironically Pacificorp has financial troubles because global warming from fossil fuels extended the wildfire season, they didn’t have agreement from the PUC for safety shutoffs, power lines caused wildfires, and now they have a few billion in liability.
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Typical MAGA hatred. Divisiveness seems to be the mantra of Republican Evangelicals and Mormons.
While the Grist article is not bad, it leaves out a lot of history. A utility spanning multiple states will have separate books for each and be governed by the PUC.
The states of Washington, Oregon, and California require utilities in their states to phase out fossil fuels and/or participate in carbon emission markets.
Pacificorp – Berkshire Hathaway Energy, with a lot of fossil generation in Utah, Wyoming, and some in Montana, seeing its coal and gas-fueled electricity sales falling in California, joined the California energy market, CAISO, with the Western EIM to sell unspecified source (fossil) energy to California.
They area major driver now of the Westside Pathways Initiative, to create a single Western grid dominated by California.
Utah, Wyoming, Montana with coal and gas don’t really have much load. And they have no buyers for their generation.
The article is about a single state legislator using the issue to get votes with no idea of the practicalities. If they want to keep their fossil fuel plants running, data centers and crypto are their only option, though they are low on water which data centers need.
And ironically Pacificorp has financial troubles because global warming from fossil fuels extended the wildfire season, they didn’t have agreement from the PUC for safety shutoffs, power lines caused wildfires, and now they have a few billion in liability.