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Seattle City Light Crews Prepare to Take Winter By Storm (City of Seattle, WA)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Oct 2016
City of Seattle, WA) ... City Light operators, and crews from line service, vegetation management, overhead service and pole setting participated in a demonstration of the work they do to repair typical storm damage ... Seattle City Light is the 10th largest public electric utility in the United States ... City Light has been greenhouse gas neutral since 2005, the first electric utility in the nation to achieve that distinction....

Michigan City police warn of scam attempts

Edit The Indiana Times 11 Oct 2016
MICHIGAN CITY — Four small business owners in Michigan City were recent targets of a telephone scam involving threats to immediately disconnect their NIPSCO electric service if payments were not made right away ... ....

Oahu PV permits plunged 40 percent in September

Edit Star Advertiser 11 Oct 2016
The City and County of Honolulu issued 379 PV permits last month, down from 631 in September 2015, according to Sunday data sent by Marco Mangelsdorf, who tracks rooftop solar permits and is president of Hilo-based ProVision Solar ... The program — net energy metering — helped many of its participants reduce their electric bill to roughly $17 a month....

Hurricane restoration is nearing completion (Clay Electric Cooperative Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Oct 2016
Clay Electric Cooperative Inc) ... At 1.30 p.m., Clay Electric has 994 accounts without power, which means personnel have restored more than 72,000 accounts ... Clay Electric continues to make significant progress in restoring power to members impacted by Hurricane Matthew....

Demolition Cost Share Program (City of Atchison, KS)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Oct 2016
City of Atchison, KS) Demolition Cost Share Program. The demolition of dangerous structures is an important component of maintaining the vitality of Atchison and is an identified priority of the City of Atchison ... This program is contingent upon an annual budget appropriation by the City Commission. Program expenses will not exceed the total demolition funding available in the City's annual budget ... City Manager, and City Manager....

NorthWestern to seek more power capacity amid coal closures

Edit Omaha World-Herald 11 Oct 2016
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Northwestern Energy will seek 55 megawatts of additional power generating capacity by 2019 and possibly ten times that much electricity over the next decade to ensure it can satisfy customer demands for electricity, representatives of the… ... ....

GE powers RI's economy, one step at a time

Edit The Jakarta Post 11 Oct 2016
US-based multinational conglomeration GE recently worked together with the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN) to host an international gathering of more than 200 business executives, academics and innovators around the ASEAN region in its Future of Electricity conference on Sept ... Economic success relies heavily on electricity ... More than 8GW of electricity exists thanks to GE's gas turbines....

How self-driving cars could become weapons

Edit The Miami Herald 11 Oct 2016
Self-driving cars could be lifesavers, preventing many, if not most, of the traffic accidents that claim more than 30,000 American lives each year ... roads ... think tank ... This system, they hope, will eliminate the human error behind the vast majority of accidents and ease congestion in crowded cities ... Louis freeway ... The more gizmos, the more gadgets, the more electrical controls you have, the more vulnerable the car is....

The Latest: Obama signs North Carolina disaster declaration

Edit The Oklahoman 11 Oct 2016
Separately, the state's electric membership cooperatives said about 27,000 of its customers were without power Monday ... But Cumberland County officials said in a news release that two other people around the city still haven't been seen in at least a day ... McCrory also said during a televised press conference Monday that 1,500 people remained stranded in the city of Lumberton, which is about 70 miles inland....

Press Release: Coal-based Independent Power Producer programme announcement (Department of Energy - Republic of South Africa)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Oct 2016
Environmental considerations and the increasing prevalence of extreme climate events compel the South African government to progressively reduce our dependence on coal and traditional coal fired electricity plant technologies ... "As at the end of June 2016, 6 376 MW of electricity have been procured from 102 RE Independent Power Producers in six (6) bid rounds....

After hurricane, chaos lingers in water-logged N. Carolina

Edit The Jakarta Post 11 Oct 2016
With floodwaters from Hurricane Matthew on the rise, at least one North Carolina city appeared near chaos Monday, its police station shuttered and sporadic gunfire in the air, and authorities worried that more communities could end up the same way ... Officials were concerned that other cities could suffer the fate of Lumberton, a community of 22,000 people about 80 miles from the ocean....

An aging Disney World is fighting to stay relevant

Edit Business Insider 11 Oct 2016
The Main Street Electrical Parade at Disney's Magic Kingdom gave guests one last chance to check out the attraction that made its debut at Disneyland in 1972, coming over to Florida five years later ... The Main Street Electrical Parade will now be shipped to its original home in California where it will begin a limited-time engagement ... The Main Street Electrical Parade is gone, and Disney World needs a new way to bring back the power....

Land allocated, Aviation Park at Bagodara finally takes off

Edit The Times of India 11 Oct 2016
The project may help Bagodara emerge as an aviation hub just like Tata's Nano plant transformed Sanand into a Motown, say industry players ... "Except aircraft and helicopter assembly , all engineering, electric and electronic and other aviation material industry will be developed," he added ... "It can emerge as an aviation pocket. It would make a big difference if vendors come to this area," said Sunil Parekh, a city-based industry advisor....
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