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Saturday, January 4, 2014
Roscoe Bartlett: The Congressman Who Went Off the Grid - POLITICO Magazine
The octogenarian Republican from western Maryland—more than once labeled “the oddest congressman”—found himself gerrymandered out of office a year ago and promptly decided to take action on the warnings others wouldn’t heed, retreating to a remote property in the mountains of West Virginia where he lives with no phone service, no connection to outside power and no municipal plumbing. Having failed to safeguard the power grid for the rest of the country, Bartlett has taken himself completely off the grid. He has finally done what he pleaded in vain for others to do: “to become,” as he put it in a 2009 documentary, “independent of the system.”
TEGA CAY: More Tega Cay sewage spills; total now 190,000 gallons | Local | Lake Wylie Pilot
jmarks@lakewyliepilot.comJanuary 2, 2014
“Due to the heavy rains of the last 24 hours,” said Tom Oakley with parent company Utilities Inc. on Dec. 29, “Tega Cay Water Service has experienced sanitary sewer overflows at several locations, some of which have reached Lake Wylie.”
Bid rival: Duke Energy SC plant would cost customers more
John Downey
A Chicago-based power producer asserts it submitted what would have been the lowest-cost bid for a 750-megawatt natural gas plant Duke Energy Carolinas’ plans to build in Wayne County, S.C., if the bids had been fairly weighed.
A Chicago-based power producer asserts it submitted what would have been the lowest-cost bid for a 750-megawatt natural gas plant Duke Energy Carolinas’ plans to build in Wayne County, S.C., if the bids had been fairly weighed.
Monday, December 30, 2013
For Duke’s Jim Rogers, a green energy legacy with shades of gray | Business | The State
By Bruce Henderson
bhenderson@charlotteobserver.com, December 29, 2013
Rogers, 66, is as remarkable for his longevity as for the 12 percent annual shareholder return he claims over his career or the three major mergers he engineered. The last one made Duke the nation’s biggest electric utility.
bhenderson@charlotteobserver.com, December 29, 2013
Rogers, 66, is as remarkable for his longevity as for the 12 percent annual shareholder return he claims over his career or the three major mergers he engineered. The last one made Duke the nation’s biggest electric utility.
Environmental review endorses Duke's Cherokee County nuclear plant | GoUpstate.com
Associated Press
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission study concluded that most environmental impacts of the two-reactor nuclear plant would be small.
The study says the plant would take about 4 percent of the Broad River's average volume to cool the plant. The river also cools Duke's Cliffside power plant upstream near the North Carolina-South Carolina state line.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission study concluded that most environmental impacts of the two-reactor nuclear plant would be small.
The study says the plant would take about 4 percent of the Broad River's average volume to cool the plant. The river also cools Duke's Cliffside power plant upstream near the North Carolina-South Carolina state line.
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Hartsville nuclear plant at risk for closing | Business | The State
— sfretwell@thestate.com
Duke Energy’s Robinson power plant, a 43-year-old reactor near Hartsville, was the only power station in South Carolina that made the Vermont Law School’s study, which used 11 factors to estimate the plants most at risk of “early retirement.”
Duke Energy’s Robinson power plant, a 43-year-old reactor near Hartsville, was the only power station in South Carolina that made the Vermont Law School’s study, which used 11 factors to estimate the plants most at risk of “early retirement.”
Charleston Company Attempts to Take Homes Off the Grid - SC Business Review
a LowCountry, South Carolina company is using the same technology employed in NASA’s Hubble Space Program and the Viking Moon Probe to commercialize energy systems systems that provide residential power, HVAC, hot water and back up batteries capable of removing homes completely off the power grid.
Mike Switzer interviews Warren Miller, Chief Technology Officer for Hy-Stor in Charleston. PODCAST HELP - If you can't view the flash player, click here to open the mp3 file OR subscribe to the podcast feed.
Mike Switzer interviews Warren Miller, Chief Technology Officer for Hy-Stor in Charleston. PODCAST HELP - If you can't view the flash player, click here to open the mp3 file OR subscribe to the podcast feed.
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