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Cold snap reality check: Hydro-Québec briefly cut exports to New England during peak winter demand to protect its own grid. That’s winter peaking politics and a reminder that imported power raises real capacity questions = energy deficits.

www.rtoinsider.com/124194-hydro...

Europas fossile fetter Ja til gassrør fra Barentshavet, mest mulig oljeleting i nord, et lunkent tja til havvind i Nordsjøen – og nei til ny kraftkabel til Danmark. Energiminister Terje Aasland viser fram «annerledeslandet»...

Europas fossile fetter:
Ja til gassrør fra Barentshavet, mest mulig oljeleting i nord, et lunkent tja til havvind i Nordsjøen – og nei til ny kraftkabel til Danmark.
Bra innlegg av @anders.energiogklima.no
www.energiogklima.no/meninger-og-...

Apologize to everyone on the trolley, then form a committee. All welcome if they support public trolley.

Photo of three children standing outside a house. The two on the left are holding up a bicycle by the handlebars. The one on the right is holding a cat.

The Arnold children, Michigan Hill, Washington
1939

📷Dorothea Lange

2026 Program Lineup Grid School 1: Engineering, Economics, and Modeling Fundamentals: March 10-12, 2026 (Govt: $925; Private: $1,075) Grid School 2: Generation, Planning, and Reliability: April 14-16, 2026 (Govt: $925; Private: $1,075) Grid School 3: Efficiency, Load Management, and Policy: May 5-7, 2026 (Govt: $925; Private: $1,075) Accounting and Ratemaking: June 2-4, 2026 (Govt: $925; Private: $1,075) Fundamentals of Utility Regulation (IPU’s flagship program): August 10-14, 2026 (Govt: $1,200; Private: $1,400) Accounting and Ratemaking: September 15-17, 2026 (Govt: $925; Private: $1,075) Advanced Regulatory Accounting and Auditing: October 6-8, 2026 (Govt: $925; Private: $1,075) Advanced Cost Allocation and Rate Design: November 3-5, 2026 (Govt: $925; Private: $1,075)

The MSU Institute of Public Utilities provides continuing education programs for professionals in the utility policy community, including regulators, consumer & environmental advocates, and industry staff. Check out our 2026 programs below and visit our website for details.
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Might be once again the Hunt brothers.

Not only Americans, all of us. All about behaviours and expectations.

Power plant outages surge in Eastern US amid restricted gas supplies and frigid weather By Tim McLaughlin and Arathy Somasekhar BOSTON/HOUSTON, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Power plant outages surged along the eastern United States on Sunday as constricted natural gas supplies and frigid temperatu...

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A five-alarm fire for the grid? Why grid reliability, affordability, and national security are colliding. What breaks first?

This week on Open Circuit recorded live at #PRF26: A “five-alarm fire” for the grid: rising outages, tighter reserves, and growing reliability risks.

🎧 Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: www.latitudemedia.com/news/open-ci...

Great one pagers. Would like to read or see more.

TMPL is already running at 90% in last data from end months of 2025. No much capacity to sell.

From, poweroutage.us, power outages rapidly escalating.

Might add power. Just for New England, imports from Canada, largely HQ, accounts for roughly 10 of its electricity. Dramatic impact on LMP.

Geopolitical tensions sharpen the case for offshore wind – UK ambassador to Germany

Britain seeks integration into European electricity and climate schemes, reaffirms commitment to developing clean energy security with neighbours ahead of Hamburg North Sea Summit, says Andrew Mitchell

Winter weather is here for a huge swath of the US, and power market impacts are likely 🔌💡

We've made two winter hazards and grid condition dashboards publicly available to anyone with a free account

Outlook: www.gridstatus.io/dashboards/c...

Ops: www.gridstatus.io/dashboards/d...

Actually, very good. Produced way up north in Havre-Saint-Pierre, a thousand km from Montreal.

Extreme cold weather is predicted for this weekend, while "NERC’s 2025 Winter Reliability Assessment (November 2025) found that much of North America is at an elevated risk of having insufficient energy supplies to meet demand in extreme operating conditions."
www.nerc.com/newsroom/jan...

Data Centers Are Facing a Talent Shortage The AI data center boom is creating a massive demand for skilled engineers and technicians.

"The power grid engineering workforce is currently shrinking, and data center operators are also hurting for trained electrical engineers."
spectrum.ieee.org/ai-data-cent...

Sky Lights
Dana Irving
2022

Distillerie Puyjalon Niapiskau Premium Vodka. Size : 750 ml. Origine : Quebec. Canada. Producer : Distillerie Puyjalon.

BTW, we also have vodka up north of the border.

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Yeap. Even if 99 out of 100 homes on a block want to electrify, if just one homeowner insists on keeping their gas furnace most utilities are legally obligated to maintain that entire street's gas main. But the fixed costs of maintaining those pipes will be shared by fewer people = death spiral.

Reyka Small Batch Vodka Reyka is an Icelandic vodka, distilled from wheat and barley. It is also the world's first "green" vodka, it being made from glacial water and distilled using sustainable energy from geothermal heat.

Found it... $38.99 Canadian kronur.

www.bswliquor.com/products/rey...

After a major ice storm, Hydro-Québec installed a HVDC de-icing system on key transmission lines. It can send a large DC current to heat it up the line and melt the ice. The plus, when not being used for de-icing, it helps stabilize the grid as a static VAR compensator. Neet.

Trump Is Winning the Fight Against Offshore Wind Despite Court Losses The president's campaign against the industry threatened future projects, even before three US judges blocked enforcement of a government construction ban.

Trump Is Winning the Fight Against Offshore Wind Despite Court Losses

President's campaign against industry threatened future projects, even before three US judges blocked enforcement of a government construction ban

// CarbonCure Tech based in Halifax injects CO2 into concrete during mixing. CO2 reacts with calcium to form nano-calcium carbonate, the same as mineral ESM creates. Permanently sequestering carbon and increasing concrete's strength.

Canadians left Crown Royal for the Danes, and they left schnapps / cognac for us. In 2022, a border was agreed = end of all research.The island has been dry ever since.

A draw and a border.

Canada + Greenland share a land border on Hans Island. The site of the so-called friendly Whisky War, where both sides took turns hoisting flags and leaving bottles of liquor in friendly tit-for-tat.

Slik kontrollerer han Norge At verdens mektigste mann er irritert på Norge, er lite heldig for oss. Hva skjer dersom irritasjon går over til sinne?

Plus 2 observers from Norway, while US military recently tripled their access to bases on Norwegian soil. Norge's dilemma: "What if the US wants to use one of the bases in Norway, for example Evenes or Rygge, as a starting point for an operation against Greenland?" www.nrk.no/norge/xl/sli...