SolarWinds and Utilities
Ben Miller on the hack on utilities’ installation of SolarWinds Orion.
Emissions Dropped Ten Percent
Coal plants produced 19.98 percent of the grid’s generation in 2020, for the entire continental U.S. So coal generation came in under one-fifth for the first time. Though ever so slightly (by two-hundredths of a percent).
While zero-emission nuclear, hydro, wind and solar produced 38.53 percent. That’s nearly two-fifths. And nearly twice coal’s percentage.
All this happened because coal generation dropped almost nineteen percent from 2019 to 2020. As a result, carbon dioxide emissions dropped by around ten percent.
CFO Roundtable Excerpted
Snippets from PUF's January CFO Roundtable.
Utility Execs Talk Gas LDC Decarbonization
Topics discussed include creating a renewable natural gas supply, repurposing existing infrastructure for alternative fuel sources such as for hydrogen, implementing energy efficiency programs, reducing leaks, while ensuring safety and reliability.
Business Leaders Discuss Renewable and Carbon Strategies
What do a Zoo, a Life Sciences company and a City have in common?
Special PUF Report: Households' Difficulty Paying Bills
15.9 percent of the nation’s adults are finding this very difficult.
Read our January issue
Our January 2021 issue is now available to read online. Please see the table of contents here.
United States Energy Association Cybersecurity and Digitization Industry Panel
USEA
The USEA hosted an illuminating panel on Cyber Risk Management Through Measurement. This discussion, hosted by Sheila Hollis and moderated by Andy Bochman, picked the brains of some of this industry’s leaders, following the success of USEA’s fifteen-part series on cybersecurity and digitalization.
United States Energy Association's Energy Efficiency Forum 2020
USEA
Eight individuals were inducted into the forum's Hall of Fame, a special occasion as it happens once every five years. And Interim President at the Alliance to Save Energy Clay Nessler got together with New York Representative Paul Tonko and DOE’s David Nemtzow for a virtual fireside chat on the release of the Alliance to Save Energy’s 2020 Energy Efficiency Indicator Study.