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by Peter Sinclair, Climate Denial Crock of the Week, July 28, 2014
Rebecca Smith of the Wall Street Journal has consistently been
delivering the unwelcome news for electric utilities about changing
times, and this morning she’s done it again. I won’t often recommend a
Murdoch paper as a resource, but do read the whole thing at the link if
you can. It’s darkly comedic, for example:
Sherry Pfister, a retiree who once worked at the Palo
Verde nuclear power plant 45 miles west of Phoenix, says she didn’t
hesitate to lease solar panels for her home in Waddell, Ariz., and says
the panels have cut her utility bill by a third. “Why isn’t everybody doing it?” she wonders.
Turns out that growth in the economy no longer requires growth in the
electricity sector. One CEO marvels, “It’s a new world for us.”
As the video above shows, that new world of decoupled growth and
electricity began in the 1970s.
But Utility Executives have never been
hired to be forward thinking. Perhaps that will change sometime soon..
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