The passing scene is hilarious, until it careens through the front yard and crashes into my living room.
Thursday, August 19, 2021
Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Day Eight: 3k still without power in Michigan from the electric utility Consumers Energy
They've trotted out the CEO of the company in radio ads the last two days to thank everyone for their patience.
No one apologizes anymore in this country, for anything.
Saturday, August 14, 2021
My incompetent Michigan utility Consumers Energy can't deliver electricity for four days but thinks free ice cream will substitute for doing its job
How about not retiring generating capacity and having to buy power from other states?
How about concentrating on delivering energy from reliable sources instead of risking our future on tenuous green schemes?
How about hiring more workers to keep the gas and power flowing to the people who pay your salaries?
Michigan is increasingly like a third world shit-hole: Day four without electrical power from Consumers Energy, over 81k still affected
My electric power went out Tuesday night at about 11pm.
It is still out.
Over 81,000 customers, just of Consumers Energy, remain without power four days after a line of storms came through.
The utility runs ads on the radio incessantly saying "Count on us"!
It spends more time and money trying to get consumers to curtail electric usage than it does providing it.
It decommissions coal fired generating capacity and then turns around and buys electricity from Indiana. Under Democrat Gretchen Whitmer we are increasingly like California.
The utility is a cruel joke, especially this week as humidity levels soared with the heat. Indoor temperatures at night above 80 degrees F make for miserable sleeping, when sleeping occurs at all.
The air is full of the sound of generators, day and night. Lines are long at gasoline stations where people wait to fill their cans to get them through another night.
Green energy isn't green, and the power company doesn't provide it, green or otherwise.
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
You fools who won't have enough electricity for air conditioning this summer have only yourselves to blame
From the story:
Peak temperatures are forecast to reach 115 degrees Fahrenheit (46°C) in interior California through the week, according to the state's electric grid operator, which warned the biggest supply deficit could occur on Thursday after the sun goes down and solar power is no longer available. ...
On Wednesday, solar power was providing about 30% of California ISO's supply, and the grid warned that it would be unlikely to be able to rely on additional supplies from other states due to the extreme heat hitting much of the Western United States.
The ISO was currently getting 13% of its power from other states. The ISO has said it expects to have about 50,734 MW of supply available this summer, but some of that comes from solar.
102,000 MW of coal-fired electric capacity was retired from 2010-2019, over 38,000 MW alone in 2012, 2015 and 2018. Another 17,000 MW is scheduled to be retired by 2025.
The EIA blamed "flat electricity demand growth" during the decade for the retirements.
It should have blamed Obama, under whom real GDP grew at a rate worse than during the Great Depression.
But YOU elected him.
Twice.
Thursday, May 28, 2020
LOL, Michigan's rapacious utility Consumers Energy delays roll-out of new Summer Peak Rate program due to COVID-19
Due to COVID-19, Peak Pricing has Been Delayed Until 2021:
- “On-peak” rate price – From 2 to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday, your electricity rate will cost about 1.5 times higher than the “off-peak” rate price.
- “Off-peak” rate price – customers will pay a lower rate price for electricity used outside of on-peak times. This is the same rate you would pay October through May.
Thursday, January 16, 2020
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
New summer "Time of Use" rate coming for millions of Michigan customers of Consumers Energy in 2020 between 2pm and 7pm Monday through Friday: Penalty electricity rate rises 13.7% over summer 2019 penalty rate
Monday, July 22, 2019
Latest estimates put more than 800,000 without electric power in immediate aftermath of Michigan storms
Temperatures in Grand Rapids, MI collapsed from 85 to 71 after 1:53am Saturday July 20th as storms knocked out power to thousands in West Michigan
Sunday, February 10, 2019
By the way, electricity from renewables is up 268% in 2017 from 2007, but . . .
Thursday, January 31, 2019
How much natural gas does Consumers Energy have for its customers in west Michigan?
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
The utility companies in Minnesota wouldn't have to say this if natural gas were reserved for residential heating and coal for electricity
Increasing amounts of natural gas are fueling electricity generation in the state. In 2016, about one-seventh of the natural gas consumed in Minnesota went to the electric power sector, more than double the amount of natural gas used for electricity generation in 2011.
Sunday, December 23, 2018
Yellow Vest protests against high prices of essentials like fuel, electricity, food and water spread to Tel Aviv
'YELLOW VEST' PROTESTERS SWARM THE STREETS OF TEL AVIV: