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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.

Hammer's Light

The inventor of compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs) was born in Brooklyn in December 1931.

Congress' Covid Relief, What NRECA Thinks

The Flexible Financing for Rural America Act is one of the two priorities NRECA is advocating before Congress during [consideration of legislation for] Covid relief.

Commissioner Skrmetta Reelected

Eric Skrmetta of the Louisiana PSC was reelected to represent the state’s District 1.

An Inspiring Story About Giving

A conversation with Larry Adams, a field operations natural gas supervisor at Ameren.

Pai Retiring, Left Us Broadband

Chris McCabe from Anterix discusses Chairman Pai's legacy.

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