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May 13
Love133

States’ Rights in the TOMB

By Energy Rant No Comments
Trump's world strategy is to flood the zone with tariffs, executive orders, and chaos. Anti-Trump, aka Team Orange-Man-Bad (TOMB, get it?), fires back with temporary restraining orders. I haven't watched newer television or movies for three or four decades because real-life drama is all around if you pay attention. And the outcome is uncertain, like a football game, so that's my jam. The worst part of Trump's chaos is the uncertainty. To honor my mother for Mother's Day, I realized my very first post, and indeed, these 750 or whatever Energy Rants over the past 15.5 years, may have resulted…
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Jul 21
Love0

DC Circuit’s Smackdown of FERC re Demand Response

By Energy Efficiency, Energy Rant One Comment
I’ve written dozens of proposals, and I’ve read dozens and dozens of requests for proposals from all sorts of entities including states, local governments, private corporations, and of course, utilities.  With this comes scope of work requested, required proposal content, rules, terms and conditions, and due dates.  I always consider content of the RFP to mean what it says, and if it isn’t clear what it means, either ask a question via the process detailed in the RFP, or ignore it and work it out later, or it is a minor thing – irrelevant in the big picture. Enter the…
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