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Reverse Diversification Coming to a Utility Near You

Reverse Diversification Coming to a Utility Near You

by Jeff Ihnen | Sep 25, 2017 | Energy Rant

In my Personal Finance class as an undergraduate, our instructor used the term diworsification[1] for large stalwart companies. Diworsification occurs when a company buys another company it knows nothing about and isn’t complimentary to the core business. Utilities...
Market Forces Give (Carbon Reduction); Market Forces and Flawed Policy Take Away

Market Forces Give (Carbon Reduction); Market Forces and Flawed Policy Take Away

by Jeff Ihnen | Jun 20, 2016 | Energy Rant

What is the purpose of the Clean Power Plan? To reduce emissions to 30% below 2005 levels by 2030? No. It has major flaws for actual, as in reducing tons of carbon dioxide release to the atmosphere, but I will come back to that later. As reported in Clean Power Plan...
Market Forces Give (Carbon Reduction); Market Forces and Flawed Policy Take Away

Misunderstood Uranium – Boogeyman and Small Boxes

by Jeff Ihnen | Jul 7, 2014 | Energy Efficiency, Energy Rant

If we are to get serious about reducing greenhouse gas emissions, we must put down the mud balls, enjoy some sacred-cow burgers, burn the little boxes in which we confine ourselves, and maybe have a little counseling about that boogeyman under the bed. This post first...
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