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Thursday Feb 13, 2025 |
While southern California—and the Palisades in particular—have been subject to catastrophic wildfires and very dry weather conditions, further north within the same state, California has enjoyed healthy precipitation and snowfall. The figure below shows two images from our ...
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Wednesday Feb 12, 2025 |
We have all been in a situation where someone has said, “just close your eyes and imagine……”. When you open them back up, life goes back to what it was but for a moment there was this imagery of peer bliss if you picture the sandy beaches on an island somewhere in ...
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Tuesday Feb 11, 2025 |
In our latest renewable monthly report, we discuss how January set the stage for 2025 in U.S. renewable energy markets, highlighting key trends in generation, demand, and pricing. CAISO saw relatively mild weather conditions, allowing solar generation to surge. However, this expansion also brought ...
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Monday Feb 10, 2025 |
Here in Portland’s winters, when we have suffered through months of rain, cold, and short days, people start dreaming of more southerly latitudes. We start researching vacations to Mexico’s jungles, Arizona’s deserts, or California’s beaches. It would seem our power sector ...
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Friday Feb 7, 2025 |
Forest Park is one of the crown jewels of Portland. It is one of the country’s largest urban forest reserves. It covers about 5,200 acres on a hill that starts just above downtown Portland and goes many miles to the north. The iconic Rose Garden sits on the southern end, just up the hill from ...
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Thursday Feb 6, 2025 |
Renewables are off to a strong start in 2025 after rapid growth during the previous year in markets across the country from CAISO in the West to ERCOT in the South Central and over to MISO and PJM in the Midwest/Northeast. Renewables have been showing out to start off the new year, and our latest ...
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Wednesday Feb 5, 2025 |
With Portland’s first potential snowfall this week, it’s hard to imagine that shoulder season is just around the corner. In Texas, however, it might seem much more reasonable as highs of 80 degrees rule the temperature forecasts this week. For nuclear plants across the country ...
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Tuesday Feb 4, 2025 |
The Palisades and Eaton fires in Southern California are now fully contained, but the aftermath presents significant challenges. Cleanup efforts are underway, with hazardous materials and toxic waste posing risks, particularly due to the presence of lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles ...
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Monday Feb 3, 2025 |
Recent developments have brought the energy industry into the spotlight, with the possibility for the new executive branch to put a heavy finger on the scales of market movements via 10% tariffs to take effect on February 4th. The potential impacts are broad, but we have our eyes glued to natural ...
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Friday Jan 31, 2025 |
Here in Portland, Oregon, we are experiencing the typical PNW transition from winter to spring—that is, cold and wet. Unlike last year, the precipitation that has been falling lately has been more rain than snow, and temperatures are mostly staying above freezing.
Figure 1 | Weather Forecast ...
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