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Apr 19 2024
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Entergy Louisiana customers to pay more to fund $2B grid-hardening plan. See details.
Entergy Louisiana customers will soon pay more on their monthly bills to fund nearly $2 billion in projects to bolster the electric grid, after the utility’s poor performance after hurricanes in 2020 and 2021 prompted more than a year of debate about how to best improve reliability in the face of intensifying storms. The Louisiana Public Service Commission, which regulates Entergy Louisiana,
The Times-PicayuneApr 08 2024
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Thousands of Xcel Customers Still Without Power After Wind Storms
Why Xcel is Taking Days to Restore Power Two days after extremely high winds descended on Colorado’s Interstate 25 corridor, many Xcel Energy customers still do not have electricity.As of 1:00 p.m. today, April 8, the utility’s outage map indicated 41,073 customers are affected by 1,038 outages. Over 900 of those were in the greater Denver area, including Boulder and Longmont, but the largest
Denver WestwordMar 22 2024
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Custom-Built Colonial Home For Sale In Madison
MADISON, CT — Built in 2001, this Madison home offers four bedrooms, six bathrooms, and an in-ground Gunite pool, according to the listing on Patch Real Estate . The home rests on a 3.23-acre lot, and is on the market for $1.3 million. It is presented by Phoebe V. Finch with William Pitt Sotheby's International Realty. From the listing on Patch Real Estate: "If you seek EXTRAORDINARY you’ve
Patch.comApr 16 2024
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Columbus Division of Power electric customers with solar or wind can sell power back
The Columbus Division of Power, the historic, city-owned electric utility that still serves about 17,000 mostly residential customers, will finally allow "net metering," which allows homes with solar panels or small windmills to sell power back to the grid in order to reduce electric bills. The program was approved Monday by Columbus City Council, a move which closes the only remaining gap in
The Columbus DispatchMar 21 2024
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No charges for BWL auditor, customers left worried
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – With news that the Lansing Board of Water and Light’s former internal auditor won’t face criminal charges for allegedly misusing the utility’s credit card, Lesanne Hampton has a big concern. “Making up those funds will trickle down to the consumer,” she told 6 News. And as a BWL customer, she’s worried about picking up the tab. On Thursday, Ingham County Prosecutor John
WLNSMar 22 2024
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Casualty at California border wall
A woman was pronounced dead in San Diego on Thursday night after falling from the 30-foot-high southern border wall. At approximately 10:33 p.m. local time near Britannia Court, U.S. Customs and Border Protection discovered the woman and reported the incident to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department, department spokesperson Mónica Muñoz told Newsweek on Friday. Crews responded and reported the
NewsweekApr 03 2024
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A week in, Root Juicery plays with menu for healthy customers
Roughly a week into their soft opening, the Root Juicery staff is seeing people come in early in the morning and around lunchtime to grab a healthy meal to-go. “We’re already learning a lot about things we need to tweak,” said Barbara Payton, whose brother, Jeff, owns the juicery, 206 Huron Ave., Port Huron, as well as the nearby Vintage Tavern downtown. It was mid-morning on Tuesday, and
The Times HeraldApr 15 2024
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Best Buy cuts workforce, including Geek Squad, looks to AI for customer service
Addressing "lower business demand," Best Buy has made a significant cut to its workforce and laid off a number of employees, including Geek Squad field agents, current and former workers told The Star Tribune in Minnesota. Home-theater repair technicians and phone support specialists were among those impacted by the most recent wave of layoffs at the Richfield, Minnesota-based company,
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