http://www.nwenergy.org For a clean and affordable energy future Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:10:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 http://www.nwenergy.org/news/the-transformer-january-4-2011/ http://www.nwenergy.org/news/the-transformer-january-4-2011/#comments Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:18:46 +0000 Jesse http://www.nwenergy.org/?p=2560 Customers right to be wary of smart grid
“Cyberfying” the electric system is one of the biggest topics in today’s energy world. Article after article extols the wonderful things the smart grid will do for customers, from heightening energy system reliability and safety, to capturing energy efficiencies, to more easily incorporating renewable resources and facilitating electric vehicles, etc.

Given all these assumed benefits, smart grid proponents seem surprised that so many consumer advocacy organizations -- particularly those concerned about low-income ratepayers – are urging caution.]]> http://www.nwenergy.org/news/the-transformer-january-4-2011/feed/ 3 http://www.nwenergy.org/news/the-transformer-august-18-2010/ http://www.nwenergy.org/news/the-transformer-august-18-2010/#comments Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:19:33 +0000 Jesse http://www.nwenergy.org/?p=2065 How green is my electron? Overcoming the smart grid’s color blindness Energy journals and, increasingly, the popular media now teem with updates and predictions on developing “smart grid” technologies ... how they will help smooth power demand, greatly improve efficiency and outage/service response, and reward consumers with lower bills. This issue of The Transformer tackles the question of why the smart grid isn’t necessarily a green grid and, in fact, could actually foster greater demand for power from coal-fueled or nuclear baseload plants. It also presents one proposed means of dealing with the problem: buying green electrons...]]> http://www.nwenergy.org/news/the-transformer-august-18-2010/feed/ 0 http://www.nwenergy.org/news/0402010/ http://www.nwenergy.org/news/0402010/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:00:30 +0000 Jesse http://www.nwenergy.org/?p=1288 The Transformer: A cheaper bright future The region’s new power and conservation plan closely tracks NW Energy Coalition’s Bright Future analysis and provides an even lower consumer cost estimate for achieving our clean energy vision... ]]> http://www.nwenergy.org/news/0402010/feed/ 1 http://www.nwenergy.org/news/032210/ http://www.nwenergy.org/news/032210/#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:59:18 +0000 Jesse http://www.nwenergy.org/?p=1215 The Transformer - Energy efficiency brings good things to life The new official power and conservation plan for the Northwest confirms that more than enough inexpensive energy efficiency is availability to meet most new electricity needs.]]> http://www.nwenergy.org/news/032210/feed/ 2 http://www.nwenergy.org/resources-publications/transformer/subscribe-mailng/ http://www.nwenergy.org/resources-publications/transformer/subscribe-mailng/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:30:10 +0000 Jesse http://www.nwenergy.org/?p=1125 Click here to subscribe to The Transformer and The Energy Activist Update]]> http://www.nwenergy.org/resources-publications/transformer/subscribe-mailng/feed/ 0 http://www.nwenergy.org/news/transformer-12152009/ http://www.nwenergy.org/news/transformer-12152009/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:23:58 +0000 Jesse http://nwenergy.adhostclient.com/?p=176 http://www.nwenergy.org/news/transformer-12152009/feed/ 0 http://www.nwenergy.org/resources-publications/transformer/post-three/ http://www.nwenergy.org/resources-publications/transformer/post-three/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:33:22 +0000 admin http://nwenergycoalition/?p=22 http://www.nwenergy.org/resources-publications/transformer/post-three/feed/ 3 http://www.nwenergy.org/policy/the-transformer-august-6-2008/ http://www.nwenergy.org/policy/the-transformer-august-6-2008/#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:11:58 +0000 Jesse http://nwenergy.adhostclient.com/?p=242 http://www.nwenergy.org/policy/the-transformer-august-6-2008/feed/ 0 http://www.nwenergy.org/resources-publications/transformer/the-transformer-june-11-2008/ http://www.nwenergy.org/resources-publications/transformer/the-transformer-june-11-2008/#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:33:19 +0000 Jesse http://nwenergy.adhostclient.com/?p=576 http://www.nwenergy.org/resources-publications/transformer/the-transformer-june-11-2008/feed/ 0 http://www.nwenergy.org/resources-publications/transformer/the-transformer-february-25-2008/ http://www.nwenergy.org/resources-publications/transformer/the-transformer-february-25-2008/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:40:30 +0000 Jesse http://nwenergy.adhostclient.com/?p=586 http://www.nwenergy.org/resources-publications/transformer/the-transformer-february-25-2008/feed/ 0