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John Funk

@JohnCFunk

If it involves energy, I am interested! I write about energy and utility issues

 Cleveland, Ohio
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This new video really humanizes the problem of utility bill hikes that benefit Big Coal and corrupt utilities like FirstEnergy with an eye opening look at West Virginia and beyond.
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@MorePerfectUS20 Feb 2024
NEW: Electric bills are too damn high. Rates have increased as much as 90% over the last 15 years as utility companies hike prices more than ever before. There’s a massive bribery and corruption scheme fueling the skyrocketing bills.
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Investment fund lawyers suing FirstEnergy report the company is finding thousands of more documents. Meanwhile, the Justice Department isn't commenting on rumors that further charges might be filed next month in the biggest bribery scandal in Ohio history. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/…
Attorneys dig up thousands of new documents in case against FirstEnergy • Ohio Capital Journal

Attorneys dig up thousands of new documents in case against FirstEnergy • Ohio Capital Journal

Lawyers for pension and investment funds suing Akron-based FirstEnergy report that as they press the company for documents relating to alleged bribery, the company is finding thousands more.

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A federal judge in Cincinnati sentenced former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder to 20 years in prison Thursday for taking bribes from FirstEnergy to pass legislation subsidizing the company’s nuclear plants. ✏️: @JohnCFunk #EnergyTwitter #EnergyMarkets #EnergyNews

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At least half a dozen groups filed comments months ago with the U.S. departments of Energy and the Treasury to influence the creation of the rules that the IRS will use to determine the size of the production tax credits authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act. ✏️: @JohnCFunk

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“This is going to take 20 years,” Watson Collins, a senior technical executive at EPRI said, adding he’s not concerned since utilities made a similar increase in the past few decades to electrify heating, air conditioning and myriad other electrical functions. ✏️: @JohnCFunk

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Top June 1982. Bottom 2023. 1982 became a super El Nino, 2023 maybe by late fall. You see the respective El Niño's in the Pacific, but what stands out is the red in 2023 across the oceans. This is what background climate heating has accomplished in 4 decades. H/T @ericfisher
Image from Jeff Berardelli (@WeatherProf)
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The Biden administration’s decarbonization objectives have prompted gas and electric utilities to look at using hydrogen not only for energy storage and generation. Read More : ow.ly/x72t50OwvcC ✏️ : @JohnCFunk

A Look at How Some Utilities are Planning to Use Hydrogen

In light of Biden administration decarbonization objectives, Hawaii Gas executive notes in webinar that fuel production byproduct has been providing hydrogen for sale to consumers for decades.

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The six regional industrial hydrogen hubs the U.S. Department of Energy will choose among dozens of applicants this year will not be enough to reach its stated production targets. Read More : ow.ly/Hoah50OvkhI ✏️ : @JohnCFunk

Report: Hydrogen Hubs Must Expand Beyond Those Chosen by DOE

Hydrogen report says Department of Energy hubs won't be enough and that more generation, and via electrolysis, will be needed.

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A number of companies are now using automation and AI to expedite utility-scale #solar installations, ease labor shortages and protect workers from unsafe conditions. Reporting by @ewesoff: bit.ly/3WcElGF
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The project, located in #Maryland’s most populous county, will use a solar microgrid to produce enough ​“green” hydrogen for 13 new fuel-cell buses. Reporting by @mariagallucci: bit.ly/3BVAJ2B
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Plug Power (@PlugPowerInc) is building fuel cells for stationary generation and EVs, large electrolyzers to produce hydrogen, and industrial-sized green hydrogen production factories in the U.S. to get ahead of the expected massive switch to hydrogen as a fuel. ✏️: @JohnCFunk

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Electric vehicle manufacturer Lordstown Motors (@LordstownMotors) reported a first-quarter loss of nearly $172 million and warned investors of “substantial doubt regarding our ability to continue as a going concern.” ✏️: @JohnCFunk #EnergyTwitter #EnergyMarkets #EnergyNews

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Microsoft invests in nuclear fusion startup Helion Energy trib.al/NNN25f7
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Oh c’mon, did Big Vodka write this story?
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@TIME6 May 2023
Why tequila's rising popularity is bad for the environment ti.me/41eBxcJ
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The argument is more than academic because the Treasury and the Department of Energy (@ENERGY) are expected to use the calculated level of GHG emissions across regional grids to determine the PTC. Billions of dollars are at stake. ✏️: @JohnCFunk #EnergyTwitter #EnergyMarkets

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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (@NRCgov) has begun a special inspection to investigate ground settling at the Davis-Besse nuclear plant in northwest Ohio, including two incidents that damaged dedicated fire-protection water lines. ✏️: @JohnCFunk #EnergyTwitter #EnergyNews

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Following the March 9 conviction of Householder and a former state Republican Party chairman, two Democratic state representatives introduced a new bill to eliminate the OVEC charge and require the utilities to reimburse customers for past collections. ✏️: @JohnCFunk #EnergyNews

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Empower Ohio, which was secretly funded by American Electric Power, wrote a check for $250,000 to Generation Now four days before Larry Householder announced House Bill 6 at a press conference. HB 6 is at the center of an ongoing federal investigation energyandpolicy.org/larry-ho…
Image from Dave Anderson (@cleantechfacts)
Image from Dave Anderson (@cleantechfacts)
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DOE’s Commercial Liftoff of Advanced Nuclear keeps nuclear power in the mix and looks for ways to stimulate new construction. The report says the U.S. nuclear industry has the potential to “scale to 300 GW by 2050. ✏️: @JohnCFunk #EnergyTwitter #EnergyMarkets #EnergyNews

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Illinois Commerce Commission Chair Carrie Zalewski announced her resignation days before the beginning of the first of two Commonwealth Edison bribery trials in which the Justice Department will try to prove the utility engaged in a years-long scheme. ✏️: @JohnCFunk #EnergyNews

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