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Rising sea levels over last 50 years?

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Maybe the environment has been making us fatter and less healthy to kill us off. You know how people say the earth will take care of itself.

Been following these guys for a while. I know some people were telling us it was a "sky is falling" narrative when these giant lakes drop by a foot, but the acreage on that one foot is insane. Then add up dozens of feet...

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MDlaxfan76 wrote: Sat Jul 16, 2022 9:40 am
youthathletics wrote: Sat Jul 16, 2022 9:19 am Not good, IMO, this will backfire at some point: https://www.eenews.net/articles/washing ... rULxfRG7ws
Indeed, the far better approach was what the EPA was trying to do, enabling the energy production companies to change the proportion of green versus carbon production over time, by increasing green, rather than banning or restricting a carbon source.

SCOTUS said nope, that's not your remit, you (EPA) can only restrict (huh?)...pushing this back to Congress or local...Congress won't act due to filibuster, so SCOTUS says that it's up to local legislatures...since they don't have the ability to do what EPA was going to do, they can only use the levers they have...

That said, I'm not so sure why these restrictions, on new or substantially rehabbed buildings, won't be accomplished without much problem; it's nevertheless going to only be a minority of overall energy usage for quite some time...if this was a mandate that said all homeowners have a date certain at which they have to replace all their equipment, sure, that'd be a mess.

but I may have missed something, not understood something.
... I am not concerned about SCOTUS in this action. The world markets are and have been responding for some time now - upwards of a decade. We are not moving as fast as we should or I would like, but we are moving in the right direction and the speed is picking up. I am more concerned about methane in the tundra than I am SCOTUS shooting us all in the ass.
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jhu72 wrote: Wed Jul 20, 2022 10:55 pm
MDlaxfan76 wrote: Sat Jul 16, 2022 9:40 am
youthathletics wrote: Sat Jul 16, 2022 9:19 am Not good, IMO, this will backfire at some point: https://www.eenews.net/articles/washing ... rULxfRG7ws
Indeed, the far better approach was what the EPA was trying to do, enabling the energy production companies to change the proportion of green versus carbon production over time, by increasing green, rather than banning or restricting a carbon source.

SCOTUS said nope, that's not your remit, you (EPA) can only restrict (huh?)...pushing this back to Congress or local...Congress won't act due to filibuster, so SCOTUS says that it's up to local legislatures...since they don't have the ability to do what EPA was going to do, they can only use the levers they have...

That said, I'm not so sure why these restrictions, on new or substantially rehabbed buildings, won't be accomplished without much problem; it's nevertheless going to only be a minority of overall energy usage for quite some time...if this was a mandate that said all homeowners have a date certain at which they have to replace all their equipment, sure, that'd be a mess.

but I may have missed something, not understood something.
... I am not concerned about SCOTUS in this action. The world markets are and have been responding for some time now - upwards of a decade. We are not moving as fast as we should or I would like, but we are moving in the right direction and the speed is picking up. I am more concerned about methane in the tundra than I am SCOTUS shooting us all in the ass.
Don't forget the methane clathrate crystals in the ocean.
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World’s Growing Thirst for American Gas Tests U.S. Ability to Meet Demand

Exports of American LNG are booming, but constraints at home and abroad limit how much natural gas the U.S. can add to global supplies

July 22, 2022 9:00 am ET

Russia throttled deliveries of natural gas to Europe after the continent adopted a flurry of sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine. That change has left Europe scrambling to secure alternatives, especially from the U.S. The continent’s liquefied natural gas, or LNG, imports from the U.S. more than doubled between March and June from the year prior, according to consulting firm Rystad Energy.

Russian natural gas began flowing again at a reduced volume through the critical Nord Stream pipeline into Europe on Thursday, ending 10 days of tense speculation about whether President Vladimir Putin’s regime would cut the flow permanently while the conduit underwent maintenance. But many European leaders fear Russia could almost entirely curtail gas exports by year’s end, making Europe more reliant on U.S. exports.

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Increased European demand for U.S. gas is reshaping global LNG markets, as cargoes headed to Asia and other regions are redirected to Europe where they can fetch a higher price. Meanwhile, some developing nations that planned to shift from coal and oil to natural gas are finding themselves priced out of the LNG market.

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For the U.S., the burgeoning LNG trade has elevated energy exports as a significant geopolitical and economic tool, resetting trade balances and giving it a freer hand to confront adversaries, say energy executives and government officials. But there are limits to how much gas the U.S. can provide to the world: U.S. exporters have maxed out their capacity and it will take years to add new, multibillion-dollar export terminals.

“We have enormous natural resources here,” said Dan Brouillette, former secretary of the Energy Department under President Trump. “The question is whether or not we can actually get [them] to the marketplace,” he said.

The U.S. sits on vast reserves of natural gas that can be extracted at low cost and moved through an integrated network of pipelines. This supply resulted in low gas prices relative to international markets, putting U.S. exporters at an advantage.

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After the fracking boom unleashed huge volumes of gas, companies rushed to build export terminals, which act as giant refrigerators, chilling gas to a liquid state so it can be shipped economically, transforming the U.S. from a net importer of gas to an exporter. President Biden has pledged to send as much LNG to Europeans as possible to decrease their reliance on Russian energy.


A natural gas fracking site in Mannington, W.Va. The fracking boom unleashed huge volumes of gas in the U.S.Photo: Maddie McGarvey for The Wall Street Journal
A spokeswoman for the Energy Department said President Biden has been clear in calling for increased U.S. production to support domestic demand and bolster allies.

The U.S. was on track to export the most volumes alongside Australia in 2022, according to analysts, but a monthslong outage caused by a fire at the Freeport LNG terminal in Texas will curtail U.S. export capacity by about 17% this year, according to the Energy Information Administration.

Still, exports of U.S. LNG averaged 11.2 billion cubic feet a day for the first half of 2022, more than a 17% increase compared with the same period last year, according to the EIA.

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Europe typically receives more than 40% of the gas it consumes from Russia, and U.S. gas can’t fully replace those volumes. Because most U.S. exports are tied up in contracts with long-term buyers, there is only so much spare LNG that exporters can ship to Europe. Some buyers in Asia and elsewhere have been willing to resell these cargoes to Europe for a profit, but preparations for the winter mean they now have to give priority to replenishing natural-gas storage, said Eugene Kim, an analyst at consulting firm Wood Mackenzie.

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U.S. companies have greenlighted some new export plants that will come online by 2024 or later, but the construction of additional capacity beyond that is uncertain. Over the long term, solving myriad bottlenecks will determine how much more LNG the U.S. can deliver to the world, executives and industry experts say.

Foreign buyers’ reluctance to commit to buying fossil fuels for decades to come, in order to meet carbon-reduction targets, could dampen financiers’ enthusiasm for expensive export terminals. Opposition to new pipelines in the U.S. required to transport additional natural gas from wells to terminals could hobble new projects. More exports could also translate into higher utility bills for U.S. households, potentially creating political headwinds for the LNG industry.

For now, there might not be a more propitious time to build LNG export terminals.

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Tightening supplies have pushed natural gas spot prices to new heights, allowing takers of U.S. cargoes of LNG to resell them at a premium on regional markets. The European benchmark topped $50 per metric million British thermal units in mid-July, compared with about $7 for the U.S. Henry Hub benchmark, according to Rystad Energy. High prices motivate buyers to secure cheaper fuel via long-term contracts, which underpin the financing of LNG export facilities.

“It’s the time for U.S. LNG to shine,” said Anatol Feygin, chief commercial officer at Cheniere Energy Inc., America’s top exporter.

Global demand for LNG is forecast to reach nearly 78 billion cubic feet a day by 2030, according to S&P Global Commodity Insights, a nearly 60% increase from 2021. Demand for U.S. LNG is expected to more than double by the end of the decade.

Since March, six U.S. companies have contracted out about 39.5 million tons of LNG per annum to be shipped out of future terminals, a 74% increase from volumes sold last year, according to Wood Mackenzie.

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“We find ourselves in the spot where we are selling [LNG] almost as fast as we can offer it to the market,” LNG exporter Venture Global Chief Executive Mike Sabel said.

But some of the fundamental hurdles the industry faced before the current energy crunch—while relegated to the background by Europe’s energy crisis—haven’t changed.

Buyers remain wary of committing to long-term contracts for LNG, analysts and executives say. Large economies such as Germany, France and the U.K. want to speed up the transition to renewable energy, and are hesitant to lock in long-term carbon emissions.

Concerns about fossil fuel-related investments also abound in the U.S. Executives say opposition to new interstate pipelines in Appalachia, host to the country’s most prolific natural gas field, presents by far the biggest obstacle to ramping up LNG exports this decade.

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A lack of infrastructure means LNG companies find themselves in a “chicken and egg sort of situation,” said Mr. Brouillette, who is now president of LNG exporter Sempra Infrastructure, a subsidiary of San Diego-based Sempra Energy. Some companies can’t secure funding unless they can point to easy access to natural gas, but regulators won’t grant permits for pipelines unless exporters demonstrate they have funding, Mr. Brouillette said.

An Energy Department spokeswoman said a lack of pipeline capacity isn’t restraining exports facilities, which she said are running at their authorized capacity.


A gas compressor station in Mallnow, Germany. Over the long term, solving myriad bottlenecks will determine how much more LNG the U.S. can deliver to the world.Photo: filip singer/Shutterstock
Rising LNG prices may force some developing nations to shift back to burning coal or oil for power generation, a move facilitated by the sale of heavily discounted Russian oil in Asia. Pakistan and Bangladesh have skipped some planned LNG deliveries in recent months, energy officials in both countries say. Government-owned natural gas importer Pakistan LNG Ltd. canceled its sole cargo for July after increases to Asian benchmark prices made it unaffordable, up roughly 1,900% from over two years ago, Chief Executive Masood Nabi said. “If LNG is too expensive, [consumers] turn to other fuels like oil and coal,” he said.

Conversely, increased exports of U.S. gas have resulted in higher electricity and natural bills for American consumers, analysts say. Since mid-2021, the growth of demand for U.S. natural gas, both from domestic and international markets, has outpaced that of production and led to the highest domestic prices since 2008, according to the EIA.

“The more LNG export terminals are built, then the more the domestic U.S. market is actually going to be sensitive to the global market,” said Roman Kramarchuk, head of energy scenarios at S&P Global Platts.

Some consumer rights advocates and business groups have begun lobbying for export limitations.

“The American consumer, the American economy, the American national security is at risk unless we maintain surplus inventory,” said Paul Cicio, chief executive of the Industrial Energy Consumers of America, a group representing manufacturers.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022 ... th-hazard/

The Trash Mountains of South Asia That Threaten the Climate
Dumps, landfills and waste sites in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are huge emitters of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
By Aaron Clark and Archana Chaudhary
July 25, 2022, 8:00 PM EDT

Piles of garbage near South Asian megacities are contributing to some of the world’s strongest and most persistent methane emissions, highlighting a major challenge in the global climate fight.

More clouds of the powerful greenhouse gas — which has 84 times the warming power of carbon dioxide over its first 20 years in the atmosphere — were spotted in India than any other country except for the US during the first half of this year, according to European Space Agency satellite observations analyzed by Kayrros SAS.
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kramerica.inc wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 6:46 pm https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022 ... th-hazard/

The Trash Mountains of South Asia That Threaten the Climate
Dumps, landfills and waste sites in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are huge emitters of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
By Aaron Clark and Archana Chaudhary
July 25, 2022, 8:00 PM EDT

Piles of garbage near South Asian megacities are contributing to some of the world’s strongest and most persistent methane emissions, highlighting a major challenge in the global climate fight.

More clouds of the powerful greenhouse gas — which has 84 times the warming power of carbon dioxide over its first 20 years in the atmosphere — were spotted in India than any other country except for the US during the first half of this year, according to European Space Agency satellite observations analyzed by Kayrros SAS.
....and which way does the wind blow? zactly.
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youthathletics wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 7:46 pm
kramerica.inc wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 6:46 pm https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022 ... th-hazard/

The Trash Mountains of South Asia That Threaten the Climate
Dumps, landfills and waste sites in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are huge emitters of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
By Aaron Clark and Archana Chaudhary
July 25, 2022, 8:00 PM EDT

Piles of garbage near South Asian megacities are contributing to some of the world’s strongest and most persistent methane emissions, highlighting a major challenge in the global climate fight.

More clouds of the powerful greenhouse gas — which has 84 times the warming power of carbon dioxide over its first 20 years in the atmosphere — were spotted in India than any other country except for the US during the first half of this year, according to European Space Agency satellite observations analyzed by Kayrros SAS.
....and which way does the wind blow? zactly.
:lol: :lol: Wind must be blowing towards the US!!
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kramerica.inc wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 6:46 pm https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022 ... th-hazard/

The Trash Mountains of South Asia That Threaten the Climate
Dumps, landfills and waste sites in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are huge emitters of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
By Aaron Clark and Archana Chaudhary
July 25, 2022, 8:00 PM EDT

Piles of garbage near South Asian megacities are contributing to some of the world’s strongest and most persistent methane emissions, highlighting a major challenge in the global climate fight.

More clouds of the powerful greenhouse gas — which has 84 times the warming power of carbon dioxide over its first 20 years in the atmosphere — were spotted in India than any other country except for the US during the first half of this year, according to European Space Agency satellite observations analyzed by Kayrros SAS.
Sort of like pig shite lagoons in NC.

Too many assnoles, too much methane.
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Typical Lax Dad wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 9:10 pm
youthathletics wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 7:46 pm
kramerica.inc wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 6:46 pm https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022 ... th-hazard/

The Trash Mountains of South Asia That Threaten the Climate
Dumps, landfills and waste sites in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are huge emitters of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
By Aaron Clark and Archana Chaudhary
July 25, 2022, 8:00 PM EDT

Piles of garbage near South Asian megacities are contributing to some of the world’s strongest and most persistent methane emissions, highlighting a major challenge in the global climate fight.

More clouds of the powerful greenhouse gas — which has 84 times the warming power of carbon dioxide over its first 20 years in the atmosphere — were spotted in India than any other country except for the US during the first half of this year, according to European Space Agency satellite observations analyzed by Kayrros SAS.
....and which way does the wind blow? zactly.
:lol: :lol: Wind must be blowing towards the US!!
Focus TLD, focus, don't be in a such a rush to increase post count.....it says spotted. The point, is that the US ain't doing so bad in the CC game, but like in the plumbers world, chit rolls down hill.
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youthathletics wrote: Wed Jul 27, 2022 7:23 am
Typical Lax Dad wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 9:10 pm
youthathletics wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 7:46 pm
kramerica.inc wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 6:46 pm https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022 ... th-hazard/

The Trash Mountains of South Asia That Threaten the Climate
Dumps, landfills and waste sites in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are huge emitters of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
By Aaron Clark and Archana Chaudhary
July 25, 2022, 8:00 PM EDT

Piles of garbage near South Asian megacities are contributing to some of the world’s strongest and most persistent methane emissions, highlighting a major challenge in the global climate fight.

More clouds of the powerful greenhouse gas — which has 84 times the warming power of carbon dioxide over its first 20 years in the atmosphere — were spotted in India than any other country except for the US during the first half of this year, according to European Space Agency satellite observations analyzed by Kayrros SAS.
....and which way does the wind blow? zactly.
:lol: :lol: Wind must be blowing towards the US!!
Focus TLD, focus, don't be in a such a rush to increase post count.....it says spotted. The point, is that the US ain't doing so bad in the CC game, but like in the plumbers world, chit rolls down hill.

We could all be doing better. 30 years of dragging our feet. But hey, Al Gore was trying to make some money.
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Wally Cleaver is gone. May as well let the burning consume us.
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Power Companies Enter Peak Hurricane Season Lacking Enough Transformers

Lengthy outages loom after storms, as surging electricity demand and global supply-chain issues quadruple wait times for the vital equipment

Aug. 1, 2022 7:00 am ET
Wait times for transformers, used to move electricity from higher to lower voltages, have quadrupled and are averaging well over a year, utilities say, raising the likelihood of prolonged power outages during hurricane season.

Companies are trying to share limited inventories as they face increasingly strong storms, replace aging infrastructure and manage soaring demand for power. Their suppliers, beset by supply-chain challenges and a global scramble for raw materials related to electricity, haven’t been able to keep pace.

“The fundamental problem with transformers is they’re used in everything that is related to electricity,” said Ray Kowalik, chief executive of engineering, architecture and construction company Burns & McDonnell Inc. The move to electric vehicles as well as rising interest in power-hungry cryptocurrencies and the development of solar and wind farms are a few factors pushing up demand for transformers of all sizes. Data center growth, increased residential construction and the replacement of old equipment also are contributing to the higher demand.

Mr. Kowalik said some of his colleagues have started calling the lack of distribution transformers, recognizable as the can-shaped equipment mounted on neighborhood utility poles or the green boxes on concrete pads, “the current toilet-paper shortage.”


Ermco, a transformer manufacturer, is trying to increase production at its Dyersburg, Tenn., factory.
Public Service Enterprise Group Inc., PEG 0.35%▲ which serves 2.3 million electric customers in New Jersey, used to be able to procure distribution transformers within 12 weeks. Now, it says it is taking more than a year. The company has lately started refurbishing some units, something it hasn’t typically done.

Chief Executive Ralph Izzo said the company is taking longer to deliver transformers to the construction industry, to the extent that it can, to ensure that the utility has enough inventory for storm season. He said the company has enough of a buffer this season for a storm akin to Hurricane Isaias, which caused extensive destruction and widespread power outages in New Jersey in 2020 even after the hurricane weakened into a tropical storm.

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Two storms of that magnitude “would be very challenging, given competition between new construction and storm readiness,” Mr. Izzo said. Under those circumstances, he added, “you just cannot accommodate new construction, and that would be a very bad day for the economy.”

A group of Florida lawmakers in a June letter asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help mitigate the problem, saying that the state’s municipal utilities and electric cooperatives can no longer stockpile transformers and face “substantially longer” power restoration after storms. Alabama lawmakers followed with a similar letter in July.

Rudy Garza, interim chief executive at city-owned CPS Energy in San Antonio, has likewise written to Texas policy makers advocating for the creation of a strategic reserve of transformers and wires.

“There’s going to be some stuff that we don’t have that our brothers and sisters on the coast are going to need in the event of a major hurricane,” Mr. Garza said.


Transformer maker Ermco is contending with stressed supply chains.
Utilities have a long tradition of sharing equipment and workers after disasters, but voltages for transformers vary, complicating matters. “You can’t just take a transformer that we use and ship it to Austin,” Mr. Garza said.

Electric Research & Manufacturing Cooperative Inc., known as Ermco, supplies an estimated one-quarter of the U.S. transformer market and made about 460,000 transformers last year in its Dyersburg, Tenn., factory, a record for the company. Chief Executive Tim Mills said the company is trying to increase output again but still must limit orders to sometimes half of what a company requests.

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“I’m sold out or will be locked in through 2025 by the end of this summer,” said Mr. Mills, who is part of an industry group studying supply chains and demand to try to figure out solutions.

The company’s plant runs 24 hours a day, five days a week. If Mr. Mills could add 600 workers to the current 1,700, he could operate seven days a week and boost output by a range of 25% to 30%. But finding more workers isn’t easy and raw-materials supply chains are also stressed.

In 2016, three large utilities launched a company called Grid Assurance to stockpile transmission transformers, used at substations or to serve large industrial customers, and other equipment critical to maintaining system reliability after significant storms and emergencies. The company stockpiled equipment ahead of supply-chain challenges and now serves six utility companies that pay for the opportunity to tap the reserves when needed.


Ermco sometimes limits orders to half of what a customer requests.
CEO David Rupert said Grid Assurance has lately noted a surge in interest among other utilities facing months- or yearslong lead times for critical equipment. He said the company can deliver much of that equipment within four to eight weeks.

“There’s just a lot of concern tied in with the price of new assets and the long lead times,” Mr. Rupert said.

At Duke Energy Corp., DUK 0.90%▲ a company with electric utilities serving six Southern and Midwestern states, the lead times to acquire transmission transformers have increased as a result of challenges with overseas suppliers and shipping availability. It now takes the company about three years to obtain higher-voltage ones, up from roughly two years, and 18 months to procure lower-voltage ones, up from about a year or less.

Ben Harrison, vice president of transmission engineering and asset management, said the company is working to increase the amount of inventory it keeps on hand and placing orders earlier in its project-planning cycles.

“That product has not been immune in any way from all the global supply-chain issues,” Mr. Harrison said. “We’re not yet seeing the lead times go down.”


Coils that help conduct electricity move along the assembly line at Ermco, which runs its plant 24 hours a day five days a week.
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Should bode well for the "decarbonization and electrification" movement.
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youthathletics wrote: Mon Aug 01, 2022 7:50 am Should bode well for the "decarbonization and electrification" movement.
I wonder if Gore stands to make some money from it?
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Typical Lax Dad wrote: Mon Aug 01, 2022 7:57 am
youthathletics wrote: Mon Aug 01, 2022 7:50 am Should bode well for the "decarbonization and electrification" movement.
I wonder if Gore stands to make some money from it?
Invest in tow trucks, for all those electric cars on the side of the road.
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youthathletics wrote: Mon Aug 01, 2022 7:59 am
Typical Lax Dad wrote: Mon Aug 01, 2022 7:57 am
youthathletics wrote: Mon Aug 01, 2022 7:50 am Should bode well for the "decarbonization and electrification" movement.
I wonder if Gore stands to make some money from it?
Invest in tow trucks, for all those electric cars on the side of the road.
Go for it…. Meanwhile, in the real world…

https://www.boston.com/news/environment ... ort/?amp=1

https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/news/2022/ext ... ber-deaths

We can pray on it for help.
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