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Jeffrey Mosher welcomes back Dick Peffley, General Manager, Lansing Board of Water & Light, Lansing, MI.

Dick, let's remind the Michigan business community of the scope of services and footprint of BWL.

I understand you wanted to talk about the recent storms and how tree trimming set us up for success. - tell us about that.

Speaking of success for the future how is BWL's power generation mix evolving?

What else should we know at this time?

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In this week’s episode, host Kristin Hayes talks with David Brown, an associate professor at the University of Alberta, about research on the value of electricity reliability that he coauthored with Resources for the Future University Fellow Lucija Muehlenbachs. Brown discusses dollar-value estimates of how much consumers are willing to pay to avoid power outages, the technologies that households and communities are using to improve electricity reliability, and policies for addressing inequitable access to those technologies.

References and recommendations:

“The Value of Electricity Reliability: Evidence from Battery Adoption” by David P. Brown and Lucija Muehlenbachs; https://www.rff.org/publications/working-papers/the-value-of-electricity-reliability-evidence-from-battery-adoption/

“Socioeconomic and demographic disparities in residential battery storage adoption: Evidence from California” by David P. Brown; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421522001021

“What Are the Benefits of Electric Vehicles for Climate, Air Pollution, and Health?” by Joshua Linn and Daniel Shawhan; https://www.resources.org/common-resources/what-are-the-benefits-of-electric-vehicles-for-climate-air-pollution-and-health/

The Value of Electricity Reliability: Evidence from Battery Adoption, with David Brown

A hospital lost power in Los Angeles because of Hurricane Hilary. This led to a woman giving birth in the dark. Learn more about it on This Morning with Gordon Deal.

Woman gives birth in the dark after hospital loses power

While power outages are not uncommon in the U.S., widespread blackouts that last more than a couple of hours are pretty rare. However, this summer marks the 20th anniversary of one of the most significant blackouts in North American history. The incident didn’t just affect the U.S., but also major parts of Canada.
The blackout occurred on Aug. 14, 2003. The History Channel reports it began at 4:10 p.m. EDT, when 21 power plants shut down in just three minutes. Fifty million people were affected, including residents of New York City, Cleveland, and Detroit, as well as Toronto and Ottawa, Canada, among others. Although power companies were able to resume some service in as little as two hours, power remained off in other places for more than a day. The outage stopped trains and elevators, and disrupted everything from cellular telephone service to operations at hospitals and traffic at airports.
“It was close to quitting time in the afternoon, and given the warm weather in the middle of the summer and thunderstorm season, our system was holding up well. I was looking forward to actually leaving on time for a change,” Paul Toscarelli, senior director of Electric Transmission and Distribution (T&D) Operations for the Palisades Division with Public Service Electric and Gas (PSE&G), New Jersey’s largest utility, said as a guest on The POWER Podcast. Toscarelli was an engineer assigned to one of PSE&G’s regional distribution divisions at the time and was in the distribution dispatch office when the incident occurred. He recalled the event quite vividly.
“We were coming up around the second anniversary of 9/11, as I recollect, and just about everyone’s gut feel—instinctive feel—was this was another kind of terrorist attack,” Toscarelli said. “Looking back at it, it was very strange to recollect how relieved we were to find out it was just a widespread system outage of epic proportions.”
Of the 750,000 PSE&G customers that lost power that day, nearly three-quarters were back online within five hours and virtually all had service by noon the next day. PSE&G said diversification and design protections helped to contain the outage, and the company was safely able to reenergize the system circuit by circuit.
“The industry learned a lot about the electric system vulnerabilities,” said Toscarelli. Based on studies of the incident, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) enhanced its standards in an effort to prevent future blackouts. 
Since the 2003 blackout, PSE&G has spent billions of dollars to further enhance the reliability and resiliency of its T&D systems with the aim of mitigating future outages. In fact, the company’s planned capital expenditures this year are the largest in the utility’s history—more than $3.5 billion.  
Among the projects PSE&G expects to complete in 2023 is a Newark Switch Rebuild Project. The Newark Switching Station is the heart of the company’s Newark T&D network. The $350 million project will modernize aging infrastructure that was put into service in 1957.
Another example is the $550 million Roseland-Pleasant Valley Project, which was completed in May and was one of PSE&G’s largest transmission projects to date. The 51-mile undertaking replaced transmission facilities that were, on average, about 90 years old.
“Infrastructure continually ages. It’s our job as the stewards of our system to monitor the usage of our equipment, inspect it, maintain it, and replace it where it’s deemed necessary, in a timely manner, and continuously repeat that process,” said Toscarelli. “We have an asset management model that involves risk assessment and risk scoring, and it lets us stay in the forefront of this.”

143. Power Grid Investments Improve Reliability and Make Blackouts Less Likely

Pretty much cover of Power Outage from Freddyspin.

Blackout '87 [Freddyspin]

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[ * Hi! ]

{Ace}
[ * Err... who are you? ]

{B.B.}
[ * Ahaha! I'm B.B. ]
[ * My real name is Balloon Boy, but you can just call me B.B. ]
[ * I'm just a silly little robot, what brings you here? ]

{Ace}
[ * Oh, I'm new here... ]

{B.B.}
[ * New to the Megaloprison? ]
[ * Tell me, what's your crime? ]
[ * Ahaha! Don't look so flustered, I'm only joking. ]
[ * However, I do have some secrets about how to live down here. ]
[ * Come closer, let me tell you... ]

Unshattered arranged and composed by Seeya_le @thatoneelliie
Recognized Maniacs (Song) arranged and composed by Xinos @yayxinos and Lucidis @sexy-synth-woman

003. Hi! Hello!

Are you worried about experiencing a power outage? Tune in for an inspiring discussion with April Lisonbee from Schneider Electric on the latest innovative home energy management system Schneider Home. 

Moments with Marianne airs in the Southern California area on KMET1490AM & 98.1 FM, an ABC Talk News Radio affiliate!  

April Lisonbee completed her B.A. in Business Economics at California State University before going on to complete her master’s degree in business administration (MBA) at IE Business School in Madrid, Spain.  She has been working in marketing and advertising for almost two decades  and is currently leading Schneider Electric’s marketing initiatives for their U.S. residential offers. In her current role, April is responsible for launching the new brand, Schneider Home, the first-of-its-kind energy management solution that gives homeowners the power to save energy, extend battery backup and use electricity more efficiently. https://shop.se.com/us/en

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Schneider Home with April Lisonbee

03 20 2025 Pastor Paul Interview - Michael - X Files - Ezekiel 39

Did a power outage cover for my sister. Changed a few bits here and there. If you’ve listened to it before, you should hear the difference.

Yes the drawing is based off of Jr’s,

Nights Unwinded - POWER OUTAGE (Carrot Cover)

Inspired by @ss_st
Inspired by @2shift
Based on @recognized-maniacs

A megalo-insert AU.

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