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Today is a time of change in the utility industry. Utilities must embrace innovation and move quickly to find new and better ways to deliver affordable, reliable and environmentally sensitive energy services to you, our customer-owners.
From time to time, OPPD’s Board of Directors will call upon customers to provide feedback on specific topics. Your feedback is used to help shape OPPD’s decisions and how we operate now and in the future.
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Today’s Topic: SD - 7 Environmental Stewardship
OPPD's Board of Directors is seeking feedback on policy revisions to SD-7: Environmental Stewardship ahead of an upcoming board vote. The deadline for comments is October 13, 2024
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Give Us Your Feedback
Today is a time of change in the utility industry. Utilities must embrace innovation and move quickly to find new and better ways to deliver affordable, reliable and environmentally sensitive energy services to you, our customer-owners.
From time to time, OPPD’s Board of Directors will call upon customers to provide feedback on specific topics. Your feedback is used to help shape OPPD’s decisions and how we operate now and in the future.
We invite you to be part of the conversation.
Today’s Topic: SD - 7 Environmental Stewardship
OPPD's Board of Directors is seeking feedback on policy revisions to SD-7: Environmental Stewardship ahead of an upcoming board vote. The deadline for comments is October 13, 2024
Click the image above to view the SD-7 revision (redline)
Click the image above to view the SD-7 revision (clean)
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As I've told the Board at least a dozen times, SD-7 is unlawful as it is contra to OPPD's statutory duty to produce only low cost and reliable power. Wind and solar are neither.
The real tragedy here is not that the world is going to burn up in 2100 (it's not), but that OPPD is missing out on a gigantic economic opportunity as I detailed in my comments at the September 19th meeting.
There is a growing demand for electricity. Data centers and AI are driving that demand. Most other utilities are foolishly adding more intermittent and costly wind and solar to their grids. That's an inadequate and unstable supply. If OPPD built a 3,000 MW gas-fired power plant in Washington or Burt Counties, the Omaha area would see an economic boon.
Transmission is golden. The high-powered lines out of the former Ft. Calhoun station are empty. Fill them up! Transmission costs $1.5m per mile.
Larry Ellison, chairman and founder of Oracle, recently said he's employing utility executives who are looking to site an Oracle data center that can meet its needs. He thinks the US could need 1,000 data centers that would each consume up to 800 MW. Data centers, of course, need power 24/7/365. Solar doesn't cut it. I also understand that 27 different bit coin miners are looking at Nebraska.
Right now Northern Virginia is the home of the most data centers. Why not Omaha? Answer: Because the Board is fixated on net zero.
More electricity means more revenue for OPPD. That also means that the OPPD executives would also get big pay raises.
I've also told the Board multiple times that the Center of the American Experiment modeled net zero in WI and MN and the result was triple electric rates and black outs in January. CA and Germany have been pursuing net zero for many years and that's why they have electric rates that are triple OPPD's.
If there such a thing as political malpractice, the OPPD Board would be sued into bankruptcy.
As to the new "environmental justice" addition, to say this is ridiculous is an understatement. It has nothing to do with producing low cost and reliable power. With this SD-7 amendment, the Board has become a liberal parody.
David D. Begley
David D. Begley
6 days ago
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As I've told the Board at least a dozen times, SD-7 is unlawful as it is contra to OPPD's statutory duty to produce only low cost and reliable power. Wind and solar are neither.
The real tragedy here is not that the world is going to burn up in 2100 (it's not), but that OPPD is missing out on a gigantic economic opportunity as I detailed in my comments at the September 19th meeting.
There is a growing demand for electricity. Data centers and AI are driving that demand. Most other utilities are foolishly adding more intermittent and costly wind and solar to their grids. That's an inadequate and unstable supply. If OPPD built a 3,000 MW gas-fired power plant in Washington or Burt Counties, the Omaha area would see an economic boon.
Transmission is golden. The high-powered lines out of the former Ft. Calhoun station are empty. Fill them up! Transmission costs $1.5m per mile.
Larry Ellison, chairman and founder of Oracle, recently said he's employing utility executives who are looking to site an Oracle data center that can meet its needs. He thinks the US could need 1,000 data centers that would each consume up to 800 MW. Data centers, of course, need power 24/7/365. Solar doesn't cut it. I also understand that 27 different bit coin miners are looking at Nebraska.
Right now Northern Virginia is the home of the most data centers. Why not Omaha? Answer: Because the Board is fixated on net zero.
More electricity means more revenue for OPPD. That also means that the OPPD executives would also get big pay raises.
I've also told the Board multiple times that the Center of the American Experiment modeled net zero in WI and MN and the result was triple electric rates and black outs in January. CA and Germany have been pursuing net zero for many years and that's why they have electric rates that are triple OPPD's.
If there such a thing as political malpractice, the OPPD Board would be sued into bankruptcy.
As to the new "environmental justice" addition, to say this is ridiculous is an understatement. It has nothing to do with producing low cost and reliable power. With this SD-7 amendment, the Board has become a liberal parody.
David D. Begley
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