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We live in a time of digital disruption.
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Oracle has missed revenue expectations for three quarters in a row now as its Q3 results fell short of market expectations. The company blamed currency fluctuations and the strength of the US dollar for this latest miss.
The company reported third quarter earnings of $2.6 billion on revenue of $9.3 billion. Wall Street expected to Oracle to report fiscal third quarter revenue of $9.36 billion.
To be fair, Oracle did deliver some good data points. For instance, hardware system product revenue for the third quarter was $725 million, up 8 percent from a year ago. Software license and support revenue was up 5 percent to $4.6 billion and new software licenses and cloud subscriptions were up 4 percent from a year ago to $2.4 billion. Oracle says its outlook for the fourth quarter was solid. Safra Catz, Oracle co-president, said revenue growth in the fourth quarter will be between 3 percent and 7 percent.
Oracle won't want to miss Quarterly earnings expectations again and will expect their sales teams to outperform in the next couple of months. All of which bodes well for an exciting run up to Oracle's fiscal year end on May 31st.
Here are three quick tips to bear in mind as you prepare to negotiate with Oracle:
1. If you have an Oracle contract up for negotiation this quarter, then you should leverage the pressure Oracle sales are under to hit market expectations by squeezing an extra point or two of discount in return for a signed contract.
2. If you have a support renewal coming up, remember you have a choice now and third parties like Rimini Street, Spinnaker Support and Alui can give you real leverage at the negotiating table.
Posted by Clement Teo on March 19, 2014
I attended an NG Telecom summit in Hong Kong recently; at the event, I chaired a discussion on how telcos need to improve the customer experience.
Consumers now have powerful mobile devices in their hands, speedy access to social platforms, and the ability to call up information on the go. More importantly, customers today can choose to easily switch to a competitor if they don't like the customer experience they are receiving. As a result, telcos no longer "own" customers — it's the other way around.
The discussion participants all agreed that telcos must do the following to meet customer-centric needs:
Posted by Gene Cao on March 12, 2014
IBM recently kicked off its big data market planning for 2014 and released a white paper that discusses how analytics create new business value for end user organizations. The major differences compared with last year's event:
Posted by Clement Teo on March 5, 2014
At Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona, SingTel CEO Chua Sock Koong was reported as "call[ing] on Australian regulators to give carriers like Optus the right to charge rivals WhatsApp and Skype for use of their networks or risk a major decline in network investment."
With the telecommunications industry unable to monetize over-the-top (OTT) traffic, telcos will struggle to find the funding they need to improve their infrastructure — meaning that network quality could deteriorate. Chua did concede that telcos should work toward partnering with OTT players.
What It Means
SingTel's argument runs over familiar ground, similar to the ongoing net neutrality debate in the US. My colleagues suggest that telcos will offer tiered access at tiered pricing to OTT players in the future, charging higher prices for better connection speeds and greater data traffic. While I don't doubt this, price-sensitive Asia may be a harder nut to crack; telcos here run the risk of customer churn by raising service prices.
Aside from speeding up its rate of service innovation, SingTel should:
Posted by Liz Herbert on March 4, 2014
Despite an increasingly crowded market of cloud applications, salesforce.com is still very much the "darling" of the SaaS world. Some evidence of the provider's continued fast-paced growth?
1) Strong stock market performance. On June 12, 2013, when salesforce.com announced the completion of its acquisition of ExactTarget, salesforce.com stock (CRM) was trading at $37.58. On February 19, 2014, it closed at just over $63, a gain of 67.7% over that period (for reference the NASDAQ Composite did roughly 25% over the same period).
2) External accolades for its ability to innovate. In August, salesforce.com was names by Forbes as the world's most innovative company for the third year running.
3) Steady flow of new products and editions. In November, salesforce.com announced its new Salesforce1 Service Cloud – a platform to be used for cloud-based application development. This product represents a significant improvement in the mobile salesforce.com experience which will ideally aid them in meeting their aggressive financial predictions. Not long before that, salesforce.com had announced Social.com, in April 2013.
4) Revenue growth. Salesforce.com's recent fiscal results (Q3 2013) conservatively project revenue growth of more than $1 billion for both this year and next ($4.05 billion for FY 2014 and $5.15 billion for FY 2015, compared to $3.05 billion in FY 2103).
So, it is no surprise then (in light of salesforce.com's massive scale and continued expansion) that we continue to receive a heavy volume of Inquiries into Forrester about how to negotiate with salesforce.com.
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I went back (it's been a couple years) to check out the conifers donated by Chub Harper to our local Botanical Center this afternoon. The labels were all being re-worked, and I found several mistakes, or at least I think I did. A master typed list referring to the numbered markers was all I had to go on, and several I wondered about. Anyway, something for you guys to browse through.
Tsuga canadensis 'Dwarf Upright'
Pinus leucodermis - got some cones too!
Pinus nigra 'Arnold Sentinel' (Arnold's)???
Pinus koraiensis
Pinus cembra 'Glauca'
Picea pungens 'Fat Albert' (These must vary as this one is narrow? - I've seen some real wide and short stout ones)
Picea pungens 'Delp's Dwarf Blue'
Picea omorika (f. 'Pendula')
Picea glauca 'Pendula'
Labled: Picea abies 'Thomson WB' - maybe a spelling mistake and species mistake - (Picea p. 'Thomsen') - I have no idea on this one - completely confused! Looks like a pungens to me, but then again they spelled Thomson differently from the upright pungens cultivar.
Thuja occidentalis 'Warena Lutescens'
Thuja occidentalis 'Degroot's Spire'
???Taxus cuspidata 'Fastigiate Aurea'??? So as read -
Pseudotsuga menziesii 'Graceful Grace'
Pinus strobus 'Horsford'
Picea abies 'Remontii'
Picea abies 'Sherwood Spreader'
Picea abies 'Mucronata'
Juniperus rigida 'Pendula'
No label - but I assume it's a: Hepacoides m... (Seven Sons Flower - I forget the botanical name - fragrance unbelievable and of course the bark does give the plant a name, plus the bloom date)
Last photo - (camera battery problems again - darnit!)
Abies koreana 'Silberlocke' being vamped by lilac's. Got some cones from this one as well! So overall a fun time there.
Yes, some of the conifer names are wrong. If you have access to a library with manuals, such as at a university with a hort. department you can check them out. You can also do web searches using parts of suspect names to get more information. The flowering shrub is a seven son flower (Heptacodium).
Rock Island - allium. Right at the foot of the Arsenal bridge (5th avenue and approximately 24 street).
bboy - I contacted Chub Harper this morning. He knows what was donated. Thanks though. Now I remember about the Heptacodium, species miconoides or something like that - obviously I combined the two. And then, the email request topic I started, well, I figured out the answer to my own question. But thanks.
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A salt reduction ingredient that maintains the flavour and the properties of bread dough has been developed for the bakery sector.
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A protein-boosting ingredient for manufacturers of dairy products, sports nutrition, snacks and snack bars, and power blends has been developed by protein specialist Rousselot.
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Pork processing giant Tulip turned around its £2.3M US-style food production plant in a matter of weeks, ceo Chris Thomas has said.
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John R. Graham Discusses Obamacare's Failings on KTRS
Recorded: Thursday, February 19, 2015
Sr. Fellow John R. Graham appeared on the Larry Conners USA radio show to talk about the failings of the Affordable Care Act and how it is costing people more money than originally thought. Graham also discusses the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court Case "King vs Burwell" that may strike down Obamacare in states that have not set up their own health care exchanges.
Experts: John R. GrahamType: RadioIssues: Health Care
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Recorded: Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Entrepreneur and Author Peter A. Thiel spoke at a luncheon sponsored by the Independent Institute on January 27, 2015. He shared insights from his new book Zero to One on how to create true innovations in the world of atomsnot just digits and bitsand how to foster a peaceful, prosperous and freer future marked by globalization in a world of limited resources.
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Independent Institute Senior Fellow John C. Goodman, author of "Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis" was interviewed on World News Radio to comment on the average person's penalty for not having health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
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Brothers reunited
As if his team's 37-0 halftime lead was not enough reason to celebrate, Cox had one more reason to smile before the teams took the field for the second half.
Cox briefly encountered his brother, Private First Class John Stepleton, who was in town after completing basic training at Ft. Leonardwood, Mo.
"I hadn't seen him in six months," Cox said. "We had talked on the phone and written letters. It was a great surprise. A great victory. I'm very blessed."
Stepleton will be stationed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in two weeks, Cox said.
WALLA WALLA — Quarterback Jeremiah Cox tossed five touchdown passes as DeSales built a 27-0 lead after one quarter and coasted to a 44-6 victory over Davenport in district crossover football action Friday night at Ty Baffney Field.
The Irish will likely play White Swan in the opening round of the Class 2B state playoffs which begin next weekend. White Swan eliminated DeSales from the 2011 postseason with a first-round win.
"We've had a year to dwell on that," said Cox, who completed nine-of-15 passes for 196 yards. "We're excited to get back at them. We're excited to play White Swan."
DeSales started all four of its first-quarter possessions on Friday on Davenport's side of the 50-yard line.
The Irish marched 29 yards in six plays on their first series and were able to overcome a pass interference penalty that negated a 17-yard touchdown pass from Cox to Joe Duehn. Two plays after the misfortune, Cox hit Ryan Baumgart with a 23-yard scoring toss with 8:26 on the clock. Paul Elmenhurst followed with the PAT kick that made it 7-0.
Luke Fazzari, who rushed for 118 yards on 11 carries, scored on a 4-yard rush to end a four-play, 21-yard possession at the 6:03 mark, Cox hooked up with Duehn for a 46-yard pass and catch with 4:10 to go, and Andrew Elmenhurst grabbed a 43-yard pitch from Cox with 29 seconds remaining.
Kyler Pommerening set up the first two DeSales touchdowns with punt returns of 32 and 19 yards, respectively.
"Kyler does a nice job," DeSales coach Mike Spiess said. "He's shifty."
The Irish defense gave up just 52 yards and one first down in the period. The Gorillas ended the night with 235 total yards.
"Our defense has been extremely consistent," Spiess said. "Tonight was no different."
Andrew Elmenhurst picked up his second touchdown of the game with 7:53 left in the second quarter. He took a pass in the left flat from Cox and turned it into a 29-yard scoring play after leaving three Davenport tacklers in his wake.
Paul Elmenhurst kicked a 31-yard field goal on the final play of the first half to give DeSales a 37-0 lead at intermission.
Pommerening caught a 24-yard pass from Cox just 1:54 into the third quarter to increase the Irish bulge to 44-0.
"We executed well offensively and were able to get a lot of kids involved," Spiess said.
Following the ensuing kickoff, the running-clock rule was enforced due to the 40-point mercy rule.
"We weren't too familiar with them," Cox said. "We needed to worry about ourselves and run our stuff. It seemed we could do anything we wanted."
Duehn led Irish receivers with four catches for 69 yards.
DeSales 44, Davenport 6
Davenport 0 0 0 6 — 6
DeSales 27 10 7 0 — 44
DeSales — Baumgart 23 pass from Cox (P. Elmenhurst kick).
DeSales — Fazzari 4 run (P. Elmenhurst kick).
DeSales — Duehn 46 pass from Cox (P. Elmenhurst kick).
DeSales — A. Elmenhurst 43 pass from Cox (kick failed).
DeSales — A. Elmenhurst 29 pass from Cox (P. Elmenhurst kick).
DeSales — P. Elmenhurst 31 FG.
DeSales — Pommerening 24 pass from Cox (Healey kick).
Davenport — Mielke 3 run (run failed).
Davenport DeSales
First downs 11 12
Rushes/yards 36-121 18-109
Passing yards 114 213
Passes (att-comp-int) 25-11-1 19-11-0
Punts 4-32.3 2-36
Fumbles-lost 1-0 1-1
Penalties-yards 3-29 3-34
Individual Statistics
RUSHING — Davenport: Mielke 10-80, Faulkner 11-40, Hopkins 7-36, Team 1-3, Lilje 7-(-38); DeSales: Fazzari 11-118, Cox 3-3, Healey 3-(-1), Richard 1-(-11).
PASSING — Davenport: Lilje 11-25-1, 114 yards, ) TDs; DeSales: Cox 9-15-0, 196 yards, 5 TDs, Richard 2-4-0, 17 yards, 0 TDs.
RECEIVING — Davenport: Wilkie 3-42, Hopkins 3-23, Faulkner 3-7, Steadman 1-39, Mielke 1-3; DeSales: Duehn 4-69-1, A. Elmenhurst 2-72-2, Pommerening 2-32-1, Baumgart 1-23-1, Scheel 1-14, Roach 1-3.
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"Cookie Cat" is a rap Steven performs about his favorite ice cream brand, Cookie Cat, in the episode "Gem Glow."
| Oohhhh!
He's a frozen treat with an all new taste!
'cause he came to this planet from outer space!
A refugee of an interstellar war!
| But now he's at your local grocery store!
Cookie Cat!
He's a pet for your tummy!
Cookie Cat!
| He's super duper yummy!
Cookie Cat!
He left his family behind!
Cookie Caaaaaat! Now available at Gurgens off Rt. 109!
- This is the first short song Steven sings in the series. The second is "Serious Song" in "Serious Steven", and the third is "Birthday Song" in "So Many Birthdays".
- The song uses a bitcrushed vocal sample that says "Hit it!", made famous in the Japanese Stardust Speedway music from Sonic CD.
- Cookie Cat's backstory may correspond with Garnet and Pearl's backstory.
- After singing the song and chewing a Cookie Cat, Steven activates his gem for the first time.
- Jeff Liu composed the song using Little Sound DJ on his GameBoy.
- A parody of this song is played on the Cartoon Network channel to promote the "Gem Glow" DVD.


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According to Salah Uddin's wife, Hasina Ahmed, a group of plainclothes policemen identified as members of the Detective Branch barged into a relative's apartment in Uttara Sector-3 around 10:15 on Tuesday night. The policemen tied up the house helper who was present at the time and handcuffed Salah Uddin before whisking him away to one of the vehicles parked outside the apartment building.
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Today, 12th March, marks the 11th anniversary of the disappearance of Khun Somchai Neelapaijit, but, his fate and whereabouts remain unknown. His family's anguish and the intense pain of waiting in uncertainty has been and continues to be a torment. Being uncertain on his fate has been devastatingly difficult for his family, friends and the Justice for Peace Foundation, who, despite the many grave threats received, have been unwavering in their search for truth and justice for Khun Somchai and other victims of enforced disappearances in Thailand.


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Fireplace in dining room ok if cased open to family room?
Hi. I don't want to hang our TV over the mantle, so we were going to have 2 feet wall space 5'8" builtin ent center, 6 foot mantle, 5'8" built in, 2foot wall space. I was going to drop the ceilings and fill in the space above the built ins with wall so that it was all flush with the wall above the fireplace. See the sketch below.
But the architect thinks we should just lose the fireplace all together since I told him that we rarely use the fireplace in the house we are living in now. (We are in South Louisiana- not very cold). He thinks we should have a window nice builtin entertainment center then another window.
But I worry about resale, so I thought of putting a ventless fireplace in the formal dining room. It would be pretty there and it's open to the den by a wide cased opening. Would that be weird? Also, the overall depth of the firebox I would use 27" so we would lose that space in the space in dinjbg room. But I think it would be ok. We have a 5 foot round pedestal table and the current interior dimensions of dining are 13 by 13. Putting the fireplace would make it 11x 13. That's ok, right? Ill post a pic of floor plan next
Here's the specs of firebox. We would use the 36" opening
Here's the floor plan. If we put it in the dining room, everyone wins, right? We don't lose our windows in the den. The TV is centered in the den. There's a fireplace in the house for resale - which we don't plan to do for at least 10 years if not more.
People like fireplaces where it's cold or where it's an easy focal point for a room. If you don't need it then don't use it. You can use cased goods to make a focal point out of the entertainment center.
I have seen candice olson do very modern fireplaces in dining rooms where she raises them up to eye level while dining so everyone can see them....no point in having them on the floor if no one can see it.
To me, a fireplace in the dining room should be a secondary fireplace, not the main or only one. The primary fireplace should be where you sit and relax with a good book in your hands and a good dog at your feet. So don't bother to put the fireplace in the dining room.
However, there is a thread on the home decorating forum that shows built-ins on either side of a fireplace, with windows above them. The built-ins are the same height as the mantel, so the windows are rather high and small, but they are there. This might work for your family room, depending on the size of your TV and whether you want the windows for view or light.
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Having the home's only fireplace in a dining room would be strange. If it were a secondary space, it would still be strange, because of the amount of space that it would take up. As in, the room isn't large enough or created around having a fireplace in it. The room itself would have to be larger to accommodate the fireplace and the dining functions. And that was only if it were a secondary fireplace. As a primary, it belongs elsewhere.
I'd personally turn the way too far away dining room into the "away" cozy spot with a fireplace and a sofa, and make the odd small breakfast area into a space that could be versatile and serve as both casual and formal eating space. It would be more efficient, and you NEED a spot that isn't open to all of the noise and activity. Right now, everyone has to go to their bedrooms for that. And the breakfast area isn't the most efficient use of space as it stands.
I think that if you feel you need a fireplace for resale and don't want it in your living room, I'd look to put a small fireplace in a library or den.
I guess your dining room could flex to being a library or den, if you did put the fireplace there.
I absolutely wouldn't choose a focal point for your living room based on what you think you need for resale. Would it be an option to choose someplace where you've roughed in a ventless fireplace, so if you did choose to add one later, it wouldn't be a huge project?
Have you contacted realtors to see if it really would effect resale if you don't have a fireplace? And if it would, by how much? Compare the cost of the fireplace to the difference in resale. A small hit may be well worth it to have a floor plan that works well for your family.
so everyone seems to think a fireplace in the dining room is strange. we don't want a corner and don't wont the windows above the builtins, so we decided to not have a fireplace at all and go with the entertainment center in the middle of the den flanked by 2 windows. But now we can't find a spot to put the AC units. They will show outside the windows and there really is no other place to put them besides that wall. Ahhhhh! We solve one problem and create another.
it looks as though two ac units side by side need 8 feet. if we have an 8 foot wide entertainment unit centered on the 22 foot wall with windows on each side, then would we would see the ac units from the windows? i think we would.
Unless you go back to having shorter and higher windows, yes you will see them. Aren't you on a narrow city lot? If so do you overall have a nice view there? That is if the ac condensers weren't there. Or would some higher windows for the light they'd give you be better?
yes we are on a narrow lot. the view there isn't anything special. it's just about the light. the higher windows are more true to a craftsman style which isn't the style we are doing, so we wanting to stick with full windows. maybe windows that stop 3 feet above the floor rather than windows that stop one foot above the floor??


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With a boost of billions in the economic stimulus plan, the White House plans to double the nation's supply of renewable energy in the next three years. There's big talk in Congress of creating a national renewable-energy standard, which would mandate that utilities get a chunk of their power from green sources like solar, wind and geothermal. So long dirty energy, hello green future.
Yet as renewable energy finally takes its place as a national priority, a tripwire lurks in the rosy scenario: transmission lines. No less an authority than President Obama is promoting the goal of building thousands of miles of new transmission lines to move power from the Great Plains and Mojave Desert to the nation's energy-hungry cities and 'burbs. And he's got plenty of political might behind him.
The power companies lobbying for new lines compare the notion of a national grid to the Interstate Highway System in the 1950s. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has brought legislation to help create what he calls a "electric superhighway." Large environmental groups, such as the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club and the Wilderness Society, have joined the wind and solar industries in championing the expansion of the transmission grid.
Not all environmentalists, though, are buzzing about the expansion. To critics, the U.S. is needlessly industrializing the remote American landscape at the expense of local residents. "Renewable energy is this great excuse to build transmission lines all over the place," says Lisa Linowes, executive director of Industrial Wind Action Group. "They want to crisscross the United States. It's enormous. People have no idea what the federal government is contemplating."
Critics point out rural residents don't appreciate having their green acres trampled to send power to populated areas, especially if it means losing their land through eminent domain. Power companies, which stand to profit for decades to come when a new transmission line goes in, are using the pretext of renewable energy to win political favor for new power lines that will mostly carry energy from their coal plants. And the profitability of lines for power companies means that renewable alternatives closer to homes and businesses may remain unexplored.
The feds are acutely aware of how slow the process of building new transmission lines can be, so the Obama administration is trying to grease the wheels. At the Department of the Interior, Secretary Ken Salazar has created a special task force to speed up the process of permitting public lands for renewable energy projects, and the power lines that go with them. "We have to connect the sun of the deserts and the wind of the plains with the places where people live," he said, announcing that the agency will assign "a high priority" to permitting an environmental review of new transmission rights of way.
In Congress, Reid of Nevada (lots of sun there!) has introduced legislation that would invest more federal dollars in transmission to increase access to renewable sources of energy. Dubbed the Clean Renewable Energy and Economic Development Act, the bill would also attempt to streamline the planning and siting process for new transmission lines, which may cross multiple states. In Department of Energy-designated "renewable energy zones," the feds would step in if regional and state regulators couldn't agree quickly on where to put the lines, siting and financing the lines themselves.
But just because the source of the electricity likely to travel on the line is green doesn't make that process any less heated. Two new power lines that could bring solar, wind and geothermal from rural to more populated urban areas in California have met stiff resistance from residents along the proposed paths, who fear losing their land and seeing sensitive wildlife areas destroyed.
San Diego Gas & Electric's Sunrise Power Link has been approved by the California Public Utilities Commission to travel from near El Centro, Calif., in Imperial County, to San Diego, a distance of over 100 miles. Plans for a line that would bring electricity from Imperial County to Los Angeles, dubbed Green Path North, remain in the early planning stages.
The original route for Sunrise Power Link would have gone smack through a wilderness area in California's largest state park, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, but advocates succeeded in having the path diverted. Some environmentalists are skeptical the line will even carry renewable energy, as that isn't guaranteed in the permitting contracts with the state.
"It's not a renewable energy project at all. It could just as easily carry dirty coal energy as renewable energy," says Ileene Anderson, a biologist with the Center for Biological Diversity, which has opposed the new transmission line. "Once the electrons get on the line, it's hard to tell where they came from."
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The costs of building long transmission lines eventually fall to you and me. "The rate payers fund 100 percent of all this infrastructure one way or the other, through tax dollars or renewable energy surcharges on our energy bills," says Jim Harvey of Joshua Tree, Calif., executive director of the Alliance for Responsible Energy Policy. "You can take this money and invest it in renewable technologies that are actually green. Transmission is a 19th-century technology. Adding more transmission is not going to encourage conservation and reduce our consumption. The solution is point-of-use generation. We need to look at electricity near its point of use."
Proponents of "distributed generation" argue that solar energy need not be harvested in remote Mojave Desert regions and transmitted to big cities like San Diego and Los Angeles, when it can be harvested much closer to home. Some cities are experimenting with fresh approaches to getting more solar on local rooftops. This month, Gainesville, Fla., introduced "feed in tariffs" for home and business owners who install solar panels. Essentially, the city ordered the local utility to pay a guaranteed sweet rate for the next 20 years for all solar-generated electricity, creating a big incentive to install those panels. Berkeley, Calif., has a program to help those who want to go solar but lack the cash; the city will front the cost of installation to homeowners and get paid back through an increase in their property taxes over the next 20 years. Both programs are so popular that the cities aren't accepting any new applicants for now.
Utilities are experimenting with other approaches as well. Southern California Edison is developing a massive 250-megawatt project to put solar panels on 150 commercial buildings, totaling 65 million square feet of solar cells in southern California. Los Angeles Department of Water and Power will put 400 megawatts worth of solar panels on city-owned rooftops, parking lots and reservoirs by 2014. "They're proposing photovoltaic projects on a scale that's as big or bigger than these big solar desert projects," says Bill Powers, a San Diego energy engineer.
Those exceptions aside, building new transmission lines remains profitable for utilities. "Unfortunately, the utilities are adapting renewable energy to a paradigm that's been in place for a century," says Powers. He explains that financing for new transmission lines includes a guaranteed 11 to 12 percent annual profit for the next 40 years for utilities, baked into rate payers' charges. That creates a huge incentive for utilities to contend that large-scale solar and wind projects are a necessity to meet renewable energy goals, and that new lines must be built to get the power from here to there.
Environmentalists fear power companies will use the rush to renewables as an excuse to build many new transmission lines that will be used to carry mostly dirty old coal. The Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline, which would run from southwestern West Virginia to central Maryland, is a dramatic case in point.
The line, which is a joint venture of American Electric Power and Allegheny Energy, which both derive the vast majority of their power from coal, would start right near the largest coal-fired power plant in West Virginia. Yet advertisements promoting the new proposed line pitch it as a conduit for wind power, complete with video of windmills spinning in the sky. "I don't think that they can promote it with renewable energy with a straight face given what the facts are," says Elena Saxonhouse, an attorney with the Sierra Club.
Transmission lines don't discriminate on the basis of where the power comes from. "These lines, of course, could carry renewable energy, but that wasn't why they were planned." Bri West, energy analyst for the Piedmont Environmental Council in Virginia, which is fighting PATH, says. "All of the lines we saw proposed for coal three years ago are now being called lines for wind."
Sen. Reid's legislation attempts to prevent power companies from pulling such a bait and switch. It requires that new transmission lines, which get a helping hand from the feds, carry 75 percent or more of renewable energy. But for now, in our predominantly coal-fired nation, such lofty goals may be blowing in the wind.
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