Energy Policy

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    winter fuel payment

    ByDaveslocker

    Global Thermostats and Frozen Pockets: The Winter Fuel Payment as a Geopolitical Mood Ring By Your Correspondent, Still Wearing Three Scarves LONDON—While the British government’s annual Winter Fuel Payment (£200–£300 sent to pensioners like an edible bouquet of lukewarm hope) is technically a domestic affair, its reverberations are felt from the slushy streets of Seoul…

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    centerpoint energy

    ByDaveslocker

    CenterPoint Energy: Houston, We Have a Grid Problem (and It’s Contagious) By the time the lights flickered out in Texas last February, the rest of the planet had already stopped pretending to be surprised. After all, we’ve spent the last decade watching power grids from South Africa to Siberia audition for the same tragicomedy: one…