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2020 Thanksgiving week gasoline consumption in US lowest since 1997

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Year-on-year comparisons are even more significant at the regional level, with some regions seeing declines of 20% or more from Thanksgiving Week 2019. The Rockies saw the smallest slide (5.6%) but that is substantial enough to impact supply and demand balances as winter approaches. Northeastern gasoline sales dropped 10.1%

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USBR cuts 613,000 acre-feet of water from Colorado River users; Lake Mead to operate in Shortage Condition 1 for 1st time

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The Colorado River is a critical resource in the US West because seven basin states—Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming—depend on it for water supply, hydropower production, recreation, fish and wildlife habitat, and other benefits.

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PNNL study finds that PHEVs and BEVs could serve as feasible resource to offset grid imbalances caused by integration of large amounts of intermittent wind generation

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The report examined grid conditions in the Northwest Power Pool, which covers Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming; many of them home to abundant wind resources and wind energy projects. The size of the vehicle battery matters for supplying balancing services.

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The Future of Fission Reactors May Be Small

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Even more discouragingly, nuclear’s per-unit cost increased 26 percent between 2009 and 2019—while solar and wind power prices plummeted instead. Giorgio Locatelli, Polytechnic University of Milan But SMR plans are not in short supply. At least seven different developers plan to deploy SMRs in the US before 2030.

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