
Jeff Postelwait
Senior Editor at Endeavor Business Media
Senior Editor at Transmission & Distribution World Magazine
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2 weeks ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Jeff Postelwait
Share The word on many people’s minds in the business press for at least the past year has been “reshoring.” Through some policy or another, presidents have promised to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. since deindustrialization hit in the 1970s and 1980s, when free-trade agreements resulted in labor intensive industries moving their manufacturing bases to developing countries. They make these promises because it sounds good.
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2 weeks ago |
tdworld.com | Jeff Postelwait
The word on many people’s minds in the business press for at least the past year has been “reshoring.”Through some policy or another, presidents have promised to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. since deindustrialization hit in the 1970s and 1980s, when free-trade agreements resulted in labor intensive industries moving their manufacturing bases to developing countries. They make these promises because it sounds good. Americans like to feel that this is a country that makes stuff.
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1 month ago |
tdworld.com | Jeff Postelwait
The electricity industry is buzzing about increasing load growth. People and businesses need more power for electric vehicles, new housing, artificial intelligence and other new and growing applications. I spoke with Andreas Schierenbeck, CEO of Hitachi Energy as well as a Senior Vice President and Executive Officer at Hitachi, Ltd., about these drivers as well as the current political landscape of economic downturns, tariffs and, in some places, politicians who are skeptical of clean energy.
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1 month ago |
tdworld.com | Jeff Postelwait
The U.S. Department of Energy is building a list of hundreds of grants and projects that it says no longer match department priorities and need to be cut, but one think tank whose grants were targeted says its work will continue. Boulder, Colorado based Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) is a nonprofit that conducts research into clean energy and works with businesses, legislators, communities and NGOs on greenhouse gas reduction measures.
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1 month ago |
tdworld.com | Jeff Postelwait
The Trump administration is reviving a goal from Donald Trump’s first term as president: to reverse the decades-long trend of coal power plant closures and rebuild the US coal industry. The White House released executive orders, which it calls an effort to reinvigorate the “beautiful clean coal industry.” One order says coal power would lower energy costs and provide more reliable power while providing jobs.
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