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Oct 5, 2024 | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Travis Kavulla
SharePower prices are rising and poised to rise further in the wholesale power market, known as PJM, that includes Maryland, with a vigorous debate over the root causes. As a result of this shift in the wholesale market, the Office of People’s Counsel is forecasting a nearly 20% retail bill increase for Baltimore customers next year. This projection assumes that these wholesale prices will more or less automatically pass through to retail customers.
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
marylandmatters.org | Travis Kavulla
Power prices are rising and poised to rise further in the wholesale power market, known as PJM, that includes Maryland, with a vigorous debate over the root causes. As a result of this shift in the wholesale market, the Office of People’s Counsel is forecasting a nearly 20% retail bill increase for Baltimore customers next year. This projection assumes that these wholesale prices will more or less automatically pass through to retail customers.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
americanaffairsjournal.org | Travis Kavulla |André de Ruyter
REVIEW ESSAYTruth to Power: My Three Years inside Eskomby André de RuyterPenguin, 2023, 407 pagesFor more than a century, anyone in South Africa lucky enough to have electricity has gotten it from Eskom. Born of a mash-up of the anglophone Electricity Supply Commission (escom) and the Afrikaans Elektrisiteitsvoorsieningskommissie (evkom), the utility today is formally Eskom Holdings SOC.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
nrg.com | Travis Kavulla
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
thenewatlantis.com | John Last |Samuel Matlack |Clare Coffey |Travis Kavulla
Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version Sandwiched between two national parks on a winding mountain road, the Alpine village of Caldes, Italy, is so small as to barely warrant a label on most maps. With its thirteenth-century castle perched over a valley filled with apple orchards, nourished by the rushing waters of the river Noce, it seems an idyllic slice of rural Alpine life.
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Oct 7, 2023 | 
commonwealthmagazine.org | Sue Tierney |Paul Hibbard |Travis Kavulla
IN FIVE OR SO YEARS, many of you will drive a car that you plug in at night rather than fill at the pump. You'll keep your homes warm with electric heat pumps instead of oil or gas furnaces. In ten years, mostof you will. In fifteen years, almost everyone will. That means that most of the things you rely on in your daily lives - lights, phones, computers, refrigeration, clothes washing, home heating and cooling, the cars you drive - will all run on electricity.
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
commonwealthmagazine.org | Travis Kavulla |Vick Mohanka |Louis Antonellis
NERVOUS ABOUT rising prices for offshore wind power, the states of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut are banding together to solicit larger wind farm projects that hopefully will come with lower price tags. Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey announced the three-state partnership at an offshore wind conference in Boston Wednesday morning. Individually, the three states were planning to solicit as much as 6,000 megawatts of offshore wind power in January; now they will solicit bids together.
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Oct 2, 2023 | 
commonwealthmagazine.org | Travis Kavulla |Vick Mohanka |Louis Antonellis
WITH NO COMMENT, the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities on Monday gave its blessing to an agreement terminating offshore wind contracts between the state's three utilities and SouthCoast Wind.
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Sep 17, 2023 | 
commonwealthmagazine.org | Phil Johnston |Travis Kavulla |Colin Young |Bhaamati Borkhetaria
When members of a Norwell town meeting voted almost 20 years ago to make a 6.3-acre piece of land available for affordable housing, they might have considered being a bit more specific. Because of some uncertainty surrounding the designation, the affluent suburban town is now in the middle of a classic land use showdown while the state buckles under a significant housing shortage.
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Sep 17, 2023 | 
commonwealthmagazine.org | Phil Johnston |Travis Kavulla |Colin Young |Bhaamati Borkhetaria
FOUR YEARS AS a student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst changed my life, and set me on a path for a lifetime of activism in Massachusetts. Every student in our state should have the same opportunity. With the continued investment of our political leadership, they can. In the fall of 1963, I arrived on the campus of the University of Massachusetts. I had spent the entirety of my earlier life in Massachusetts. My parents were both highly educated.
