There is a very important Green Valley Special Utility District (GVSUD) Board of Directors election on Nov. 2 that needs every GVSUD ratepayer’s attention if the GVSUD Board is ever
Texas Governor Greg Abbott claimed on Tuesday that "Everything that needed to be done was done to fix the power grid in Texas." The facts show otherwise. And Texas ratepayers are on the hook for about $38 billion in excess energy costs from the deadly February storm.
On Tuesday, the Imperial Irrigation District Board of Directors will consider the future of IID in the Coachella Valley with a direct question — should IID stay or should IID
Public consultation to begin on $4.57b Tauranga council spend up
4 May, 2021 01:37 AM
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Big plans are afoot for Tauranga and the draft Long-Term Plan 2021-2031 is about to go out for public consultation. Photo / File
Big plans are afoot for Tauranga and the draft Long-Term Plan 2021-2031 is about to go out for public consultation. Photo / File
Tauranga city has the potential to become one of the greatest cities of New Zealand - if people agree to spend $4.57 billion of mostly ratepayer money on key projects and services over the next 10 years.
That was the message that came from a Tauranga City Council meeting today in which commission chairwoman Anne Tolley and fellow commissioners Bill Wasley, Shadrach Rolleston, and Stephen Selwood adopted a draft Long-Term Plan 2021 to 2031.
While it looks like the IID Board has chosen not to move into the 21st century as far as electric rates go, perhaps the CalMatters column by Julia Prochnik in the May 24 edition of the IV Press might prod them into taking action to protect electric rate payers against summer rolling blackouts. IIDâs mission statement is âto provide reliable, efficient and affordably priced water and energy service to the communities it serves.â
Last summer IID failed to provide reliable energy service when they were forced to implement rotating power outages due to lack of resources. As the May 24 column mentions, the problem is lack of long-duration energy storage. Such storage projects are expensive and require extensive planning and engineering, but the longer IID waits, the more expensive it is likely to be and the more power outages their ratepayers are likely to endure.