Lake Tahoe gets its electricity from a provider that will be servicing a data center instead

CalMatters:

A utility serving 49,000 Lake Tahoe customers has a little over a year to find a new source for 75% of its power.

"American oil tycoon accused of trying to conspire with OPEC to inflate prices"

CNN:

Regulators acknowledged that [the CEO] did not hide his efforts to “align” US production with that of OPEC, pointing to public comments he made urging US rivals to be “disciplined” about production.

“But [the CEO] did not limit himself to public signaling to US counterparts — he has also held repeated, private conversations with high-ranking OPEC representatives assuring them that Pioneer and its Permian Basin rivals were working hard to keep oil output artificially low,” the FTC said.

American Prospect:

The Federal Trade Commission recently uncovered another underlying cause: an orchestrated plot between OPEC and an American fracking tycoon to exploit the inflationary period to push prices even higher. That was arguably even more critical to the overall price-fixing scheme, because the U.S., since the fracking boom of the mid-2010s, is the largest oil producer on Earth, and the “swing” producer with the greatest ability to move prices.

This scheme cost the average American as much as $2,100 a year, according to one estimate.

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He’s also been a major heavyweight in Washington for the oil and gas industry across Democratic and Republican administrations. Though mostly a GOP mega-donor, it should come as no surprise that [he] has financed the political careers of Big Oil’s most loyal foot soldiers in Congress regardless of party

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the FTC could still push for a criminal case against him for collusion

A Norwegian arms manufacturer says it can't make artillery rounds any faster because TikTok's data center is using all the electricity

The company is called Nammo.

Energy produced by Facebook's "Prospero I solar project [will] be routed to Shell Energy North America to power the oil and gas giant’s fracking"

DeSmog:

The oil and gas industry has learned that large wind and solar farms are a good way to safeguard electricity supplies. For example, using renewables might save an oil and gas firm from having to rely on diesel fuel, which can be problematic and dangerous. Fracking requires a tremendous amount of energy and is flourishing in a remote desert rich in wind and sun. These factors, along with key financial incentives, have helped inspire the seemingly odd union, between large renewable firms and large oil and gas companies.

(The press release about the project from 2019.)

"Firefighters are struggling to contain a fire at Japan's largest floating solar power plant, near Tokyo"

Wow - a floating solar power plant is on fire in Chiba pic.twitter.com/HKigFVEysb

— Gearoid Reidy (@GearoidReidy) September 9, 2019

NHK article.

Also:

Japanese are calling #Narita airport, where many passengers are stranded, an "isolated island on land" because it's cut off. Food disappearing from local convenience store shelves https://t.co/l8bj6TWUl4

— Tokyotronic (@robotopia) September 9, 2019

*Previously: Fishery-solar hybrid photovoltaic power station, in Yangzhou, China

"North Carolina lawmakers ask Trump administration to shut down wind farm" set to power Amazon's data center

WTKR:

The group says the wind farm could pose a national security risk as it is close to a surveillance radar in Chesapeake, Va.

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“Very simply if the wind farm threatened any military readiness or capabilities, they wouldn’t have cleared us to build,” said Paul Copleman, a spokesman for the developer Avangrid Renewables. “We can’t build this project without their blessing.”