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• An Easy One

  
  Electric City Weblog — Authority: 142
  We already know that the then-City Attorney, Dave Gliko, gave our City Manager the opinion that Electric City Power is being operated illegally . Now, the City’s accountants have this to say : Section 5.30.070 of Ordinance 2925 states the rates and charges of ECP “shall be designed to enable the Corporation ...
  5 days ago

• An Unimpressive Report, Part 3

  
  Electric City Weblog — Authority: 142
  $60,000.00 for that ? Seriously, the City of Great Falls was charged $60,000.00 for that report ? Considering it came in months late, one would have expected something more than what is, in essence, a warmed over recitation of old history layered on a very superficial analysis. First, I discussed the larger ...
  6 days ago

• ECP Bonanza

  
  Electric City Weblog — Authority: 142
  If you have the patience for it, Electric City Power Board meetings can be a kind of sublime comedy, one where only the most superficial issues are discussed, matters of substance skirted with precision, and then an occasional stumble and an embarrassing revelation. So it was last night, when the Board was mum on ...
  1 week ago

• Unleash the Vanilla: Today’s Tribune Editorial

  
  Electric City Weblog — Authority: 142
  The Trib editorial on ECP today traces a familiar arc, saying “Hey, our local dudes tried their best” (not in those words) and putting the blame for ECP’s unpopularity at the laps of the legislature, NorthWestern, and the PSC. That this is not a disaster of our own making is one of the enduring fictions of ...
  1 week ago

• An Unimpressive Report, Part 2 (…sort of.)

  
  Electric City Weblog — Authority: 142
  A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about the Burns & McDonnell consulting report discussing the ongoing viability of the City’s electric utility venture, Electric City Power (ECP). I’ve been meaning ever since to write Part 2 of that post, and I guess this will have to pass as same. The qualification (sort of) ...
  1 week ago

• Those we have lost… Iraq and Afghanistan

  
  Herobracelets — Authority: 138
  We upload names from the DOD every week. Sgt James M Dorsey    Beardstown, IL    Army     2/8/09    I    M Spc Christopher P Sweet    Kahului, HI    Army     2/6/09    I    M Sgt Darrell L Fernandez    Truth or Consequences, NM    Army     1/31/09    I    M Chief ...
  1 week ago

• $23,260

  
  Electric City Weblog — Authority: 142
  Just got off the phone with a staffer at the Public Service Commission. The above figure is the amount of the fine levied against Electric City Power for its management’s failure to procure renewable energy credits in 2008, as required by state law. Since the law requires public utilities not to raise rates to ...
  2 weeks ago

• An Unimpressive Report, Part 1

  
  Electric City Weblog — Authority: 142
  As I read and re-read the Burns & McDonnell Organizational and Financial Review of Electric City Power , I kept coming back to the fact that the City paid sixty grand for this report . I certainly understand the need for context, but did we really intend to spend that much money for an outline of historical ...
  2 weeks ago

• Two Big Things

  
  Electric City Weblog — Authority: 142
  …I’m glad I could share with all of you a partial digesting of the Burns & McDonnell report. Having skimmed it once, read it twice, and annotated the heck out of my desk copy, here are a couple of big disputes of analysis that come to the fore for me: 1) The consultants go on and on talking about how ECP ...
  2 weeks ago

• Puzzling

  
  Electric City Weblog — Authority: 142
  The Burns & McDonnell report on Electric City Power, among other claims, asserts on page 19 ( pdf ) that NorthWestern energy rates between June 2008 and June 2009 have fluctuated between $70 and $80 per MWH. I think this claim will come as some surprise to NorthWestern Energy itself, which retails energy for ...
  3 weeks ago

• Thus Spake the Consultants

  
  Electric City Weblog — Authority: 142
  Burns & McDonnell, the consulting firm the outgoing city commission paid ~$60,000 to tell them what they wanted to hear, have told them what they wanted to hear. (”This is the consultant’s metier,” remarks a consultant friend of mine, via G-chat.) The full report on Electric City Power is here . The ...
  3 weeks ago

• This Week in SME Theater

  
  Electric City Weblog — Authority: 142
  The question lately has been which card in SME’s House of Cards will go first. One rather good guess is the “spot-zoning” case which landed at the high court yesterday and which threatens to undo SME’s plans. If the Sup Ct “unzones” the project, it would give all involved in SME/Southern a chance to say, ...
  3 weeks ago

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