{"id":268,"date":"2009-12-06T18:41:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T23:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/?p=268"},"modified":"2009-12-11T23:17:55","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T04:17:55","slug":"surprise-drop-in-power-use-jolts-utilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"Surprise Drop in Power Use Jolts Utilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Rebecca Smith, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, November 21, 2008<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/elecpower_104572601.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"elec power_10457260\" src=\"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/elecpower_10457260_thumb1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"elec power_10457260\" width=\"208\" height=\"145\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a> An unexpected drop in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eia.doe.gov\/fuelelectric.html\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. electricity consumption<\/a> has utility companies worried that the trend isn&#8217;t a byproduct of the economic downturn, and could reflect a permanent shift in consumption that will require sweeping change in their industry.<\/p>\n<p>Numbers are trickling in from several large utilities that show shrinking power use by households and businesses in pockets across the country. Utilities have long counted on sales growth of 1% to 2% annually in the U.S., and they created complex operating and expansion plans to meet the needs of a growing population. <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122722654497346099.html\" target=\"_blank\">[Read rest of story]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Wall Street Journal story from a year ago went virtually unremarked and forgotten, but it&#8217;s an item of major significance. Watch for our illuminating post on 11\/7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[68,66,65,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}