I follow the local KY blogs daily and ran across Consuming Louisville’s mention of places to volunteer.
For the record, I have sent an email to the YMCA to see if they need more volunteers. If you are local to the Louisville area and have some free time (mine goes to online poker at the [...]
Costing about 4 to 7 cents a kilowatt-hour, Taylor said, geothermal is competitive with wind power and significantly cheaper than solar. Geothermal facilities occupy a fraction of the space required by wind and solar farms. The energy is also more reliable. Plants crank electricity around the clock.
LG&E to raise natural gas rates by 24% according to the Courier Journal:
The Kentucky Public Service Commission has approved a three-month increase to $11.09 for each 1,000 cubic feet of natural gas, the fuel that heats 44 percent of Kentucky households. That’s up from $8.95 the same time a year ago, said Andrew Melnykovych, spokesman [...]
State looks to rivers for clean energy from the Courier Journal:
Today, the newly named Mother Ann Lee generating station is one of four new hydropower facilities working or planned in Kentucky — part of what some see as a step toward meeting the challenges of global warming and an increasing demand for energy security.
Hydro-Electric in [...]