Author Archives: Paul Steidler

Five Glaring Errors: The U.S. Postal Service’s Bailout Request Numbers Do Not Add Up The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) wants an $89 billion federal bailout that it says is necessary because of the COVID-19 crisis. But unlike formerly profitable small businesses, hospitals and even local governments, USPS’s finances were a mess for more than [Read More...]
Sequester Key Workers And Make This The Power Industry’s Finest Hour (From POWER Magazine) It is important for power producers, utilities and grid operators to make sure critical employees, such as control room operators, are healthy and to have them live on-site until the COVID-19 pandemic has subsided. These highly skilled workers must work [Read More...]
Seven Myths About The Postal Service And Its Finances Over the past few days there has been an explosion of news and editorial coverage about the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and its deteriorating financial condition. Some of the coverage states or implies that all was well with USPS before [Read More...]
More Heroes In The COVID-19 War (From InsideSources) Far from the public view is an important part of the COVID-19 fight: electricity-sector professionals have sequestered themselves at grid facilities for weeks at a time to keep the power on. Hospitals and homes depend on the constant energy supply [Read More...]
The U.S. Department Of Energy’s Office Of Electricity: A Discussion With Bruce Walker, Assistant Secretary Bruce Walker is the Assistant Secretary for the Office of Electricity at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Confirmed by the U.S. Senate in October 2017, he is responsible for leading national efforts to develop technologies that enhance the security [Read More...]
Three Vital Steps For Keeping Electricity Flowing During COVID-19 Blackouts during COVID-19 would be especially disastrous. And there is an unacceptable, heightened risk that they will occur if the skilled professionals at power plants, utilities and grid operators become infected and spread COVID-19 to their colleagues, with whom they [Read More...]
COVID-19 Assistance To The Postal Service: Three Things To Know At this writing, Congress seems poised to provide billions in financial assistance to the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to ensure that it will be able to continue to operate amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The action needs to be taken and [Read More...]
COVID-19 And The U.S. Postal Service The COVID-19 pandemic is all but certain to have a severe, negative financial impact on the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), significantly accelerating when it will face a liquidity crisis and be unable to provide basic services. Even if that liquidity [Read More...]
The Double Disaster We Must Avoid – Blackouts During The COVID-19 Pandemic (From InsideSources) The electric grid is essential for every aspect of modern life. Blackouts during the COVID-19 pandemic would be especially disruptive and must be avoided. Many of the highly skilled professionals who keep the grid up and running cannot work from [Read More...]
Mucking Up America’s Competitive Electricity Markets (From InsideSources) America’s competitive electricity markets, coupled with sensible regulation, have helped ensure that the United States has abundant, reliable and affordable electricity. That system is today threatened by the Green New Deal and, more immediately, by actions that numerous states have [Read More...]
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