Since the Northeast blackout in August this year, the utility has been getting electricity through the disputed cable virtually every day, under an emergency federal ruling that the bill would make permanent.
Now, finally, two big factors are getting electricity customers to shop around for power.
"Just because I'm getting electricity in my house should not mean everything going on inside my house is going to be exposed," said Lee Tien, an expert in smart-grid privacy at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
We were told that some places were getting electricity, thanks to the generators, but still had no heat.
But the immediate concern is getting the electricity turned back on.
Electricity too is getting pricier, and these expenses have offset the rise in potato prices.Might international markets help?
Right now, talking to U.S. officials, I'd say the score in Iraq is about 5 to 5. On the positive side, street life is coming back all over, restaurants and shops are reopening, Baghdad is getting about 18 hours of electricity now, and gasoline lines, a mile long four weeks ago when I was last in Iraq, are now virtually gone.
The folly of treating R&D as a regular expense like the electricity bill is getting more attention lately.
"It needs a big change in the energy sector, that is undoubtedly true," said Prof Jim Skea, vice-chair of working group 3. "One of the biggest areas that's important is getting the carbon out of electricity, so renewable energy, nuclear, fossil fuels with carbon capture and storage, that's all part of the menu if we are going to make the transition to stay under the 2 degree target".
Teachers earning $30-40 30-40 a montho pay hadf toeir salaries for Rogun shares, and students had to buy them in order to sit exams.Even if the dam is built, getting electricity out of Tajikistan will be difficult.
