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Not At All Passive About Passive Buildings

Eversource Energy

“Passive house goes beyond obvious ways to reduce loads, like insulation, and provides a rigorous approach to minimizing thermal bridging and amount of air that can leak through a building’s envelope.”
Byline: 

Brendan Giza-Sisson

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When Texas Seceded, Its Grid That Is

Judge Cudahy’s Second Alamo Article

PUF reviews Judge Richard Cudahy’s famous 1995 article on the so-called Midnight Connection that led to the disconnection of the Texas grid from the eastern and western grids. Even more relevant today given the ERCOT meltdown.
Byline: 

Steve Mitnick

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Very Difficult Paying Household Expenses

The Census Bureau reports that for the two week period ending the first of March, 13.9 percent of all American adults over the age of eighteen are now finding it to be very difficult to pay household expenses. Including utility bills presumably.

Another 18.5 percent of American adults are now finding it to be somewhat difficult to pay household expenses. Adding these two categories together, the household bills of nearly a third of American adults are very or somewhat difficult to pay.
 

Lead image: © Can Stock Photo / gvictoria

 

Electric Bill Percent

Better news on electric bill affordability comes from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In January, residential electric bills were just 1.29 percent of Americans’ personal consumption expenditures in total. That’s lower than in January of 2018, when electricity was 1.40 percent, and lower than in January 2019, when electricity was 1.32 percent.

However, it was higher than in January 2020, when electricity was at an all-time low, at 1.17 percent. This is a direct result of our pandemic world.