Painting by NARUC First Vice President Paul Kjellander
Utility Regulator by Day, an Artist After Hours
Artwork highlights some of the most respected figures in utility regulation and policy.
Pandemic Priorities for Utility Regulation and Policy – Part I
During the Coronavirus Chaos and Afterwards Too
Considering all the factors in the new normal, it might become necessary for regulators to review rates to keep the utility whole.
ROE and Interest Rates, by Branko Terzic and Brad Cornell
The reason the ROE is so publicized and contested is not that it is the largest expense item for a public utility.
Fortnightly Electricity Report, April 1-14
The virus crisis' impact on the nation's electricity usage, peak hourly demand, coal and zero-emission power plant market shares are the headlines of this first edition of the Fortnightly Electricity Report. After two weeks of shelter-in-place virtually nationally, how was the electric grid transformed? Steve Mitnick and Alexandra Revel of Public Utilities Fortnightly break down the numbers nationally and by the thirteen regions and highlight the huge effects on greenhouse gas emissions particularly and the unprecedented mix of electric generation.
Corona Chaos
Most everything is different now because of this corona thing. It’s corona chaos and even some of the constants of utility service and regulation are anything but. Like commercial consumption of electricity. Like residential consumption. Egads! Like bill collection and resilience planning and workforce management and regulatory procedure and well, a lot of other constants — heretofore — in our ways of working.
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Happy Birthday Zen!
Though we cannot celebrate Zenobe Gramme’s birthday April 4 with a big party jam-packed with friends, we will raise a glass to the great inventor of the electric motor. There had been toy-sized motors before 1873. But when Zen and his sidekick Hippolyte Fontaine – Hipp for short – accidentally reversed an electric generator that year, they happened upon a real motor to power the second industrial revolution.
Fortnightly Electricity Report, for April 1-14, 2020
In large part undoubtedly from COVID-19, electricity use was down 5.9% compared to the same period in 2019 in the continental U.S.
Now Batting Number 42
Jackie Robinson became the first African-American major league baseball player.