Diversity in Utilities Workforce and Spend 2020
Fortnightly Annual Feature
Ask any leader in the utilities industry, and they will tell you how important utilities workforce and spend are to the success of their company.
Quotable Quotes in April's PUF
Quotes from Chair David Danner, Pat O’Loughlin, Tom Fanning, Kevin Fitzgerald and Tom Flaherty.
Coronavirus Challenge: Brien Sheahan
A Special Report
These financial headwinds will impede the progress of infrastructure modernization, and the buildout and integration of renewables, and other capital-intensive initiatives.
Coronavirus Challenge: Scott Aaronson
A Special Report
We’re literally writing the book on the COVID-19 response. There is a resource guide that is being developed. We’re writing it in real time. It’s updated on a weekly basis.
Coronavirus Challenge
A Special Report
For this special feature on utilities and utility regulators meeting the challenge of the coronavirus crisis, Public Utilities Fortnightly went to two of the top experts on the grid's resilience. We like to call Scott Aaronson the most important individual in America, only half in jest. Scott leads the teams at the Edison Electric Institute focused on cyber and physical security and storm response and recovery and is the EEI's point man in this current crisis.
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.