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History of Residential Electric Rates part 1

When have residential electric rates been expensive and not? This ten-minute episode of Podcast Utilities Fortnightly starts to answer this question by showing how the Consumer Price Index tracks historical rate trends in extraordinary detail. Part I looks at the trends during the period of 1952 through 1986, and the current trend since 2019.

Coal Falls Below Billion MWH

The U.S. grid’s coal-fired power plants produced 966 million megawatts-hours in 2019. This is remarkable, the first time in decades that coal plants produced less than a billion megawatt-hours. And this number is forty-eight percent down from coal plant production nine years earlier, in 2010.

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Tech Buzzword Trajectories

Conversation with Scott Neuman and Paul McDonald, group vp and senior director for industry strategy, Oracle Utilities Opower.
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Scott Neuman and Paul McDonald

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