Op-Ed by Georgia PSC Vice Chair Tim Echols

A battle is currently brewing between members of Congress to either terminate or expand the current seventy-five hundred dollar electric vehicle tax credit. They should learn from Georgia which in 2015 repealed the state’s robust electric car tax credit, and penalized electric car buyers with a fee. The move led to a nearly ninety percent drop in new electric car registrations and cost Georgia income, jobs and cleaner air. Here’s why Congress should not repeat Georgia’s mistake.

Exelon's Innovation Expo

Thousands of Innovators Gather in D.C.

Panel discussions included innovative leaders like Ryan Popple of Proterra, a company electrifying the nation’s buses, and James Chen of Rivian, a company electrifying the nation’s sport utility vehicles and light trucks. And supporting companies exhibited at the expo too, like ABB, Accenture, Burns & McDonnell, Itron and Oracle.

We Forecast Coal Under Billion

Public Utilities Fortnightly now forecasts that the U.S. grid’s coal plants will generate under a billion megawatt-hours this year. That would be big news in itself. But our forecast is that coal plant generation will fall further, below nine-tenths of a billion megawatt-hours.

Not since the late nineteen-seventies have coal plants produced so little power in the U.S. in a year. Which is extra remarkable because the U.S. grid’s overall production of power — from all generation sources — is now about twice what it was in the late nineteen-seventies.

EPRI: Welding Lab

Visiting EPRI Innovators

You might feel like you were with PUF editors during a special tour of the welding lab.

EPRI: Mechanical Test Lab

Visiting EPRI Innovators

EPRI's mechanical test lab is mostly focused on high-temperature testing, researching different materials that are used in the power plant.

Visiting EPRI Innovators

A Special Tour

In a day filled with wonder, PUF editors toured one of the world’s top energy labs, at EPRI’s sprawling campus in Charlotte.