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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.
A Glass Half Full
Guidehouse formed from the merger of Navigant and PwC’s public sector consulting division.
Coal's Market Share of Electricity Supply
This fourth episode of Podcast Utilities Fortnightly takes a deep dive into the history over the decades of coal's market share in U.S. electricity supply and how it's falling rapidly in recent years with a huge impact on the grid's carbon footprint. This January, coal plants produced just nineteen percent of our electricity, an all-time record low. How did we reach this point? That's the subject of this ten-minute program.
Coal Down to 19%
I had to check the numbers twice, and then thrice. Could it really be?
History of Residential Electric Rates part 3
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 III concludes with an insightful breakdown by region of the country.
History of Residential Electric Rates part 2
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 II looks at what happened from 1986 to 2019.
Picture Energy: AESP's Annual Meeting
February 17 – 20
The Association of Energy Services Professionals' 30th annual conference and expo was the place to be for our industry’s leaders in demand-side management, integrated DSM, and demand response.