New York Extends Smart AC Program to Master-Metered Consumers

The New York Public Service Commission has approved an electric utility’s proposal to include public housing residents as well as tenants in master-metered apartment buildings in the utility’s program offering summertime cash rebates to those customers who permit the utility, Consolidated Edison Company of New York (ConEd), to remotely control their room air conditioners (ACs) during brief periods of high demand for electricity.

Storms, Rates, Insurance

Entire Economy Pays Price

This past year three hurricanes affected an area which encompassed about eight percent of the U.S. population. According to an article by Joel Achenbach in The Washington Post, dated November 19, 2017, “Disaster claims soar in year of calamities: Federal resources stretched as applications for aid rise tenfold,” these three storms contributed to a year of “record setting disasters.”

4.7 million Americans registered for FEMA aid compared to four hundred eighty thousand in 2016, and an average of a hundred and eighty thousand for the previous three years.

Peek at 2018

Great Year for Energy and Environment

There’s a premium on predictions, but the exception could be energy priorities in 2018.

PUF Quant Services

Monthly Summary Report: Jan. 2018

Monthly trends in the value of electricity, the grid's carbon footprint, and the grid's integration of distributed and intermittent generation.