NV Energy Denied Rate Hike, Ordered to Lower Rates Instead
Nevada Power to decrease fixed charges and volumetric rates, reflecting billing reduction of 2%.
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.
Conversation Cannot Be Markets vs. Non-Markets
Pendulum Swings Again
While open markets were the objective of the 1990s, the pendulum is swinging again.
Top Three Tax Reform Changes Impacting Utilities
Widespread Impacts
Certain provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act are expected to have widespread impacts on the industry.
Peek at 2018
Great Year for Energy and Environment
There’s a premium on predictions, but the exception could be energy priorities in 2018.
Talking Microgrids at Public Power Forward Summit
VIDEO
Scott Gibson and Eric Walters speak about the technology and applications of their cutting edge microgrid projects.
Videos: Three Young NYPA Leaders at iSOC Opening
Ricardo da Silva, Emilie Bolduc and Kenneth Carnes speak about the technology and applications of the state-of-the-art NYPA Integrated Smart Operations Center at the iSOC opening on December 11 in White Plains.
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.
Welcome to Our New Integrated Smart Operations Center
What makes iSOC extraordinary?
An interview with Gil Quiniones, CEO, New York Power Authority.