Engineering Climate Change Challenge
Charles Bayless
We talked with retired utility leader Charles Bayless, who has served in several influential roles in the electricity business.
Electricity Eliminated Drudgery, Now Enriching Life
Regulation for Third Era of the Age of Electricity
With this renewed interest and involvement in applications of electricity, will we need new regulatory mechanisms?
July 13, 1977: Infamous NYC power outage
On July 13, 1977, the infamous New York power outage took place. The Big Apple was brought to its knees after a lightning storm. For twenty-five hours, nine million people were in the dark as mass looting and rioting broke out across the boroughs. A thousand fires, sixteen hundred looted stores, five hundred and fifty injured police officers, four thousand arrests. All this while the fear of the notorious Son of Sam murders magnified. A Bronx car dealership had fifty Pontiacs stolen.
CEOs of NRECA and NiSource
Check out interviews with CEOs of National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and NiSource.
Rate Case Roundup: New York
New York American Water can raise its rates by $3.63 million, but not $8.7 million.
Rate Case Roundup: Virginia
Virginia-American Water can increase ROE to 9.25%, increasing revenues $5.2 million.
Roundtable of Three Southeastern CFOs in July's PUF
Roundtable of the CFOs of Southern Co., Dominion and Duke Energy, excerpted here.
Happy Tesla’s Birthday!
The inventor of our AC-based electricity system was born on July 10.
Rate Case Roundup: Illinois
The Illinois Commerce Commission released two rate case decisions in May, one for an electric utility and one for a natural gas local distribution company (LDC). In the electric rate docket, Mt. Carmel Public Utility Company had petitioned for $1.9 million in additional revenues, representing an overall increase of 16.75%. Although the commission assented to the entirety of the request, it did not agree to allocate the increase to all customer classes on a uniform across-the-board basis.