Joining the Fortis Family
Leadership Lyceum Podcast: A Conversation with Paul Bonavia
Paul Bonavia is Retired Chairman and CEO of UNS Energy (Tucson Electric Power). The company was sold to Fortis in August 2014.
Cold Hard Truths
Who shall lay out those constraints, clearly, credibly?
What are the coldest hardest truths that a much more involved public must grasp?
We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes
1984 is the last year we burned less coal than we did in 2016.
Kw consumption flat, but reliance rises
Steve Mitnick of Public Utilities Fortnightly on growth in electricity usage
$3.95 Daily
Americans in the West pay $3.38 daily for residential electric service, on average, in the Midwest $3.53, in the Northeast $3.58.
April 24: Charles Brush patents the arc light
The arc light, competitor to incandescent light, battled for primacy well into the early twentieth century
Your Expert Guess
Consumers can only conclude that a very large percent of electricity’s cost is the cost of fuel.
Al Capone thwarted by Sam Insull
How did federal agent Eliot Ness and the Untouchables bring down Capone? Sam Insull and the utilities industry were key.
Cold Hard Truth, No. 3
If one nuke shuts down, or if a new one isn’t built, that’s another 4.5 million tons of climate change gas into the atmosphere every year. Not good.