$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.
Electricity's Price, Really
The real price of electricity paid by U.S. households is significantly lower than it was a year ago.
Electricity's Price, Really, Redux
The real price of electricity has significantly fallen in recent decades.
Electricity's Price, Really, Regionally
The real price of electricity has significantly fallen in recent decades, particularly in the Northeast and South.
Thomas Edison Encourages a Young Henry Ford
Edison to Ford: 'Young man, that's the thing; you have it. Keep at it.' From the Archives of the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies
It came at the end of the main banquet at the 1896 annual meeting of the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies, AEIC. The setting was the stately Oriental Hotel in Manhattan Beach, in Brooklyn, New York. A group of the nation's technical and business leaders remained at their table to smoke cigars and talk of the events of the day.
AEIC was founded in 1885 at the dawn of the Age of Electricity. At the 1896 meeting, forty-four power men from eighteen illuminating companies were in attendance.
American Public Power Association Legislative Rally
PUF attended the American Public Power Association legislative rally in Washington DC on March 1. Photographer: Dennis Brack