No-Regrets Approach to Enhancing Grid Resiliency
Grid Assurance, innovative industry-driven response
Grid Assurance, innovative industry-driven response
Past, Present, and Future, Part I
Bumpy Road Ahead
We talked with Stan Garnett, former senior exec of two utilities, the day after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union.
We talked with Jim Rogers, former CEO of Duke Energy.
New uses for electricity doubtless on the horizon albeit unpredictable
Utility scale wind in Texas alone produced eight times more power than all the residential solar in the U.S.
Renewables generated 121.1 million megawatt-hours in the first four months of the year, per the latest Energy Department data.
That is, in vogue renewables. Excluded are out of vogue renewables: hydro and nuclear.
Utility scale solar generated 9.7 million megawatt-hours. Distributed solar generated 4.6 million.
Of the distributed solar number, 2.4 million was residential solar, 1.8 million was commercial, and 0.4 was industrial.
The falling percentage of electric bills has freed nearly 1% of consumption expenditures since the 1980s.
Last week, the Commerce Department's data for the Gross Domestic Product again highlighted electricity's affordability. Residential electric bills in May were 1.40 percent of personal consumption expenditures nationally.
This compares to 1.46 percent in May 2015, 1.43 percent in May 2014, and 1.43 percent in May 2013.
And compares to 1.40 percent in April 2016, 1.36 percent in March 2016, 1.39 percent in February 2016, and 1.41 percent in January 2016.
Bottom line? Residential electric bills have been consistently moderate for a while.
Times didn’t note Mississippi residential rates are 9.2% lower than last year and 11.4% below national average.
We urge The New York Times and others to take greater care if and when they’re inclined to blame electric bills for poverty and layoffs. These are scourges for which there are multiple causes and multiple approaches to lessen their burden.