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Electric Bills Vary

Eighteen thousand and five hundred households responded to the U.S. Department of Energy’s extraordinarily comprehensive 2020 Residential Energy Consumption Survey. Some of the results just made available on residential electric bills I find most interesting:

Residential electric bills vary significantly by region. No surprise that the average in the sunny south is the highest, at $129 monthly. And that the average in the whopping west is the lowest, at $101 monthly. The midwest and northeast averages are in the middle, at $108 and $112 monthly, respectively.

Gas is Ubiquitous

88 percent of California homes use natural gas. That according to the extraordinarily comprehensive Residential Energy Consumption Survey that the U.S. Department of Energy conducted in 2020.

88 percent is a lot. It means that only about one in eight homes in the Golden State do not use natural gas.

In New York, the percentage of homes that use natural gas is 78 percent. That’s lower than in California. But it’s still real high.

Co-Creating Energy Solutions with Local Communities

EEI International

A Global Circuit interview with Manitoba Hydro CEO Jay Grewal: “One of the key foundations to being an effective leader is self-awareness. So, what is leadership? You are influencing and impacting people. What is my role? My job is to support every single person in the organization to make their job easier.”
Byline: 

Lawrence Jones

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AEIC Members Share Cost Optimization Approaches

Innovating the Grid Transformation

“Con Edison developed an auto-scheduler application that integrates key data into a single platform by leveraging technology and knowledge of seasoned employees to develop business logic for planning and decision making. Dominion Energy launched a net metering chatbot that utilizes machine learning to more efficiently provide information to customers.”
Byline: 

Joseph Somma, Russell Hinton

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Regulating Utility Data

West Monroe

“The reality is that how regulators rule on the accessibility and availability of utility data may determine whether a state can remotely achieve state decarbonization goals.”
Byline: 

Jason Price

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Engineering Cybersecurity

Burns & McDonnell/1898 & Co.

“Nobody wants to touch a 20-year-old server, PLC, HMI or human machine interface, an engineering workstation in operational environment, and allow some computer or automated capability to block it. Putting automated detection and response capabilities in place for critical infrastructure is, for lack of a better term, critical.”
Byline: 

Victor Atkins, Mark Mattei

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