New Report on Affordability
What is energy affordability? Who is most vulnerable to energy costs? How might the energy system transformation affect the vulnerable? What can we do to materially assist the vulnerable?
PUF's Where's Energy
Show Me
This year’s Stars of Energy Efficiency Awards Gala was held at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.
Electric Rates and CPI Gap
Residential electric rates were up 3.95% in August year-over-year, a faster increase than the overall CPI that was up 2.5%.
Announcing Top Innovators 2024
After reviewing the eighty-eight qualifying nominations of teams of innovators at utilities that PUF received earlier this summer, we’re honored to announce your Fortnightly Top Innovators 2024.
October’s Public Utilities Fortnightly will highlight and celebrate these great teams and their inspiring stories and accomplishments on behalf of the customers they serve. In the meantime, here’s the teams that plowed new ground in reliability, technology, operations, environmental protection, safety, analytics, cybersecurity, and more:
Electricity at One and a Third Percent
July 25’s Gross Domestic Product report for the second quarter was encouraging.
Electric Rate Deflation
The overall CPI, for all goods and services, was up 3% compared with a year earlier.
April's Electric and Gas Rates
April’s Consumer Price Index was reported on May 15. The overall CPI, for all goods and services, was up 3.4 percent as compared with a year earlier – April 2023.
This follows the recent trend of inflation that is moderate. Though not as low as desired.
Better news about average weekly earnings. They’re now 3.9 percent greater than a year earlier.
The average price or rate per therm for utility natural gas service was down 1.9 percent as compared with a year earlier.
Tell Us Your Top Innovators
Nominate top innovators by June 28, 2024.
Insull's Extraordinary Machine
I found some remarkable trends in electric utility annual reports.
Spring Verse for the Grid
Reliability and affordability are our responsibilities.