Read our June 8 Special Issue
Our annual special issue on the state and future of power is now available to read online.
Today's PUF
Home Sweet Home
On June 1, the Census Bureau released detailed data on last year’s newly-constructed single and multi-family houses. Including on their gas versus electric heat breakdown.
Chair Danner on Decarb and Gas
Excerpts from the National Regulatory Research Institute webinar “Pathways to Decarbonization.”
A Kilowatt-hour, Up or Down?
May 12's Consumer Price Index shows that what American consumers paid for a kilowatt-hour rose an average of 3.6 percent over the twelve months through April. This high a rate of inflation in electricity isn’t surprising since natural gas prices have been rising in recent months. Gas prices matter a lot in what electricity costs.
Rural Energy Priorities
City residents paid almost 25% less for electricity than rural households.
EEI, NARUC, APPA in June
For some people, I will admit, June means the start of summer.
Read our May issue
Our May issue is now available to read online. See the table of contents here.
Co-ops Call on Congress
NRECA CEO Jim Matheson talked about the three big issues electric co-op leaders are discussing in meetings with the U.S. Congress.
Joan Bok: First Woman to Chair a Major U.S. Utility
In 1984 she became Chair of New England Electric System (now a part of National Grid US).
Residential Rates Really
April 13th's Consumer Price Index report showed that consumer prices overall averaged a 2.6 percent increase during the twelve months ending in March. And the report also showed that electricity prices — residential electric rates — averaged a virtually identical 2.5 percent increase during that same period. Economists would say that the real inflation-adjusted increase is thus approximately zero.