Most Electrifying Speech
Each of 15 speakers at PUF's Summer Summit Soapbox Luncheon had two minutes to make their pitch.
PUF's Where's Energy
It’s That Simple
We talked with Justin Segall, Simple Energy’s president, about his merger with Tendril.
Truman's Buck Stops Here
I was born in the summer of 1952. Yup, that was a while ago.
The per-kilowatt-hour price of electricity averaged about one and two-thirds cents halfway through that last year of the Harry Truman Administration. This summer, sixty-seven years later, the average price of electricity is around eight times higher, about thirteen cents.
But all consumer goods and services cost more now. On average, nearly ten times more. The Consumer Price Index is 9.7 times greater this summer than in the summer of 1952.
Cowbell at 2 Minutes
Soapbox Luncheon sponsors: SEPA and Moody’s Investors Service
Can We Return to Cooperative Federalism?
By Randolph Elliott, Regulatory Counsel, NRECA
Evolving the Grid Mid-Summer in DC
If you make your way to warm Washington D.C. in the last days of July, you could bump into some of the leading thinkers on the electric industry’s future.
Your Utility was in Insull Group
The Insull Group owned a large proportion of the U.S. electric utility industry in 1932.
Coal Left in the Dust
Coal plants produced only 60.1 million megawatt-hours in April.
Insull Org Chart
Alliant Energy CEO Pat Kampling gave us a precious historical document, from a key turning point in our industry’s regulatory development.
May’s Electric Rates
The Feds published May’s Consumer Price Index last week and it brought more good news for electric consumers. While the overall CPI for all goods and services rose 1.8 percent from May 2018, the electric CPI fell 0.2 percent. That’s a two percent difference between the overall and electric CPI.
Additionally, average weekly earnings rose 2.8 percent. So that’s a three percent difference between average earnings and the electric CPI. Electric rates falling behind consumer prices generally and earnings is a very good thing.