Fortnightly Under Forties 2019
PUF celebrates 76 spirited under forties that are up-and-coming in utilities and utility regulation.
PUF's Where's Energy
Gas in U.S. Powerplants Not the Problem
Have you noticed the increasing commentary, claiming natural gas in U.S. powerplants is a climate change problem that must be combatted? My reaction is, oh, come on.
One can respond, firstly, that the substitution of natural gas plants for coal plants has produced enormous reductions in carbon dioxide emissions. Or one can respond, secondarily, that the flexibility of natural gas plants is making it feasible to rapidly expand zero-emission wind and solar.
Gas substitutes for coal. Not wind and solar. More on this dynamic next week.
Our Industry's Declaration of Independence
Sam Insull outlined our industry in six historic sentences.
Dripping Electricity
From humorist and cartoonist James Thurber’s “My Life and Hard Times,” 1933, Harper & Brothers.
One & Three-Tenths Percent
Electric bills % new low
Coal Low
Less than quarter of grid's power
You Want Proof?
40% zero-emission mark
Light Bulb Cartel
Classic Column: The secret meeting in Geneva nearly a century ago still haunts how we light our world today.
O Canada
Canadian regulators meet at CAMPUT annual conference.
2.9, 2.0, 0.6
Friday’s economic stats included three numbers of particular interest to us in utility regulation and policy.