Quotable Quotes from March’s PUF
Excerpted from March PUF: “Ensuring Future Capital Access.”
PUF's Where's Energy
Coal Falls Below Billion MWH
The U.S. grid’s coal-fired power plants produced 966 million megawatts-hours in 2019. This is remarkable, the first time in decades that coal plants produced less than a billion megawatt-hours. And this number is forty-eight percent down from coal plant production nine years earlier, in 2010.
Lowest Ever Electric Bill Percentage
1.22 percent is the lowest ever electric bill percent.
Commissioner Turnover Trends
Fifty percent turnover in the last three and a half years.
You Under 40?
Fortnightly Under Forty nominations are due as usual by Albert Einstein's Birthday, March 14, pi-day.
Bernie's Revolution
Sanders's plan: 100% sustainable energy in energy and transportation by 2030.
February Birthdays: Wendell Willkie
He’s the only utility CEO that has run for president of the United States.
Electric Deflation
Electricity’s inflation-adjusted price has fallen.
Never Lower Than This
Quite remarkably, electricity fell to an all-time low as a percentage of expenditures.
MOPR Impedes Co-ops Meeting Consumer Needs
Guest Essay by Jay Morrison, VP-Regulatory Issues, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association