Barbra Streisand's Happy Days
Streisand sung Happy Days Are Here Again, apropos to the first quarter’s record low electric bills as a percent of consumer expenditures.
Today's PUF
Track and Tilt
A solar panel put in the southwest will be much more cost-effective, and much more effective at slowing climate change, than if it’s put anywhere else in the continental U.S.
Nikola's Memorable May
On May 1, 1888, Nikola Tesla was issued seven patents that literally made our world.
Martin Insull's 1931 PUF article
He wasn't famous like his brother Samuel, but Martin Insull co-founded General Electric...
We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes
1984 is the last year we burned less coal than we did in 2016.
Kw consumption flat, but reliance rises
Steve Mitnick of Public Utilities Fortnightly on growth in electricity usage
$3.95 Daily
Americans in the West pay $3.38 daily for residential electric service, on average, in the Midwest $3.53, in the Northeast $3.58.
April 24: Charles Brush patents the arc light
The arc light, competitor to incandescent light, battled for primacy well into the early twentieth century
Your Expert Guess
Consumers can only conclude that a very large percent of electricity’s cost is the cost of fuel.
Al Capone thwarted by Sam Insull
How did federal agent Eliot Ness and the Untouchables bring down Capone? Sam Insull and the utilities industry were key.