PUF's Where's Energy

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1984 is the last year we burned less coal than we did in 2016.

Steve Mitnick of Public Utilities Fortnightly on growth in electricity usage

Americans in the West pay $3.38 daily for residential electric service, on average, in the Midwest $3.53, in the Northeast $3.58.

The arc light, competitor to incandescent light, battled for primacy well into the early twentieth century

Consumers can only conclude that a very large percent of electricity’s cost is the cost of fuel.

How did federal agent Eliot Ness and the Untouchables bring down Capone? Sam Insull and the utilities industry were key.

If one nuke shuts down, or if a new one isn’t built, that’s another 4.5 million tons of climate change gas into the atmosphere every year. Not good.

The real price of electricity paid by U.S. households is significantly lower than it was a year ago.

The real price of electricity has significantly fallen in recent decades.

The real price of electricity has significantly fallen in recent decades, particularly in the Northeast and South.