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PUF's Where's Energy

Fifty Million for Affordability

Exelon Chief Operating Officer Mike Innocenzo sat down with PUF's Steve Mitnick last week. The focus, Exelon's just announced fifty million dollar fund to help customers get through their short term affordability challenges. While it's working towards longer term solutions.

For a real quick read, here's the essence of our conversation on this unique initiative:


PUF’s Steve Mitnick: What’s this new Exelon initiative on affordability?

Tell Us Your Top Innovators

It's time to recognize Fortnightly Top Innovators 2025: individuals and teams making breakthroughs in utility reliability, affordability, safety, and environmental quality.

PUF's Report on Affordability

What is energy affordability? Who is most vulnerable to energy costs? How might the energy system transformation affect the vulnerable? What can we do to materially assist the vulnerable?

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This year’s Stars of Energy Efficiency Awards Gala was held at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.

Electric Rates and CPI Gap

Residential electric rates were up 3.95% in August year-over-year, a faster increase than the overall CPI that was up 2.5%.

Announcing Top Innovators 2024

After reviewing the eighty-eight qualifying nominations of teams of innovators at utilities that PUF received earlier this summer, we’re honored to announce your Fortnightly Top Innovators 2024.

October’s Public Utilities Fortnightly will highlight and celebrate these great teams and their inspiring stories and accomplishments on behalf of the customers they serve. In the meantime, here’s the teams that plowed new ground in reliability, technology, operations, environmental protection, safety, analytics, cybersecurity, and more:

Electricity at One and a Third Percent

July 25’s Gross Domestic Product report for the second quarter was encouraging.

Electric Rate Deflation

The overall CPI, for all goods and services, was up 3% compared with a year earlier.

April's Electric and Gas Rates

April’s Consumer Price Index was reported on May 15. The overall CPI, for all goods and services, was up 3.4 percent as compared with a year earlier – April 2023.

This follows the recent trend of inflation that is moderate. Though not as low as desired.

Better news about average weekly earnings. They’re now 3.9 percent greater than a year earlier.

The average price or rate per therm for utility natural gas service was down 1.9 percent as compared with a year earlier.

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