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PUR Guide 2012 Fully Updated Version

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PUF's Where's Energy

Fortnightly Electricity Report, through April 28

Electricity use drops 5%, generation by coal plants drops 31%, CO2 emissions drop 16%.

Casey, on the Current Crisis

Co-leader of PwC’s energy, utilities and mining practice discusses the COVID-19 crisis.

Smart Investment in the Smart Grid, by Zolaikha Strong

The director of energy policy & electrical markets at the Copper Development Association, previously at FERC and then EEI, writes what the current crisis informs us about the grid.

Check Out Our May Issue

Browse the contents of our latest issue.

Absolute Best Numbers on Electric Bills

A taste of insights from the semiannual Consumer Expenditure Survey.

New Feature: Video Roundtables Fortnightly

The PUF team is now conducting video roundtables of leaders in utility regulation and policy.

Coronavirus & No Disconnect Policies, by Charles Bayless

Recent orders forbid many utilities from disconnecting customers who do not pay bills during the pandemic. While necessary, the question arises: what do we do once the crisis is over?

Quotable Quotes in April's PUF

Quotes from Chair David Danner, Pat O’Loughlin, Tom Fanning, Kevin Fitzgerald and Tom Flaherty.

ROE and Interest Rates, by Branko Terzic and Brad Cornell

The reason the ROE is so publicized and contested is not that it is the largest expense item for a public utility.

Corona Chaos

Most everything is different now because of this corona thing. It’s corona chaos and even some of the constants of utility service and regulation are anything but. Like commercial consumption of electricity. Like residential consumption. Egads! Like bill collection and resilience planning and workforce management and regulatory procedure and well, a lot of other constants — heretofore — in our ways of working.

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