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Utilities Getting By With Less

Electric utilities are getting by with less funding this year.

Commissioners and Cybersecurity

During our Day at the Delaware PSC, we asked Chair Dallas Winslow about the top regulatory concerns. Excerpted from October’s PUF, here’s what Chair Winslow said:

“The biggest issue is cybersecurity. Our primary role is to make sure that we have a reliable, safe supply of electricity. What’s going on around the world is very threatening and there have been continuous attacks on utilities and other organizations.

Poverty Gets Real

We asked Missouri PSC Commissioner Maida Coleman about the poverty simulation at this year’s NARUC Summer Policy Summit. Excerpted from the article “Chairing NARUC's Committee on Consumers and the Public Interest,” here’s what Commissioner Coleman said:

 

Jimmy Carter 41 Years Later

On Sept. 19, FERC adopted a NOPR to consider updating PURPA’s regulations.

San Antonio: Be There or Square

The talk in the hallways will be as hot as the Tex-Mex food in town.

Hydrogen: We're Number 1!

A whole lot of research is going into perfecting the hydrogen fuel cell vehicle.

Tyranny of the Cost-Benefit Ratio

Limitations of the cost-benefit ratio became clear as the decades passed.

The Numbers Are In

American households paid an average of $4.11 per day for electricity in 2018.

Transmission Omission

I just read another article — by another expert in combatting climate change — about how U.S. electric supply can get to a hundred percent renewables. I’ve lost count of how many of these articles I’ve seen.

A hundred percent can be achieved economically and rather expeditiously, it is typically asserted, remarkably without nuclear power plants. The magic bullet is usually massive quantities of battery storage. But the more thoughtful of these articles adds huge amounts of hydroelectric storage and, in particular, high-voltage transmission.

One and a Third Percent

On August 30, the U.S. Commerce Department published detail on July’s gross domestic product. Including detail on its largest component, personal consumption expenditures. In July, one and a third percent of personal consumption was for residential electric bills. 

Is that a lot or a little? One way to answer this question is to look at what other categories of personal consumption were near one and a third percent in July.

Exactly one and a third percent was also spent on higher education.

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