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PUF's Where's Energy

Electric Rates 1/40th of the CPI

Electricity is 2.522 percent of the Consumer Price Index. As a fraction, that’s about one-fortieth.

Other components of the CPI with a similar weight on this all-important measure of inflation? Full service meals and snacks, like restaurants, have a weight in the CPI of 2.324. Limited service meals and snacks, like fast food, have a weight of 2.272.

Apparel has a weight in the CPI of 2.464. Used cars and trucks have a weight of 2.544. Hospitals and related services have a weight of 2.308. Motor vehicle insurance has a weight of 2.874.

PUF's Electric Bill Affordability Index

The Electric Bill Affordability Index tracks how much consumers can afford other stuff.

Where's Affordability

Electricity has generally been a shrinking part of consumer expenditures since the great recession, while consumer expenditures have grown.

Electric Affordability Factbook

Public Utilities Fortnightly has published the sixty-page Electric Affordability Factbook. It provides new quantitative detail on those electric utility residential customers that are struggling with affordability.

You can freely download the Factbook here or view the online flipbook.

October's Electric Bill Affordability Index

PUF’s Electric Bill Affordability Index for October was 1.32%, unchanged from September.

October's Electric and Gas Rates

The overall CPI, for all goods and services, was up 3.2% compared to last year.

More Dates to Save

The Public Utilities Fortnightly team hosts four events each year. In 2024, Edison Congress is one of course, on the fifteenth to the seventeenth of April as we said. 

Two others are first-day luncheons at NARUC national meetings. Our Winter Summit State of State Regulation Luncheon will take place on the twenty-sixth of February, at The Westin Washington/DC Downtown. And our Summer Summit Soapbox Luncheon will take place on the fifteenth of July, at the West Palm Beach Convention Center. 

Edison Still in Our Name

Thomas Edison’s name was taken off the company he founded on April 15, 1892.

September's Electric and Gas Rates

Overall CPI is up 3.7% compared with a year earlier.

Day Three at Top Innovators

This day begins with a keynote by EPRI CEO Arshad Mansoor and a dialogue with the Department of Energy Loan Program Office’s Leslie Rich.

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