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PUR Guide 2012 Fully Updated Version

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PUF's Where's Energy

Electricity Eliminated Drudgery, Now Enriching Life

My grandmother — born in 1898 — didn't have electricity at home growing up.

PUF Short Vid: Captain Mercaptan

A cartoon character gives students a safety message about natural gas at the Exelon Innovation Expo.

Read the new issue of PUF 2.0

The mid-July issue of our new digital mag PUF 2.0 is available to read or download here.

Illinois Commerce Commission in PUF

Check out interviews of four members of the ICC and its executive director, excerpted here.

PUF Short Vid: Deep Trekker

An underwater drone for use in a nuclear plant and its environment. (26 seconds)

July 13, 1977: Infamous NYC power outage

On July 13, 1977, the infamous New York power outage took place. The Big Apple was brought to its knees after a lightning storm. For twenty-five hours, nine million people were in the dark as mass looting and rioting broke out across the boroughs. A thousand fires, sixteen hundred looted stores, five hundred and fifty injured police officers, four thousand arrests. All this while the fear of the notorious Son of Sam murders magnified. A Bronx car dealership had fifty Pontiacs stolen.

CEOs of NRECA and NiSource

Check out interviews with CEOs of National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and NiSource.

Roundtable of Three Southeastern CFOs in July's PUF

Roundtable of the CFOs of Southern Co., Dominion and Duke Energy, excerpted here.

Happy Tesla’s Birthday!

The inventor of our AC-based electricity system was born on July 10.

What do these 58 energy people have in common?

Azeema Akram, Comm. Vicky Bailey, Art Beattie, Charles Berckmann, Comm. Linda Breathitt, Comm. Nora Brownell …

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