This comprehensive self-study certification course is designed to teach the novice or pro everything they need to understand and succeed in every phase of the public utilities business.
PUF has developed two seminars on affordability, one for an organization’s leaders and communications professionals, the other for its and regulatory professionals.
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.
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.