Strategy & Planning

Audio and Video: A new platform

PUF AV

We introduce a new dynamic platform for members of the PUF community, to really impact the debate. And for us to communicate our features in an engaging and entertaining form, in brief audio and video recordings.

Innovate Thyself

PUF Transforms, Expands, Multiplies

PUF 2.0: a new digital magazine published on the 15th each month. PUF is fortnightly again.

The Times, They are a-Changin'

A response to the May 2017 From the Editor by PUF Editor-in-Chief Steve Mitnick

A more active and informed citizenry, involved in plotting electricity's path forward, isn't a cold, hard truth. It's a good thing.

Future of EE is Now

Data Creates New Opportunities

In prior articles, we focused on the important impact that the energy efficiency industry has had on the current North American energy economy. In this essay, we share our thoughts on the ways this segment will be challenged to drive innovation as it continues to mature. We also discuss the evolving role demand side management will play in the energy industry and the utility of the future.

Low-Cost Wind Brings New Opportunities

Moody's Investors Service: Midwest Utilities Replace Coal with Wind Power

Amid the uncertainty surrounding the new presidential administration's environmental policies, wind power prices in the Great Plains region are now averaging around $20 per megawatt-hour. According to a new report from Moody's Investors Service, many utilities are capitalizing on this cheap wind, using it to grow rate base or replace inefficient coal-fired assets.