Frontlines

Is the value proposition for all utility customers the same? A high-income household may expend one percent or even less of its total expenditures on electricity, whereas a low-income household may expend three or four percent, or even more.

Each October, PUF highlights and celebrates innovators at utilities with our Top Innovator Awards and at our Fortnightly Top Innovators conference.

Out of 88 nominations, 23 teams earned Fortnightly Top Innovators awards.

PUF has hosted the Summer Summit Soapbox Luncheon at NARUC’s midsummer conference. It’s become an institution practically. And a beloved one at that. This summer’s edition featured two-minute speeches by the Chairs of the New York, Wyoming, and Washington Commissions, the former Chair of the Maryland Commission, and a former FERC Commissioner.

NARUC President Julie Fedorchak prevailed in the Republican Primary and her name will appear on the ballot this November in an election to determine who shall sit in North Dakota’s sole seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

“The most important concern is how we can address present risks, as well as tackle electrification requirements of the future.”

Like the space program, the drive to decarbonize is encountering many unsolved problems. Each has the potential to prevent a smooth landing.

That’s the Median for Commissioners and Chairs.

How much is enough? That’s so often the central question for those considering investments in our national defense. Along with secondary questions of nearly equal importance, such as, should we invest in this particular defense program? Or that one instead?

What do we mean when we say that something is unaffordable? I ask for a very good reason.