Electricity Eliminated Drudgery, Now Enriching Life
Regulation for Third Era of the Age of Electricity
With this renewed interest and involvement in applications of electricity, will we need new regulatory mechanisms?
Frontlines
Really Impact the Debate
New PUF Audio Video
If in 1928 it was critical to write in an easy engaging style, it is that much more necessary today to be short, emotive, visual. The New York Times thinks that as well.
Innovate Thyself
PUF Transforms, Expands, Multiplies
PUF 2.0: a new digital magazine published on the 15th each month. PUF is fortnightly again.
Industry Sage David Owens Retires
Honoring Him with Our First PUF’s Owen Young Award
Owens has been the industry’s debater-in-chief. This month, uncharacteristically, he’s decided to put down the mic for good.
Cold Hard Truths
Who shall lay out those constraints, clearly, credibly?
What are the coldest hardest truths that a much more involved public must grasp?
'Markets' Test
We Called Them 'Markets.' Now We're Testing Them.
We're enamored of free markets, particularly in the nineties. But power markets cannot come close to emulating authentic competition. Why? They cannot satisfy the basic conditions of competition taught in microeconomics 101.
Why Innovation?
Also, What, Who, Where, When?
Why is innovation all the rage? Yes, continual improvement always makes sense. But the dramatic changes being talked about, are they that urgent? Let's recognize how much customers vary in their electricity wants and needs, within service territories, between territories, and between states.
To 2016's Authors, Interviewees Who Impacted the Debate
PUF 2016 Index of Articles, Interviews and Columns
From Paul Afonso to Audrey Zibelman, In 2016, 190 chief execs, commissioners and experts debated competition, cyber, climate change and more in PUF.
In Only the Second Period of Low Real Rates and Bills
How Should We Manage and Regulate Now?
Electric bills this March were just a tick off the pace of the all-time low. In this unique period, how should we regulate utilities? Should we correct course? Should we allow greater growth of non-fuel costs to – let’s say – buy some more reliability?
Hiding Electricity's Complexity
Should We Lift the Curtain?
Almost nobody realizes the most advanced technology helps us manage grids, operate plants, integrate renewables, route flows, limit peak demand, and restore service after storms. Should we lift the curtain covering the network’s complexity?