Upcoming April 2016 issue contents

Deck: 

76 pages, 16 features & columns, 19 authors, ducks, baseball, virtual reality, 3 cartoons, and a crossword puzzle.

Today in Fortnightly

FEATURES 

  • PPL CEO Interviewed, Bill Spence, with Steve Mitnick 
  • Utilities' Role in Transport Electrification, by Nancy Ryan and Lucy McKenzie 
  • Obligations and Opportunities: Wires Cos. Plug In to Clean Power Plan, by Brendan Collins 
  • Reinvigorating a Century Old Business Model, by Larry Kellerman 
  • Order 745: Challenge to Plain Old Power Markets, by Charles Cicchetti 
  • Commercial DG - Case for Financeable Contracts, by Nicholas Giannasca 
  • Rethinking How to Value Energy Savings in Smaller Businesses, by Colin Fraser 
  • An Industry Transformed, by Roy Palk 
  • Electricity, Economic Efficiency and Growth, by Sam Flaim and Loren Toole 

COLUMNS

  • From the Editor: We Made Light Free, by Steve Mitnick
  • Innovating Like Edison: Ti - The Transmission Line Inspection Robot, by Andrew Phillips 
  • Consumer Counts: Today's NASUCA, by Sheri Givens 
  • Counterflow: Just Ducky, by Steve Huntoon 
  • More Electrifying: Framing Virtual Reality, by Shawn DuBravac 
  • Regulatory Principles: Are Utilities and Government Skimping on R&D?, by Ken Costello 
  • Following FERC: FERC v. Ohio, by Bruce Radford 
  • Notable State Orders: Illicit Marketing Practices, by Phil Cross 

DEPARTMENTS

  • PUF Crossword: Clean Power Puzzle
  • At APPA Legislative Rally
  • PUF Mega Metrics: Residential Electric Rate if Inflated at the CPI
  • Picture Energy
  • April Birthdays: Arc Light, Gramme Machine, The Great Train Robbery 
  • Off Peak: Play Ball. Electrically. 

LETTER TO THE EDITOR 

  • Response to Brown Re: Net Metering, by Charles Cicchetti 

 

Your magazine for commentary, opinion and debate on utility regulation and policy since 1929, Public Utilities Fortnightly. Though you likely started reading PUF more recently.

Steve Mitnick, Editor-in-Chief, Public Utilities Fortnightly
E-mail me: mitnick@fortnightly.com