Peek at 2018
Great Year for Energy and Environment
There’s a premium on predictions, but the exception could be energy priorities in 2018.
PUF 2.0 - January 15, 2018
Top Three Tax Reform Changes Impacting Utilities
Widespread Impacts
Certain provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act are expected to have widespread impacts on the industry.
Conversation Cannot Be Markets vs. Non-Markets
Pendulum Swings Again
While open markets were the objective of the 1990s, the pendulum is swinging again.
Storms, Rates, Insurance
Entire Economy Pays Price
This past year three hurricanes affected an area which encompassed about eight percent of the U.S. population. According to an article by Joel Achenbach in The Washington Post, dated November 19, 2017, “Disaster claims soar in year of calamities: Federal resources stretched as applications for aid rise tenfold,” these three storms contributed to a year of “record setting disasters.”
4.7 million Americans registered for FEMA aid compared to four hundred eighty thousand in 2016, and an average of a hundred and eighty thousand for the previous three years.