A Day with the New Mexico Commissioners
State Commissions
Conversations with Chair Joseph Maestas, Vice Chair Cynthia Hall, and Commissioners Theresa Becenti-Aguilar, Stephen Fischmann, and Jefferson Byrd.
Feeling Young
Remarkable Under Forties
We expect much more from these Fortnightly Under Forties and look forward to seeing where they go in their careers.
Special Issue on the State and Future of Power
Our Special Issue on the State and Future of Power is now available to read online.
Features include:
Minerals Critical to Power’s Future, NARUC Executive Committee Member Looks Forward, Incredible Innovation in New Nuclear
General Motors’ Michael Maten, Dominion Energy’s Alex Moyes, Center for Strategic & International Studies’ Jane Nakano, U.S. Energy Department’s Grant Bromhal. Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission’s Ann Rendahl.
June's CPI and Electricity
June 10's Consumer Price Index data delivered more inflation news.
Consumer prices were up 8.6 percent year-over-year. The CPI's component for electricity was up 12.0 percent.
While the CPI increase was not much different across the country's four census regions, the electricity component's increase was. The why is obvious as you shall see below.
The CPI was up 7.5 percent in the northeast, 8.8 percent in the midwest, 9.2 percent in the south, and 8.3 percent in the west. That averages 8.6 percent as we said, appropriately weighting the four regions.
Heroes, Be in Our Story
Tell us your stories of how this industry responds to get the power back on.
Measuring Affordability
Expenditures to pay consumers’ electric utility bills are up 16.3% from April of last year.
PUF Annual Pulse of Power Survey
Guidehouse
“Resilience is increasingly top of mind – despite the growing frequency and severity of extreme weather events and fires – but it is cybersecurity, rather than physical security and grid hardening, where utility industry participants see the greatest risk currently.”
Like SpaceX, Incredible Innovation in New Nuclear
Kairos Power
“We are singularly focused on efforts to commercialize an advanced reactor technology. Singular means we are only developing one technology, which is a fluoride salt-cooled high-temperature reactor.”
Idaho National Lab Director Inventing the Future
Decarbonization
“When we look at deep decarbonization, it’s going to take at least a couple decades. We have to be careful that the decisions we’re making for short-term gains aren’t making it more difficult for us in the future.”