A Day at Washington State's Utilities and Transportation Commission
State Commissions
Conversations with Washington State UTC’s commissioners, directors and more.
Social Distancing in the Most Collaborative Industry
Companies, Cooperatives, Commissions
Like me, are you down with the coronavirus blues too? True, that’s far better than testing positive.
History of Residential Electric Rates part 1
When have residential electric rates been expensive and not? This ten-minute episode of Podcast Utilities Fortnightly starts to answer this question by showing how the Consumer Price Index tracks historical rate trends in extraordinary detail. Part I looks at the trends during the period of 1952 through 1986, and the current trend since 2019.
Quotable Quotes by New York Power Authority CEO Gil Quiniones
Excerpted from March PUF: “How NYPA Ensures Asset Management Best Practices Really are the Best.”
Quotable Quotes from March’s PUF
Excerpted from March PUF: “Ensuring Future Capital Access.”
Coal Falls Below Billion MWH
The U.S. grid’s coal-fired power plants produced 966 million megawatts-hours in 2019. This is remarkable, the first time in decades that coal plants produced less than a billion megawatt-hours. And this number is forty-eight percent down from coal plant production nine years earlier, in 2010.
Lowest Ever Electric Bill Percentage
1.22 percent is the lowest ever electric bill percent.
Commissioner Turnover Trends
Fifty percent turnover in the last three and a half years.
You Under 40?
Fortnightly Under Forty nominations are due as usual by Albert Einstein's Birthday, March 14, pi-day.