Lowest percentage since the 1950s
Electric service is effectively less expensive now than it was in the late summer of the year 2000.
We Forecast Coal Under Billion
Public Utilities Fortnightly now forecasts that the U.S. grid’s coal plants will generate under a billion megawatt-hours this year. That would be big news in itself. But our forecast is that coal plant generation will fall further, below nine-tenths of a billion megawatt-hours.
Not since the late nineteen-seventies have coal plants produced so little power in the U.S. in a year. Which is extra remarkable because the U.S. grid’s overall production of power — from all generation sources — is now about twice what it was in the late nineteen-seventies.
EPRI: Reactor Inspection Lab
Visiting EPRI Innovators
You might feel like you were with PUF editors during a special tour of the Reactor Inspection Lab.
EPRI: T&D Conductor Test Lab
Visiting EPRI Innovators
You might feel like you were with PUF editors during a special tour of the T&D Conductor Test Lab.
EPRI: Welding Lab
Visiting EPRI Innovators
You might feel like you were with PUF editors during a special tour of the welding lab.
EPRI: Mechanical Test Lab
Visiting EPRI Innovators
EPRI's mechanical test lab is mostly focused on high-temperature testing, researching different materials that are used in the power plant.
Visiting EPRI Innovators
A Special Tour
In a day filled with wonder, PUF editors toured one of the world’s top energy labs, at EPRI’s sprawling campus in Charlotte.
Sam Insull, Bill Nye, and the Urge to Innovate
Recapturing Our Industry’s Spirit
Utility people are at their best when they're innovating to fulfill the potential, as Bill Nye says, to change the world.
1898’s Historic Speech
Talking about 1898, Samuel Insull’s historic speech, “Public Control and Private Operation,” took place on the seventh of June of that year, in Insull’s adopted town of Chicago. Here are his key words that day, that built the foundation for the regulated utility industry:
“Acute competition necessarily frightens the investor, and compels corporations to pay a very high price for capital…