All 8,283 state commission staff can receive PUF for free when their commissions set up free site licenses
Using the cool state map on the NARUC web site, I calculated that there are 8,283 state commission staff.
Only the screen for the Wisconsin Public Service Commission didn’t show the number of staff. But I counted using that Commission’s staff directory.
There’s an average of 162 staff at each state commission.
More good news yesterday for electric service customers.
The Commerce Department published the numbers it uses to estimate the gross domestic product. Including personal consumption expenditures, which is seventy percent of the GDP.
Including the expenditures for cars, clocks, carpet, computers, cereal, clothing, cosmetics, child care, cabs, clubs, cable, cell phones and casinos. That’s just the c’s.
And including the expenditures for electric service.
Guest column
Sometimes we get a little carried away with notions about our electric industry infrastructure being out of date. Some commentators have used the statement:
"Thomas Edison would likely recognize much of today's infrastructure"
as some sort of proof of technological deficiency. Well, I do not believe it is correct, much less proof of obsolescence.
Why NRC must combine regulation with innovation.
Soon-to-be-president a PUF Author
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote an article for Public Utilities Fortnightly, in June 1931, he was governor of the state of New York and a strong contender for the Democratic nomination for the 1932 presidential election. What drove FDR to write the two-page article?
The PUF editors asked the soon-to-be-president:
"... whether or not it will be possible for a privately owned public utility company to earn a reasonable return on its investment in New York, notwithstanding the enactment of all of the so-called progressive proposals?"
132 thousand residential solar jobs with caveats
March 1996 article said weak electricity sales growth predicted Carter’s and H.W. Bush’s reelection loss, and speculated about Clinton’s chances.
"Elections and Electrons: Who Will Win in '96," was the article's title, in the March 15, 1996 issue of Public Utilities Fortnightly, 20 years ago. The author analyzed annual electricity sales growth and observed weak growth in the years that President Jimmy Carter lost his reelection bid to Ronald Reagan, in 1980, and that George H.W. Bush lost his reelection bid to Bill Clinton, in 1992.
Spoiler alert! Answers to this month’s crossword puzzle, Clean Power Puzzle, on page 27 in April 2016's Public Utilities Fortnightly.
Across
1. reliable critic: nerc
2. more with building block four: efficiency
6. assessment: ea
7. incentive program: ceip
8. more with building block three: renewables
10. skeptical judges: supreme
14. more with building block two: gas
15. not changing the ___: climate
Forgotten survey of 1,000 households in Los Angeles/Orange County.
"... the ownership of luxury items - dishwashers, clothes dryers, air conditioners, etc. - is particularly sensitive to income level."
Welcome to the Los Angeles/Orange County area in 1970. We found in the Library of Congress this remarkable survey of consumers' adoption of machines, appliance and devices as of 46 years ago.
Forty-seven percent of households had a color television. Sixty-nine percent had a black and white TV.