Where's Affordability
Electricity has generally been a shrinking part of consumer expenditures since the great recession, while consumer expenditures have grown.
PUF's Where's Energy
Electric Affordability Factbook
Public Utilities Fortnightly has published the sixty-page Electric Affordability Factbook. It provides new quantitative detail on those electric utility residential customers that are struggling with affordability.
You can freely download the Factbook here or view the online flipbook.
What Affordability Means
There are multiple definitions of affordability, none all that precise.
October's Electric Bill Affordability Index
PUF’s Electric Bill Affordability Index for October was 1.32%, unchanged from September.
October's Electric and Gas Rates
The overall CPI, for all goods and services, was up 3.2% compared to last year.
More Dates to Save
The Public Utilities Fortnightly team hosts four events each year. In 2024, Edison Congress is one of course, on the fifteenth to the seventeenth of April as we said.
Two others are first-day luncheons at NARUC national meetings. Our Winter Summit State of State Regulation Luncheon will take place on the twenty-sixth of February, at The Westin Washington/DC Downtown. And our Summer Summit Soapbox Luncheon will take place on the fifteenth of July, at the West Palm Beach Convention Center.
Edison Still in Our Name
Thomas Edison’s name was taken off the company he founded on April 15, 1892.
September's Electric and Gas Rates
Overall CPI is up 3.7% compared with a year earlier.
Day Three at Top Innovators
This day begins with a keynote by EPRI CEO Arshad Mansoor and a dialogue with the Department of Energy Loan Program Office’s Leslie Rich.
Day Two at Top Innovators
Forty-five speakers and panelists are on the agenda, as well as 30 utility innovators accepting this year’s awards.