Ominous U.S. economy news
May retail sales and housing starts reports.
PUF's Where's Energy
Fortnightly Electricity Report, through May 26
The continental U.S. has seen a 6.2% decrease in electric sales since April 1.
Read our June issue
The June issue of PUF is now available online. See our Table of Contents here.
Demand Destruction
This May, through noon May 19, the highest hourly demand for electricity in the continental U.S. was 470.8 thousand megawatt-hours. That highest hourly demand came in hour nineteen Eastern Time on the fourth of May, the same day that the highest daily demand took place this month, at 9.6 million megawatt-hours.
Notably, this highest hourly demand was 7.6 percent less than the highest hourly demand during the same time period of last May, in 2019. And the highest daily demand was 8.3 percent less this May as compared to last May.
Nominate Your Smartest Utility Projects
Nominate your smartest utility projects. These are your most transformative electrification and digitization initiatives that are creating the smartest communities of the future.
We called this the Fortnightly Smartest Communities last year. Austin, Columbus, San Antonio, Spokane and suburban Birmingham distinguished themselves as did their utilities, City of Austin Utilities, American Electric Power, CPS Energy, Avista Utilities and Southern Company.
Excerpts from our May Extra Edition: U.S. Senator Mark Warner
Senator Warner discusses the recent landmark FCC order.
Steady Work
About half of all leisure and hospitality jobs were gone in just a month.
Weirdness in the CPI
The threat of deflation is upon us.
Excerpts from our May 14 Extra Edition
FCC Chair Ajit Pai discusses the recent landmark FCC order.
Fortnightly Electricity Report, through May 12
Load duration curves have significantly flattened in U.S. regions most affected by COVID-19.