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PUF Affordability Seminars

Publication of “The Electric Affordability Factbook” on the seventeenth of January and “Modeling Affordability of the Energy Transformation” on the first of February has stirred a lot of interest in this research and its implications.

 

So, the Public Utilities Fortnightly team has developed two seminars. One for an organization’s leaders and communications professionals. One for an organization’s analysts and regulatory professionals. Brief descriptions below.

Electric Rates 1/40th of the CPI

Electricity is 2.522 percent of the Consumer Price Index. As a fraction, that’s about one-fortieth.

Other components of the CPI with a similar weight on this all-important measure of inflation? Full service meals and snacks, like restaurants, have a weight in the CPI of 2.324. Limited service meals and snacks, like fast food, have a weight of 2.272.

Apparel has a weight in the CPI of 2.464. Used cars and trucks have a weight of 2.544. Hospitals and related services have a weight of 2.308. Motor vehicle insurance has a weight of 2.874.