PUF's Where's Energy
Affordability and Energy Transformation Investment
Ratemaking and Consumer Behavior
January's Electric and Gas Rates
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.
Fun Fact of the Week
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.
PUF's Electric Bill Affordability Index
Where's Affordability
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.