Exposing the utility playbook: Ratepayers are stuck paying the bill for utility corruption In 2020, Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder was arrested and subsequently resigned his speakership after an FBI investigation found that the influential lawmaker accepted $61 million dollars from electric utility FirstEnergy in exchange for passage of a nuclear bailout bill. The legislation … Continue reading Exposing the utility playbook: Ratepayers are stuck paying the bill for utility corruption →

American Utilities Are Getting Pummeled By Unpaid Bills Since the onset of the pandemic, millions of Americans have been struggling with paying rent and utility bills, putting a strain on power utilities’ revenues and raising the question about who and when will foot the bill for the billions of U.S. dollars in energy bills arrearages. … Continue reading American Utilities Are Getting Pummeled By Unpaid Bills →

Top Utility Trends of 2020 2020 has been a year of tremendous disruption for electric utilities, and for the world in general. But while the COVID-19 pandemic may have temporarily slowed some of the larger trends driving the power sector, the overall transition to a cleaner, more distributed future continues. This can be seen in … Continue reading Top Utility Trends of 2020 →

Many U.S. electric utilities plan slow decarbonization over next decade The country’s top emitting utilities are on decarbonization pathways that are too slow to meet the climate goals set forth by President-Elect Joseph Biden. Biden has promised to achieve a zero-carbon power sector by 2035 en route to reaching an economy-wide target of net-zero emissions … Continue reading Many U.S. electric utilities plan slow #decarbonization over next decade →

Where This Election Will (And Won’t) Matter For Utilities Elections always have consequences. They’re just rarely what investors think they will be—and almost never what’s declared beforehand in popular investment media. In a typical voting year, few industries would face higher stakes than regulated utilities. But this November, power, heating, communications and water companies actually … Continue reading Where This Election Will (And Won’t) Matter For Utilities →

Utilities Find Data at the Center of Operations As data becomes central to new business models in the energy utility sector, the global grid analytics market is expected to accelerate from $1.15 billion in 2018 to $2.31 billion in 2025, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.4%. As data becomes central to new … Continue reading Utilities Find Data at the Center of Operations →

Electric Utility Unveils New SAP System Last weekend, the Ethiopian Electric Utility (EEU) held celebrations at its primary data centre located in Addis Ababa to officially inaugurate the new SAP ERP system. The ribbon-cutting ceremony was attended by honorary guest, State Minister of the Energy Sector within the Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Electricity for … Continue reading Electric Utility Unveils New #SAP System →

Meteoric rise in demand of high-voltage cables in utility sector The total primary energy consumption in the U.S. was recorded at 101.3 quadrillion Btu in 2018 and is expected to witness consistent growth over the years, owing to the surging penetration of data centers and large communication base stations across the region. High-voltage cables allow … Continue reading Meteoric rise in demand of high-voltage cables in utility sector →