What is an Electric Utility?

This is where it all begins… What is an Electric Utility company and Why should you care? If you are like most people, you use electricity daily but rarely ponder where the electricity comes from; that is, until it is not there readily available to use.

How does a Utility make money?

How does a utility make money, is it only through electricity sales? what is their business model? More importantly, if there is no competition, how do we know the electric rates we pay are fair?

To Regulate or Not: Competition, Electricity Prices & Innovation

“Ok, so better prices, better service, more renewable energy projects, sounds like competition is great; regulation is bad, and deregulation is good, that’s all I need to know” Well, not quite. We need to avoid a good vs. evil categorization here since it is a bit more complex than that.