Jayde Dono’s Reflections After One Year Nearing her first full year in her role as a financial analyst at Utility Financial Solutions, Jayde Dono brings a fresh perspective to utility finance. With degrees in finance and economics from the University of Central...
In the fall of 2023, the Michigan Municipal Electric Association (MMEA) approached UFS with a unique and ambitious challenge. Could we help them conduct a study to prove the often-stated anecdotal evidence that public power creates great value for its customers?...
When Paul Jakubczak, Utility Director at Coldwater Board of Public Utilities, proposed a study to quantify the value a local utility brings to its community, MMEA Executive Director, Katie Abraham, called our Vice President Dawn Lund to join the project. Below is a...
The APPA recently published a piece by Susan Partain that does a fantastic job of describing the complexity of rate change, especially in today's world. The author quotes Mark Beauchamp regarding how rate setting has changed and the consequences of not setting...
Our industry has had no shortage of extraordinary events that have affected electric sales. In the last year utilities have faced rising power supply costs, unprecedented inflation, and rolling blackouts. Our systems also face yearly threats of hurricanes, wind...