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...