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David Tucker is a Project Director at the Environmental Finance Center at UNC Chapel Hill.
How affordable are electric rates for “average” or “typical” residential customers in North Carolina? That is a complicated question to answer, and this article represents only a beginning to that investigation. Continue reading
We wish to offer our sincere thanks to all of our wonderful partners, clients, and friends for all the great work you’ve allowed us to do together with you in 2013. We hope you had a wonderful winter holiday, and we look forward to an exciting year of helping organizations that provide environmental services become more financially sustainable in 2014! Continue reading
David R. Tucker is a Project Director at the Environmental Finance Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Key: 1. Water Main; 2. Water Tap; 3. Water Meter; 4. Private Plumbing (water line); 5. Private Plumbing (wastewater line); 6. Wastewater Main.
Source: City of Fort Worth, Texas
My work at the UNC Environmental Finance Center frequently centers around the study, benchmarking, and understanding of rates, especially residential rates: charges per unit across time (such as dollars per kilowatt hour for kWh of electricity used in a month; or dollars per gallon, for thousands of gallons of drinking water used in a quarter; and so on). You can see the results of our work on rates by yours truly and my colleagues in sophisticated tools that we have developed, such as our drinking water and wastewater rates dashboards, our stormwater rates dashboards, and our electric rates dashboards, among many other tools and reports that the EFC has created. Continue reading
David R. Tucker is a Project Director at the Environmental Finance Center at UNC Chapel Hill
Source: Citizens Utility Board of Oregon
It’s the season of Halloween, and for some, this time of ghosts and goblins, zombies and vampires can be scary. For others, trick or treating and costumes and parties are great fun. For still others, the scary news of late is higher electric bills. Here in our home state, the North Carolina Utility Commission (NCUC) has approved a 7.2% residential electric rate increase for Duke Energy Carolinas customers, and a similar 7.5% increase for Duke Energy Progress customers. However, the NCUC’s orders came with several other changes for Duke Energy, including the piloting of residential electric Time of Use (TOU) rates – the analysis of which is the sort of thing we at the EFC think is fun!
Written by David Tucker
David Tucker is a Project Director for the Environmental Finance Center.
In our work with the Smart Management for Small Water Systems project and other programs, the Environmental Finance Center has seen initiatives by drinking water and wastewater systems around the country take advantage of renewable energy options to help reduce their energy and power costs, often through some kind of third-party financing arrangement, such as a power purchase agreement (PPA). For example, here in our home state of North Carolina, the City of Raleigh leases land to a private solar developer who installed a 250 kilowatt (kW) solar photovoltaic (PV) array at the City’s E.M. Johnson Water Treatment Plant a few years ago, and the developer sells the electricity to the local power utility. Solar power examples such as these are becoming more common at water utilities, but you may not have heard yet about the opportunities for micro-hydro power for water utilities, another potential source of clean, “green,” renewable energy, as well as additional revenue generating opportunities. Continue reading
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