Catalyst Cooperative: Yikes, wildfire related costs now make up a whopping 24% of PG&E's revenue requirements?! via @brendan.bsky.social & @energyinnovation.bsky.social #ClimateSky #EnergySky energyinnovation.org/publication/...

Yikes, wildfire related costs now make up a whopping 24% of PG&E's revenue requirements?! via @brendan.bsky.social & @energyinnovation.bsky.social #ClimateSky #EnergySky energyinnovation.org/publication/...

Clean Energy Isn't Driving Power Price Spikes - Energy Innovation: Policy and Technologyenergyinnovation.org New Energy Innovation research finds the biggest culprits behind rising utility bills include fossil fuels and the climate change impacts they cause, not clean energy.

Back of the envelope calculation has California wildfire related cost at 13% of the increase in national electricity utility revenues from 2018 through 2023.

Thank you for readily accessible EIA and FERC data, by the way! The FERC Form 1 datasets were enormously useful for this one.

That's great! 🤗 We love to hear whenever folks use the data -- it's very hard to know who is using it and how because it's just out there in the open for anybody. The 2023 FERC Form 1 should be available in the nightly builds as soon as this PR gets merged: github.com/catalyst-coo...

very draft first pass of transforming the 2023 ferc1 data by cmgosnell · Pull Request #3701 · catalyst-cooperative/pudlgithub.com Overview Working on #3700. Changes made scoping the transform via #3698 (this was done with a manual hand-off of the xbrl sqlite db) What problem does this address? What did you change? Testing How...

You might also be interested in the new rate base table we created in collaboration with RMI, which brings together utility asset & liability tables, plant in service etc into a single fine grained picture for each utility. data.catalyst.coop/pudl/out_fer...

pudl: out_ferc1__yearly_rate_base: 402,824 rowsdata.catalyst.coop

A correction to my napkin math - it's 7%, but still substantial.

This is... grim. CC @michaelwara.bsky.social

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