This interactive dashboard is designed to assist utility managers and local officials with benchmarking residential water rates against multiple attributes, including financial performance, system characteristics, customer base socioeconomic conditions, and geography. Water rates and financial performance data for utilities that … Read more

This dashboard is designed to assist utility managers and local officials with benchmarking residential water rates against multiple attributes, including utility finances, system characteristics, customer base socioeconomic conditions, and geography. The EFC and the Hawai’i Safe Drinking Water Branch of … Read more

What happens if a water utility collects less in revenues than it pays in expenditures in one year? It will raise some alarms, but some utilities might be able to weather that shortfall by dipping into their reserves and bounce … Read more

Here at the Environmental Finance Center we work with a lot of data, but all the data in the world is useless if you can’t convey the story of the data to people who need to understand it. In line with … Read more

This dashboard is designed to assist utility managers and local officials with benchmarking residential water and wastewater rates against multiple attributes, including system characteristics, customer base socioeconomic conditions, and geography. Water and wastewater rates data for utilities in Texas were … Read more

Residential energy efficiency offers a unique way to simultaneously reduce energy use in buildings, lower energy bills for consumers, improve the comfort of homes, and generate carbon offsets. However, many homeowners who could benefit from energy efficiency retrofits are unable … Read more

This dashboard is designed to assist utility managers and local officials with benchmarking residential water and wastewater rates against multiple attributes, including system characteristics, customer base socioeconomic conditions, and geography. Rates data for this dashboard are drawn from the October … Read more

“Are our water utility’s rates right?” This is an often difficult question that arises at our  workshops and webinars for small water systems, through our direct technical assistance, and which many of our readers may be interested in. While there is no … Read more

  For several years, approximately 50 water and wastewater utilities across Canada have participated in the National Water and Wastewater Benchmarking Initiative (NWWBI). Every year, the participating utilities provide operational and financial data to AECOM, which compiles the data to provide benchmarking … Read more

  * This blog was originally posted on the UNC EFC’s previous website on April 23rd, 2015, and has been re-posted on our current website for our audience’s viewing. By Glenn Barnes In a previous post, we outlined how to … Read more