Now is your opportunity to take advantage of financial incentives and incorporate renewable energy into your operations. The Clean Energy Tax Incentives for Businesses through the Inflation Reduction Act allows municipalities, other tax-exempt entities, and nonprofit organizations to fund renewable energy projects such as wind and solar. Once you have a plan, follow the Federal guidelines … Read more
The 2024 Annual Utility Rate Survey booklet will soon be mailed or hand delivered. It contains charts of water, wastewater, and stormwater rates, as well as a Total Utility Bill that includes water, wastewater, and stormwater. Since each community faces different challenges, it is often useful to look at the combined utility rate when comparing … Read more
AE2S Nexus has begun mailing or hand delivering the 2024 edition of the Annual Utility Rate Survey. We would like to thank the 226 participants this year. We received responses from 115 systems serving populations 5,000 and greater, 57 systems serving populations less than 5,000, and 54 Regional Rural systems. Survey data was solicited from … Read more
The 23rd Edition of the Annual Utility Rate Survey will be distributed to the participants in the coming weeks. Until then, we wanted to share a preliminary look at the results to help you understand how your rates compare to those of your peers. We hope that the results are useful to systems throughout the … Read more
To enhance the usefulness of the Annual Utility Rate Survey, we have developed an online Dashboard for use by participants. The dashboard can be accessed by logging into the site at: ae2sratesurvey.com. Rate survey participants can either log in using an existing account or create a new account by following the prompts at the bottom … Read more
Finding new ways to offset the costs of projects can be difficult in today’s inflationary environment. However, communities are expanding their level of comfort with an expanded program through the Inflation Reduction Act that now allows municipalities take advantage of tax credits to incorporate renewable energy into their operations. From geothermal to wind or solar, … Read more