That's funny... I just looked at my bill and my winter rate, opposed to summer, was a half a cent more than last year (. Looking at my bill, all of the rates are winter, except for those few summer months which RMP uses a tier rate. You really need to do some research before you jump to conclusions.

I'll ditto to that. I have to say, Utah does have some really good EE programs and I wouldn't have gone anywhere else.

BTW- I did it the USU way with extra classes to Iowa State University because guess what... USU doesn't have a power program either.

Sounds to me like you are a consultant with a son/daughter at BYU in the electrical engineering program and which don't know quiet what you are talking about. And with as much as you claim to be doing, you would have graduated from BYU, what, 10 years ago at least. Which maybe they did have a power program back then, but they sure didn't 5 years ago when I started my degree. Sure, power engineering is a subset of EE, which in all reality is a messed up version of physics (we EE have our electron flow all wrong when talking to a physics major). Might I suggest looking into schools such as Iowa State University and University of Idaho. They have true power engineering programs which indulge the student into PE that is far beyond what the few classes BYU has to offer. As for HV engineering, I took that class from a world renown engineer from Russia (Iowa state shipped him in). HV engineering the easiest, NO and far from it(may have been his accent, but he was fairly understandable). HV engineering fun, ABSOLUTELY. Funny you should mention the U. They recently hired an individual to introduce some power engineering type classes. I believe they had one or two class like BYU, but still nothing in comparison to what other schools (not in Utah might I add) have to offer. I would have to finish this up with the comment that if I were the EPA, I would have done a little more research as to what schools were offering. I must say that there are far superior schools out there for such a study. I hope they got their fair share or larger chunk of that cash.

99.9% Electrical Power Engineering is Electrical Engineering. Since you believe that, like I said, BYU doesn't have a Power Engineering program. Sure, there are some simularities but to get down and actaully go through a power engineering program with HV engineering, stability and control, and generation dynamics, then you haven't really experience true "Power Engineering." BYU may have a few power classes along with the EE core and you can get an "emphasis" in Power Engineering, but it's not the real thing.

Alien127 - They have one class which I am not ever sure is actually a power class. Transmission Line Fundamentals. More and likely a power class than not, but one class? And you say you graduated from a power engineering program? I am not aware of a power program in the state! I went to Iowa to take my power classes, and I know of others going to WA and ID, but nothing in Utah... IDIOT! You probably didn't even graduate from high school, hence, you wouldn't know the difference between power engineering and electrical engineering. :(