S2E9: APPA's Joy Ditto provides the municipal utility group's perspective on the transition to a clean-energy grid and economy

The Energy Markets Podcast

English - April 28, 2022 15:00 - 57 minutes - 39.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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Previous Episode: S2E8: Former FERC and PUCT Chairman Pat Wood discusses pro-competition policies past and future. Finishing the job in establishing competitive power markets nationally is an important prerequisite to decarbonizing the power grid, he says.

Next Episode: S2E10: Maryland PSC Chairman Jason Stanek discusses competitive retail power markets and state-subsidized resources in FERC-regulated wholesale markets

Joy Ditto, president and CEO of the American Public Power Association, discusses her member utilities' efforts to transition to a clean-energy grid within the traditional vertically integrated utility construct. She provides a mixed view of the benefits APPA-member utilities have enjoyed as a result of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's open-access wholesale power market regime, and calls for passage of federal legislation to provide non-profit utilizes, like municipal utilities and rural co-ops, the same sort of federal subsidy that for-profit utilities and others derive for implementing renewable wind and solar energy technologies.

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