The Energy Markets Podcast
112 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingConversations with energy and environmental policy experts exploring the best state and federal policies to effectuate the urgently needed transition to a clean-energy economy at least cost to consumers. Lot's of wonky FERC stuff. State-level utility regulation and politics. Economists. Lawyers. Engineers. Politicians. Government regulators. Advocates. And acronyms. Lots of acronyms. Topical discussions about energy market developments with a focus on regulatory policies that disincentivize the innovation necessary to advance environmental and climate change objectives at least cost to consumers and the economy. Hosted by Bryan Lee, an energy and environmental policy consultant with decades of Washington, D.C.-based experience as a journalist, government official and energy company executive. Lee and invited guests discuss the latest developments at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and other federal agencies, Capitol Hill, as well as happenings at state-level regulatory commissions and legislatures.
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EMP S2E19: The American Antitrust Institute's Diana Moss explains her view that FERC is "deprioritizing" pro-competition policies in its electricity transmission and natural gas pipeline certification proceedings.
October 18, 2022 15:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBDiana Moss, an economist and president of the American Antitrust Institute, says the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission appears to be stepping back from the bipartisan pro-competition policies that have defined FERC's approach to regulation of the electricity and natural gas industries for the last 30 years. FERC's electricity transmission rulemaking would cement monopoly control of grid expansions needed for reliability and clean-energy purposes by allowing utilities to exercise a "right ...
EMP S2E19. The American Antitrust Institute's Diana Moss explains her view that FERC is "deprioritizing" pro-competition policies in its electricity transmission and natural gas pipeline certification proceedings.
October 18, 2022 15:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBDiana Moss, an economist and president of the American Antitrust Institute, says the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission appears to be stepping back from the bipartisan pro-competition policies that have defined FERC's approach to regulation of the electricity and natural gas industries for the last 30 years. FERC's electricity transmission rulemaking would cement monopoly control of grid expansions needed for reliability and clean-energy purposes by allowing utilities to exercise a "right ...
EMP S2E18: Everything you always wanted to know about ROFR - but were afraid to ask
October 11, 2022 14:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBLS Power Senior Vice President Sharon Segner discusses the multibillion-dollar stakes involved in the arcane dispute before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission over ROFR, or right of first refusal. FERC has proposed to allow incumbent monopoly utilities first crack at building the vast new network of transmission lines that must be constructed in order to transition to a clean-energy grid and economy. There would be no competing bids to determine if the utility build is the least-cost...
EMP S2E18: Everything you always wanted to know about ROFR - but were afraid to ask. We talked with LS Power's Sharon Segner
October 11, 2022 14:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBLS Power Senior Vice President Sharon Segner discusses the multibillion-dollar stakes involved in the arcane dispute before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission over ROFR, or right of first refusal. FERC has proposed to allow incumbent monopoly utilities first crack at building the vast new network of transmission lines that must be constructed in order to transition to a clean-energy grid and economy. There would be no competing bids to determine if the utility build is the least-cost...
EMP S2E17: Sunnova's CEO John Berger discusses his company's microgrid business strategy and the need to level the playing field with monopolies to smooth the transition to a clean-energy economy
October 02, 2022 16:00 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MBSunnova CEO and founder John Berger details his company's microgrid business strategy and calls for policy makers to level the playing field between competitive providers and monopoly utilities, both in front of and behind the meter. Monopoly regulation is a "socialistic and communistic business model," he says, noting that "the current system is broken financially and doesn't serve consumers." Berger says Sunnova's extensive solar-plus-storage installations in Puerto Rico faired well despi...
S2E16: Pete Quist with Open Secrets discusses campaign finance, lobbying and "dark money" spending by utilities that many see as thwarting the transition to a clean energy grid and economy.
September 19, 2022 16:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBPete Quist, Deputy Research Director with Open Secrets, a nonprofit dedicated to shining a spotlight on the role of money in politics, discusses the ways utilities employ money in politics and regulation. The spending is often to preserve their monopoly protection, to protect shareholder interests at the expense of consumers, and to thwart market entry by cheaper and cleaner forms of energy needed for the transition to a clean-energy grid and clean-energy economy.
S2E16: Pete Quist with Open Secrets discusses campaign finance, lobbying and "dark money" spending by utilities that many see as thwarting the transition to a clean-energy grid and economy.
September 19, 2022 16:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBPete Quist, Deputy Research Director with Open Secrets, a nonprofit dedicated to shining a spotlight on the role of money in politics, discusses the ways utilities employ money in politics and regulation. The spending is often to preserve their monopoly protection, to protect shareholder interests at the expense of consumers, and to thwart market entry by cheaper and cleaner forms of energy needed for the transition to a clean-energy grid and clean-energy economy. Support the show
EMP S2E15: Climate activists David Pomerantz and Jean Su explain the impetus behind a petition asking the FTC to investigate anticompetitive practices by utilities to protect their monopoly status and stymy market entry by competitors.
August 06, 2022 15:00 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MBDavid Pomerantz of the Energy and Policy Institute and Jean Su of the Center for Biological Diversity explain the impetus behind a recent petition in which hundreds of public interest groups and other entities asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the monopoly electric utility industry and its efforts to preserve and enhance their monopoly status and stymy market entry by competitors and clean energy resources. Support the show
EMP S2E14: NGSA's Dena Wiggins discusses the role of natural gas in the clean energy transition and the infrastructure challenges both traditional and renewable energy producers face in meeting decarbonization goals
July 04, 2022 14:00 - 46 minutes - 32.2 MBDena Wiggins, president and CEO of the Natural Gas Supply Association, which includes the Center for LNG, urges policymakers to recognize that "markets are working" and rejects export bans and price controls as an answer to the energy crunch consumers face today. "Markets do work," Wiggins says. "We really believe in the operation of a market. And rather than having a regulator or a commissioner or policymaker pick winners and losers, we think that a price on carbon would give the right ince...
S2E14: NGSA's Dena Wiggins discusses the role of natural gas in the clean energy transition and the infrastructure challenges both traditional and renewable energy producers face in meeting decarbonization goals
July 04, 2022 14:00 - 46 minutes - 32.3 MBDena Wiggins, president and CEO of the Natural Gas Supply Association, which includes the Center for LNG, urges policymakers to recognize that "markets are working" and rejects export bans and price controls as an answer to the energy crunch consumers face today. "Markets do work," Wiggins says. "We really believe in the operation of a market. And rather than having a regulator or a commissioner or policymaker pick winners and losers, we think that a price on carbon would give the right ince...
S2E13: Ari Peskoe of Harvard Law School's Electricity Law Institute speaks to the difficulty of bringing clean energy resources on line under outdated federal and state laws
June 16, 2022 21:00 - 50 minutes - 35 MBAt Harvard Law School's Electricity Law Initiative, Ari Peskoe works to promote market entry for clean energy, parsing through an arcane world of obsolete federal and state laws, most of which is up to a century old and even older and was not written with our current electricity needs in mind. Peskoe says he prefers the competitive market model to the monopoly utility approach to regulating electricity because it poses greater opportunities for the kind of innovation we need to decarbonize o...
S2E12: The Southeast Alliance for Clean Energy's Maggie Shober discusses utilities' opposition to a competitive wholesale power market in the region that would better accommodate market entry by renewable energy resources
May 30, 2022 13:00 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MBMaggie Shober is a utility analyst and clean-energy advocate with the Southeast Alliance for Clean Energy. She spends a great deal of her time working the IRP processes state-by-state for the various large utilities in the region, such as Duke, Florida Power & Light, Southern Co. and the Tennessee Valley Authority, to ensure that utility planning embraces clean-energy resources and other measures to limit carbon emissions and costs for consumers. But she clearly would prefer to see a FERC-r...
S2E11: Attorney Court Rich discusses how Arizona utilities worked to thwart and then overturn the state's law promoting retail competition in electricity
May 17, 2022 14:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBCourt Rich, an attorney representing solar developers and others before the Arizona Corporation Commission, recounts how the state's 20-year-old law promoting retail competition in electricity was thwarted for years by the state's utilities and then, recently, ultimately repealed after an army of more than a hundred lobbyists descended on the Legislature. The bill, through some sleight-of-hand rewriting of the governing statute, was then touted by the utilities as being a consumer-protection...
S2E10: Maryland PSC Chairman Jason Stanek discusses competitive retail power markets and state-subsidized resources in FERC-regulated wholesale markets
May 04, 2022 00:00 - 53 minutes - 36.4 MBJason Stanek, chairman of the Maryland Public Service Commission, talks about competitive retail power markets, the commission's recent decision to allow supplier consolidated billing, the treatment of state-subsidized resources in FERC-regulated wholesale power markets, and Maryland state policies to address the climate-change threat by rate-basing offshore wind, battery storage and EV battery charging stations. Support the show
S2E9: APPA's Joy Ditto provides the municipal utility group's perspective on the transition to a clean-energy grid and economy
April 28, 2022 15:00 - 57 minutes - 39.7 MBJoy 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 ...
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.
April 18, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 44.4 MBPat Wood III was at the forefront of important pro-consumer electricity policy changes 20 years ago as the former chairman of both the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Public Utility Commission of Texas. While his pro-competition agenda at FERC was stymied by political blowback, the past 20 years have shown the wisdom of pro-competition policies in electricity, he says, calling for current regulators to just "rip off the band-aid" and get to a competitive market model in the publ...
S2E7: Public Citizen's Tyson Slocum calls for more diverse stakeholder involvement in competitive wholesale power markets
April 14, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 42.1 MBPublic Citizen's Tyson Slocum sees competitive markets and traditional vertically integrated monopoly utilities as equally capable of delivering pro-consumer results in the transition to a clean-energy grid and economy. But both need better oversight in order to deliver on that promise, he says. Slocum calls for greater diversity of stakeholder representation in the competitive regional wholesale power markets, and is enthusiastic about FERC's recent move to establish an office of public par...
S2E6: Larry Gasteiger of WIRES speaks to the crucial role of transmission development as part of a national effort to get to a clean-energy grid.
March 14, 2022 18:00 - 49 minutes - 34 MBLarry Gasteiger, executive director of WIRES, an international trade group advocating for transmission development in North America, discusses the broad and systematic difficulties in getting necessary long-distance transmission lines sited and built. He shares his views on ongoing developments before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the U.S. Department of Energy and in Congress that aim to address the many issues that cause transmission line siting to take frustratingly long years ...
S2E5, Edison Electric Institute's Phil Moeller discusses natural gas and electric industry coordination as an overlooked yet important aspect of the transition to a clean-energy economy.
March 07, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 48.1 MBPhil Moeller, , Executive Vice President, Business, Operations Group and Regulatory Affairs at the Edison Electric Institute, discusses net energy metering, infrastructure development and FERC's docket on updating its transmission policy, including ROFR, whether utilities should be the sole source of electricity for EV charging in monopoly-regulated states, the threat of cyber attacks on the electric system, particularly in the wake of Putin's war of aggression in Ukraine, and competitive re...
S2E5: Edison Electric Institute's Phil Moeller discusses natural gas and electric industry coordination as an overlooked yet important aspect of the transition to a clean-energy economy.
March 07, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 48.1 MBPhil Moeller, , Executive Vice President, Business, Operations Group and Regulatory Affairs at the Edison Electric Institute, discusses net energy metering, infrastructure development and FERC's docket on updating its transmission policy, including ROFR, whether utilities should be the sole source of electricity for EV charging in monopoly-regulated states, the threat of cyber attacks on the electric system, particularly in the wake of Putin's war of aggression in Ukraine, and competitive re...
S2E4, Alison Silverstein discusses building on the success of competitive markets to allow social policies to protect those most at risk from climate change
February 10, 2022 14:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBFew in the electric industry can boast Alison Silverstein's achievements in contributing to pro-consumer, pro-competitive reforms at both the state and federal levels. And there is perhaps no one better situated to discuss the causes and ramifications of last year's deadly weather-induced grid outage in Texas last year. Perhaps most intriguing, however, is Silverstein's call for building on the indisputable gains from pro-competitive reforms in electricity to ensure competitive markets build...
S2E4: Alison Silverstein discusses building on the success of competitive markets to allow social policies to protect those most at risk from climate change
February 10, 2022 14:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBFew in the electric industry can boast Alison Silverstein's achievements in contributing to pro-consumer, pro-competitive reforms at both the state and federal levels. And there is perhaps no one better situated to discuss the causes and ramifications of last year's deadly weather-induced grid outage in Texas last year. Perhaps most intriguing, however, is Silverstein's call for building on the indisputable gains from pro-competitive reforms in electricity to ensure competitive markets build...
S2E3: Transmission policy advocate Rob Gramlich gives the first year of the Biden Administration and FERC high marks, even though legislatively the glass is half full.
February 07, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour - 42.9 MBEconomist and renewables-enabling transmission policy influencer Rob Gramlich gives high marks to the past year's efforts by the Biden Administration and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in terms of moving the needle on policy restraints that have for years stymied development of necessary electricity transmission infrastructure nationally. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), the massive infrastructure bill that Congress approved on a bipartisan basis, contains signifi...
S2 Episode 3: Transmission policy advocate Rob Gramlich gives the first year of the Biden Administration and FERC high marks, even though legislatively the glass is half full.
February 07, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour - 42.9 MBEconomist and renewables-enabling transmission policy influencer Rob Gramlich gives high marks to the past year's efforts by the Biden Administration and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in terms of moving the needle on policy restraints that have for years stymied development of necessary electricity transmission infrastructure nationally. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), the massive infrastructure bill that Congress approved on a bipartisan basis, contains signifi...
Season 2, Episode 2, NEPGA's Dan Dolan discusses subsidized resources in the market and the need for an economywide carbon price to effectively bring about a clean-energy grid.
January 28, 2022 18:00 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBDan Dolan of the New England Power Generators Association explains his members' concerns with subsidized resources in the region's wholesale power market, and the recent ballot initiative in Maine affecting a 145-mile, $1 billion transmission line designed to bring subsidized Canadian hydropower to Massachusetts. The market overseen by ISO-New England has resulted in cost savings for consumers and dramatic reductions in emissions, including greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change,...
S2E2: NEPGA's Dan Dolan discusses subsidized resources in the market and the need for an economywide carbon price to effectively bring about a clean-energy grid.
January 28, 2022 18:00 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBDan Dolan of the New England Power Generators Association explains his members' concerns with subsidized resources in the region's wholesale power market, and the recent ballot initiative in Maine affecting a 145-mile, $1 billion transmission line designed to bring subsidized Canadian hydropower to Massachusetts. The market overseen by ISO-New England has resulted in cost savings for consumers and dramatic reductions in emissions, including greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change,...
S2E2, NEPGA's Dan Dolan discusses subsidized resources in the market and the need for an economywide carbon price to effectively bring about a clean-energy grid.
January 28, 2022 18:00 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBDan Dolan of the New England Power Generators Association explains his members' concerns with subsidized resources in the region's wholesale power market, and the recent ballot initiative in Maine affecting a 145-mile, $1 billion transmission line designed to bring subsidized Canadian hydropower to Massachusetts. The market overseen by ISO-New England has resulted in cost savings for consumers and dramatic reductions in emissions, including greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change,...
S2E1, EPSA's Todd Snitchler discusses the impact of subsidized renewable resources in the markets, and warns that reliability is at risk with fair treatment of traditional merchant generators.
January 22, 2022 15:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MBThe Electric Power Association's Todd Snitchler discusses the challenges facing traditional merchant power generators in the transition to a clean energy grid, calling for an economywide price on carbon as part of the grid transformation required to meet the climate change threat. Studies show relatively small price on carbon can achieve a "dramatic reduction" in harmful emissions, EPSA's president and CEO says, noting that in regions with competitive markets, consumers will get "more bang ...
Season 2, Episode 1, EPSA's Todd Snitchler discusses the impact of subsidized renewable resources in the markets, and warns that reliability is at risk with fair treatment of traditional merchant generators.
January 22, 2022 15:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MBThe Electric Power Association's Todd Snitchler discusses the challenges facing traditional merchant power generators in the transition to a clean energy grid, calling for an economywide price on carbon as part of the grid transformation required to meet the climate change threat. Studies show relatively small price on carbon can achieve a "dramatic reduction" in harmful emissions, EPSA's president and CEO says, noting that in regions with competitive markets, consumers will get "more bang ...
Season 2, Episode 1, EPSA's Todd Schnitzler discusses the impact of subsidized renewable resources in the markets, and warns that reliability is at risk with fair treatment of traditional merchant generators.
January 22, 2022 15:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MBThe Electric Power Association's Todd Snitchler discusses the challenges facing traditional merchant power generators in the transition to a clean energy grid, calling for an economywide price on carbon as part of the grid transformation required to meet the climate change threat. Studies show relatively small price on carbon can achieve a "dramatic reduction" in harmful emissions, EPSA's president and CEO says, noting that in regions with competitive markets, consumers will get "more bang ...
S2E1: EPSA's Todd Snitchler discusses the impact of subsidized renewable resources in the markets, and warns that reliability is at risk without fair treatment of traditional merchant generators.
January 22, 2022 15:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MBThe Electric Power Association's Todd Snitchler discusses the challenges facing traditional merchant power generators in the transition to a clean energy grid, calling for an economywide price on carbon as part of the grid transformation required to meet the climate change threat. Studies show relatively small price on carbon can achieve a "dramatic reduction" in harmful emissions, EPSA's president and CEO says, noting that in regions with competitive markets, consumers will get "more bang ...
S2E1: EPSA's Todd Snitchler discusses the impact of subsidized renewable resources in the markets, and warns that reliability is at risk with fair treatment of traditional merchant generators.
January 22, 2022 15:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MBThe Electric Power Association's Todd Snitchler discusses the challenges facing traditional merchant power generators in the transition to a clean energy grid, calling for an economywide price on carbon as part of the grid transformation required to meet the climate change threat. Studies show relatively small price on carbon can achieve a "dramatic reduction" in harmful emissions, EPSA's president and CEO says, noting that in regions with competitive markets, consumers will get "more bang ...
S1E10: Economist Lynne Kiesling discusses the need to promote technology innovation as policy makers seek a zero-emissions grid.
December 28, 2021 18:00 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MBUniversity of Colorado economist Lynne Kiesling, recently appointed to DOE's electricity advisory panel, discusses the need for policy makers to promote technology innovation as part of efforts to decarbonize the grid in response to climate change. Support the show
Episode 10, economist Lynne Kiesling discusses the need to promote technology innovation as policy makers seek a zero-emissions grid.
December 28, 2021 18:00 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MBUniversity of Colorado economist Lynne Kiesling, recently appointed to DOE's electricity advisory panel, discusses the need for policy makers to promote technology innovation as part of efforts to decarbonize the grid in response to climate change.
S1E9: Kroger's top energy buyer, Denis George, explains why he sees electricity monopolies as a 'drag' on his company's ability to operate more flexibly and sustainably.
December 03, 2021 19:00 - 56 minutes - 38.5 MBDenis George, Manager, Legal and Energy, for Kroger stores, speaks to the different regulatory environments the company must navigate in the 42 states in which it operates more than 3,000 stores. The states that allow customer choice allow the company to operate more flexibly, to more easily meet Kroger's climate-change goals, and to realize cost-savings that it can pass on to its customers.
S1E9: Kroger's top energy buyer, Denis George, explains why he sees electricity monopolies as a 'drag' on his company's ability to operate more flexibly and sustainably.
December 03, 2021 19:00 - 56 minutes - 38.5 MBDenis George, Manager, Legal and Energy, for Kroger stores, speaks to the different regulatory environments the company must navigate in the 42 states in which it operates more than 3,000 stores. The states that allow customer choice allow the company to operate more flexibly, to more easily meet Kroger's climate-change goals, and to realize cost-savings that it can pass on to its customers. Support the show
Episode 9 - Kroger's top energy buyer, Denis George, explains why he sees electricity monopolies as a 'drag' on his company's ability to operate more flexibly and sustainably.
December 03, 2021 19:00 - 56 minutes - 38.5 MBDenis George, Manager, Legal and Energy, for Kroger stores, speaks to the different regulatory environments the company must navigate in the 42 states in which it operates more than 3,000 stores. The states that allow customer choice allow the company to operate more flexibly, to more easily meet Kroger's climate-change goals, and to realize cost-savings that it can pass on to its customers.
Episode 8 - Advanced Energy Economy's Jeff Dennis sees transmission investment and robust regional wholesale power markets nationally as prerequisites for getting to a zero-carbon grid by 2035.
July 22, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 45.8 MBJeff Dennis, managing director and general counsel for the Advance Energy Economy and Advanced Energy Buyers group, discusses the need for organized competitive wholesale power markets across the country as a pre-requisite for meeting the Biden administration's goal of a zero-carbon grid by 2035. The organization that includes leading information technology giants like Google, Microsoft and Facebook also supports smart government spending in support of private investment to build out the tra...
S1E8: Advanced Energy Economy's Jeff Dennis sees transmission investment and robust regional wholesale power markets nationally as prerequisites for getting to a zero-carbon grid by 2035.
July 22, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 45.8 MBJeff Dennis, managing director and general counsel for the Advance Energy Economy and Advanced Energy Buyers group, discusses the need for organized competitive wholesale power markets across the country as a pre-requisite for meeting the Biden administration's goal of a zero-carbon grid by 2035. The organization that includes leading information technology giants like Google, Microsoft and Facebook also supports smart government spending in support of private investment to build out the tra...
Episode 7 - A clean energy standard with a regional market-based structure offers the best and least-cost approach to attaining a zero-carbon electricity grid, says EDF's Mark Brownstein.
July 07, 2021 15:00 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBMark Brownstein of the Environmental Defense Fund says a clean energy standard combined with a clear market-based structure at wholesale regionally offers the best and least-cost approach to attaining a zero-carbon electricity grid by 2035, as called for by President Biden. Having a strong national policy that sets standards for carbon and environmental performance is an essential framework, and will be achieved most efficiently and at least cost to consumers when combined with wholesale ene...
S1E7: A clean energy standard with a regional market-based structure offers the best and least-cost approach to attaining a zero-carbon electricity grid, says EDF's Mark Brownstein.
July 07, 2021 15:00 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBMark Brownstein of the Environmental Defense Fund says a clean energy standard combined with a clear market-based structure at wholesale regionally offers the best and least-cost approach to attaining a zero-carbon electricity grid by 2035, as called for by President Biden. Having a strong national policy that sets standards for carbon and environmental performance is an essential framework, and will be achieved most efficiently and at least cost to consumers when combined with wholesale ene...
Episode 6 - Frank Lacey explains how utilities hamper innovation and renewable energy resources in competitive retail electricity markets outside of Texas
May 19, 2021 15:00 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MBFrank Lacey, president and founder of Electric Advisors Consulting, explains how retail electricity competition in the dozen of so states outside of Texas is failing consumers, the economy and the environment. Lacey also explains how static comparisons of monopoly utility electricity prices with those offered by competitive suppliers, as is in vogue among some state officials to argue against competitive electricity supply for residential consumers, is fundamentally misleading. We also talk...
S1E6: Frank Lacey explains how utilities hamper innovation and renewable energy resources in competitive retail electricity markets outside of Texas
May 19, 2021 15:00 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MBFrank Lacey, president and founder of Electric Advisors Consulting, explains how retail electricity competition in the dozen of so states outside of Texas is failing consumers, the economy and the environment. Lacey also explains how static comparisons of monopoly utility electricity prices with those offered by competitive suppliers, as is in vogue among some state officials to argue against competitive electricity supply for residential consumers, is fundamentally misleading. We also talk...
Episode 6, Frank Lacey explains how utilities hamper innovation and renewable energy resources in competitive retail electricity markets outside of Texas
May 19, 2021 15:00 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MBFrank Lacey, president and founder of Electric Advisors Consulting, explains how retail electricity competition in the dozen of so states outside of Texas is failing consumers, the economy and the environment. Lacey also explains how static comparisons of monopoly utility electricity prices with those offered by competitive suppliers, as is in vogue among some state officials to argue against competitive electricity supply for residential consumers, is fundamentally misleading. We also talk...
Episode 5, Before and After with Jim Cawley
April 23, 2021 17:00 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MBVeteran energy lawyer and regulator Jim Cawley discusses his experience as a utility regulator in Pennsylvania, first under the old regulated utility monopoly model and then again later, after the state restructured its retail electricity market to promote competition. He talks about how the state's market-based approach to utility regulation has saved consumers countless dollars and helped promote cleaner generation resources. Nevertheless, he recently wrote an op-ed published on PennLive.c...
S1E5: Before and After with Jim Cawley. The former Pennsylvania utility regulator explains how his experiences led him to urge his state's policy makers to adopt the Texas competitive retail power market model
April 23, 2021 17:00 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MBVeteran energy lawyer and regulator Jim Cawley discusses his experience as a utility regulator in Pennsylvania, first under the old regulated utility monopoly model and then again later, after the state restructured its retail electricity market to promote competition. He talks about how the state's market-based approach to utility regulation has saved consumers countless dollars and helped promote cleaner generation resources. Nevertheless, he recently wrote an op-ed published on PennLive.c...
Episode 5 - Before and After with Jim Cawley. The former Pennsylvania utility regulator explains how his experiences led him to urge his state's policy makers to adopt the Texas competitive retail power market model
April 23, 2021 17:00 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MBVeteran energy lawyer and regulator Jim Cawley discusses his experience as a utility regulator in Pennsylvania, first under the old regulated utility monopoly model and then again later, after the state restructured its retail electricity market to promote competition. He talks about how the state's market-based approach to utility regulation has saved consumers countless dollars and helped promote cleaner generation resources. Nevertheless, he recently wrote an op-ed published on PennLive.c...
Episode 5, Before and After with Jim Cawley. The former Pennsylvania utility regulator explains how his experiences led him to urge his state's policy makers to adopt the Texas competitive retail power market model
April 23, 2021 17:00 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MBVeteran energy lawyer and regulator Jim Cawley discusses his experience as a utility regulator in Pennsylvania, first under the old regulated utility monopoly model and then again later, after the state restructured its retail electricity market to promote competition. He talks about how the state's market-based approach to utility regulation has saved consumers countless dollars and helped promote cleaner generation resources. Nevertheless, he recently wrote an op-ed published on PennLive.c...
Episode 4, The Lost Episode, with R Street's Devin Hartman
April 01, 2021 19:00 - 46 minutes - 31.7 MBThe deep freeze-induced Great Texas Grid Failure was not because of the electricity market. If anything, Texas doesn't have enough of a market for electricity. So says R Street's Devin Hartman, standing by his description of an enhanced Texas-style approach to electricity, a market-based approach, as the "gold standard" all policy makers should embrace to meet the Biden administration's goal of a zero-emissions grid by 2035.
Episode 4, The Lost Episode
April 01, 2021 19:00 - 46 minutes - 31.7 MBThe deep freeze-induced Great Texas Grid Failure was not because of the electricity market. If anything, Texas doesn't have enough of a market for electricity. So says R Street's Devin Hartman, standing by his description of an enhanced Texas-style approach to electricity, a market-based approach, as the "gold standard" all policy makers should embrace to meet the Biden administration's goal of a zero-emissions grid by 2035.