The Energy Markets Podcast
112 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months 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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Episode 4 - R Street's Devin Hartman explains that February's weather-induced grid crisis was not caused by the state's competitive power market. If anything, he says, Texas doesn't have enough of a competitive market.
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.
S1E4: R Street's Devin Hartman explains that February's weather-induced grid crisis was not caused by the state's competitive power market. If anything, he says, Texas doesn't have enough of a competitive market.
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. Support the Show.
Episode 3 - Texas, Enron and the Ghost of California Past. The misinformation following the Texas extreme weather-induced grid failure.
March 13, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 43.7 MBIn episode 3 of the Energy Markets Podcast host Bryan Lee talks with Nora Mead Brownell, who as a state regulator in Pennsylvania helped oversee the state's late 1990s transition from monopoly regulation to a competitive market electricity. She then was appointed by President George W. Bush to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, where she teamed with Pat Wood III to promote regional wholesale power markets in the wake of California's historic 2000-2001 electricity market meltdown. The...
Episode 3 - Texas, Enron and the Ghost of California Past. Nora Brownell speaks to the misinformation about the weather-induced grid failure in Texas and its echoes with misunderstandings regarding the California energy crisis 20 years ago.
March 13, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 43.7 MBIn episode 3 of the Energy Markets Podcast host Bryan Lee talks with Nora Mead Brownell, who as a state regulator in Pennsylvania helped oversee the state's late 1990s transition from monopoly regulation to a competitive market electricity. She then was appointed by President George W. Bush to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, where she teamed with Pat Wood III to promote regional wholesale power markets in the wake of California's historic 2000-2001 electricity market meltdown. The...
Episode 3 - Texas, Enron and the Ghost of California Past
March 13, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 43.8 MBIn episode 3 of the Energy Markets Podcast host Bryan Lee talks with Nora Mead Brownell, who as a state regulator in Pennsylvania helped oversee the state's late 1990s transition from monopoly regulation to a competitive market electricity. She then was appointed by President George W. Bush to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, where she teamed with Pat Wood III to promote regional wholesale power markets in the wake of California's historic 2000-2001 electricity market meltdown. The...
S1E3: Texas, Enron and the Ghost of California Past. Nora Brownell speaks to the misinformation about the weather-induced grid failure in Texas and its echoes with misunderstandings regarding the California energy crisis 20 years ago.
March 13, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 43.7 MBIn episode 3 of the Energy Markets Podcast host Bryan Lee talks with Nora Mead Brownell, who as a state regulator in Pennsylvania helped oversee the state's late 1990s transition from monopoly regulation to a competitive market electricity. She then was appointed by President George W. Bush to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, where she teamed with Pat Wood III to promote regional wholesale power markets in the wake of California's historic 2000-2001 electricity market meltdown. The...
S1E2: All eyes are upon Texas. Former FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff, at an early stage in the Texas post-mortem, points to a lack of weatherization as a primary cause of ERCOT's extreme weather-induced grid outage in February
February 24, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 41.9 MBA discussion with former FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff regarding the best public policies in support of a 21st Century clean-energy grid; - a consideration of the root cause of the historic grid failure in Texas and whether renewable energy or state regulation were factors; - are traditional fossil-fired generators 'dinosaurs' or is the market failing to provide an adequate revenue stream? - Jon advocates promoting markets for not only for generation but in transmission and distribution as w...
Episode 2 - The eyes of Texas are upon you . . .
February 24, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 42 MBA discussion with former FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff regarding the best public policies in support of a 21st Century clean-energy grid; - a consideration of the root cause of the historic grid failure in Texas and whether renewable energy or state regulation were factors; - are traditional fossil-fired generators 'dinosaurs' or is the market failing to provide an adequate revenue stream? - Jon advocates promoting markets for not only for generation but in transmission and distribution as w...
Episode 2 - All eyes are upon Texas. Former FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff, at an early stage in the Texas post-mortem, points to a lack of weatherization as a primary cause of ERCOT's extreme weather-induced grid outage in February
February 24, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 41.9 MBA discussion with former FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff regarding the best public policies in support of a 21st Century clean-energy grid; - a consideration of the root cause of the historic grid failure in Texas and whether renewable energy or state regulation were factors; - are traditional fossil-fired generators 'dinosaurs' or is the market failing to provide an adequate revenue stream? - Jon advocates promoting markets for not only for generation but in transmission and distribution as w...
Episode 1 - The Inaugural Podcast. Rob Gramlich speaks to the new grid-related priorities of the Biden administration and its FERC chairman, Rich Glick.
January 24, 2021 21:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBHost Bryan Lee talks with Rob Gramlich of Grid Strategies about the energy market and climate change priorities of the Biden administration and incoming Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Rich Glick.
Episode 1 - The Inaugural Podcast
January 24, 2021 21:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBHost Bryan Lee talks with Rob Gramlich of Grid Strategies about the energy market and climate change priorities of the Biden administration and incoming Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Rich Glick.
S1E1: The Inaugural Podcast. Rob Gramlich speaks to the new grid-related priorities of the Biden administration and its FERC chairman, Rich Glick.
January 24, 2021 21:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBHost Bryan Lee talks with Rob Gramlich of Grid Strategies about the energy market and climate change priorities of the Biden administration and incoming Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Rich Glick. Support the Show.