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.
Diana 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 ...
18 Loka 202243min
EMP S2E18: Everything you always wanted to know about ROFR - but were afraid to ask. We talked with LS Power's Sharon Segner
LS 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 refusa...
11 Loka 202226min
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
Sunnova 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 ...
2 Loka 202249min
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.
Pete 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 regulat...
19 Syys 202224min
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.
David 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...
6 Elo 202258min
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
Dena 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 c...
4 Heinä 202246min
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
At 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 t...
16 Kesä 202250min
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
Maggie 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 ...
30 Touko 202255min
