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 Sep 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 Aug 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 Juli 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Law School's Electricity Law Institute speaks to the difficulty of bringing clean energy resources on line under outdated federal and state laws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 Juni 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 Maj 202255min
S2E11: Attorney Court Rich discusses how Arizona utilities worked to thwart and then overturn the state's law promoting retail competition in electricity
Court 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 thw...
17 Maj 202233min
S2E10: Maryland PSC Chairman Jason Stanek discusses competitive retail power markets and state-subsidized resources in FERC-regulated wholesale markets
Jason 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 ...
4 Maj 202253min
S2E9: APPA's Joy Ditto provides the municipal utility group's perspective on the transition to a clean-energy grid and economy
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...
28 Apr 202257min
