S2E4: Alison Silverstein discusses building on the success of competitive markets to allow social policies to protect those most at risk from climate change
Few 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 bett...
10 Feb 202242min
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.
Economist 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 te...
7 Feb 20221h 2min
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.
Dan 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 aff...
28 Jan 202256min
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.
The 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 carb...
22 Jan 202238min
S1E10: Economist Lynne Kiesling discusses the need to promote technology innovation as policy makers seek a zero-emissions grid.
University 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 dec...
28 Dec 202155min
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.
Denis 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 ...
3 Dec 202156min
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.
Jeff 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 coun...
22 Juli 20211h 6min
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.
Mark 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...
7 Juli 202159min
