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
S1E6: Frank Lacey explains how utilities hamper innovation and renewable energy resources in competitive retail electricity markets outside of Texas
Frank 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 en...
19 Maj 202150min
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
Veteran 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 sta...
23 Apr 202158min
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.
The 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, standi...
1 Apr 202146min
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.
In 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 regulat...
13 Mars 20211h 3min
