The Energy Markets Podcast
The Energy Markets Podcast
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S5E11: P3's Glen Thomas sees PJM making progress in responding to a swift uptick in demand and surging prices
PJM Interconnection, the nation's largest competitive wholesale power market, has been swept up in the maelstrom of the public and political fallout that's emerged in the wake of surging prices in its capacity market, which reflect a sharp incr...
S5E10: Economist Diana Moss on the consumer impacts from remonopolization of electricity and other industries
Diana Moss, an economist and Director of Competition Policy at the Progressive Policy Institute, advocates applying antitrust policy throughout the economy for the benefit of consumers. The former FERC economist and former president of the Amer...
S5E9: Dan Becker on the longstanding industry misinformation campaign that has derailed climate action
Dan Becker has been a decades-long advocate for policies addressing the climate disruption that is occurring because of the accumulation of man-made greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, first at the Sierra Club and today with the Center for Biol...
S5E8: Microgrid Maven Elisa Wood discusses state of play for consumer-empowering electricity options
Elisa Wood, founder and editor of the newsletter Energy Changemakers, has covered the evolution of consumer-empowering technologies such as microgrids, demand response, rooftop solar and battery storage and vehicle-to-grid for more than a dozen...
S5E7: John Farrell, director of ILSR's Energy Democracy Initiative, eyes municipal ownership as an answer to monopoly utility abuses
John Farrell, director of ILSR's Energy Democracy Initiative, sees municipal ownership of utilities as an answer to the abuses consumers suffer at the hands of investor-owned monopoly utility companies. But he also sees competitive markets as e...