The Energy Markets Podcast
The Energy Markets Podcast
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S5E12: Public Citizen's Tyson Slocum on the risks to electricity consumers from speculative AI data center development
Tyson Slocum has headed Public Citizen's energy program since the turn of the century. Today he is working to ensure the rapid industry disruption from an anticipated massive increase in electricity demand from AI data center development does n...
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...