The Energy Markets Podcast
The Energy Markets Podcast
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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...
S5E6: The Nuclear Innovation Alliance is riding the crest of a tsunami of new nuclear technology
The U.S. nuclear industry is enjoying a robust turnaround, largely driven by interest in emerging new nuclear technologies, such as small modular reactors. Judi Greenwald, president and CEO of the Nuclear Innovation Alliance, talks about the ma...