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The Energy Markets Podcast

Bryan Lee

Conversations with energy and environmental policy experts exploring the best state and federal policies to effectuate the urgently needed transition to a clean-energy economy at least cost to consumers. Lot's of wonky FERC stuff. State-level utility regulation and politics. Economists. Lawyers. Engineers. Politicians. Government regulators. Advocates. And acronyms. Lots of acronyms. Topical discussions about energy market developments with a focus on regulatory policies that disincentivize the innovation necessary to advance environmental and climate change objectives at least cost to consumers and the economy. Hosted by Bryan Lee, an energy and environmental policy consultant with decades of Washington, D.C.-based experience as a journalist, government official and energy company executive. Lee and invited guests discuss the latest developments at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and other federal agencies, Capitol Hill, as well as happenings at state-level regulatory commissions and legislatures.
Episodes
S4E7: R Street Institute economist Michael Giberson speaks to price trends in electricity marketsApril 04, 2024
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S4E6: RESA's Rich Spilky speaks to the 'battle of the statistics' regarding the consumer benefits of retail energy competitionMarch 20, 2024
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S4E5: The Center for LNG's Charlie Riedl on the Biden administration's 'pause' on export permits for liquefied natural gasMarch 08, 2024
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S4E4: Former Montana utility regulator Travis Kavulla discusses the headwinds and the opportunities for competitive retail suppliers to bring value to energy consumersFebruary 26, 2024
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S4E3: NRDC's David Doniger on the ubiquity of emissions cap-and-trade programs, an alternative to command-and-control regulation, which seemingly has fallen out of favor when it comes to managing climate-altering greenhouse gas emissionsFebruary 08, 2024
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S4E2: NRDC's David Doniger discusses the Chevron doctrine case pending before the Supreme Court, and addresses past and present efforts to regulate carbon emissionsJanuary 31, 2024
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S4E1: Former FERC regulator Bill Massey discusses the courts' expansive view of the Commission's statutory authority and pending cases before SCOTUS that may test whether that expansive view will 'have its wings clipped'January 18, 2024
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S3E24: 'Food is energy.' So what is the energy-intensive fertilizer industry doing to decarbonize while still keeping the world fed?December 28, 2023
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S3E23: Commodities trading expert Matthew Hunter talks about the financial markets for managing – or hedging – energy price risk, and how they and consumers are impacted by extreme events such as California in 2000 and Texas in 2021December 04, 2023
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S3E22: State Senator Tom Davis discusses his pro-competitive legislative agenda for South Carolina electricity consumersNovember 08, 2023
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S3E21: WPTF's Scott Miller talks about market-based grid regionalization efforts in the West, and the ghosts of the 2000-2001 regional energy crisis that haunt those effortsOctober 12, 2023
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S3E20: Octopus Energy's Michael Lee speaks to his company's consumer-centric vision of 'Retail 2.0' for energy supplyOctober 05, 2023
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S3E19: The Energy Democracy Initiative's John Farrell speaks to how, in his view, electric utility monopolies 'fuel climate disasters and public corruption'September 25, 2023
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S3E18: Special Initiative on Offshore Wind’s Kris Ohleth speaks to the strong headwinds facing offshore windSeptember 10, 2023
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S3E17: EPSA's Todd Snitchler discusses EPA's new power plant rules in the context of ongoing reliability concerns stemming from the transition to a clean-energy power gridAugust 30, 2023
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S3E16: FERC Commissioner Mark Christie calls for reevaluation of competitive wholesale power markets after 25 yearsAugust 20, 2023
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S3E15: Former Massachusetts regulator Paul Hibbard of the Analysis Group talks about his study of retail electricity competition that aims to inform the policy debate over ending retail choice for residential customersJuly 27, 2023
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S3E14: The Nuclear Energy Institute's Matt Crozat discusses new nuclear and SMRs as part of nuclear power's role in the clean-energy transitionJuly 13, 2023
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S3E13: Brattle Group consultants discuss their report for the South Carolina legislature on the benefits of adopting an organized regional wholesale power market in the SoutheastJuly 01, 2023
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S3E12: Rob Gramlich, Frank Lacey and Doug Kantor discuss the obstacles posed by utility monopoly regulation for private-sector EV charging infrastructure developmentJune 16, 2023
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S3E11: R Street Institute's Josiah Neeley unpacks how the recently adjourned legislative session in Austin will impact Texas electricity consumersJune 08, 2023
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EMP S3E10: ITC's Nathan Benedict defends monopoly transmission development and the incumbent's right of first refusalMay 28, 2023
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EMP S3E9: Willett Kempton, a pioneer in vehicle-to-grid technology, talks about the state of play for V2G, which promises to become a critically important resource for power grid operatorsMay 14, 2023
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EMP S3E8: Former FERC Commissioner Rich Glick discusses transmission and ROFR, state-federal jurisdiction and reform of the 1935 Federal Power Act, and the need to reform regional electricity markets to reflect changing resources and climate.May 04, 2023
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S3E7: William Hogan of Harvard's Kennedy School defends the LMP-based market used in regional wholesale power markets as the best and only way to facilitate the transition to a clean-energy gridApril 09, 2023
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