The Energy Markets Podcast
By Bryan Lee
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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.
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S4E7: R Street Institute economist Michael Giberson speaks to price trends in electricity markets
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Apr 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 competition
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Mar 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 gas
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Mar 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 consumers
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Feb 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 emissions
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Feb 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 emissions
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Jan 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'
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Jan 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?
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Dec 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 2021
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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S3E22: State Senator Tom Davis discusses his pro-competitive legislative agenda for South Carolina electricity consumers
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Nov 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 efforts
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Oct 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 supply
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Oct 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'
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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S3E18: Special Initiative on Offshore Wind’s Kris Ohleth speaks to the strong headwinds facing offshore wind
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Sep 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 grid
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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S3E16: FERC Commissioner Mark Christie calls for reevaluation of competitive wholesale power markets after 25 years
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Aug 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 customers
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Jul 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 transition
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Jul 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 Southeast
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Jul 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 development
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Jun 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 consumers
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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EMP S3E10: ITC's Nathan Benedict defends monopoly transmission development and the incumbent's right of first refusal
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May 29, 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 operators
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May 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.
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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 grid
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Apr 09, 2023 |
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S3E6: Economist Tim Schittekatte discusses his working paper on the benefits of time-of-use and critical peak pricing in retail electricity rates
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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EMP S3E5: Clean Virginia's Brennan Gilmore discusses recently passed legislation ending Dominion Virginia Power's decade-long reign as an unregulated monopoly
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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EMP S3E4: Maryland PSC Chairman Jason Stanek discusses the 'maximum enforcement' campaign he's ordered to crack down on what he called 'fly-by-night' energy suppliers
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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EMP S3E3: Davante Lewis, newly elected to the Louisiana PSC, talks about his mission to ensure the clean-energy transition is a just transition
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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S3E2: Chris Carmody of Carolinas Clean Energy Business Association speaks to the economic disadvantage states face with monopoly barriers to entry for low-cost clean energy
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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S3E1: R Street's Josiah Neeley talks about the debate in Texas on the future of the ERCOT power market
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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S2E23: With a study finding an enhanced market structure in the West will save billions, California ISO's Mark Rothleder details the incremental approach to moving the region into a more organized market, and maybe one day an RTO.
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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EMP S2E22: the California Solar and Storage Association's Bernadette Del Chiaro discusses the CPUC's pending decision on net metering and her view that the utility-sought proposal threatens vital growth in solar-plus-storage adoption.
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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EMP S2E21: Rep. Sean Casten "nerds out" on electricity regulation, FERC, permitting reform, subsidies, emissions trading, energy productivity, COP27 and climate change
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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EMP S2E20: USC academics Matthew Kahn and Bhaskar Krishnamachari discuss the potential for smart grids and dynamic pricing to address climate emissions and reduce energy demand.
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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EMP S2E19: The American Antitrust Institute's Diana Moss explains her view that FERC is "deprioritizing" pro-competition policies in its electricity transmission and natural gas pipeline certification proceedings.
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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EMP S2E18: Everything you always wanted to know about ROFR - but were afraid to ask. We talked with LS Power's Sharon Segner
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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EMP S2E17: Sunnova's CEO John Berger discusses his company's microgrid business strategy and the need to level the playing field with monopolies to smooth the transition to a clean-energy economy
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Oct 02, 2022 |
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S2E16: Pete Quist with Open Secrets discusses campaign finance, lobbying and "dark money" spending by utilities that many see as thwarting the transition to a clean-energy grid and economy.
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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EMP S2E15: Climate activists David Pomerantz and Jean Su explain the impetus behind a petition asking the FTC to investigate anticompetitive practices by utilities to protect their monopoly status and stymy market entry by competitors.
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Aug 06, 2022 |
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S2E14: NGSA's Dena Wiggins discusses the role of natural gas in the clean energy transition and the infrastructure challenges both traditional and renewable energy producers face in meeting decarbonization goals
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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S2E13: Ari Peskoe of Harvard Law School's Electricity Law Institute speaks to the difficulty of bringing clean energy resources on line under outdated federal and state laws
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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S2E12: The Southeast Alliance for Clean Energy's Maggie Shober discusses utilities' opposition to a competitive wholesale power market in the region that would better accommodate market entry by renewable energy resources
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May 30, 2022 |
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S2E11: Attorney Court Rich discusses how Arizona utilities worked to thwart and then overturn the state's law promoting retail competition in electricity
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May 17, 2022 |
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S2E10: Maryland PSC Chairman Jason Stanek discusses competitive retail power markets and state-subsidized resources in FERC-regulated wholesale markets
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May 04, 2022 |
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S2E9: APPA's Joy Ditto provides the municipal utility group's perspective on the transition to a clean-energy grid and economy
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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S2E8: Former FERC and PUCT Chairman Pat Wood discusses pro-competition policies past and future. Finishing the job in establishing competitive power markets nationally is an important prerequisite to decarbonizing the power grid, he says.
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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S2E7: Public Citizen's Tyson Slocum calls for more diverse stakeholder involvement in competitive wholesale power markets
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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S2E6: Larry Gasteiger of WIRES speaks to the crucial role of transmission development as part of a national effort to get to a clean-energy grid.
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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S2E5: Edison Electric Institute's Phil Moeller discusses natural gas and electric industry coordination as an overlooked yet important aspect of the transition to a clean-energy economy.
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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S2E4: Alison Silverstein discusses building on the success of competitive markets to allow social policies to protect those most at risk from climate change
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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S2E3: Transmission policy advocate Rob Gramlich gives the first year of the Biden Administration and FERC high marks, even though legislatively the glass is half full.
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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S2E2: NEPGA's Dan Dolan discusses subsidized resources in the market and the need for an economywide carbon price to effectively bring about a clean-energy grid.
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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S2E1: EPSA's Todd Snitchler discusses the impact of subsidized renewable resources in the markets, and warns that reliability is at risk without fair treatment of traditional merchant generators.
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Jan 22, 2022 |
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S1E10: Economist Lynne Kiesling discusses the need to promote technology innovation as policy makers seek a zero-emissions grid.
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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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.
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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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.
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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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.
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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S1E6: Frank Lacey explains how utilities hamper innovation and renewable energy resources in competitive retail electricity markets outside of Texas
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May 19, 2021 |
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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
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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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.
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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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.
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Mar 13, 2021 |
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S1E2: All eyes are upon Texas. Former FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff, at an early stage in the Texas post-mortem, points to a lack of weatherization as a primary cause of ERCOT's extreme weather-induced grid outage in February
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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S1E1: The Inaugural Podcast. Rob Gramlich speaks to the new grid-related priorities of the Biden administration and its FERC chairman, Rich Glick.
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Jan 24, 2021 |