EMP S3E5: Clean Virginia's Brennan Gilmore discusses recently passed legislation ending Dominion Virginia Power's decade-long reign as an unregulated monopoly
More than ten years ago, Dominion Energy convinced Virginia lawmakers to clip the wings of the state's utility regulator, the State Corporation Commission. After a decade in which Virginia Power overc...
4 Mars 202342min
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
Jason Stanek, the lame duck chairman of the Maryland Public Service Commission, is riding out the remainder of his term in office with a "maximum enforcement" campaign to crack down on retail supplier...
26 Feb 202328min
EMP S3E3: Davante Lewis, newly elected to the Louisiana PSC, talks about his mission to ensure the clean-energy transition is a just transition
Davante Lewis credits grassroots community organizing and coalition building for helping him defeat a long-time incumbent to garner a seat on the five-member Louisiana Public Service Commission. Lewis...
4 Feb 202346min
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
Chris Carmody, executive director at Carolinas Clean Energy Business Association, says energy-intensive electricity customers will leave or not relocate to the Carolinas because of the difficulties th...
17 Jan 202337min
S3E1: R Street's Josiah Neeley talks about the debate in Texas on the future of the ERCOT power market
Josiah Neeley, the Austin-based research fellow and Texas director with the libertarian-leaning R Street Institute, discusses a recent letter that the think tank and some 30 other interest groups sent...
10 Jan 202338min
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.
California ISO's Chief Operating Officer, Mark Rothleder, details a new study finding that an enhanced day-ahead market, or EDAM, encompassing all 38 balancing authorities in the West, would provide b...
15 Dec 202238min
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.
The California Solar and Stage Association's Bernadette Del Chiaro discusses the California Public Utilities Commission's pending decision on net metering and her view that granting utilities' request...
8 Dec 202236min
EMP S2E21: Rep. Sean Casten "nerds out" on electricity regulation, FERC, permitting reform, subsidies, emissions trading, energy productivity, COP27 and climate change
Rep. Sean Casten, D-Ill., is undoubtedly the only member of Congress ever who has run an energy company with a business model built around energy efficiency. Here he talks about how being an advocate ...
25 Nov 202235min
