Ari Peskoe – Page 40 – Environmental and Energy Law Program

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Ari has written extensively about electricity regulation, on issues ranging from rooftop solar to constitutional challenges to states’ energy laws. Prior to the Electricity Law Initiative, he was an associate at a law firm in Washington, D.C., where he litigated before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission about the Western Energy Crisis. Before that, Ari was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana and spent two years trying to bring the 2012 Olympics to New York. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with degrees in electrical engineering and business.

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Research Paper Electricity Law

Extracting Profits from the Public: How Utility Ratepayers Are Paying for Big Tech’s Power

New paper from the Harvard Electricity Law Initiative uncovers how utilities are forcing ratepayers to fund discounted rates for data centers.

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Legal Analysis

President Trump’s Energy Executive Orders: In-Depth Analyses

President Trump signed two executive orders on April 10, 2019 in Crosby, Texas, outside of Houston: EO 13868, titled “Executive Order on Promoting Energy Infrastructure and Energy Growth”, and EO 13867 on […]

April 30, 2019

Legal Analysis

Energy EOs In Depth: Administration Opaque on Why It’s Studying Regional Energy Bottlenecks

This is part of a series analyzing the April 10th executive orders on energy infrastructure. Section 7 of an April 10 Presidential Executive Order tasks the Departments of Energy and […]

April 30, 2019

In the Media

Glick stakes out role as consumer advocate

The VRR revision is among the technical inputs to PJM’s capacity market, said Ari Peskoe, director of Harvard Law School’s Electricity Law Initiative.

“These proceedings illustrate how the capacity clearing prices are tied to these technical inputs. Not surprisingly, the generators are arguing for inputs that will lead to higher prices,” said Peskoe.

April 22, 2019

In the Media

The fight’s not over yet on state nuclear credits

“EPSA asked the Court to expand preemption under the Federal Power Act, a move that might have threatened state renewable energy programs and could have jumpstarted a wave of litigation,” Ari Peskoe, director of Harvard Law School’s Electricity Law Initiative, wrote after the Supreme Court’s order denying review.

April 22, 2019

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw: Bill Hogan Talks with Ari Peskoe about Recent PJM Pricing Proposal

Ari Peskoe talks with Bill Hogan, Professor of Global Energy Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. After laying out fundamental principles of wholesale market design, Bill discusses the recent proposal […]

April 22, 2019

In the Media

Trump Said the Electric Grid’s Under Threat, But Regulators Aren’t Acting

“The political winds that created this docket — I don’t know if they’re still blowing or not,” said Ari Peskoe, director of the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard University.

March 4, 2019

In the Media

API, NGSA file brief with US Supreme Court opposing state-level nuclear power subsidies

“My view is that EPSA’s jurisdictional theory confuses Congress’ broad delegation of authority to FERC to set just and reasonable wholesale rates with imagined congressional intent to usurp traditional state functions,” Ari Peskoe, director of Harvard University’s Electricity Law Initiative, said in January.

February 13, 2019

In the Media

Trump’s Fighting to Keep a Costly, Unreliable Coal Plant Running. TVA Wants to Shut It Down.

What study the governor was referring to isn’t clear, said Ari Peskoe, director of the Electricity Law Initiative at the Harvard Law School, who follows FERC proceedings.

February 13, 2019

In the Media

Offshore wind project hits rough water in New England

But it’s a fragile compromise. In many ways, the disagreement over Vineyard Wind’s waiver is best understood as a fight over money, said Ari Peskoe, who leads Harvard Law School’s Electricity Law Initiative. He pointed to a New England Power Generators Association filing with FERC this week, in which the power plant owners argued that Vineyard Wind’s participation in the auction would prompt total market revenues to fall by $270 million. For the wind developer, on the other hand, the capacity auction represents an additional revenue stream outside its state contract.

February 11, 2019