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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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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Utility Dive

Utilities remain mute on FERC net metering petition, leave filing to face overwhelming opposition

“The wild card here will be the number of utilities that have already declared their intent to file something here, and I don’t know which side of this they’re going to come down on,” Ari Peskoe, director of the Electricity Law Initiative at the Harvard Law School, told reporters last week.

June 22, 2020

In the Media
Law360

Solar Metering Proposal Sets Off State-Federal Power Struggle

“It would trigger a wave of proceedings at the state public utility commission level to try and change the rules,” said Ari Peskoe…

June 22, 2020

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw: Ari Peskoe speaks with Leah Stokes about State Clean Energy Policies

Ari Peskoe speaks with Leah Stokes, Professor of Political Science at UC Santa Barbara about state clean energy policies.

June 18, 2020

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw: Ari Peskoe Talks about Attacks on Net Metering for Rooftop Solar

Ari describes a FERC petition that would stall the growth of rooftop solar and other small-scale generation and a petition that ELI and others filed in opposition to the petition.

June 10, 2020

In the Media
Roll Call

Solar industry sees a threat to one of its top selling points

If FERC asserts authority over net metered sales, the practice would be effectively killed, according to Ari Peskoe, director of the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard Law School.

June 8, 2020

In the Media
Green Tech Media

Edison Electric Institute Declines to Support Petition Seeking Federal Overturn of Net Metering

If FERC approves the petition, it “could create chaos at the state level,” Ari Peskoe, director of the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard University, said in a Thursday interview. An approval could open up state programs to challenges from utilities in regulatory proceedings and independent lawsuits in federal court, Peskoe said.

June 5, 2020

In the Media
Utility Dive

PJM, retail suppliers scrambling to appease MOPR concerns amid state threats to exit capacity market

Competitive power suppliers “finally got what they wanted and apparently now recognize what was obvious to the MOPR opponents – discarding state policies is not a durable solution,” Ari Peskoe, Director of Harvard University’s Electricity Law Initiative told Utility Dive in an email. “If one state’s utilities exit, all that the merchants gain from the MOPR expansion disappears.”

May 22, 2020

In the Media
E&E News

‘Mysterious’ anti-net metering group faces blowback

A Massachusetts-based nonprofit angling to upend nationwide net metering is facing backlash from regulators and environmental groups.

May 11, 2020

In the Media
PV Magazine

Renewable advocates suspicious of FERC’s relationship with anti-net metering group

It did not take long for this filing, as well as NERA’s ties to Raskin and the Edison Institute, to draw the attention of renewable energy advocates. Leading the charge came Ari Peskoe, director of the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard University, who took to twitter to put the filing on blast (thread):

May 11, 2020