Power Over the Twenty-First Century Electric Grid Electricity Law Initiative Director Ari Peskoe was recently a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Kleinman Center for Energy Policy. While at Penn, Ari, as a guest lecturer at Penn Law’s Energy […] April 10, 2018
FERC Commissioner Supporting State Clean Energy Policies Cites Peskoe Article in Statement On March 9, 2018, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved an ISO-New England capacity market proposal that changes how clean energy resources supported by state policies can participate in […] March 12, 2018
Ari Peskoe is Visiting Scholar at Kleinman Center for Energy Policy Policy Initiative Senior Fellow Ari Peskoe spent a week on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania recently, as a visiting scholar at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy. While […] November 15, 2017
Policy Initiative Hosts Workshop on the Future of Electricity Markets On Oct. 13, 2017, the Environmental and Energy Law Program welcomed a group of consumer advocates, former state regulators, environmental advocates, economic analysts, wholesale electricity market participants, and law professors to […] October 18, 2017
Environmental Law Program Announces Joe Goffman as New Executive Director Joseph Goffman, who over a 30-year career, has shaped environmental law and policy at the highest levels of the Executive branch and as a senior congressional staffer, will join the […] October 2, 2017
Ari Peskoe Discusses Wholesale Electricity Markets and State Roles in DC On Sep. 13, 2017, Ari Peskoe delivered the Energy Bar Association’s semi-annual “Author Talk,” to discuss his latest article. Peskoe’s paper, which was the featured article in the most recent […] September 15, 2017
EPI Hosts Mississippi River Basin Stakeholder Forum on Nutrient Pollution The Environmental Policy Initiative and the University of Minnesota Water Resources Center convened Mississippi River Basin government and conservation district stakeholders on Aug. 31, 2017, in St. Paul, MN. The […] September 7, 2017
Nothing New in Department of Energy Grid Study In April, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry issued a memo to Department of Energy (DOE) staff, requesting a study of electricity markets and reliability, with a focus on whether “baseload” […] August 24, 2017
Konopacky Talks Clean Water: How Wisconsin Shows the Way Forward Runoff carrying nutrients and sediment from urban and agricultural areas impairs water quality across the US. Managing this pollution can be very challenging, but attorney and Environmental Policy Initiative Fellow […] July 10, 2017