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CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw – Ari Peskoe and Brandon Smithwood Talk about Business Models for Distributed Energy Resources

Ari Peskoe speaks with Brandon Smithwood about business models for development of small-scale renewable energy and storage systems.

July 16, 2021

State Power Project Publications

Statepowerproject.org tracks constitutional challenges to States’ clean energy laws. Challenges are wide ranging but most focus on two grounds: preemption by the federal government, or State overreach into regulation of interstate […]

July 13, 2021

Comments Filed

Electricity Law Initiative Suggests New FERC Office Monitor RTOs

The Electricity Law Initiative filed a comment about FERC’s Office of Public Participation. Congress created the Office in 1978, charging it with “coordinating assistance to the public with respect to […]

May 7, 2021

EELP News

Jody Freeman on The Legal and Regulatory Perspective at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Spring Exercise

Recently, Jody Freeman joined Harvard Kennedy School Professor Joe Aldy and HKS students to speak about the role of regulation in making changes to environmental and energy policy, focusing on […]

April 29, 2021

Legal Analysis

Op-Ed: To Catalyze Transmission Development, End the Utility Protection Racket

The combination of discriminatory state laws and FERC transmission planning rules shields utilities from competition within their local service territories and induces them to focus on developing small-scale local projects. These protectionist policies reinforce an anachronistic utility-by-utility approach to transmission planning that is failing to develop the regional transmission necessary to effectively decarbonize the power sector and mitigate the impacts of extreme weather.

February 25, 2021

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw: Electric Utility Mergers and Consolidation – Scott Hempling and Ari Peskoe

Ari speaks with Scott Hempling about Scott’s new book, Regulating Mergers and Acquisitions of the U.S. Electric Utilities: Industry Concentration and Corporate Complication.

February 17, 2021

Is the Utility Transmission Syndicate Forever?

In his new paper, Electricity Law Initiative Director Ari Peskoe explores the history of FERC’s oversight of transmission operations and planning and argues that FERC should reclaim its aggressive pro-competition […]

January 26, 2021

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw: The Politics of Carbon Pricing with Matto Mildenberger and Ari Peskoe

Electricity Law Initiative director Ari Peskoe speaks with Matto Mildenberger, assistant professor of political science at the UC Santa Barbara, about the politics of carbon pricing.

December 1, 2020

A Clean Energy Agenda Runs Through the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) sweeping authority over the power sector’s interstate operations and planning drives investment and shapes the industry. In this paper, I review how FERC is […]

November 9, 2020