Energy Affordability & the Green Transition

Carbon Taxes: The Evolving Conventional Wisdom (Sheila Olmstead, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas)

Professor of Public Affairs, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin President’s Council of Economic Advisors, 2016-17 Fellow, Property and Environment Research Center Sheila Olmstead Interviewer: David Spence, Interview date:  January 23, 2020,...

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PG&E Wildfire Liability and Bankruptcy (Michael Wara, Woods Institute for the Environment and Stanford Law School)

Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment & Fellow, Stanford Law School Michael Wara Interviewer: David Spence Interview date:  October 3, 2019 Keywords: Bankruptcy, Disaster Response, Microgrid, Reliability, Safety, Transmission...

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Net Metering & the Value of Distributed Solar Generation (Joel Eisen, University of Richmond School of Law and Shelley Welton, University of South Carolina School of Law)

Professor of Law, Univ. of Richmond Joel Eisen   Assistant Professor of Law, Univ. of South Carolina Shelley Welton Interviewer:  David Spence, April 4, 2019     “Net metering got adopted because it is a simple policy. I don’t worry a lot about net metering...

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The Best Route to Net-Zero Emissions (Jesse Jenkins, Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Harvard University Center for the Environment)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School of Government Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment Jesse Jenkins Interviewer: David Spence, Interview date:  2/21/19 Keywords: Cost of Energy, Decarbonization, Resource Adequacy, Resource Planning Model...

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California’s Energy Transition: Decarbonization & Decentralization (Michael Wara, Woods Institute for the Environment and Stanford Law School)

Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment & Fellow, Stanford Law School Michael Wara Interviewer: David Spence, Interview date:  December 14, 2018   “There are issues with energy poverty in California, and they tend to be localized...

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