Governance: Markets & Regulation in the Green Transition
Regulators have introduced competition and market pricing into portions of American energy markets over the last two decades, while regulated prices and monopoly service still predominate in other parts of the system. Which of these different institutional environments is more conducive to an effective, just, and affordable green transition? What kinds of mandates or economic incentives policies are likely to be most effective, fair, and affordable, and why? These conversations discuss scholarship that addresses those issues. We have divided the conversations into three categories: (1) Governance, Generally, including private/corporate governance (2) Capacity Markets & Regulating for Reliability, and (3) Regulatory Instruments & Carbon Emissions.
Conversations
Governance & Tradeoffs Generally
'Public Utility' -- Steering Competitive Energy Markets Toward Public Ends
William Boyd
Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law & UCLA Institute of the Environment & Sustainability
Cost Benefit Analysis and EPA's 'Secret Science'
Sheila Olmstead
Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs & President’s Council of Economic Advisors (2016-17)
“Naïve Energy Markets” and the boundary between markets and regulation
David Spence
Baker Botts Chair in Law, University of Texas School of Law, Professor of Business, Government & Society, McCombs School of Business
Environmental Privileging
Sharon Jacobs
Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School, Board of the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources
Regional Differences in RTO Governance & Decision-making
Elizabeth Wilson
Director, Arthur L. Irving Center for Energy & Society, Dartmouth University
Private Energy -- Private Law & the Green Transition
Yael Lifshitz
Lecturer in Law, Kings College London
August 7, 2019
Climate Litigation & the Green Transition
Michael Burger
Director, Sabin Center for Climate Law and Policy
October 4, 2019
Law in the Anthropocene Epoch
Eric Biber
Edward C. Halbach Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley School of Law
October 3, 2019
Tort Law & Climate Change Litigation
Douglas Kysar
Deputy Dean and Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law, Yale Law School
December, 2019
Climate Change and the Ethical Obligations of Business
Eric Orts
Guardsmark Professor of Business Ethics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
February 13, 2020
Magic Numbers in the Climate Debate
Katharine Hayhoe
Direction of the Climate Center & Professor of Pubic Policy at Texas Tech University
May 6, 2020
Cost Reductions vs. Value Loss in the Renewables Build-Out
Eric Hittinger
Associate Professor of Public Policy, Rochester Institute of Technology
May 13, 2020
Oil & Gas Commissions as 'Incidental' Environmental Agencies
Tara Righetti
Associate Professor, University of Wyoming College of Law
May 23, 2020
Capacity Markets and Regulating for Reliability
Market Solutions to Reliability Challenges in Electricity Markets
Frank Wolak
Holbrook Working Professor of Commodity Price Studies, Director, Program on Energy & Sustainable Development Stanford University
Reliablity, Decarbonization & Federal-State Conflict Over Electricity Markets
Ari Peskoe
Director, Harvard Electricity Law Initiative & Lecturer, Harvard Law School
Maintaining Reliability in a Distributed Energy World
Amy Stein
Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law
Reliability and Renewables in Competitive Energy Markets
Joshua Macey
Visiting Assistant Professor, Cornell Law School
June 10, 2019
Modeling Decarbonization in the West
Arne Olson
Senior Partner, E3
June 12, 2019
Keeping the Lights on with a High-Renewables Grid
Joshua Rhodes & Colin Meehan
Vibrant Clean Energy (Rhodes) & First Solar (Meehan)
August 7, 2019
Regulatory Instruments & Carbon Emission Reduction
Modeling the Evolution of a Greener Grid
David Adelman
Harry Reasoner Regents Chair in Law, University of Texas School of Law
The Politics of Carbon Taxes vs. Regulation
Nathan Richardson
Associate Professor of Law, University of South Carolina School of Law
California's Energy Transition--Decarbonization and Decentralization
Michael Wara
Senior Research Scholar, Woods Hole Institute & Fellow, Stanford Law School
The Politics of Technology Transitions
Leah Stokes
Assistant Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara Dept of Political Science, and Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
June 4, 2019
Energy Exactions
Jim Rossi & Christopher Serkin
Lansden Chair (Rossi) and Ridley Chair (Serkin) in Law, Vanderbilt University Law School
August 29, 2019
Carbon Taxes: The Evolving Conventional Wisdom
Sheila Olmstead
Professor of Public Policy, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas
January 23, 2020
Restricting Energy Production & Flaring
James Coleman
Associate Professor of Law, SMU Dedman School of Law
March 27, 2020