Associate Professor, University of Wyoming College of Law Tara K. Righetti Interviewer: James Coleman Interview date: May 23, 2020 Keywords: Conservation Agencies, Well Placement, Directional Drilling “Well placement is one of those critical environmental issues. ......
Associate Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology Eric Hittinger Interviewer: David Spence, Interview Date: May 13, 2020 Keywords: Electricity Markets “There's these two effects: one says that as you build more wind and solar they get cheaper; one says...
Professor of Public Policy & Public Law, Texas Tech University Katharine Hayhoe Interviewer: David Spence, Interview date: May 6, 2020 Keywords: Two Degrees Celsius “Virtually every week I have someone come up to me and say we have -- originally 12, then 10, then...
Associate professor of law, smu dedman school of law James Coleman Interviewer: David Spence, Interview date: March 27, 2020 Keywords: Gas Flaring "The U.S. has moved from being an energy importer ... to being an energy exporter [with] an interest, at least...
Guardsmark Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics, Professor of Management, and Director of the Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Eric Orts Interviewer: David Spence, Interview date: February 13, 2020...
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,...
Deputy Dean and Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law, Yale University Douglas Kysar Interviewers: Sharon Jacobs Interview date: December, 2019 Keywords: Tort Law, Our Children's Trust“All of us are at the same time both causes and victims of climate change. So...
Executive Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law, Columbia Law School Michael Burger Interviewer: David Spence, Interview date: September 26, 2019 Key Terms: Carbon Majors Project Public Nuisance New York v. Exxon...
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...
Edward C. Halbach Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley School of Law Eric Biber Interviewer: David Spence Interview date: October 4, 2019 Keywords: Anthropocene “Human impacts on a global scale are causing the kinds of changes ... that are...
Judge D.L. Lansden Chair in Law, Vanderbilt University Law School Jim Rossi Elisabeth H. & Granville S. Ridley Chair in Law, Vanderbilt University Law School Christopher Serkin Interviewer: David Spence Date: August 29, 2019 Keywords: Marginal Cost ...
Senior Energy System Modeler and Analyst, Vibrant Clean Energy Joshua Rhodes Director of Regulatory Affairs, First Solar Colin Meehan Interviewer: David Spence, August 7, 2019 Keywords: ancillary services, frequency control, rotational inertia ...
Lecturer in Law, Kings College London Yael Lifshitz Interviewer: James Coleman Interview date:August 7, 2019 Keywords: Distributed Energy “When you think about the transition [toward] distributed energy, if you understand private law as a category that governs...
Senior Partner, E3 Consulting Arne Olson Interviewer: David Spence, Interview Date: June 6, 2019 Keywords: Decarbonization, Resource Adequacy “In the Pacific Northwest ... the good news is that we can ... achieve 80% reductions below 1990 levels in something...
Assisstant Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School Joshua Macey Interviewer: David Spence, Interview date: June 10, 2019 Keywords: Capacity Markets, RMR Agreements, Federal Power Act, Marginal Costs “Energy market prices have declined 30-50% since 2006....
Assistant Professor, in the Department of Political Science, the Environmental Studies Department and the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara Leah Stokes Interviewer: David Spence, Interview Date: June 4,...
Director, Arthur L. Irving Institute for Environment & Society, Professor of Environmental Studies, Dartmouth University Elizabeth Wilson Interviewer: David Spence, Interview date: May 16, 2019 Key Terms: RTO/ISO, pumped storage, energy imbalance...
Director, Harvard Electricity Law Initiative & Lecturer, Harvard Law School Ari Peskoe Interviewer: David Spence, Interview date: May 13, 2019 Keywords: Capacity Markets, Clean Energy, Decarbonization, Federal Power Act, Federalism, Nuclear Power, Resource...
Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law, & Professor, UCLA Institute of Environment & Sustainability William Boyd Interviewer: David Spence, Interview date: April 18, 2019 Key Terms: Public Utility, Rates, Restructuring, Market-based Pricing “Markets are...
Holbrook Working Professor of Commodity Price Studies Director, Program on Energy & Sustainable Development Stanford University Frank Wolak Interviewers: David Spence, Interview date: 4/4/19 Keywords: Energy Storage, Externalities, Intermittent Resources, Price...
Professor of Law, University of florida Levin college of Law Amy Stein Interviewer: David Spence, Interview date: March 2019 Keywords: Energy Storage, Demand Response, Transaction Cost Framework, Monopoly Control Utility, Regional Transmission Organization...
Harry reasoner regents chair in law, University of Texas school of Law David Adelman Interviewer: Joshua Rhodes, Interview date: 4/3/19 “We observed that natural gas prices below $3.50 delayed entry of renewable generation into the market. Higher gas prices...
Associate Professor of Law, University of South Carolina School of Law Nathan Richardson Interviewer: Shelley Welton, Interview date: March 2019 “I’d take any carbon tax today and then work from there. My faith in the ability of the Clean Air Act to effect...
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...
Baker Botts Chair in law, university of texas school of law Professor of business, government & society, mccombs school of business David Spence Interviewers: Sharon Jacobs & Shelley Welton, Interview date: 11/7/18 Key Terms: Cost of Service Ratemaking,...
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: 11/7/18 Key Terms:...
Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School Board of the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources Sharon Jacobs Interviewer: David Spence, Interview date: 11/12/18 Key Terms: NEPA “Privileging certain values and goals is not a...