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| November 10, 2020 | Offshore Wind Presents Big Challenge for the Electric Grid | Brandon Burke | Large scale offshore wind development will require a rethink of how America’s electric grid is designed, and paid for. |
| October 27, 2020 | Grid Forward Debate: Has Electricity Deregulation Led to Better Community Outcomes? | Bruce Edelston, Mark Kolesar | Electricity market deregulation promised to bring more affordable and reliable electricity to consumers. A quarter of a century after deregulation began, has its promise delivered for all Americans? |
| October 13, 2020 | U.S. Electricity Regulator Takes a Hard Look at Carbon Pricing | Mike Borgatti | In September the U.S. electricity regulator, the FERC, held its first conference to explore carbon pricing in the nation’s electricity markets. Is a carbon price finally on the way? |
| September 29, 2020 | Zoning Rules Stifle Urban Clean Energy. Can The Rules Be Rewritten? | Sara Bronin | Outmoded and often discriminatory zoning laws block clean energy development in low-income urban neighborhoods. An effort is underway to update rules, and enable clean energy equity. |
| September 15, 2020 | As Climate-Related Disasters Intensify, Retreat Emerges as Adaptation Strategy | Mark Nevitt | An environmental lawyer examines the legal and social challenges that could complicate managed retreat from areas at risk to climate-related disaster. |
| August 4, 2020 | The Human History of Climate Change | Jesús Fernández-Villaverde | Much attention has been paid to the ways we humans are changing our climate. Yet, how has an ever-evolving climate changed us? |
| July 21, 2020 | Questioning the Promise of Carbon Tax Border Adjustments | Samuel Kortum, David Weisbach | Most carbon tax proposals include a border adjustment to protect American industry from foreign competition. Yet research suggests that benefits won't extend to consumers. |
| July 6, 2020 | Will Trump’s Regulatory Rollbacks Survive? | Bethany Davis Noll, Richard Revesz | President Trump has gone to great lengths to undo the regulatory accomplishments of his predecessor. But the president’s methods could come back to haunt him, dooming his deregulatory energy and environmental agenda. |
| June 23, 2020 | Understanding the Social Cost of Carbon | Gilbert Metcalf | The social cost of carbon provides an estimate of the economic damage caused by carbon emissions. A climate economist tells how it’s calculated. |
| June 9, 2020 | How a Green New Deal Could Redraw America’s Map | Billy Fleming, Alexandra Lillehei | Climate change, and the policies to address it, will change where we live and work and how we produce energy and food. Two environmental designers discuss an atlas of our country’s future. |
| May 26, 2020 | Why Americans Want a Carbon Tax, But Won’t Support One at the Polls | Ioana Marinescu | An economist looks at how economic worries, and political ideology, have made carbon taxes a tough sell. |
| May 12, 2020 | Developing the Electric Grid for Carbon-Free Energy | Judy Chang | More states are targeting 100% clean energy, but is the electric grid ready? An expert in energy policy and economics looks at the policy challenges to creating a robust, carbon-free electricity system. |
| April 28, 2020 | How Interest Groups Shape U.S. Clean Energy Policy | Leah Stokes | Political scientist Leah Stokes examines interest groups’ power to shape, and resist progressive energy policy. |
| April 15, 2020 | As Residential Solar’s Capabilities Expand, Does New Growth Await? | Anne Hoskins | The residential solar power industry faces the expiration of a key tax break and resistance to net-metering. But with solar’s emerging role in grid services—coupled with additional battery storage—solar is becoming a valuable tool for grid resiliency. |
| April 3, 2020 | The Struggle for Local Control over Energy Development | Hannah Wiseman | Energy projects bring economic opportunity, but host communities often suffer disproportionate health and environmental impacts. An expert in environmental regulation looks at community efforts to exert control over energy development. |
Podcast Producer & Host
Since the first season of our podcast series, Andy Stone has directed each episode of Energy Policy Now—defining topics, inviting guests, and leading informative conversations.
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Andy Stone
Energy Policy Now Host and ProducerAndy Stone is producer and host of Energy Policy Now, the Kleinman Center’s podcast series. He previously worked in business planning with PJM Interconnection and was a senior energy reporter at Forbes Magazine.