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What’s the FERC, and How Is It Shaping Our Energy Future? (Part 1)
your Chairman Gladys Brown quite well and they do a terrific job for the ... a commissioner?Honorable: Well, thank you for asking. And I'm sure the ... state Commissioner for seven and a half years, starting as a commissioner
Part 2: Future Coal Retirements and a NOPR Disconnect
-site increasingly retire. Assume for a minute DOE’s assertion that on-site fuel ... the asset. Ratepayers may also be on the hook to pay for remediation and ... focuses on subsidizing merchant coal and nuclear units in competitive
NRC Staff Raises Alarm on Widespread Nuclear Plant Design Flaw
offline for a year could be the equivalent of having to turn on 144 coal ... petitioners. There is a petition review board that evaluates the petition and ... review and did not present new information. What is Going On? So
Unilateral Incentives to Self-Impose Emission Limits: Is There a Case for Pennsylvania and RGGI
, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont. For these states, an annual cap on CO2 emissions is set, and this determines the ... the Acid Rain Program where allowances were mostly allocated for free
What I Learned From a Major Oil and Gas Company
. And I’ll be delivering a public lecture: The Business Case for ... . Countries—and one U.S. state—have banned the practice, and a former ... impacts of fracking continue to be a subject of study, debate, protest, and
PES Refinery: A Wake-Up Call
On June 21, 2019, the largest and oldest oil refinery on the U ... named a 24-member advisory board to advise on the future of the refinery ... input and discussion. A large number of Penn faculty presented in open
A Clean Energy Transition for Workers and Communities
worker, for example, does not have the skillset to suddenly shift into a job at a solar plant. Many policy proposals currently focus on the ... potential in bridging this increasing gap. A key tenet of the Biden Plan for a
George Santayana and the Coming Push for Advanced Geothermal Energy
profoundly unwise and puts the camel’s nose in the tent for a full ... a roadmap for getting there. Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Next ... demonstrate commercial viability—a huge issue for a technology facing high up
2021 Northeast Workshop on Energy Policy and Environmental Economics
About the Workshop The Northeast Workshop on Energy Policy and Environmental Economics will meet virtually on Monday and Tuesday, June 14 - 15 ... Center. Our goal is to assemble a set of papers on a variety of topics
FERC Transmission Reform: A New Year’s Resolution?
and for the economy there. So we need transmission for a host of reasons ... the utility would go to a state regulator and ask for a construction ... projects are paid for and largely overlooked, a lot of the imprecision with