Paul Griffin to Virginia regulators: Electricity deregulation raises electric...
From Energy Fairness: “Deregulation hasn’t worked where state policies allow monopolies to continue to control the market,” says Travis Kavulla, director of energy for the conservative think-tank R...
View ArticleR Sheet on Performance Based Regulation
In the coming years, regulators should take the best ideas from the U.K. experience and adapt them to the American context. Britain’s advantage of a unified grid and accounting practice are...
View ArticleRegulatory Studies Center: Regulation Digest
From The George Washington University: R Street Institute ▪ Performance Based Regulation, William Murray & Travis Kavulla ▪ Antitrust Consent Decrees, Charles Duan ▪ How spectrum NIMBYs are slowing...
View ArticleDiverse Transmission Stakeholders File Joint Reply Comments with FERC on...
From Americans for a Clean Energy Grid: “It makes sense to target incentives to the efficient operation of transmission assets that are already deployed, and not just to new investments in the grid. R...
View ArticleComments on FERC’s electric transmission incentives
BEFORE THE FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION Inquiry Regarding the) Commission’s Electric) Docket No. PL19-3-000 Transmission Incentives) Policy) JOINT REPLY COMMENTS OF THE GRID ADVANCEMENT...
View ArticleDaily on Energy: ‘An aggressive new thing’ — How Sanders would ramp up...
“This plan is unserious and, put simply, it is not going to happen,” Travis Kavulla, director of energy at the R Street Institute, told me. “This plan is causing everyone who knows an iota about the...
View ArticleProblems in Electricity Market Governance: An Assessment
The decisions of an RTO executive may be more dispositive of the important questions of electricity policy than the pronouncements of, say, a typical governor, legislature, or state utility...
View ArticleThree Possible Solutions to Uneconomic Coal Generation
From Union of Concerned Scientists: Another option that I’ve discussed with regulators seems to be the preferred choice for at least one former utility regulator and former president of NARUC, Travis...
View ArticleUS Northeast power markets are unwell. What’s next?
From S&P Global Platts: “Policymakers are subsidizing certain resources to enter the market and policymakers are also subsidizing other resources to prevent them from leaving,” Travis Kavulla,...
View ArticleFinancial and Governance Protections for Electric Cooperatives
As we enter the third decade of the 21st century, the public demand for greater broadband access in rural areas must be heeded. However, the technology mediums by which broad-band has been delivered...
View ArticleWhat Va.’s ‘political earthquake’ means for RGGI, renewables
From Governors’ Wind & Solar Energy Coalition [1]: On the right, the coalition includes the FreedomWorks Foundation, R Street Institute, Reason Foundation and Virginia Institute for Public Policy....
View ArticleScrap Energy Tax Favors for Better Reform
From The Daily Signal [1]: The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should aggressively defend [2] competition and, along with greater reforms from Congress, reduce distortions through the Public...
View ArticleSolving the Climate Crisis
From House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis [1]: Stakeholders, such as states, consumer groups, and public interest groups, have expressed concern about the power of incumbent generators and...
View ArticleFix the Mopr Problem with a Dose of Humility
From Sustainable FERC Project [1]: Worse, intentions aren’t always pure. Regional Transmission Organizations such as PJM have been memorably described [2] as QUANGOs: “quasi-autonomous nongovernmental...
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