This book chapter discusses specific policy changes to electric power mandates, subsidies, and retail customer charges that can help facilitate the transition to deep decarbonization of the power sector.
Jim RossiFebruary 21, 2019
This report aims to assist policymakers in understanding grid resilience and evaluating potential interventions aimed at improving grid resilience. It develops a definition of resilience grounded in academic literature; describes a methodology for calculating the costs and benefits of potential grid resilience improvements; identifies legal authorities that states and federal…
Burcin Unel and Avi ZevinAugust 1, 2018
These comments were submitted in response to FERC's Notice of Inquiry into possible changes to its natural gas certification policy. The comments argue, among other things, that FERC should consider how climate change will affect the construction and operation of natural gas infrastructure in its certification decisions.
Romany Webb and Jessica WentzJune 18, 2018
This article finds that as FERC has mostly ended its regulation of wholesale markets, states have responded with regulatory change creating a back and forth between them to ensure statutory duties are met and to avoid regulatory gaps, and argues that this "exit" and "exchange" of duties is good, and…
Jim Rossi and Hannah WisemanJune 5, 2018
These comments to FERC on its grid resilience docket argue that the Commission should not take mandatory national or regional action, but instead encourage RTOs to continue to systematically evaluate the resilience of the bulk power system and be open to proposals to make specific resilience improvements. The comments more…
Burcin Unel and Avi ZevinMay 9, 2018
These comments were submitted in response to FERC's request for input on the resilience of the bulk power system in areas overseen by regional transmission organizations and independent system operators (RTO/ISOs). The comments argue that RTO/ISOs' efforts to address resilience have given insufficient weight to the impacts of climate change,…
Romany WebbApril 13, 2018
This report discusses recommendations for grid operator climate change planning.
Justin Gundlach and Romany WebbFebruary 20, 2018
This article examines how the definitions of resilience adopted by the public health and electricity communities can, but do not necessarily, converge in responses to electricity outages so severe that they affect the operation of critical infrastructure, such as wastewater treatment and drinking water facilities, hospitals, and cooling centers. The…
Justin GundlachFebruary 1, 2018
This article identifies tools available to the government ex ante that will preserve regulatory flexibility in the future by forestalling regulatory takings claims and blunt the fairness concerns that fuel takings arguments, and argues for their adoption in the context of natural gas regulation.
Christopher Serkin and Michael VandenberghAugust 22, 2017
This article argues that non-tax subsidies in energy rates have potential to promote low-carbon sources of energy while balancing broader economic and social welfare goals
Jim RossiMarch 20, 2017