Join ConservAmerica and the Energy Choice Coalition on Wednesday, December 6 at 11:00 am EST
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Competition in electricity markets provides economic, reliability, environmental, and governance benefits. Yet 18 states still use the traditional regulatory model that allows large vertically integrated utilities to hold a monopoly in their service areas. Another 19 states allow wholesale competition but still allow regulated monopolies to serve all or most retail customers. Just 13 states and Washington D.C. allow competition at the retail and wholesale levels. While many states are considering increasing competition in their wholesale markets, small consumers in retail markets are still being left behind.
Join ConservAmerica and the Energy Choice Coalition on Wednesday, December 6 at 11:00 am ET for a discussion on the benefits of competition in electricity markets with: Michael Giberson of the R Street Institute, Lynne Kiesling of the Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics at Northwestern University, Meghan Nutting of Sunnova, and Robert Dillon of the Energy Choice Coalition and ConservAmerica.
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Panelists
Michael Giberson is a senior fellow in energy policy at the R Street Institute where he focuses on federal electric power and related energy policy issues. He is the recent co-author of a recent R Street report on how competitive market structures benefit consumers. Previously, he was on the faculty of the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University where he taught U.S. energy policy and regulation, energy economics and business economics.
Lynne Kiesling is an economist focused on regulation, market design, and the economics of digitization and smart grid technologies in the electricity industry. She is Director of the Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics in the Center on Law, Business, and Economics, and an Adjunct Professor in the Master of Science in Energy and Sustainability program, both at Northwestern University. She is also a Research Professor at University of Colorado Denver, a member of the External Faculty of the Santa Fe Institute, and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Lynne also provides advisory and analytical services as the President of Knowledge Problem LLC. In addition to her academic research, she is currently a member of the U.S. Department of Energy's Electricity Advisory Committee.
Meghan Nutting is the Executive Vice President of Government and Regulatory Affairs at Sunnova Energy Corporation, a leading U.S. residential solar and storage services provider. Before joining Sunnova in 2014 she served as the Director of Policy and Electricity Markets at SolarCity. She has also worked as a Legislative Director for New York State Assembly member Linda Rosenthal and as a Press Secretary for former U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe. Nutting has held policy positions at the World Bank and the British Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs as well as a number of environmental organizations.
Robert Dillon is the Executive Director of the Energy Choice Coalition and senior policy advisor on energy and public lands at ConservAmerica. He is the former U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Communications Director and senior aide to U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
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