On March 23, 2016, the Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy and Land Use Law at NYU School of Law, held a discussion on, “Nuclear Energy and the Clean Energy Future.” Nuclear energy currently provides approximately 20 percent of America’s electricity—and the majority of the country’s zero-emissions electricity. Yet across the nation, many nuclear power plants …
SCOTUS Blog notes that the Guarini Center’s Matthew Christiansen suggests that, although “the decision is, first and foremost, a significant victory for the FERC and its efforts to support demand response, it also goes a long way toward clarifying the legal regime governing the FERC’s exercise of its jurisdiction more generally.” READ MORE
On Monday, the Supreme Court held that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) has jurisdiction under the Federal Power Act (“FPA”) to regulate demand response in wholesale electricity markets.[1] Although the decision is, first and foremost, a significant victory for the FERC and its efforts to support demand response, it also goes a long way …
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Future of Demand Response in Electricity Markets: Implications of EnerNOC v. EPSA, REV, and more On October 26th from 6:30 PM – 8:00PM, the Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy and Land Use Law and Latham & Watkins LLP held a panel discussion about potential consequences of EnerNOC v. EPSA, REV and more for the future of demand response programs. …
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Guarini Center fellow Benjamin Mandel writes about how New York can begin to catalyze the transformation of its electric utilities by putting the right incentives in place. READ MORE
In an order addressing proposed changes to net metering caps, the New York Public Service Commission extensively cites comments Guarini Center fellows Jonathan Schrag and Ben Mandel. The relevant order can be downloaded here.
As New York scales up its “Reforming the Energy Vision (REV)” activities, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has published a new Energy Exchange blog on lessons New York energy regulators can take from their British counterparts, who have introduced the RIIO model in recent years. EDF’s blog cites the recent Guarini Center roundtable discussion on …
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See Breaking Energy for a post on New York’s quest for comprehensive performance-based regulation by Guarini Center fellow Benjamin Mandel.
Traditional utility regulation provides inadequate incentives for electric utilities to invest in technologies that reduce network energy losses. This article examines how alternative regulatory designs influence such investments, and simulates the procurement and performance of distribution transformers under differing regulatory scenarios, to demonstrate the enormous potential benefits of a performance-based regulation scheme that targets network losses. Author: Benjamin Mandel Published in: The Electricity …
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Sponsored by Latham & Watkins LLP On November 3rd, the Guarini Center held an event titled, Reforming New York’s Energy Vision: Implications for Wholesale Electricity Markets at NYU Law. The event addressed the New York Public Service Commission’s “Reforming the Energy Vision (REV)” initiative to reform New York’s electric energy industry and regulatory practices to promote greater …
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