By Robert Dillon
Executive Director,
Energy Choice Coalition
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The rapid evolution of the electricity sector in the United States can offer
numerous benefits to consumers while also addressing society’s environmental concerns
. The rise of independent energy suppliers and the advancement of information technology are transforming the way we generate and manage our electricity use,
allowing consumers to access more affordable, diverse, efficient, and cleaner sources of energy
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- What are additional “must haves” of electricity market design to ensure consumers can realize the full benefits of competition?
- Should monopoly utilities be allowed to compete with retail companies in the generation and sale of electricity or be quarantined to the building and operating of the transmission and distribution infrastructure?
- Is there a need to further educate consumers on the electricity market so as to promote more informed decision making and ensure protection from misleading providers?
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By Marilyn A. Brown
Regents' Professor and Director of the Climate and Energy Policy Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology
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- How can the U.S. reduce the high energy burdens of low-income households?
- Should on-bill financing programs for low-income households be scaled up? Or are better approaches available?
- With hotter summers on the rise, how can we help our most vulnerable populations survive the heat without breaking their wallets?
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- "In addition to models like PAYS, we need to be thinking even more out of the box to find solutions and models that engage all the stakeholders in a community who benefit from efforts related to retrofitting homes for low income households and explore partnerships that would allow more homes to be serviced and more households to be reached.... I believe there are better solutions available waiting to be discovered if we can change the framework in which we are having these discussions/looking for these solutions. We should reconsider the regulatory and cost test requirements for programs that serve low income households and look at new and potential partnerships for funding these programs (healthcare companies who benefit from the non-energy impacts of these programs come to mind)."
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- "The question of high energy bills for people with low incomes is going to become even more acute as serious efforts get underway to decarbonize the economy. Economists almost universally agree that decarbonization will not be successful without the introduction of a price on carbon through a fee-and-dividend scheme, a carbon tax, emissions trading, or something similar. But there are serious concerns that higher energy prices will have a disproportionate impact on the poor."
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Ed Dolan
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Senior Fellow, Niskanen Center
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Energy Futures Initiative
July 31, 2019
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Smart Electric Power Alliance
August 6, 2019
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Update from Congress
Hearings
New Legislation
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Podcast Spotlight
In this episode from Resources Radio, host Daniel Raimi talks with Professor
Sanya Carley
of Indiana University's O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Daniel and Sanya discuss her work on a "just" transition, which addresses questions like, how do climate policies affect energy affordability for low-income households, how do they affect the well-being of energy producing communities, and what approaches might help reduce the unwanted side effects of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the energy sector?
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Featured Events This Week
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Washington, D.C.
- When: Tues, Aug 13, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
- Where: Le Mirch, 1736 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20009
- When: Thurs, Aug 15, 5:00-8:00 p.m.
- Where: Internews Headquarters, 1133 15th Street Northwest Suite 350, Washington, DC 20005
Omaha, Nebraska
- When: Wed-Fri, Aug 14-16
- Where: Omaha Downtown Marriott, 222 North 10th Street Omaha, Nebraska 68102
Hilton Head, South Carolina
- When: Thurs-Fri, Aug 15-16
- Where: Country Club of Hilton Head, 70 Skull Creek Drive, Hilton Head Island, SC 29926
To see a more comprehensive list of energy events across the United States, visit the OEP
Events Calendar.
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