Ari Peskoe, speaks with Scott Hempling, adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center about Scott’s new book, Regulating Mergers and Acquisitions of the U.S. Electric Utilities: Industry Concentration and Corporate Complication. Scott has also written about FERC’s review of utility merger applications in a 2018 Energy Law Journal Article entitled Inconsistent with the Public Interest: FERC’s Three Decades of Deference to Electricity Consolidation.

Note: we recorded this episode in early November, 2020.

See here for a full transcript of this episode. https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/CleanLaw-54-Ari-and-Scott-Hempling-on-Electric-Utility-Mergers.pdf