Local Energy Rules

With a little help from utilities, home energy upgrades can pay for themselves.

For this episode of the Local Energy Rules Podcast, host John Farrell is joined by Matt Flaherty, Director of Building Decarbonization at Clean Energy Works. They discuss the barriers to home energy upgrades, how inclusive utility investment is a scalable solution that addresses many of these barriers, and what it will take to get utilities on board with on-bill financing.

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https://ilsr.org/articles/scaling-up-home-energy-investment-ler199/

Matt Flaherty discusses the barriers to home energy upgrades, how inclusive utility investment is a scalable solution that addresses many of these barriers, and what it will take to get utilities on board with on-bill financing. |

Show page available: https://ilsr.org/scaling-up-home-energy-investment-ler199/ |

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Can for-profit gas utilities be trusted to plan their own stagnation?

For this episode of the Local Energy Rules Podcast, host John Farrell is joined by Ben Kuebrich, Public Advocate for the Alliance for a Green Economy. They discuss New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, what to expect when gas utilities do their own decarbonization planning, and how states and clean energy advocates can actually address methane gas use in the buildings sector.

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https://ilsr.org/articles/loopholes-scams-ny-gas-plans-ler198/

Ben Kuebrich discusses New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, what to expect when gas utilities do their own decarbonization planning, and how states and clean energy advocates can actually address methane gas use in the buildings sector. |

Show page available: https://ilsr.org/loopholes-scams-ny-gas-plans-ler198/ |

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Utilities regularly spend millions of dollars to get their way. When their monopoly status is on the line, they pull out all of the stops.

For this episode of the Local Energy Rules Podcast, host John Farrell is joined by Lucy Hochschartner, Deputy Campaign Director for Pine Tree Power. They discuss how public power would have been an improvement over Maine’s investor-owned utilities, yet didn’t receive the support of Maine voters on November 7th.

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https://ilsr.org/articles/utility-millions-popular-measure-maine-ler197/

Lucy Hochschartner explains how public power would have been an improvement over Maine’s investor-owned utilities, yet didn’t receive the support of Maine voters on November 7th. |

Show page available: https://ilsr.org/utility-millions-popular-measure-maine-ler197/ |

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This is a defining moment for rural communities and the clean energy transition.

For this episode of the Local Energy Rules Podcast, host John Farrell is joined by Frances Sawyer, founder of Pleiades Strategy, and Maria McCoy, researcher at ILSR. They discuss ILSR’s new report on rural electric co-ops and how federal dollars can meet the growing momentum of co-op member-owners organizing around affordability, clean energy, and local control.

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https://ilsr.org/articles/rural-electric-coop-revival-ler196/

Frances Sawyer and Maria McCoy discuss ILSR’s new report on rural electric co-ops and how federal dollars can meet the growing momentum of co-op member-owners organizing around affordability, clean energy, and local control. |

Show page available: https://ilsr.org/rural-electric-coop-revival-ler196/ |

Listen to all of our Local Energy Rules podcast episodes at our site: https://ilsr.org/local-energy-rules-podcast-homepage |

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To protect competitive markets, we must quarantine regulated monopolies.

For this episode of the Local Energy Rules Podcast, host John Farrell is joined by Lynne Kiesling, Director of the Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics at Northwestern University and Research professor at the University of Colorado Denver. Kiesling explains why allowing incumbent monopolies into new markets is too big of a risk for innovation and the public interest, particularly in the context of Xcel Energy’s major electric vehicle charging proposal.

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https://ilsr.org/articles/stopping-the-spread-of-monopolies-ler195/

Lynne Kiesling explains why allowing incumbent monopolies into new markets is too big of a risk for innovation and the public interest, particularly in the context of Xcel Energy’s major electric vehicle charging proposal. |

Show page available: https://ilsr.org/stopping-the-spread-of-monopolies-ler195/ |

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