Welcome to the Cato podcast. I'm Travis Fisher. I'm the Director of Energy and Environmental Policy Studies at the Cato Institute.

Joining me is Glenn Lyons, who will introduce himself in a moment. And we are going to be talking about a multitude of things, mostly electricity, and where it's going, where it is now, where it's

headed, and the vision of the future and some policy changes ahead. If there's one thing I want

the audience to take away from this podcast, it's that electricity, the electricity industry,

especially in the United States of America, where we're supposed to have a market-based economy,

needs free markets. The cure for the electricity sector

is free markets. So, Glenn, why don't you introduce yourself? Sure, thank you for this opportunity.

So I am the founder of what we call advocates for consumer regulated electricity, and we'll spend

some of our time, I'm sure, talking about that. I've been doing that

for about three years. Also relevant to, I think, people understanding who I am and where I come

from, is to know that I've been retired from ExaMobil Corporation for about three and a half years now.

I spent 37 years there working in all different parts of the corporation, upstream, midstream, downstream,

commercial work primarily. And my last position there was the only one that had to do with

electricity. So about seven years doing electricity policy and regulatory advocacy,

that included a three-year stint as a member of the Erkot Board of Directors.

Erkot is the entity that manages most of the Texas electricity grid for those who don't know.

Right. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Urquat, grid nerds will know right away.

So what I wanted to start with is basically a wellness check on the power grid as we know it.

One interesting thing to me, I've been in this space for about 20 years.

This is probably the most interesting and entertaining it's been in my whole career.

A lot of fast-moving parts.

Wanted to get your thoughts on sort of, well, I'll share mine first.

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