Inside New York’s Historic Move to Remake the Utility Business Model

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🗓️ 1 May 2014

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Earlier this week, New York officials issued a report calling for structural changes to the way utilities are regulated. The proposal would make distribution utilities into Distributed System Platform Providers that get compensated for their ability to integrate clean energy, demand response and efficiency on the grid. It's a fundamentally new way to think about how power companies should plan for the future. In this week’s podcast, we’ll look at what this historic proposal from New York’s Public Service Commission will mean for renewables in the Empire State. We’ll also discuss the regulatory standoff over PSE&G’s $3.9 billion grid hardening plan after Superstorm Sandy, and look at the impact of a new solar tax in Arizona. The Energy Gang is produced by Greentechmedia.com. The show features weekly discussion between energy futurist Jigar Shah, energy policy expert Katherine Hamilton and Greentech Media Editor Stephen Lacey. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	For the week of May 1st, 2014, this is a senior editor with Green Tech Media in our nation's capital.
0:24.0	I've got some friends here with me who I haven't talked to in what feels like a long time.
0:28.0	But you know what they say about old friends.
0:30.0	It's like time never passed when you join them again.
0:32.0	Catherine Hamilton, a partner at the Clean Energy Consulting Firm 38 North Solutions, is one of them.
0:38.0	Catherine, you haven't like moved your house or gotten a new job since I talked to you last have you? No but my second
0:45.9	oldest kid just graduated from college this last weekend from University of
0:49.4	Redlands in Southern California and wants to go into renewable energy finance he even wore this green
0:56.9	rope around his neck with big dollar signs hanging off of it to signify that he was part of the investment club.
1:03.0	Pretty cool.
1:03.6	So you mentioned this a few episodes back
1:07.0	and it sounds like he wanted to do it on his own.
1:08.8	You didn't even push him to do that.
1:10.7	Not at all.
1:11.4	It was amazingly organic. And he's taken kind of a bullish position on
1:15.0	geothermal which I find very interesting. Well maybe it was our episode on geothermal
1:20.1	telling them to get their butts in gear so maybe your son can actually act on that.
1:24.8	Our friend up in New York is also here. It's Jigger Shaw, solar entrepreneur and
1:30.0	clean energy investor. Jigger, have you been just sitting in your office
1:34.4	sulking for weeks, waiting for that Skype line to ring,
1:37.3	hoping it would be us?
1:39.1	You know it, you know it.
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