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I'm Stephen Lacy, welcome. Don't let government pick winners and losers.

That was Rick Perry's mantra as a presidential candidate,

but it didn't take him long to drop it as Energy Secretary.

This week, we'll take a look at a rare bizarre request from Perry

asking federal regulators to restructure electricity markets

and prop up struggling coal and nuke plants.

Then the latest on the post-hurricane energy crisis in Puerto Rico, Catherine's been

pretty active on the energy policy front, so we're going to get an update from

her about the Washington Puerto Rico relationship or lack thereof depending on how you

look at it. Finally an Alaskan sovereign wealth fund is betting big on

distributed energy and guess what? It's making that bet through

generate capital jiggers firm so we're going to hear from him on what

generates latest funds says about new investment approaches.

So it turns out while I was away for a few weeks just hanging out on the beach, sipping cocktails, looking at all the wildlife in Africa. My co-host were pretty busy working on how to rebuild

Puerto Rico and raising multi hundred million dollar funds. Let's say hello to them. They've been very

busy. Catherine Hamilton is in Washington DC. She's a partner and co-founder of

38 North Solutions. Hello, Catherine.

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