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The Energy Markets Podcast

Hosted by Bryan Lee · business · EN-US

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Conversations with energy and environmental policy experts exploring the best state and federal policies to effectuate the urgently needed transition to a clean-energy economy at least cost to consumers. Lot's of wonky FERC stuff. State-level utility regulation and politics. Economists. Lawyers. Engineers. Politicians. Government regulators. Advocates. And acronyms. Lots of acronyms. Topical discussions about energy market developments with a focus on regulatory policies that disincentivize the innovation necessary to advance environmental and climate change objectives at least cost to consumers and the economy. Hosted by Bryan Lee, an energy and environmental policy consultant with decades of Washington, D.C.-based experience as a journalist, government official and energy company executive. Lee and invited guests discuss the latest developments at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and other federal agencies, Capitol Hill, as well as happenings at state-level regulatory commiss

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What is The Energy Markets Podcast about?

Conversations with energy and environmental policy experts exploring the best state and federal policies to effectuate the urgently needed transition to a clean-energy economy at least cost to consumers. Lot's of wonky FERC stuff. State-level utility regulation and politics. Economists. Lawyers. Engineers. Politicians. Government regulators. Advocates. And acronyms. Lots of acronyms.

Who hosts The Energy Markets Podcast?

The Energy Markets Podcast is hosted by Bryan Lee. The show has published 75 episodes to date.

What has The Energy Markets Podcast covered recently?

Recent episodes include "S5E11: P3's Glen Thomas sees PJM making progress in responding to a swift uptick in demand and surging prices" (19 October 2026, 53 minutes), "S5E10: Economist Diana Moss on the consumer impacts from remonopolization of electricity and other industries" (6 October 2026, 43 minutes), and "S5E8: Microgrid Maven Elisa Wood discusses state of play for consumer-empowering electricity options" (15 September 2026, 42 minutes).

How often does The Energy Markets Podcast publish?

The Energy Markets Podcast publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 47 minutes across 75 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on The Energy Markets Podcast?

Booking probability for The Energy Markets Podcast is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Energy Markets Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Energy Markets Podcast's contact route on record: public web form.

Who should pitch The Energy Markets Podcast?

The strongest fits for The Energy Markets Podcast are Electric Power and Economic Development & Regulation. The Energy Markets Podcast has a business audience.

About the host

Bryan Lee hosts The Energy Markets Podcast, a business podcast with 75 episodes published.

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  • The Energy Markets Podcast

    S5E11: P3's Glen Thomas sees PJM making progress in responding to a swift uptick in demand and surging prices

    Oct 19, 202653 min

    PJM Interconnection, the nation's largest competitive wholesale power market, has been swept up in the maelstrom of the public and political fallout that's emerged in the wake of surging prices in its capacity market...

  • The Energy Markets Podcast

    S5E10: Economist Diana Moss on the consumer impacts from remonopolization of electricity and other industries

    Oct 6, 202643 min

    Diana Moss, an economist and Director of Competition Policy at the Progressive Policy Institute, advocates applying antitrust policy throughout the economy for the benefit of consumers. The former FERC economist and...

  • Episode #7

    S5E8: Microgrid Maven Elisa Wood discusses state of play for consumer-empowering electricity options

    Sep 15, 202642 minS5

    Elisa Wood, founder and editor of the newsletter Energy Changemakers, has covered the evolution of consumer-empowering technologies such as microgrids, demand response, rooftop solar and battery storage and...

  • The Energy Markets Podcast

    S5E6: The Nuclear Innovation Alliance is riding the crest of a tsunami of new nuclear technology

    Aug 19, 20261h 1m

    The U.S. nuclear industry is enjoying a robust turnaround, largely driven by interest in emerging new nuclear technologies, such as small modular reactors. Judi Greenwald, president and CEO of the Nuclear Innovation...

  • The Energy Markets Podcast

    S5E5: Long-time observer Paul Bledsoe opines on the state of the U.S. and global action on climate disruption

    Aug 13, 202635 min

    Despite increasingly catastrophic weather events occurring across the globe, climate change expert Paul Bledsoe is optimistic there is still time to ward off the worst of climate disruption caused by emissions of...

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    EMP S5E3: Former DOE official William S. Becker discusses the fossil fuel industry 'cartel' that has frustrated climate action

    Jul 13, 202631 min

    William S. Becker, the executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project and a former Department of Energy official, discusses the fossil fuel industry "cartel" that has aligned itself with congressional...

  • Episode #2

    S5E2: Think climate change is a hoax? Ask the insurance industry

    Jul 2, 202629 minS5

    The Insurance Information Institute's Chief Economist, Michel Leonard, discusses how the insurance industry is contending with increasingly intense and more frequent extreme weather events that are driving up insurance...

  • Episode #1

    S5E1: The EMP epilogue season – Electricity Restructuring 101

    Jun 14, 202630 minS5

    Energy Markets Podcast host Bryan Lee explains why he has returned to publishing regular episodes of the podcast after a two-year sabbatical. "I feel compelled to return," Lee says, citing "the looming threat of a...

  • The Energy Markets Podcast

    S4E7: R Street Institute economist Michael Giberson speaks to price trends in electricity markets

    Apr 4, 202442 min

    In this episode we continue our consideration of what Bill Massey in our first episode this season called "the battle of the statistics" between monopoly and competition advocates. We talk with Michael Giberson, an...

  • Episode #6

    S4E6: RESA's Rich Spilky speaks to the 'battle of the statistics' regarding the consumer benefits of retail energy competition

    Mar 20, 202452 minS4

    Since the dawn of retail energy competition a quarter century ago, various factions pro and con have engaged in a "battle of the statistics" (as former FERC Commissioner Bill Massey termed it in Episode 1 of this...

  • Episode #5

    S4E5: The Center for LNG's Charlie Riedl on the Biden administration's 'pause' on export permits for liquefied natural gas

    Mar 8, 202453 minS4

    The Biden administration in January announced a pause in reviewing export permits for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in order to better understand the impacts that the United States' world-leading LNG exports will have on...

  • Episode #4

    S4E4: Former Montana utility regulator Travis Kavulla discusses the headwinds and the opportunities for competitive retail suppliers to bring value to energy consumers

    Feb 26, 202457 minS4

    The debate over the benefits of competition for energy consumers has persisted since the advent of retail competition for electricity and natural gas more than two decades ago. Consumers are stuck in a limbo between...

  • Episode #3

    S4E3: NRDC's David Doniger on the ubiquity of emissions cap-and-trade programs, an alternative to command-and-control regulation, which seemingly has fallen out of favor when it comes to managing climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions

    Feb 8, 202438 minS4

    Our discussion continues with David Doniger, Natural Resources Defense Council senior attorney, who notes that flexible market-based emissions cap-and-trade programs have been applied somewhat ubiquitously to address a...

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    S4E2: NRDC's David Doniger discusses the Chevron doctrine case pending before the Supreme Court, and addresses past and present efforts to regulate carbon emissions

    Jan 31, 202446 min

    Who better to discuss the ramifications of the Supreme Court's apparent path toward striking down the long-standing legal precedent known as the Chevron doctrine than the lawyer who argued the original case 40 years...

  • Episode #1

    S4E1: Former FERC regulator Bill Massey discusses the courts' expansive view of the Commission's statutory authority and pending cases before SCOTUS that may test whether that expansive view will 'have its wings clipped'

    Jan 18, 20241 hourS4

    Energy lawyer and law school professor William Massey, at 10 years the longest-serving commissioner ever at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, discusses the vast body of legal precedent finding FERC has expansive...

  • Episode #24

    S3E24: 'Food is energy.' So what is the energy-intensive fertilizer industry doing to decarbonize while still keeping the world fed?

    Dec 28, 20231h 5mS3

    The world's burgeoning billions have been kept fed thanks to the "Green Revolution" of the 20th century, which featured new hybridized crops with enhanced yields. Often deemed a miracle of science, it was also made...

  • Episode #23

    S3E23: Commodities trading expert Matthew Hunter talks about the financial markets for managing – or hedging – energy price risk, and how they and consumers are impacted by extreme events such as California in 2000 and Texas in 2021

    Dec 4, 202357 minS3

    Matthew Hunter was a power trader in the Western market in 2000, when California's poorly designed and managed electricity market imploded costing consumers hundreds of millions of dollars. After that, he spent much of...

  • Episode #22

    S3E22: State Senator Tom Davis discusses his pro-competitive legislative agenda for South Carolina electricity consumers

    Nov 8, 202346 minS3

    State Senator Tom Davis of South Carolina is a rare breed in politics today. At a time when no other state is actively considering competitive reforms to their traditionally monopoly-regulated utility sectors, and many...

  • Episode #21

    S3E21: WPTF's Scott Miller talks about market-based grid regionalization efforts in the West, and the ghosts of the 2000-2001 regional energy crisis that haunt those efforts

    Oct 12, 202336 minS3

    More than two decades ago when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission sought to put large regional wholesale power markets in place nationally, Western states were a hotbed of opposition to the since-abandoned goal...

  • Episode #20

    S3E20: Octopus Energy's Michael Lee speaks to his company's consumer-centric vision of 'Retail 2.0' for energy supply

    Oct 5, 202356 minS3

    UK-based Octopus Energy has seen extraordinary growth since launched in 2015 by fund-management firm Octopus Group. It's heavily invested in renewable energy in the UK and elsewhere, and it has retail energy supply...

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