Tilting Offshore Windmills: Speaking Truth to Ratepayers

Joe Selvaggi talks with energy economist Dr. Jonathan Lesser about the chasm between the promises and realities of offshore wind projects, including the likely increased costs passed to electricity consumers and taxpayers.

Guest:

Jonathan Lesser is an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute. As president of Continental Economics, Lesser has more than 30 years of experience working for regulated utilities, for government, and as a consultant in the energy industry. He has addressed economic and regulatory issues affecting energy in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. Those issues include gas and electric utility structure and operations, generating asset valuation under uncertainty, cost-benefit analysis, mergers and acquisitions, cost allocation and rate design, resource investment-decision strategies, cost of capital, depreciation, risk management, incentive regulation, economic impact studies, and energy and environmental policies.

WATCH:

Recent Episodes

Rationing Vital Therapies: Should Healthcare Experts Decide Who Lives?

April 18, 2023

Joe Selvaggi talks with senior health care fellow Dr. William Smith about his new book Rationing Medicine: Threats From European Cost Effectiveness Models to Seniors and Other Vulnerable Populations, and the book’s cautionary warning against embracing European standards for valuing life saving therapies.

https://pioneerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Hubwonk-Ft-Image-04-18-23.png 512 1024 Editorial Staff https://pioneerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_440x96.png Editorial Staff2023-04-18 10:00:572023-04-25 10:50:45Rationing Vital Therapies: Should Healthcare Experts Decide Who Lives?

Transparent Home Buying: Real Estate Auction Platform Informs and Empowers Everyone

April 11, 2023

Joe Selvaggi talks with Tim Quirk and Kevin Caulfield, cofounders of Boston based technology startup, Final Offer, about the way in which their recently launched platform disrupts the traditional home buying process by providing a real time transparent auction for each sale.

https://pioneerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Copy-of-Hubwonk-Template-11.png 512 1024 Editorial Staff https://pioneerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_440x96.png Editorial Staff2023-04-11 10:21:142023-04-12 12:04:45Transparent Home Buying: Real Estate Auction Platform Informs and Empowers Everyone

Inventing Racial Classifications: Legacy and Limits of Discriminatory Labels

April 4, 2023

Joe Selvaggi talks with George Mason Law Professor David E. Bernstein about his book Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America, discussing the ways in which racial definitions once used for past abuse and exclusion have evolved to become a central feature used to describe modern society.

https://pioneerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Copy-of-Hubwonk-Template-10.png 512 1024 Editorial Staff https://pioneerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_440x96.png Editorial Staff2023-04-04 10:24:272023-04-04 10:47:53Inventing Racial Classifications: Legacy and Limits of Discriminatory Labels

Accessing Healthcare Anywhere: Lessons For Liberalizing Telehealth

March 28, 2023

Joe Selvaggi talks with Josh Archambault about the benefits of state policies to enable interstate telehealth that empowers patients to reach their healthcare professionals in other states, and for providers to offer service anywhere they are needed.

https://pioneerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Copy-of-Hubwonk-Template-9.png 512 1024 Editorial Staff https://pioneerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_440x96.png Editorial Staff2023-03-28 10:35:322023-03-28 10:35:32Accessing Healthcare Anywhere: Lessons For Liberalizing Telehealth