Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 04/2015

Tectonic Shifts in the U.S. Electricity Sector

Andy Karsner, Roger Ballentine

December 2014

Aspen Institute

Abstract

The report from the 2014 Aspen Institute Clean Energy Forum “Tectonic Shifts in the U.S. Electricity Sector” focuses on the economic disruption occurring to existing business models in the electricity sector given the rise of consumers; distributed generation, and the impacts of energy efficiency. Related topics also include the changing role of regulators and the implications of the 111(d) proposed rules recently put forward by EPA.