Joy Ditto, president and CEO of the American Public Power Association, discusses her member utilities' efforts to transition to a clean-energy grid within the traditional vertically integrated utility construct. She provides a mixed view of the benefits APPA-member utilities have enjoyed as a result of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's open-access wholesale power market regime, and calls for passage of federal legislation to provide non-profit utilizes, like municipal utilities and rural co-ops, the same sort of federal subsidy that for-profit utilities and others derive for implementing renewable wind and solar energy technologies.
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