JOINT HEARING
Senate Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Committee
AND Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee
May 1, 2019 at 1 p.m.
North Office Building, Hearing Room #1
AEPS (Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards)
1:00-1:10
Opening Remarks
1:10-1:30
Overview of AEPS
Gladys Brown Dutrieuille, Chairman
Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
David Althoff, Environmental Group Manager
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
1:30-2:00
Tier I Panel
Brent Alderfer, President
Attachment Slides
Community Energy
Bruce Burcat, Executive Director
Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Coalition
Mark Hammond, Esq.
Pennsylvania Waste Industries Association
2:00-2:30
Tier II Panel
Jaret Gibbons, Executive Director
ARIPPA
Gene Alessandrini, Regional Vice President
Brookfield Renewable
Frazier Blaylock, Senior Director, Government Relations
Covanta Energy Systems, Inc.
2:30-2:45
Proposed Tier III Panel
Michael Shellenberger, President
Environmental Progress
John E. Parsons, Executive Director and Professor Jacopo Buongiorno (Written Testimony Only)
Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2:45-3:05
Consumer Panel
Tanya McCloskey, Acting Consumer Advocate
Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate
Patrick Cicero, Executive Director
Pennsylvania Utility Law Project
3:05-3:25
Generation/Fuel Supply Panel
Rachel Gleason, Executive Director
Pennsylvania Coal Alliance
Leah Gibbons, Director, Regulatory Affairs
NRG
Craig Gordon, Vice President, Government and Regulatory Affairs
Invenergy
3:25-3:45
Environmental Panel
Rob Altenburg, Energy Center Director
Penn Future
John Walliser, Senior Vice President
Pennsylvania Environmental Council
- January 2019 Energy and Climate Pathways Report
- June 2018 testimony before the Bicameral Nuclear Caucus