Jenya Kahn-Lang

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Nationally, inflation-adjusted transmission costs per mile have increased 98.8% since 2013, with especially large increases in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. Inflation-adjusted distribution costs per circuit increased 42.5% over the same period, with especially large increases in California. These cost increases come as net growth in transmission miles and distribution circuits has remained roughly unchanged.

Daniel Raimi: Hello, and welcome to Resources Radio, a weekly podcast from Resources for the Future (RFF). I'm your host, Daniel Raimi. Today, we welcome RFF Fellow Jenya Kahn-Lang to the show. In today's episode, I'll talk to Jenya about retail choice in electricity markets, a topic where she's done lots of work. We're going to talk about how retail choice programs affect prices for households buying electricity in the United States, with a focus on Jenya's work in Baltimore.