The Explosion of Transmission Costs in ERCOT: Causes, Forecasts, and Policy Solutions

Brent Bennett, Ph.D., is the policy director for Life:Powered, an initiative of the Texas Public Policy Foundation to raise America’s energy IQ. 

Dr. Bennett has an M.S.E. and Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.S. in physics from the University of Tulsa. His graduate research focused on advanced chemistries for utility-scale energy storage systems.

Jamila Piracci has over two decades of experience as a financial services professional. She started her career as an attorney for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where she observed and worked with the financial services industry from a perch that gave her a wide vantage point. With over a decade as outside counsel in structured derivatives and as a lawyer for the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Jamila coordinated market participant solutions to issues ranging from operational challenges involved innovations to auction methodologies for credit default swaps.