How climate change is changing electric utilities, with Ernest Moniz, Paula Gold-Williams

October 18, 2019 by

White House Chronicle, Show #11042
Air Date: Oct. 18, 2019
TRT: 29:00
Host: Llewellyn King
Guests: Paula Gold-Williams, President & CEO, CPS Energy; Ernest Moniz, Former U.S. Secretary of Energy; Kimberly, Britton, EPIcenter; Mark Duvall, Electric Power Research Institute

Short description: Host Llewellyn King interviews former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, Paula Gold-Williams of CPS Energy and others on how climate change is changing electric utilities. First of two episodes.

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