Areas of Expertise:

Clean Energy, Climate Change, Demand Side Management, Energy Economics, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security, Energy Storage, Environmental Policy, Infrastructure, Innovation, Natural Gas, Oil, Power Sector, Regulation, Renewables, Smart Grid, Solar, Transmission, Wind

I'm a leading expert on energy markets and energy regulation and policy, having written three books with two more in progress.

I'm both a practicing attorney and economic/energy consultant.
JD from University of Texas School of Law, Ph.D. in Economics from U of Texas at Austin.

I've represented clients in federal and state proceedings, conducted market studies, asset and business valuations, damage calculations and market power analyses. I've worked with clients on matters from fossil fuels, renewable energy, transmission, ISO market rules and energy technology start-ups.

Recent Comments by Steve Isser

• "The problem is that at least in the US, strategic planning is simply infeasible. For better or worse, first you have to develop a political consens"
  Strategic Planning to Avert a Global Warming Catastrophe
• "Distributed energy is not the solution to grid resilence, at least not until it is universal, which is decades or longer away. The reason is simple, e"
  Extreme Weather Grid Threats
• "Actually, what Harvey exposed was the downside of Houston's adversion to zoning and any type of land use controls. As far as the impact on the oil "
  Harvey Highlighted Vulnerability of Nation’s Fuel Infrastructure
• "Since I've filed comments in this proceeding, I'll simply post links: go to https://elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/search/fercgensearch.asp Docket numb"
  Pricing Grid Resiliency: A Lifeline for Coal and Nuclear?
• "Don't confuse efficiency with conservation. Efficiency simply means generating the same outputs with less inputs, LEDs are a good example, not only do"
  Climate Scientists Challenge ‘100% Renewables’ Paper
• "All these papers proposing "solutions" are fantasy land exercises. In the real world, we do not have a "renewable energy czar" who can order corporati"
  Climate Scientists Challenge ‘100% Renewables’ Paper
• "Rick Perry, from my Texas experience, is a nice enough guy, but he's no more qualified to be DOE Secretary than the average guy on the street, he was "
  DOE Grid Study Delayed
• "As you've pointed out, the crux of the issue is reducing demand, efforts to curtail supply infrastructure are doomed to failure if demand continues to"
  Keystone and Dakota Pipelines Revived by President Trump’s Executive Actions
• "My point was more about the incremental impact of the pipeline on oil sand production. Unless  you think the current oil price is stable any decline i"
  Keystone and Dakota Pipelines Revived by President Trump’s Executive Actions
• "There is less than meets the eye here. The Dakota pipeline is a no brainer, outside of a few environmental extremists and some native American acti"
  Keystone and Dakota Pipelines Revived by President Trump’s Executive Actions