The Future of Utility Regulation 2025

Cornell Tech, New York, NY — Venue for the Symposium

Managing Competition

December 11th, 2025

Cornell Tech

New York, NY

Public utility commissions were built to regulate natural monopolies. But today, electricity is increasingly competing with gas—pressuring outdated regulatory frameworks to evolve.

This invitation-only symposium brings together regulators, scholars, and practitioners to examine how state utility commissions can manage this growing competition, adapt institutional frameworks, and fulfill their statutory responsibilities.

Host Committee

The Future of Heat Initiative &

Catie Hausman Associate Professor, University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research

Joshua Macey Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Jacob Mays Assistant Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University

Abe Silverman Assistant Research Scholar, Ralph O'Connor Sustainable Energy Institute, Johns Hopkins University

Shelley Welton Presidential Distinguished Professor of Law and Energy Policy, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

This is an invitation-only event. For more information email events@thefutureofheat.com