USEA's Power Sector Podcast

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Amanda Ormond, Director of the Western Grid Group and Principal with the Ormond Group answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how the passage last Saturday of California’s Assembly Bill 825 represents a transformative milepost in the coming emergence of Western electricity market regionalization.Want the rest of the conversation? Subscribe to hear the whole interview: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/us-energy-association/subscribe

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Mike Innocenzo, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President for investor-owned utility giant Exelon answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how utilities can cope with AI data center-driven load growth and keeping electricity affordable despite the urgent need to invest in power system modernization.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, SouthWestern Power Group General Manager David Getts answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the 17-year Homeric odyssey of the SunZia Transmission Project through the U.S. permitting morass and what he learned about how the process can be streamlined.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Phil Jones, Executive Director of the Alliance for Transportation Electrification, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the Alliance’s just-released issue brief, “Making Electricity More Affordable with Electric Vehicles,”  which found utilities can reduce customer rates with strategies and programs that shift EV charging’s growing electricity demand to off-peak times.This episode is sponsored by Pony Communications. Learn more about their work here: https://www.ponycommunications.com/

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Michael Goggin, Vice President for power system consultant Grid Strategies answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the potential financial, environmental, legal, and political impacts on electricity users and the power system from a Trump Administration restart of coal use in power generation.This episode is sponsored by Pony Communications. Learn more about their work here: https://www.ponycommunications.com/

Join us for our next installment of CEO Corner where USEA’s President & CEO Mark Menezes sits down with the leaders of USEA member organizations. Learn more about these CEOs and discover how their work is shaping the energy landscape and enriching our community.This installment features Amanda Dasch, Region Americas CEO for Orsted.Note: This interview was filmed on September 19, 2025.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chair and Founder and Head of the Rail-Grid Collaborative Jim Hoecker answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about an approach to expanding transmission using existing rail and highway rights-of-way that can avoid the current permitting logjam.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Americans for a Clean Energy Grid Executive Director Christina Hayes answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about urgently needed reforms to permitting practices that can open the way to expanding and modernizing the inadequate and aging US transmission system.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Matt Sonnesyn, Senior Vice President for Policy with the Business Roundtable answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about why business leaders see an urgent need to modernize infrastructure permitting practices and how specific reforms can be implemented.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, retired U.S. Navy Commander and author Kirk Lippold, who holds multiple Naval decorations and awards, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how regulatory uncertainty created by recent Trump administration actions stopping offshore wind development could drive offshore wind and U.S. national security seriously off course.