USEA's Power Sector Podcast

In this opening episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on wildfires, Stanford University’s Michael Wara answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how policymakers and the power sector can equitably address impacts and costs of wildfires and protect electricity customers from the burden of wildfire costs.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Ben Brown, CEO of Renew Home, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the nuts and bolts of his Google and OhmConnect backed company’s giant step toward bringing virtual power plants to market.

In this final episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on energy storage, Rob Piconi, CEO and Board Chair of Energy Vault, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about his company’s unique multiple technology business model based on battery energy storage systems, gravity energy storage, and green hydrogen and about his perspective on the future of the energy storage sector and these technologies.

In this final episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on energy storage, Paul Jacob, CEO of Rye Development, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how closed loop pumped storage hydropower, or PSH, fits into the broad spectrum of mechanical energy storage, the enormous capacity potential of PSH, where it is already in use, what its cost benefit economics are, and why closed loop technology solves some of conventional hydropower’s environmental concerns.

In episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast’s series on energy storage, John O’Donnell, CEO of Rondo Energy, answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the thermal energy storage technologies that capture and store heat, the mechanics of thermal energy storage and Rondo’s “heat battery,” about why this concept may be vital to eliminating carbon emissions, and what may be just over the horizon for Rondo and other thermal energy storage technologies.

In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on battery storage, Mimi Gupta, the Clean Tech Product and Business Development lead for Schneider Electric answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the progress toward market viability of the just-emerging vehicle to home, or V2H, and vehicle to grid, or V2G, and vehicle to load, or V2L, concepts that promise to enhance the value proposition of electric vehicles by using the stored energy in their batteries for backup power and power system services.

In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on battery storage, Form Energy Co-Founder and CEO Mateo Jaramillo answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the progress of its unique iron-air Long Duration Energy Storage battery chemistry and how it is moving toward market viability at scale.

In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on battery storage, Roger Miksad, President and Executive Director of Battery Council International, answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about how current lead battery types, durations, and applications fit into today’s conversation about battery storage, about what makes just emerging advanced lead batteries advanced, and about how lead batteries are working to supply low cost longer duration energy storage.

In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on energy storage, Julia Souder, CEO of the Long Duration Energy Storage Council and Chair of the Global Renewables Alliance answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about what LDES technologies are, the importance of their role in the transition to clean energy, how these technologies are likely to progress, and the policies that can bring them to market.

In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on battery storage, GridStor Vice President for Policy and Strategy Jason Burwen answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the critical next steps to advance utility-scale battery storage at the federal, state, and merchant market levels.