USEA's Power Sector Podcast

In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on battery storage, Fluence SVP and President, Americas John Zahurancik, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about trends in the utility-scale battery storage industry, including emerging technologies that turn batteries into transmission assets, about what IRA tax credits mean for the industry, and about siting and permitting challenges and potential solutions for utility-scale storage.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Noah Roberts, Senior Director of Energy Storage with the American Clean Power Association, kicked off the podcast’s series on energy storage by answering questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the recent growth, growth forecast, and drivers of US energy storage, the sector’s price trends, the barriers storage still faces, and the historic projects now installed and about to prove the value of storage in stabilizing power system reliability.

In this final episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on geothermal, Research Geologist Sean Porse, the Data, Modeling, and Analysis Program lead for DOE’s Geothermal Technologies Office answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the just released DOE Pathways to Commercial Liftoff of Next-Generation Geothermal Power study, and why new closed loop and enhanced geothermal technologies could increase the industry’s potential at competitive prices and allow new communities to be part of the clean energy transition.

In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on geothermal, EnergySource Minerals Chief Development Officer David Deak answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the opportunities the US cannot refuse of combining 24/7 geothermal energy production for reliable electricity generation with harvesting a potentially invaluable domestic lithium supply from geothermal brine.

In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast geothermal series, Dr. Joseph Moore, Managing Principal Investigator for the University of Utah and DOE Utah Forge demonstration project, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about what the research project has discovered about the enormous potential of Enhanced Systems to make geothermal energy a reliable, clean, and widely accessible source of power generation.

In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast geothermal series, Paul Thomsen, Ormat Technologies Vice President of Business Development, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the present and future of conventional and advanced geothermal technologies as seen by one of the most successful geothermal owner-operators in the US and the world.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Bryant Jones, Executive Director of Geothermal Rising, kicked off the podcast’s series on geothermal energy by answering questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the rising potential of geothermal energy as a source of US power system reliability and as a domestic source of lithium and other minerals critical to the energy transition.

In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Scientist and Energy Policy Researcher Joseph Rand of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the lab’s recent update on generation queues, which shows almost 1500 MW of proposed clean energy generation waiting to be connected to U.S. transmission systems, the cause of the backlog, and what regulators are doing about it.

In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast, WATT Coalition Executive Director Julia Selker answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about how grid enhancing technologies, or GETs, and transmission rewiring, or reconductoring, can significantly streamline the flow of electricity through the power system as a cost-effective bridge to the availability of the new transmission development critical to meeting US climate and energy goals.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Anne Reynolds, vice president for offshore wind with ACP, answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the emergence of offshore wind as a major factor in the US power mix, the obstacles it currently faces, and how it plans to face down those obstacles. Editorial note: This podcast was recorded before Orsted renewed its commitment to the Ocean Wind 1 and 2 projects.