United States Energy Association
United States Energy Association
The USEA Power Sector Podcast is bringing new voices and new ideas to key energy system conversations in 15-minute interviews targeting urgently needed solutions. Topics will range from when, where, and how generation and transmission should be expanded to what resources and technologies are needed to ensure distribution systems remain reliable.
USEA's Global Briefing series promotes international voices and ideas in the Energy Sector.
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Episodes
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Nov 8, 2024 • 20min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 92: Mission:data Coalition President Michael Murray
In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Michael Murray, President of the Mission:data Coalition, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the new accelerated computing capabilities that will allow consumers and third parties access to historical and real time smart meter and utility-archived consumption and pricing data to guide their ability to manage their energy use.
Nov 6, 2024 • 17min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 91: National Renewable Energy Laboratory Strategic Energy Analysis Center Market and Policy Group Manager Jeff Cook
In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Strategic Energy Analysis Center Market and Policy Group Manager Jeff Cook answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how massively accelerated computing capabilities to assimilate data are
emerging alongside a new complexity on the distribution system to optimize new clean energy resources and technologies and drive decarbonization
Oct 30, 2024 • 21min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 90: Neara Senior Vice President and Managing Director of the Americas Robert Brook
In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Neara Senior Vice President and Managing Director of the Americas Robert Brook answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how utility data can be incorporated by digital network models and digital twining capabilities to improve reliability and reduce customer costs.
Oct 28, 2024 • 24min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 89: Sr. Director of Data Science & Analytics, Global & Innovative Data Leader Sean Otto
In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, AES Corporation
Sr Director of Data Science and Analytics, Global, and Innovative Data Leader Sean Otto answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how investor-owned power provider and electric utility giant AES is working toward the use of data science and analytics along with today’s accelerated computing capabilities to improve reliability and lower customer costs.
Oct 24, 2024 • 21min
USEA Power Sector Podcast 88: Digital Energy Council Founder & President Tom Mapes
In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Tom Mapes, Founder and President of the Digital Energy Council, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the growing importance of digital technologies and data analytics in today’s power sector.
Oct 22, 2024 • 19min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 87: Utilidata President & Chief Operating Officer Jess Melanson
In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Jess Melanson,
President and Chief Operating Officer of Utilidata, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how accelerated computing and new access to data through Utilidata’s NVIDIA-based Karman module can lead to the optimized use of distributed energy resources at the distribution system level to make the delivery of electricity more reliable and affordable.
Oct 17, 2024 • 17min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 86: Schneider Electric Global Chief Technology Officer Scott Harden
In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Scott Harden, Global Chief Technology Officer for multinational digital automation and energy management provider Schneider Electric answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how accelerated computing and automation are making the management of data central to optimizing power sector decarbonization and reliability and reducing customer costs.
Oct 15, 2024 • 23min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 85: EPRI Deputy Program Manager Anna Lafoyiannis
In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Electric Power Research Institute, or EPRI, Deputy Program Manager Anna Lafoyiannis answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about EPRI’s research into existing US system operator and utility approaches to ensuring resources are adequate to meet demand spikes beyond planning expectations and how a new understanding and valuing of the flexibility of DER can be assessed as a resource adequacy tool.
Oct 11, 2024 • 22min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 84: R Street Energy & Environmental Policy Senior Fellow and former ERCOT Director Beth Garza
In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Beth Garza, a senior fellow with policy consultant R Street’s Energy and Environmental Policy Team and a former director of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas independent market
monitor, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the strengths and weaknesses of scarcity pricing as a resource adequacy solution in ERCOT’s
energy-only market and some of the adaptations added recently as reliability has failed.
Oct 8, 2024 • 23min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 83: Monitoring Analytics President Dr. Joseph Bowring
In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, economist Dr. Joseph Bowring, President of Monitoring Analytics, the independent market monitor for system operator PJM Interconnection answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how PJM’s capacity market is designed to ensure resources are adequate to meet demand spikes, what the strengths and weaknesses of the capacity market approach to resource adequacy are, and why prices in PJM’s most recent capacity auction spiked to record highs.
