USEA's Power Sector Podcast

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Grid Strategies Founder and President Rob Gramlich answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the findings of his new analysis of 29 major transmission expansion projects that identifies the concrete benefits of coordination, collaboration, and open information sharing in transmission planning and development, practices that have reduced costs that added up to as much as several billion dollars.

USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 34: In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Elliot Mainzer, President and CEO of the California Independent System Operator, answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about California’s new transmission planning, its approvals for new generation and new high voltage merchant transmission, its efforts to further interagency collaborations, and its cutting edge implementation of FERC Order 2222.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Department of Energy Market Analyst Katheryn Scott answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the commercial potential, needed investment, and market challenges and solutions to what may be biggest challenge to achieving net zero emissions, decarbonizing the U.S. industrial sector.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Stephen Hendrickson, head of the DOE Office of Technology Transitions market analysis activities answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how the Biden administration intends to turn the potential of the many types of long duration energy storage technologies into market products that can protect power sector reliability.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, former FERC Commissioner Nora Mead Brownell answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the history of smart meter deployments, the illusory value of an AMI 2.0 deployment, and the customer savings and increased reliability and resilience power system operators can realize by turning instead to AMX.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Dr. Arshad Mansoor, President and CEO at Electric Power Research Institute, and Mark Menezes, President and CEO of the United States Energy Association, answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the profound changes coming to the power sector in the U.S. and around world due to electrification-driven load growth, policy-driven decarbonization, and the urgencies of climate change.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center Associate Director for Policy and Markets Autumn Proudlove answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the changes proposed in 2023 to modernize and make more resilient the nation’s 100-year-old power system with virtual power plants, new incentives, tests of innovative technologies, and new rate designs and how state regulators are processing them.

USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 28: In Part 4 of a series on distribution system resources and reliability, Uplight Chief Market Innovation Officer Hannah Bascom describes how emerging aggregations of customer-owned generation and smart energy management can he used as power system resources.

In Part 3 of a series on distribution system resources and reliability, The Ad Hoc Group Principal Brian Kooiman answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the role of demand side flexibility in the U.S. power sector resource mix and reforms are urgently needed from federal and state regulators to allow customer-owned resources to realize their potential to improve electricity delivery reliability, reduce customer bills, and achieve decarbonization goals.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast Brief, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Energy Policy Researcher and national authority on energy efficiency and demand side management Natalie Mims Frick answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about how the new concept of non-pipeline alternatives, or NPAs, can improve utility planning, lower customer costs, and protect natural gas providers over the long term.