USEA's Power Sector Podcast

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Ted Ko, Executive Director, Energy Policy Design Institute, answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the state and federal policies that will realize the full value of energy storage and lead to an energy storage market, and about where the best policies are being developed.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast Brief, OhmConnect Energy Texas Advisor Don Whaley answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how the Texas deregulated energy market is addressing its growing reliability concerns by integrating customer owned distributed energy resources as demand response products.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Edison Energy Director of Clean Energy Origination Adam Cherry took questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the latest clean energy marketplace trends in renewable energy project prices and growth.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Grid Strategies Vice President Michael Goggin answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about how improved proactive planning and cost sharing for inter-regional transmission interconnections to optimize resource sharing between MISO and PJM can save consumers over $15 billion in reduced needs for fossil fuel generation and deliver ongoing savings of over $1 billion per year by allowing more use of lower cost renewable generation.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast Mark Lauby, Senior Vice President and Chief Engineer for the North American Electric Reliability Corporation took questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish and offered eye-opening insights into the need to integrate grid forming inverter technologies into the power system as levels of predictable but variable renewables grow.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Launch Committee Co-Chair for the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative Pam Sporborg answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the newest efforts to design a governance structure that can unite Western power providers in a Regional Transmission Organization and to make more efficient use of the West’s abundant clean energy resources to protect electric system reliability and lower customer costs.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Western Power Pool President and CEO Sarah Edmonds answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the key role the WPP’s Western Resource Adequacy Program can take in expanding reliable electricity delivery throughout the West and laying the groundwork for wider regional coordination.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast Brief, Colorado State Senator Chris Hansen answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the opportunities and challenges for Colorado in the initiatives by the Southwest Power Pool and the California Independent System Operator to build a regional energy market and transmission system across the West.

In today’s podcasts, Kansas Corporation Commission Chair Andrew French answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the Kansas perspective on the potential of a Western regional transmission system and energy market.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Holy Cross Energy President and CEO Bryan Hannegan answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about how 21st Century power system reliability will be protected by a calibrated combination of bulk system power from regional energy market and transmission systems and from local and customer-owned distribution system resources.