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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Oct 3, 2024 • 23min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 82: NP Energy Consultant Nick Pappas
In today’s episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on resource adequacy, Nick Pappas, head of independent power sector consultant NP Energy answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the strengths and weaknesses of California’s resource adequacy requirements, how they have been expanded, and how they might be improved.
Oct 1, 2024 • 26min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 81: Former Biden Administration Director for Clean Energy Tanuj Deora
In today’s episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on resource adequacy, Tanuj Deora, former Biden administration Director for Clean Energy in the Executive Office of the President answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the three primary approaches by US system operators and utilities to ensuring resources are adequate to meet new demand spikes and his ideas for valuing flexibility and DER to improve and lower the costs for resource adequacy.
Sep 26, 2024 • 25min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 80: Grid Strategies Founder & President Rob Gramlich
In today’s opening episode the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on resource adequacy, Rob Gramlich, Founder and President of power sector consultant Grid Strategies answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the 3 basic approaches to resource adequacy currently used by US system operators, resource adequacy requirements, capacity markets, and scarcity pricing, about some of the strengths and weaknesses of each, and about how they are evolving.
Sep 24, 2024 • 18min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 79: Topsoe Senior Marketing Manager for Corporate Strategy Sylvain Verdier
In today’s final episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on the carbon challenge, Sylvain Verdier, Senior Marketing Manager for Corporate Strategy with Topsoe answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about ways the aviation industry can use battery electric technologies, derivatives of clean hydrogen, bio-renewable resources, or waste materials to address the aviation industry’s emissions and simultaneously meet the expected accelerating demand for air transport.
Sep 19, 2024 • 19min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 78: Project Canary Co-Founder & CEO Will Foiles
In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Will Foiles, Co-founder and CEO of Project Canary, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the growing challenge of methane leakage, where the greatest concerns are, how new tools and science-based metrics can be used to address methane leaks, and what policies are needed to get the job done.
Sep 17, 2024 • 20min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 77: Climate Economist & Attorney Danny Cullenward
In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, climate economist and attorney Danny Cullenward answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how voluntary carbon offsets have failed to accomplish what advocates hoped they would and how better investments can be made simply recognizing their contribution to emissions reduction.
Sep 12, 2024 • 18min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 76: Carbon Upcycling Technologies CEO Apoorv Sinha
In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on the carbon challenge, Carbon Upcycling Technologies CEO Apoorv Sinha answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the challenges and opportunities in currently emerging materials science technologies to remove climate crisis-aggravating carbon from solid waste and use it in cost-competitive marketable solutions to meet the carbon challenge.
Sep 10, 2024 • 19min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 75: CarbonQuest Senior Vice President for Strategy, Market Development, and Sustainability Anna Pavlova
In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on the carbon challenge, CarbonQuest Senior Vice President for Strategy, Market Development, and Sustainability Anna Pavlova answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about CarbonQuest’s unique
modular direct air capture system that removes carbon emissions from fossil fuel sources used to power buildings and works with partners to recycle that carbon in marketable products like concrete, jet fuel, and chemicals.
Sep 6, 2024 • 21min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 74: Carbon180 Director of Technology Policy Kajsa Hendrickson
In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Carbon180 Director of Technology Policy Kajsa Hendrickson answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about technologies for direct air capture of carbon dioxide, the progress in deploying those technologies, some of the challenges to their deployment, and the policies that can expand the capture of CO2 to impact scale.
Sep 4, 2024 • 23min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 73: DOE FECM Senior Advisor Noah Deich
In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Senior Advisor Noah Deich of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, or FECM answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about FECM’s just updated 10 principles aimed at encouraging carbon management developers and stakeholders to pursue the highest levels of safety, environmental stewardship, accountability, community engagement, and societal benefits.
