USEA's Power Sector Podcast

In today’s podcast, former Speaker of the Missouri House, former Chair of the Missouri PSC, and long-time regional transmission advocate Steve Gaw answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the key considerations for power providers in choosing whether to participate in a Western regional transmission system and energy market.

In today’s podcast, Berkshire Hathaway Energy Senior Vice President, Public Policy, Pat Reiten answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about what Pacific Power wanted from its early work on a real-time Western energy imbalance market, what it wants from the emerging day-ahead energy market, and what a full regional transmission system and energy market could mean for the West.

This week's Power Sector Podcast! In Part 2 of the Western Regionalization series, NV Energy Federal Energy Policy Director David Rubin describes the opportunities and challenges in a regional market.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chair Jon Wellinghoff faced questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the importance and challenges in developing a Western regional transmission system and electricity market. The discussion covered efforts by the Southwest Power Pool and the California Independent System Operator to move from real-time markets to day-ahead markets in anticipation of full regionalization.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, former FERC Chair Neil Chatterjee answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about expected impacts of the just-passed FERC Order 2023 to streamline transmission interconnection queues and about his expectations for FERC’s major initiative to improve regulatory guidelines governing regional transmission planning.

In episode 10 of the United States Energy Association Power Sector Podcast, Three Rivers Energy Development Co-Founder Robert Mitchell, an electric transmission development pioneer, answered questions about Three Rivers’ proposed Pacific Transmission Expansion Project. He described how regulatory complexities have delayed a 2,000 MW, high-voltage, subsea transmission line that could deliver enormous offshore wind and solar resources to Los Angeles and other demand centers.

In episode 9 of the USEA Power Sector Podcast, Department of Energy, Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, Hydrogen Hubs Program Manager Crystal Farmer faced questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the department’s $7 billion dollar funding of clean hydrogeh hubs across the country. Farmer explained what DOE expects from its investments and how it will monitor the hubs to ensure the emergence of an emissions-free hydrogen marketplace.

In episode 8 of the USEA Power Sector Podcast, Regulatory Assistance Project Senior Associate Mark LeBel faced questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about a new paper describing performance-based regulation, a new utility business model that links compensation with how successfully utilities achieve policy goals while protecting utility financial integrity.

In episode 7 of the USEA Power System Podcast, Xcel Energy Vice President Alice Jackson faced questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about how Xcel plans to reliably reduce use of traditional resources and and introduce new technologies and data analytics to meet growing electrification loads and spiking demand peaks with the resources of a 21st Century power sector.

In episode 6 of the USEA Power Sector Podcast, Brattle Group Principal Ryan Hledik faced questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about new approaches to address the growing use of electricity in buildings. He described research in a new Department of Energy paper that shows integrating flexible distributed energy resources and energy efficiency into power system operations can affordably protect reliability without using fossil fuels.