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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Jun 14, 2024 • 17min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 52: Rye Development CEO Paul Jacob
In this final episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on energy storage, Paul Jacob, CEO of Rye Development, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how closed loop pumped storage hydropower, or PSH, fits into the broad spectrum of mechanical energy storage, the enormous capacity potential of PSH, where it is already in use, what its cost benefit economics are, and why closed loop technology solves some of conventional hydropower’s environmental concerns.
Jun 12, 2024 • 20min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 51: Rondo Energy CEO John O'Donnell
In episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast’s series on energy storage, John O’Donnell, CEO of Rondo Energy, answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the thermal energy storage technologies that
capture and store heat, the mechanics of thermal energy storage and Rondo’s “heat battery,” about why this concept may be vital to eliminating carbon emissions, and what may be just over the horizon for Rondo and other thermal energy storage technologies.
Jun 4, 2024 • 19min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 50: Schneider Electric Clean Tech Product and Business Development Lead Mimi Gupta
In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on battery storage, Mimi Gupta, the Clean Tech Product and Business Development lead for Schneider Electric answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the progress toward market viability of the just-emerging vehicle to home, or V2H, and vehicle to grid, or V2G, and vehicle to load, or V2L, concepts that promise to enhance the value proposition of electric vehicles by using the stored energy in their batteries for backup power and power system services.
Jun 4, 2024 • 23min
USEA Power Sector Podcast 49: Form Energy Co-Founder & CEO Mateo Jaramillo
In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on battery storage, Form Energy Co-Founder and CEO Mateo Jaramillo answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the progress of its unique iron-air Long Duration Energy Storage battery chemistry and how it is moving toward market viability at scale.
May 29, 2024 • 16min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 48: BCI President & Executive Director Roger Miksad
In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on battery storage, Roger Miksad, President and Executive Director of Battery Council International, answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about how current lead battery types, durations, and applications fit into today’s conversation about battery storage, about what makes just emerging advanced lead batteries advanced, and about how lead batteries are working to supply low cost longer duration energy storage.
May 29, 2024 • 15min
USEA Power Sector Podcast 47: Long Duration Energy Storage Council CEO Julia Souder
In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on energy storage, Julia Souder, CEO of the Long Duration Energy Storage Council and Chair of the Global Renewables Alliance answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about what LDES technologies are, the importance of their role in the transition to clean energy, how these technologies are likely to progress, and the policies that can bring them to market.
May 23, 2024 • 17min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 46: GridStor VP for Policy and Strategy Jason Burwen
In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on battery storage, GridStor Vice President for Policy and Strategy Jason Burwen answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the critical next steps to advance utility-scale battery storage at the federal, state, and merchant market levels.
May 23, 2024 • 17min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 45: Fluence SVP and President, Americas John Zahurancik
In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on battery storage, Fluence SVP and President, Americas John Zahurancik, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about trends in the utility-scale battery storage industry, including emerging technologies that turn batteries into transmission assets, about what IRA tax credits mean for the industry, and about siting and permitting challenges and potential solutions for utility-scale storage.
May 15, 2024 • 20min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 44: ACP Senior Director of Energy Storage Noah Roberts
In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Noah Roberts, Senior Director of Energy Storage with the American Clean Power Association, kicked off the podcast’s series on energy storage by answering questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the recent growth, growth forecast, and drivers of US energy storage, the sector’s price trends, the barriers storage still faces, and the historic projects now installed and about to prove the value of storage in stabilizing power system reliability.
May 15, 2024 • 19min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 43: DOE Program Lead Sean Porse
In this final episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on geothermal, Research Geologist Sean Porse, the Data, Modeling, and Analysis Program lead for DOE’s Geothermal Technologies Office answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the just released DOE Pathways to Commercial Liftoff of Next-Generation Geothermal Power study, and why new closed loop and enhanced geothermal technologies could increase the industry’s potential at competitive prices and allow new communities to be part of the clean energy transition.
