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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May 10, 2024 • 18min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 42: EnergySource Minerals Chief Development Officer David Deak
In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on geothermal, EnergySource Minerals Chief Development Officer David Deak answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the opportunities the US cannot refuse of combining 24/7 geothermal energy production for reliable electricity generation with harvesting a potentially invaluable domestic lithium supply from geothermal brine.
May 8, 2024 • 19min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 41: Managing Principal Investigator for the University of Utah Dr. Joseph Moore
In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast geothermal series, Dr. Joseph Moore, Managing Principal
Investigator for the University of Utah and DOE Utah Forge demonstration project, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about what the research project has discovered about the enormous potential of Enhanced Systems to make geothermal energy a reliable, clean, and widely accessible source of power generation.
May 2, 2024 • 20min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 40: Ormat Technologies VP of Business Development Paul Thomsen
In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast geothermal series, Paul Thomsen, Ormat Technologies Vice President of Business Development, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the present and future of conventional and advanced geothermal technologies as seen by one of the most successful geothermal owner-operators in the US and the world.
May 2, 2024 • 13min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 39: Geothermal Rising Executive Director Bryant Jones
In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Bryant Jones, Executive Director of Geothermal Rising, kicked off the podcast’s series on geothermal energy by answering questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the rising potential of geothermal energy as a source of US power system reliability and as a domestic source of lithium and other minerals critical to the energy transition.
Apr 23, 2024 • 21min
USEA Power Sector Podcast 38: LBNL Scientist and Energy Policy Researcher Joseph Rand
In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Scientist and Energy Policy Researcher Joseph Rand of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the lab’s recent update on generation queues, which shows almost 1500 MW of proposed clean energy generation waiting to be connected to U.S. transmission systems, the cause of the backlog, and what regulators are doing about it.
Apr 23, 2024 • 17min
USEA Power Sector Podcast 37: WATT Coalition Executive Director Julia Selker
In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast, WATT Coalition Executive Director Julia Selker answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about how grid enhancing technologies, or GETs, and transmission rewiring, or reconductoring, can significantly streamline the flow of electricity through the power system as a cost-effective bridge to the availability of the new transmission development critical to meeting US climate and energy goals.
Apr 17, 2024 • 15min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 36: VP for Offshore Wind at ACP Anne Reynolds
In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Anne Reynolds, vice president for offshore wind with ACP, answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the emergence of offshore wind as a major factor in the US power mix, the obstacles it currently faces, and how it plans to face down those obstacles.
Editorial note: This podcast was recorded before Orsted renewed its commitment to the Ocean Wind 1 and 2 projects.
Apr 17, 2024 • 18min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 35: Grid Strategies LLC Founder & President Rob Gramlich
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.
Apr 10, 2024 • 19min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 34: California Independent System Operator President & CEO Elliot Mainzer
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.
Apr 9, 2024 • 17min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 33: DOE OTT Market Analyst Katheryn Scott
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.
