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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USEA's Global Briefing series promotes international voices and ideas in the Energy Sector.
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Apr 2, 2024 • 18min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 32: DOE OTT Director of Market Analysis Stephen Hendrickson
In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Stephen Hendrickson, head of the DOE Office of Technology Transitions market analysis activities answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how the Biden administration intends to turn the potential of the many types of long duration energy storage technologies into
market products that can protect power sector reliability.
Apr 1, 2024 • 19min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 31: Former FERC Commissioner Nora Mead Brownell
In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, former FERC Commissioner Nora Mead Brownell answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the history of smart meter deployments, the illusory value of an AMI 2.0 deployment, and the customer savings and increased reliability and resilience power system operators can realize by turning instead to AMX.
Mar 29, 2024 • 57min
USEA Power Sector Podcast 30:EPRI President & CEO Arshad Mansoor & USEA President & CEO Mark Menezes
In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Dr. Arshad Mansoor, President and CEO at Electric Power Research Institute, and Mark Menezes, President and CEO of the United States Energy Association, answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the profound changes coming to the power sector in the U.S. and around world due to electrification-driven load growth, policy-driven decarbonization, and the urgencies of climate change.
Mar 29, 2024 • 17min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 29: NCCETC Assoc. Director for Policy and Markets Autumn Proudlove
In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center Associate Director for Policy and Markets Autumn Proudlove answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the changes proposed in 2023 to modernize and make more resilient the nation’s 100-year-old power system with virtual power plants, new incentives, tests of innovative technologies, and new rate designs and how state regulators are processing them.
Mar 29, 2024 • 21min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 28: Uplight Chief Market Innovation Officer Hannah Bascom
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 28: In Part 4 of a series on distribution system resources and reliability, Uplight Chief Market Innovation Officer Hannah Bascom describes how emerging aggregations of customer-owned generation and smart energy management can he used as power system resources.
Mar 29, 2024 • 21min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 27: The Ad Hoc Group Principal Brian Kooiman
In Part 3 of a series on distribution system resources and reliability, The Ad Hoc Group Principal Brian Kooiman answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the role of demand side flexibility in the U.S. power sector resource mix and reforms are urgently needed from federal and state regulators to allow customer-owned resources to realize their potential to improve electricity delivery reliability, reduce customer bills, and achieve decarbonization goals.
Mar 28, 2024 • 15min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 26: Berkeley Lab Energy Policy Researcher Natalie Mims Frick
In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast Brief, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Energy Policy Researcher and national authority on energy efficiency and demand side management Natalie Mims Frick answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about how the new concept of non-pipeline alternatives, or NPAs, can improve utility planning, lower customer costs, and protect natural gas providers over the long term.
Mar 28, 2024 • 22min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 25: Energy Policy Design Institute Executive Director Ted Ko
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.
Mar 28, 2024 • 17min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 24: OhmConnect Texas Advisor Don Whaley
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.
Mar 28, 2024 • 14min
USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 23: Edison Energy Director of Clean Energy Origination Adam Cherry
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.
