USEA's Power Sector Podcast

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Electric Power Research Institute, or EPRI, Deputy Program Manager Anna Lafoyiannis answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about EPRI’s research into existing US system operator and utility approaches to ensuring resources are adequate to meet demand spikes beyond planning expectations and how a new understanding and valuing of the flexibility of DER can be assessed as a resource adequacy tool.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Beth Garza, a senior fellow with policy consultant R Street’s Energy and Environmental Policy Team and a former director of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas independent market monitor, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the strengths and weaknesses of scarcity pricing as a resource adequacy solution in ERCOT’s energy-only market and some of the adaptations added recently as reliability has failed.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, economist Dr. Joseph Bowring, President of Monitoring Analytics, the independent market monitor for system operator PJM Interconnection answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how PJM’s capacity market is designed to ensure resources are adequate to meet demand spikes, what the strengths and weaknesses of the capacity market approach to resource adequacy are, and why prices in PJM’s most recent capacity auction spiked to record highs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.