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USEA President & CEO Menezes named to Bipartisan Energy Council

February 28th, 2025

USEA President & CEO Mark Menezes was named to the Bipartisan Policy Center’s recently launched Energy Advisory Council. This council aims to provide insight on key opportunities for bipartisan energy policy.

USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 117: National Rural Electric Cooperative Association VP for Grid Integration Venkat Banunarayanan

February 27th, 2025

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast episode in a continuing series on utility planning, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association VP for Grid Integration Venkat Banunarayanan answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how variable and customer-owned energy resources, rising demand, and new policy are leading to innovations in planning by member-owned electric cooperatives to enable the flexibility of customer-owned resources to help optimize affordable reliable electricity delivery.

USEA President & CEO Menezes participates in Fusion Forum Highlighting SCSP Report

February 26th, 2025

USEA President & CEO Mark W. Menezes highlighted the recent release of the Special Competitive Studies Project Commission on the Scaling of Fusion Energy report while participating in a panel at the Fusion Industry Association's Annual Policy Conference. Menezes serves on the Commission and you may read the report here.  

USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 116: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Energy Policy Researcher Guillermo Periera

February 25th, 2025

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast episode in a continuing series on utility planning, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Energy Policy Researcher Guillermo Periera answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about where and how the innovative concept of integrated distribution system planning is being used to include customer-owned distributed energy resources in utility planning to improve the delivery of more affordable, reliable electricity.

USEA Now: February 2025

February 1st, 2025
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March Virtual Press Briefing: Energy and Environment: The Trump Challenge

March 5th, 2025

Lee Zeldin, new Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has said, “It’s important for us urgently to do everything in our power to make sure Americans have the cleanest air, land, and water. That’s something that keeps me up at night."

USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 115: Battelle Energy and Resilience Division Manager Shawn Bennett

February 20th, 2025

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Battelle Energy and Resilience Division Manager Shawn Bennett answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about what to expect in power sector policy and what new breakthroughs to look for in carbon capture and carbon management technologies under the new presidential administration and congress as changing resources, spiking electricity demand, and extreme weather events add unprecedented stress to the US power system.

USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 114: GridPolicy CEO & Former FERC Chair Jon Wellinghoff

February 18th, 2025

In today’s episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on changing priorities, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chair Jon Wellinghoff, currently the CEO of consultant GridPolicy, answered questions by journalist Herman K.

USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 113: Newport Consulting Group Managing Partner Paul DeMartini

February 13th, 2025

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast episode in a continuing series on utility planning, Newport Consulting Group Managing Partner Paul DeMartini, a leading advisor to utilities, regulators and the Department of Energy on distribution system business, policy, and technology, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the potential of new paradigms in utility system planning to address the impacts of variable and customer-owned energy resources, rising demand, and new policy and to optimize the delivery of affordable reliable electricity.

USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 112: Association of Edison Illuminating Companies VP of Technical Strategy Elizabeth Cook

February 11th, 2025

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast episode in a continuing series on utility planning, Elizabeth Cook, VP of Technical Strategy with the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about integrated distributed system planning, the newest step toward a utility planning paradigm to optimize the power sector’s delivery of affordable reliable electricity.

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