July 25th, 2024

In today’s segment of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on wildfires, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or CalFire, Staff Chief for Prescribed Fire and Environmental Protection Len Nielson answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the too-often overlooked wildfire mitigation strategy of prescribed, or controlled, burns and about they have been demonstrated to reduce the extent and impacts of the growing threat of wildfires.

July 23rd, 2024

In today’s episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on wildfires, University of Texas at Austin Professor Joshua D. Rhodes answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about about Texas wildfires, including the February 2024 Panhandle fire, the biggest ever in Texas, and how state policymakers can support wildfire prediction, prevention, and mitigation to protect electricity providers and their customers.

July 18th, 2024

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Gitane De Silva, former CEO of the Canada Energy Regulator and founder and principal of public policy consultancy GD Strategic, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about Canada’s approach to the fast-growing costs and impacts of wildfires, and how those approaches might inform or compliment U.S. decisions.

July 16th, 2024

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast series on wildfires, President Ryan Flynn and Vice President of Transmission and Distribution Operations Allen Berreth of Pacific Power answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the impacts and costs of wildfires in the Pacific Northwest, what those costs and impacts mean for electric utilities, and how electric utilities can take steps to protect their customers.

July 11th, 2024

In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on wildfires, Commissioner Letha Tawney of the Oregon Public Utilities Commission answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how policymakers and the power sector can address the impacts and costs of wildfires and protect electricity customers from the devastation and liability of the widening challenge of wildfires.

July 9th, 2024

In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on wildfires, Strategen Group Director of Regulatory Innovation Jennifer Potter, who spent 2018 to 2022 as a Commissioner with the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the impacts and costs of Hawaii’s devastating Lahaina wildfire, how those impacts and costs have affected Hawaiian Electric customers and the Lahaina community, who in Hawaii should be responsible for them and how the question of responsibility for wildfires might be addressed nationally.

July 2nd, 2024

In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on wildfires, Edison Electric Institute Executive Vice President, Clean Energy, and General Counsel Emily Sanford Fisher answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the growing impacts and costs of wildfires on electric utilities and their customers and about how and why to distribute those costs more equitably.

June 28th, 2024

In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on wildfires, University of California, Berkeley, Economist Severin Borenstein answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how policymakers and the power sector can address the impacts of wildfires and protect electricity customers from the burden of wildfire costs.

June 26th, 2024

USEA Power Sector Podcast Sector Podcast 55: In this opening episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on wildfires, Stanford University’s Michael Wara answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how policymakers and the power sector can equitably address impacts and costs of wildfires and protect electricity customers from the burden of wildfire costs.

June 21st, 2024

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Ben Brown, CEO of Renew Home, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the nuts and bolts of his Google and OhmConnect backed company’s giant step toward bringing virtual power plants to market.