October 24th, 2024

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Tom Mapes, Founder and President of the Digital Energy Council, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the growing importance of digital technologies and data analytics in today’s power sector.

October 22nd, 2024

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Jess Melanson, President and Chief Operating Officer of Utilidata, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how accelerated computing and new access to data through Utilidata’s NVIDIA-based Karman module can lead to the optimized use of distributed energy resources at the distribution system level to make the delivery of electricity more reliable and affordable.

October 17th, 2024

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Scott Harden, Global Chief Technology Officer for multinational digital automation and energy management provider Schneider Electric answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how accelerated computing and automation are making the management of data central to optimizing power sector decarbonization and reliability and reducing customer costs.

October 15th, 2024

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.

October 11th, 2024

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.

October 8th, 2024

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.

October 3rd, 2024

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.

October 1st, 2024

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.

September 26th, 2024

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.

September 24th, 2024

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.