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.

September 19th, 2024

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.

September 17th, 2024

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.

September 12th, 2024

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.

September 10th, 2024

In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on the carbon challenge, CarbonQuest Senior Vice President for Strategy, Market Development, and Sustainability Anna Pavlova answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about CarbonQuest’s unique modular direct air capture system that removes carbon emissions from fossil fuel sources used to power buildings and works with partners to recycle that carbon in marketable products like concrete, jet fuel, and chemicals.

September 6th, 2024

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Carbon180 Director of Technology Policy Kajsa Hendrickson answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about technologies for direct air capture of carbon dioxide, the progress in deploying those technologies, some of the challenges to their deployment, and the policies that can expand the capture of CO2 to impact scale.

September 4th, 2024

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Senior Advisor Noah Deich of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, or FECM answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about FECM’s just updated 10 principles aimed at encouraging carbon management developers and stakeholders to pursue the highest levels of safety, environmental stewardship, accountability, community engagement, and societal benefits.

August 29th, 2024

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Avnos CEO and Founder Will Kain answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the need for direct air capture of carbon dioxide, its current status, and its future potential and challenges, and how the Avnos hybrid direct air capture technology offers an alternative that also captures water.

August 27th, 2024

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, ClearPath Senior Program Director for Carbon Management and Science Hillary O’Brien answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the need for direct air capture of carbon dioxide, its potential, its costs, and its future challenges.