March 27th, 2025
In this final episode in the USEA Power Sector Podcast’s series on utility planning practices, Regulatory Assistance Project Senior Associate Mark LeBel answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the just-emerging understanding of the value in integrating electricity and natural gas resources in planning.
March 25th, 2025
In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast episode in a continuing series on utility planning, Energy and Environmental Economics Senior Partner Arne Olson answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how variable and customer-owned energy resources, rising demand, and new policies are driving the need to move beyond siloed bulk and distribution system planning to the new concept of integrated system planning to optimize the use of all available resources.
March 20th, 2025
In today’s episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on changing priorities, National Electrical Manufacturers Association Government Relations Director Peter Ferrell answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the increasingly urgent need to deal with the electric transformer supply chain to protect reliability and resilience as new resources, spiking electricity demand, and extreme weather events add stress to the power sector.
March 18th, 2025
In today’s episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on changing energy policy priorities, Carbon Capture Coalition Executive Director Jessie Stolark answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about what to expect in power sector policy under the new presidential administration and congress on tax credits and other policies and incentives for carbon capture technologies and carbon management technologies as changing resources, spiking electricity demand, and extreme weather events add unprecedented stress to the US power system.
March 13th, 2025
In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast episode in a continuing series on utility planning, Energy Systems Integration Group Executive Director Debra Lew answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how variable and customer-owned energy resources, rising demand, and new policies are moving the power sector beyond traditional integrated resource planning and innovations in integrated distribution system planning to the new concept of integrated system planning to optimize the use of all available resources.
March 11th, 2025
In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast episode in a continuing series on utility planning, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Researcher Grace Relf answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about integrated system planning, the newest step forward in supporting utility efforts to use the full spectrum of options to manage the impacts of variable and customer-owned energy resources, new demand, and new policy on the power sector.
March 6th, 2025
In today’s episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on changing energy policy priorities under the new presidential administration and congress, Rob Gramlich, Founder and President of power sector consultant Grid Strategies, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about certainties and uncertainties around existing and new incentives and approaches to generation and transmission development as changing resources, spiking electricity demand, and extreme weather events add unprecedented stress to the US power system.
March 4th, 2025
In today’s episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast’s series on changing energy policy priorities, Nuclear Innovation Alliance Research Director Dr. Patrick White answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about what to expect in power sector policy impacting advanced nuclear 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.
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.
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.
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