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.

June 18th, 2024

In this final episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on energy storage, Rob Piconi, CEO and Board Chair of Energy Vault, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about his company’s unique multiple technology business model based on battery energy storage systems, gravity energy storage, and green hydrogen and about his perspective on the future of the energy storage sector and these technologies.

June 14th, 2024

In this final episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on energy storage, Paul Jacob, CEO of Rye Development, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how closed loop pumped storage hydropower, or PSH, fits into the broad spectrum of mechanical energy storage, the enormous capacity potential of PSH, where it is already in use, what its cost benefit economics are, and why closed loop technology solves some of conventional hydropower’s environmental concerns.

June 12th, 2024

In episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast’s series on energy storage, John O’Donnell, CEO of Rondo Energy, answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the thermal energy storage technologies that capture and store heat, the mechanics of thermal energy storage and Rondo’s “heat battery,” about why this concept may be vital to eliminating carbon emissions, and what may be just over the horizon for Rondo and other thermal energy storage technologies.