May 2nd, 2024

In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast geothermal series, Paul Thomsen, Ormat Technologies Vice President of Business Development, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the present and future of conventional and advanced geothermal technologies as seen by one of the most successful geothermal owner-operators in the US and the world.

May 2nd, 2024

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Bryant Jones, Executive Director of Geothermal Rising, kicked off the podcast’s series on geothermal energy by answering questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the rising potential of geothermal energy as a source of US power system reliability and as a domestic source of lithium and other minerals critical to the energy transition.

April 26th, 2024

In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Scientist and Energy Policy Researcher Joseph Rand of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the lab’s recent update on generation queues, which shows almost 1500 MW of proposed clean energy generation waiting to be connected to U.S. transmission systems, the cause of the backlog, and what regulators are doing about it.

April 26th, 2024

In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast, WATT Coalition Executive Director Julia Selker answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about how grid enhancing technologies, or GETs, and transmission rewiring, or reconductoring, can significantly streamline the flow of electricity through the power system as a cost-effective bridge to the availability of the new transmission development critical to meeting US climate and energy goals.

April 17th, 2024

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Anne Reynolds, vice president for offshore wind with the American Clean Power Association, answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the emergence of offshore wind as a major factor in the US power mix, the obstacles it currently faces, and how it plans to face down those obstacles.

April 17th, 2024

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Grid Strategies Founder and President Rob Gramlich answered questions from journalist Herman K.

April 12th, 2024

 In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Elliot Mainzer, President and CEO of the California Independent System Operator, answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about California’s new transmission planning, its approvals for new generation and new high voltage merchant transmission, its efforts to further interagency collaborations, and its cutting edge implementation of FERC Order 2222.

April 12th, 2024

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Department of Energy Market Analyst Katheryn Scott answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the commercial potential, needed investment, and market challenges and solutions to what may be biggest challenge to achieving net zero emissions, decarbonizing the U.S. industrial sector.

April 2nd, 2024

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Stephen Hendrickson, head of the DOE Office of Technology Transitions market analysis team answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how the Biden administration intends to turn the potential of the many types of long duration energy storage technologies into market products that can protect power sector reliability.

April 1st, 2024

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, former FERC Commissioner Nora Mead Brownell answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the history of smart meter deployments, the illusory value of an AMI 2.0 deployment, and the customer savings and increased reliability and resilience power system operators can realize by turning instead to AMX.