March 13th, 2024

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Dr. Arshad Mansoor, President and CEO at Electric Power Research Institute, and Mark Menezes, President and CEO of the United States Energy Association, answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the profound changes coming to the power sector in the U.S. and around world due to electrification-driven load growth, policy-driven decarbonization, and the urgencies of climate change.

March 13th, 2024

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center Associate Director for Policy and Markets Autumn Proudlove answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the changes proposed in 2023 to modernize and make more resilient the nation’s 100-year-old power system with virtual power plants, new incentives, tests of innovative technologies, and new rate designs and how state regulators are processing them.

March 11th, 2024

USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 28: In Part 4 of a series on distribution system resources and reliability, Uplight Chief Market Innovation Officer Hannah Bascom describes how emerging aggregations of customer-owned generation and smart energy management can he used as power system resources

March 11th, 2024

In Part 3 of a series on distribution system resources and reliability, The Ad Hoc Group Principal Brian Kooiman answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the role of demand side flexibility in the U.S. power sector resource mix and reforms are urgently needed from federal and state regulators to allow customer-owned resources to realize their potential to improve electricity delivery reliability, reduce customer bills, and achieve decarbonization goals.

March 7th, 2024

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast Brief, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Energy Policy Researcher and national authority on energy efficiency and demand side management Natalie Mims Frick answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about how the new concept of non-pipeline alternatives, or NPAs, can improve utility planning, lower customer costs, and protect natural gas providers over the long term.

March 6th, 2024

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Ted Ko, Exec Director, Energy Policy Design Institute, answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the state and federal policies that will realize the full value of energy storage and lead to an energy storage market, and about where the best policies are being developed.

February 28th, 2024

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast Brief, OhmConnect Energy Texas Advisor Don Whaley answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how the Texas deregulated energy market is addressing its growing reliability concerns by integrating customer owned distributed energy resources as demand response products.

February 28th, 2024

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Edison Energy Director of Clean Energy Origination Adam Cherry took questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the latest clean energy marketplace trends in renewable energy project prices and growth.

February 21st, 2024

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Grid Strategies Vice President Michael Goggin answered questions from journalist Herman K.

February 21st, 2024

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast Mark Lauby, Senior Vice President and Chief Engineer for the North American Electric Reliability Corporation took questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish and offered eye-opening insights into the need to integrate grid forming inverter technologies into the power system as levels of predictable but variable renewables grow.