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Welcome to the Energy Central Podcast Network—your ultimate resource for the biggest ideas, boldest perspectives, and best insights from across the electric power industry. We publish… Power Perspectives. From CEOs of major utilities to founders of energy tech startups pushing the envelope, Power Perspectives curates the news, thought leaders, and big picture conversations most important to modern power professionals—every week on Tuesdays. The Watt & Why. Dive deep into utility business strategies, straight from the minds of the leaders deciding what comes next. Host Mike Smith leverages his...

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8: ‘Demand Response & Flexibility, 2020 Predictions, & More’ with Matt Duesterberg of OhmConnect 08.03.2020 30:28

This week on the Energy Central Power Perspectives™ Podcast, we dive into the world of on demand load shifting and the business model it supports outside of the utility space. The most typical load management strategies in the utility space involve large customers in the commercial and industrial sectors, but Matt Duesterberg and his fellow Co-Founders realized that, in aggregate, residential cust...

7: ‘Small Modular Nuclear, Zinc Air Batteries, & Microgrids—Oh My!’ Gary Hilberg Discusses All 23.02.2020 31:52

We’re thrilled to bring you this next episode of the Energy Central Power Perspectives™ Podcast, featuring another seasoned veteran of Energy Central’s network of experts. Gary Hilberg is the President of Continuum Energy and serves as an Energy Central expert in the Clean Power Group, the Digital Utility Group, and the Energy Efficiency Group. His expertise indeed stretches wide and deep, and his...

6: 'Transforming ISO New England to Be the Capacity Market of Tomorrow' with Richard Brooks 09.02.2020 33:00

After a brief hiatus, the Energy Central Power Perspectives™ Podcast returns with an innovative topic that one of our most forward-looking Energy Central experts will guide us on. As the nation's grid gets more distributed, has an increasing amount of renewables plugged into it, and experiences more and more pressure from customers, regulators, investors, and other stakeholders to simultaneously a...

5: ‘Creating a Smarter Utility with Geo-Centric Planning’ with Linda Stevens of 51by1 21.01.2020 26:17

In this next episode of the Energy Central Power Perspectives™ Podcast, it’s time for us to dive into the world of how smart and digital technologies are transforming the industry, rendering it nearly unrecognizable from the utility sector of not too long ago. While there are many pockets of smart utilities in which we can dive, in this episode we’ll be guided by Linda Stevens, Co-Founder of 51by1...

4: ‘California, Wildfires, and PG&E: The Neverending Utility Story’ with John Benson 13.01.2020 26:27

In the fourth episode of the Energy Central Power Perspectives™ Podcast, we tackle one of the most high profile and complex issues facing the utility sector today, and that’s the ongoing situation in California as PG&E, the state and local governments, and residents continue to deal with the aftermath of raging wildfires in 2017 and 2018. As this situation continues to evolve with new twists and t...

3: ‘Aligning Energy Leadership to Confront Climate Disruption’ with Rami Reshef of GenCell Energy 07.01.2020 18:58

The ‘Energy Central Insights™ Podcast’ is kicking off 2020 by diving into the most critical question to ask at this crucial juncture for the utility sector: “How can we align the leadership of the global energy industry to accelerate the end to climate disruption?” That was the question posed by Rami Reshef, CEO of GenCell Energy, to the Energy Central community recently, which spurred fantastic d...

2: ‘Waterskiing with Churchill’ & Lessons in Utility Leadership with Lincoln Bleveans 16.12.2019 27:31

We welcome you to our second episode of the ‘Energy Central Power Perspectives™ Podcast,’ this time joined by Lincoln Bleveans, the Assistant General Manager of Power Supply at Burbank Water and Power. Lincoln’s career has taken him all over the energy industry and provided him with a unique perspective of what it takes to be a strong and effective leader in the utility sector specifically. Lincol...

1: Dan's Nuclear Chili Recipe with Dan Yurman, Nuclear Power Expert 09.12.2019 27:50

In the first-ever episode of the ‘Energy Central Power Perspectives™ Podcast,’ we have the pleasure of having as our guest one of Energy Central’s most prolific and respected community members, Dan Yurman. Dan is a nuclear energy guru, with a career that’s spanned multiple continents over the course of 40 years, with stops at Idaho National Lab, Bechtel, Rockwell Automation, and NASA. Today, Dan a...