United States Energy Association

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, former commissioner with the Maryland Public Service Commission Anne Hoskins, currently Senior Vice President for Energy Technology Policy and Market Development for Generac Power Systems and a member of California’s Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how to make government a way for peo...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Hannah Safford, Associate Director for Climate and Environment with the Federation of American Scientists, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about her work to make government a way for people with varying perspectives to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the gener...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast Grid Strategies Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Strategy Gretchen Kershaw answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about Volume 2 of Grid Strategies’ new “Federal Transmission Pricing” study, “Options for Ensuring Affordability and Reliability in an Era of High Load Growth.” Volume 1 Volume 2

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast Grid Strategies Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Strategy Gretchen Kershaw answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about Grid Strategies’ new “Federal Transmission Pricing, The Evolution of Current Policies and Practices, Volume 1,” and the soon-to-follow Volume 2, “Options for Ensuring Affordability and Reliability in an Era of High Loa...

The Impact of Permitting Delays in the PJM Market: Reliability, Affordability, Economic Competitiveness, and Emissions feat. Rob Homer, Head of Solutions, Government Affairs and Public Policy, Energy Exemplar and Will Polen, Senior Director, United States Energy Association at the USEA Energy Policy Forum on May 12, 2026. Check out more content from our Forum by subscribing today: https://creators...

In the episode of USEA's Global Briefing, Croatian Ambassador Pjer Šimunović broke down how Croatia transformed into a major European energy hub, pointing to the expansion of the Krk LNG terminal and new pipeline links to neighboring countries. He also highlighted growing areas for U.S. investment, from a new double taxation treaty to cutting-edge projects like deploying American Small Modular...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast Saleh ElHattab, Founder and CEO of carbon and energy management platform Gravity / industrial facility management software provider Gravity, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the cutting-edge cost-saving capabilities of Gravity’s carbon and energy management platform. This episode was sponsored by Uplight, which creates and manages capaci...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Michael Grasso, CEO and Founder of software-as-a-service provider Grid Rails answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how the demand stack concept, an approach to customer-owned distributed energy resources, can maximize flexibility and system utilization benefits to utilities, their customers and the power system. This episode was sponsored by...

In this edition of USEA's Global Briefing, the Embassy of France's Minister Counselor for economic affairs Benjamin Dubertret explores the evolving Franco-American partnership, From Lafayette to focusing on bilateral nuclear energy collaboration, maintaining state-level climate engagement, and leveraging France's 2026 G7 Presidency to address the global development finance crisis and c...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Autumn Proudlove, Managing Director for Policy and Markets with the North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the new North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center policy update, which catalogues and describes the almost 900 legislative and regulatory U.S. grid modernization policies being considere...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Audrey Zibelman, former New York Public Service Commission Chair and former CEO of the Australian Energy Market Operator, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how the concept of a utility’s demand stack can protect affordability without compromising reliability. This episode was sponsored by Uplight, which creates and manages capacity for t...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Sachu Constantine, executive director of clean energy policy advocates Vote Solar answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about Uplight’s new demand stack concept, an approach to customer-owned distributed energy resources that can maximize their benefits to utilities, their customers and the power system. This episode was sponsored by Uplight, whic...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Jonathan Hart, Policy Director with the California Solar and Storage Association answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about Uplight’s new demand stack concept, an approach to customer-owned distributed energy resources that can maximize their benefits to utilities, their customers and the power system. This episode was sponsored by Uplight, which...

In this edition of USEA's Global Briefing, Ambassador Jovita Neliupšienė explores the evolving EU-U.S. strategic partnership, focusing on stabilizing global energy security, standardizing the deployment of American Small Modular Reactors across Europe, and mobilizing the massive private investment required to bridge the productivity gap in energy and AI.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Ryan Hledik, principal with multinational business consultant The Brattle Group answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the demand stack concept, an approach to customer-owned distributed energy resources that can maximize their benefits to utilities, their customers and the power system. This episode was sponsored by Uplight, which creates an...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Sam Hartnett, Director of Market Innovation and Commercialization for energy management and demand flexibility provider Uplight, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about Uplight’s concept of the utility’s demand stack, an innovative approach to demand side management that can allow utilities and their customers to maximize the benefits of custo...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Dr. Jessica Lovering, senior fellow with the Nuclear Innovation Alliance, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the key findings in her recently released paper on emerging nuclear technologies, Right-Sizing Reactors: Balancing trade-offs between economies of scale and volume .

In this episode of USEA's Global Briefing, Mr. Zviad Gachechiladze of JSC Georgian State Electrosystem discusses how Georgia is leveraging its historic, strategic position to evolve from an energy transit hub into a primary producer of green electrons for the global market. The conversation explores critical advancements like the 1,195-kilometer Black Sea Submarine Cable project, market alignm...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Joe Perello, Founder and CEO of creator performance platform Props answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about his work to better deliver utilities’ messaging and notifications to their customers during extreme weather and other power sector threats by recruiting local media creators.

In this edition of USEA's Global Briefing Bjarni Pálsson, Executive Vice President of Wind & Geothermal at the National Power Company of Iceland explores Iceland’s transition from a renewable-heavy grid to total carbon neutrality, its role as a tech hub, and its emerging influence in the Arctic.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Ian Magruder, founder and executive director of the just-launched Utilize Coalition answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about why big clean energy names like Google, Carrier, and Renew Home have come together to advocate for more complete utilization of the existing power system to drive economic growth and protect electricity affordability. Thi...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Sachu Constantine, executive director of clean energy policy advocates Vote Solar answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about California’s strikingly successful Demand Side Grid Support VPP program, and the threatening changes to it recently proposed by California regulators. This episode is sponsored by EnergyHub. EnergyHub is helping the electri...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Brian Lusher, director for load flexibility with Duke Energy, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how Duke’s growing and increasingly valuable virtual power plant programs are providing all Duke’s customers with downward rate pressure and more reliable electricity delivery This episode is sponsored by EnergyHub. EnergyHub is helping the el...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Parth Kapadia, Co-Founder and CEO of OpenVPP, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about his concept for streamlining VPP financial transactions through tokenization using stablecoin and blockchain technologies. This episode is sponsored by EnergyHub. EnergyHub is helping the electric power industry transition from centralized, controlled, carbon...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Charlotte Meerstadt, founder and CEO of energy sector billing services provider Fram Energy, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the opportunities and complexities in handling billing, payments, and revenue collection for VPPs composed of potentially millions of distributed energy resources, the resources’ owners, their utilities, and thei...