United States Energy Association

In today’s episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast’s series on wildfires, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association CEO Duane Highley answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the impacts and costs of wildfires in the West, what those costs and impacts mean for electric cooperative utilities, and how electric co-ops can take steps to protect their customers.

In today’s episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast’s series on wildfires, Commissioner Ann Rendahl of the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about her observations from the recent Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners summit on the rapidly growing West-wide threat of wildfires and their impacts and costs to electric u...

In today’s segment of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on wildfires, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or CalFire, Staff Chief for Prescribed Fire and Environmental Protection Len Nielson answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the too-often overlooked wildfire mitigation strategy of prescribed, or controlled, burns and about they have been demonstrated to...

In today’s episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on wildfires, University of Texas at Austin Professor Joshua D. Rhodes answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about about Texas wildfires, including the February 2024 Panhandle fire, the biggest ever in Texas, and how state policymakers can support wildfire prediction, prevention, and mitigation to protect electricity providers...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Gitane De Silva, former CEO of the Canada Energy Regulator and founder and principal of public policy consultancy GD Strategic, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about Canada’s approach to the fast-growing costs and impacts of wildfires, and how those approaches might inform or compliment U.S. decisions.

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 protec...

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.

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 Elect...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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 clo...

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...

In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on battery storage, Mimi Gupta, the Clean Tech Product and Business Development lead for Schneider Electric answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the progress toward market viability of the just-emerging vehicle to home, or V2H, and vehicle to grid, or V2G, and vehicle to load, or V2L, concepts that promise to enhance the v...

In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on battery storage, Form Energy Co-Founder and CEO Mateo Jaramillo answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the progress of its unique iron-air Long Duration Energy Storage battery chemistry and how it is moving toward market viability at scale.

In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on battery storage, Roger Miksad, President and Executive Director of Battery Council International , answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about how current lead battery types, durations, and applications fit into today’s conversation about battery storage, about what makes just emerging advanced lead batteries advanced, and a...

In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on energy storage, Julia Souder, CEO of the Long Duration Energy Storage Council and Chair of the Global Renewables Alliance answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about what LDES technologies are, the importance of their role in the transition to clean energy, how these technologies are likely to progress, and the policies that c...

In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on battery storage, GridStor Vice President for Policy and Strategy Jason Burwen answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the critical next steps to advance utility-scale battery storage at the federal, state, and merchant market levels.

In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on battery storage, Fluence SVP and President, Americas John Zahurancik, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about trends in the utility-scale battery storage industry, including emerging technologies that turn batteries into transmission assets, about what IRA tax credits mean for the industry, and about siting and permitting...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Noah Roberts, Senior Director of Energy Storage with the American Clean Power Association, kicked off the podcast’s series on energy storage by answering questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the recent growth, growth forecast, and drivers of US energy storage, the sector’s price trends, the barriers storage still faces, and the historic projects n...

In this final episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on geothermal, Research Geologist Sean Porse, the Data, Modeling, and Analysis Program lead for DOE’s Geothermal Technologies Office answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the just released DOE Pathways to Commercial Liftoff of Next-Generation Geothermal Power study, and why new closed loop and enhanced geothermal tech...

In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on geothermal, EnergySource Minerals Chief Development Officer David Deak answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the opportunities the US cannot refuse of combining 24/7 geothermal energy production for reliable electricity generation with harvesting a potentially invaluable domestic lithium supply from geothermal brine.

In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast geothermal series, Dr. Joseph Moore, Managing Principal Investigator for the University of Utah and DOE Utah Forge demonstration project, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about what the research project has discovered about the enormous potential of Enhanced Systems to make geothermal energy a reliable, clean, and widely accessible...