United States Energy Association

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.

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.

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,...

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 develop...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Anne Reynolds, vice president for offshore wind with ACP, 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. Editorial note: This podcast was recorded before Orsted renewed its commitment to the Ocean Wi...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Grid Strategies Founder and President Rob Gramlich answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the findings of his new analysis of 29 major transmission expansion projects that identifies the concrete benefits of coordination, collaboration, and open information sharing in transmission planning and development, practices that have reduced costs...

USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 34: 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...

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.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Stephen Hendrickson, head of the DOE Office of Technology Transitions market analysis activities 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.

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.

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,...

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 des...

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.

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 delive...

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...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Ted Ko, Executive 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.

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.

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.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Grid Strategies Vice President Michael Goggin answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about how improved proactive planning and cost sharing for inter-regional transmission interconnections to optimize resource sharing between MISO and PJM can save consumers over $15 billion in reduced needs for fossil fuel generation and deliver ongoing savings o...

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.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Launch Committee Co-Chair for the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative Pam Sporborg answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the newest efforts to design a governance structure that can unite Western power providers in a Regional Transmission Organization and to make more efficient use of the West’s abundant clean energy resources to prot...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Western Power Pool President and CEO Sarah Edmonds answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the key role the WPP’s Western Resource Adequacy Program can take in expanding reliable electricity delivery throughout the West and laying the groundwork for wider regional coordination.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast Brief, Colorado State Senator Chris Hansen answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the opportunities and challenges for Colorado in the initiatives by the Southwest Power Pool and the California Independent System Operator to build a regional energy market and transmission system across the West.

In today’s podcasts, Kansas Corporation Commission Chair Andrew French answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the Kansas perspective on the potential of a Western regional transmission system and energy market.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Holy Cross Energy President and CEO Bryan Hannegan answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about how 21st Century power system reliability will be protected by a calibrated combination of bulk system power from regional energy market and transmission systems and from local and customer-owned distribution system resources.