United States Energy Association

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Battelle Energy and Resilience Division Manager Shawn Bennett answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about what to expect in power sector policy and what new breakthroughs to look for in carbon capture and carbon management technologies under the new presidential administration and congress as changing resources, spiking electricity demand, and ext...

In today’s episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on changing priorities, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chair Jon Wellinghoff, currently the CEO of consultant GridPolicy, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about what to expect in power sector policy under the new presidential administration and congress to existing and new tax credits, including  the new technology-...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast episode in a continuing series on utility planning, Newport Consulting Group Managing Partner Paul DeMartini, a leading advisor to utilities, regulators and the Department of Energy on distribution system business, policy, and technology, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the potential of new paradigms in utility system planning to addres...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast episode in a continuing series on utility planning, Elizabeth Cook, VP of Technical Strategy with the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about integrated distributed system planning, the newest step toward a utility planning paradigm to optimize the power sector’s delivery of affordable reliable elec...

In today’s episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on changing priorities, Independent Energy Producers Association CEO Jan Smutny-Jones answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about what to expect in power sector policy under the new presidential administration and congress to existing and new tax credits, including  the new technology-neutral tax credit, and the possibility of...

In today’s episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on changing priorities, World Resources Institute Director Lori Bird answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about what to expect in power sector policy under the incoming presidential administration and new congress as new resources, spiking electricity demand, and extreme weather events add unprecedented stress to the US power...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast episode in a continuing series on utility planning, Berkeley Lab and Department of Energy Research Scientist JP Carvallo answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how the traditional utility integrated resource planning process works and how emerging planning innovations may supplement and strengthen it.

In today’s episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on changing priorities, USEA Power Sector Podcast, Attorney and energy policy authority Keith Martin, a Partner and Co-Head of Projects for global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about his expectations for the power sector under the incoming presidential administration and congress as new r...

In today’s opening episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on changing priorities, former Biden administration official Tanuj Deora, who currently advises multiple clean energy companies, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish on the many uncertainties about how energy sector policy might evolve under the incoming presidential administration and congress as new resources, spiki...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, EPRI Energy Systems and Climate Analysis Program Manager Nidhi Santen answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how variable and customer-owned energy resources, rising demand, and new policy are driving innovations in utilities’ longstanding use of integrated resource planning, or IRP, to optimize affordable reliable electricity delivery.

In today’s opening episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on utility planning, Berkeley Lab Manager, Senior Policy Researcher, and Senior Strategic Advisor Lisa Schwartz answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the evolving utility planning paradigm, from integrated resource planning and integrated distribution system planning to integrated system planning to meet the powe...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Claire Coleman, head of Connecticut’s Office of Consumer Counsel, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about Connecticut’s process for moving its utilities to performance-based regulation, a new business model which rewards the utilities for achieving public policy goals instead of for investing in infrastructure.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Ted Novicki, Director of Regulatory Affairs for Connecticut with investor-owned utility United Illuminating, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish from the utility perspective about Connecticut’s process for moving its utilities to performance-based regulation, a new business model which rewards the utilities for achieving public policy goals inst...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Eric DeBellis, General Counsel for the Citizen’s Utility Board of Illinois, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the consumer advocate’s perspective on the emergence of and continued development of performance-based regulation in Illinois.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Dave Kolata, VP of Policy for energy efficiency provider Sealed and formerly the executive director of Illinois consumer advocate the Citizens Utility Board, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the private sector’s perspective on the emergence of and continued development of performance-based regulations for utilities in Illinois.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, John D. Wilson, Vice President with policy and energy consultant GridStrategies answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about findings in his just-released paper, now the talk of the energy world, on the magnitude and drivers of the surging U.S. demand for electricity. This episode closes out our 2024, but we’ll be back to thrive in 2025. We are ver...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Murray Clay, President of Hawaii’s clean energy-focused Ulupono Initiative an advocacy and impact-investment firm answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about Hawaii’s performance-based regulation, probably the most advanced and far-reaching change in the regulation of a US electric utility in a century.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Jennifer Potter, a former commissioner with the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission and now a Faculty Energy Specialist with the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about Hawaii’s performance-based regulation, probably the most advanced and far-reaching change in a US electric utility’s regulation and business mode...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Rabago Energy Principal Karl Rabago, who has served as a DOE Deputy Assistant Secretary and as a Commissioner with the Public Utilities Commission of Texas, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the emerging national momentum toward performance-based regulation and why PBR is an important step in reforming the utility business model to meet...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Regulatory Assistance Project Senior Associate Mark LeBel answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the emerging national momentum toward Performance-Based Regulation and why PBR is important as a means to reform the utility business model to meet 21st century clean energy and climate policy goals.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Autumn Proudlove, Associate Director for Policy and Markets with the North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center at North Carolina State University kicked off a new USEA series on performance-based regulation, or PBR, by answering questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the emerging national momentum toward PBR, which can change the fundamental bus...

In today’s final episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on data, Amperon CEO and Co-founder Sean Kelly answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the uses of machine learning and accelerated computing-based algorithms to design, operate and optimize data to improve the economics of clean energy for power providers and their customers.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Ascend Analytics Founder, CEO, and President Dr. Gary Dorris answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about how data from accelerated computing is becoming critical to accurate modeling for energy portfolios, risk management, asset valuation, and long term resource planning.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Michael Murray, President of the Mission:data Coalition, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the new accelerated computing capabilities that will allow consumers and third parties access to historical and real time smart meter and utility-archived consumption and pricing data to guide their ability to manage their energy use.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Strategic Energy Analysis Center Market and Policy Group Manager Jeff Cook answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how massively accelerated computing capabilities to assimilate data are emerging alongside a new complexity on the distribution system to optimize new clean energy resources and technologies an...