United States Energy Association

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Neara Senior Vice President and Managing Director of the Americas Robert Brook answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how utility data can be incorporated by digital network models and digital twining capabilities to improve reliability and reduce customer costs.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, AES Corporation Sr Director of Data Science and Analytics, Global, and Innovative Data Leader Sean Otto answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how investor-owned power provider and electric utility giant AES is working toward the use of data science and analytics along with today’s accelerated computing capabilities to improve reliability and...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Tom Mapes, Founder and President of the Digital Energy Council, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the growing importance of digital technologies and data analytics in today’s power sector.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Jess Melanson, President and Chief Operating Officer of Utilidata, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how accelerated computing and new access to data through Utilidata’s NVIDIA-based Karman module can lead to the optimized use of distributed energy resources at the distribution system level to make the delivery of electricity more reliab...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Scott Harden, Global Chief Technology Officer for multinational digital automation and energy management provider Schneider Electric answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how accelerated computing and automation are making the management of data central to optimizing power sector decarbonization and reliability and reducing customer costs.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Electric Power Research Institute, or EPRI, Deputy Program Manager Anna Lafoyiannis answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about EPRI’s research into existing US system operator and utility approaches to ensuring resources are adequate to meet demand spikes beyond planning expectations and how a new understanding and valuing of the flexibility of D...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Beth Garza, a senior fellow with policy consultant R Street’s Energy and Environmental Policy Team and a former director of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas independent market monitor, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the strengths and weaknesses of scarcity pricing as a resource adequacy solution in ERCOT’s energy-only market...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, economist Dr. Joseph Bowring, President of Monitoring Analytics, the independent market monitor for system operator PJM Interconnection answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how PJM’s capacity market is designed to ensure resources are adequate to meet demand spikes, what the strengths and weaknesses of the capacity market approach to resour...

In today’s episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on resource adequacy, Nick Pappas, head of independent power sector consultant NP Energy answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the strengths and weaknesses of California’s resource adequacy requirements, how they have been expanded, and how they might be improved.

In today’s episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on resource adequacy, Tanuj Deora, former Biden administration Director for Clean Energy in the Executive Office of the President answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the three primary approaches by US system operators and utilities to ensuring resources are adequate to meet new demand spikes and his ideas for valuing f...

In today’s opening episode the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on resource adequacy , Rob Gramlich, Founder and President of power sector consultant Grid Strategies answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the 3 basic approaches to resource adequacy currently used by US system operators, resource adequacy requirements, capacity markets, and scarcity pricing, about some of the stre...

In today’s final episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on the carbon  challenge, Sylvain Verdier, Senior Marketing Manager for Corporate Strategy with Topsoe answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about ways the aviation industry can use battery electric technologies, derivatives of clean hydrogen, bio-renewable resources, or waste materials to address the aviation industry’s...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Will Foiles, Co-founder and CEO of Project Canary, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the growing challenge of methane leakage, where the greatest concerns are, how new tools and science-based metrics can be used to address methane leaks, and what policies are needed to get the job done.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, climate economist and attorney Danny Cullenward answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how voluntary carbon offsets have failed to accomplish what advocates hoped they would and how better investments can be made simply recognizing their contribution to emissions reduction.

In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on the carbon challenge, Carbon Upcycling Technologies CEO Apoorv Sinha answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the challenges and opportunities in currently emerging materials science technologies to remove climate crisis-aggravating carbon from solid waste and use it in cost-competitive marketable solutions to meet the carb...

In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on the carbon challenge, CarbonQuest Senior Vice President for Strategy, Market Development, and Sustainability Anna Pavlova answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about CarbonQuest’s unique modular direct air capture system that removes carbon emissions from fossil fuel sources used to power buildings and works with partners to r...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Carbon180 Director of Technology Policy Kajsa Hendrickson answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about technologies for direct air capture of carbon dioxide, the progress in deploying those technologies, some of the challenges to their deployment, and the policies that can expand the capture of CO2 to impact scale.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Senior Advisor Noah Deich of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, or FECM answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about FECM’s just updated 10 principles aimed at encouraging carbon management developers and stakeholders to pursue the highest levels of safety, environmental stewardship, accountability, communi...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Avnos CEO and Founder Will Kain answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the need for direct air capture of carbon dioxide, its current status, and its future potential and challenges, and how the Avnos hybrid direct air capture technology offers an alternative that also captures water.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, ClearPath Senior Program Director for Carbon Management and Science Hillary O’Brien answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the need for direct air capture of carbon dioxide, its potential, its costs, and its future challenges.

In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on carbon, veteran independent power sector consultant David Schlissel, the director of resource planning analysis with the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the potential and the limits of carbon capture, utilization, and storage.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Clean Air Task Force Technology and Markets Director John Thompson answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about carbon capture, use, and storage, and the policies and technologies needed to scale it.

In this opening episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on the challenge of carbon, Carbon Capture Coalition Executive Director Jessie Stolark answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the currently emerging direct air capture and power plant carbon capture, utilization, and storage technologies and how to turn those technologies into market scale solutions for the carbon ch...

In this final segment of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on wildfires, former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chair Neil Chatterjee answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the role of federal regulators in the growing national challenge to affordable reliable service and to the energy transition due to the costs and other impacts of wildfires and about how developing dat...

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Karamvir Singh , co-founder and chief product officer of advanced computing provider Neara answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about machine learning and artificial intelligence are being used by Southern California Edison to predict, prevent, and mitigate wildfires.