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, the cause of the backlog, and what regulators are doing about it.

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 Wind 1 and 2 projects.

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 that added up to as much as several billion dollars.

USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 34: In today’s USEA

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

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, and the urgencies of climate change.

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 designs and how state regulators are processing them.