In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast episode in a continuing series on utility planning, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association VP for Grid Integration Venkat Banunarayanan answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how variable and customer-owned energy resources, rising demand, and new policy are leading to innovations in planning by member-owned electric cooperatives to enable the flexibility of customer-owned resources to help optimize affordable reliable electricity delivery.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast episode in a continuing series on utility planning, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Energy Policy Researcher Guillermo Periera answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about where and how the innovative concept of integrated distribution system planning is being used to include customer-owned distributed energy resources in utility planning to improve the delivery of more affordable, reliable electricity.

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 extreme weather events add unprecedented stress to the US power system.

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-neutral tax credit, and the possibility of new action on permitting as changing resources, spiking electricity demand, and extreme weather events add unprecedented stress to the US power system.

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 address the impacts of variable and customer-owned energy resources, rising demand, and new policy and to optimize the delivery of affordable reliable electricity.

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 electricity.

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 new action on permitting as changing resources, spiking electricity demand, and extreme weather events add unprecedented stress to the US power system.

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 system.

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 resources, spiking electricity demand, and extreme weather events add unprecedented stress to the US power system.