Transmission

A "Google Maps for electrons"

Can a comprehensive map of every wire and transformer unclog the world's grid interconnection queues?

May 21 •

51:34

Assembling diverse resources into super-powered "energy parks"

Could supersized microgrids be the key to faster clean energy deployment? Eric Gimon explains the promise of "energy parks."

Jan 15 •

1:09:21

How railroads could boost the US energy transition

A conversation with Bill Moyer of Solutionary Rail.

Nov 6, 2024 •

1:13:12

Managing a distributed grid

Astrid Atkinson helped move Google search from a centralized, top-down system to a massively distributed system. Now she wants to do the same thing to…

Nov 22, 2023 •

1:21:11

FERC is about to make some very important decisions about transmission

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is close to releasing its final rule on regional transmission planning. It may be the most important…

Nov 17, 2023 •

1:10:44

Getting more out of the grid we've already built

The US desperately needs more electricity transmission, but new lines take forever to permit & build. Happily, there is a set of technologies that can…

Sep 13, 2023 •

54:43

Grid-scale batteries do not currently reduce emissions. Here's how they could.

It might come as a surprise to you that batteries attached to the grid today do not reduce carbon emissions -- in fact, they usually do the opposite…

Sep 6, 2023 •

55:17

What's the deal with interconnection queues?

By now, you’ve probably heard that tons of new renewable energy projects are “stuck in the interconnection queues,” unable to connect to the grid until…

Aug 9, 2023 •

51:28

Making shipping fuel with off-grid renewables

ETFuels couples giant off-grid renewable energy installations with electrolyzers to make green hydrogen; it then uses the green hydrogen to make…

Jun 28, 2023 •

1:01:24

Steps toward a unified electricity market in the western US

For years, states in the western US have debated whether to follow the lead of their northeastern and midwestern brethren and form a regional…

Jun 23, 2023 •

1:13:35

The long, sordid (ongoing) tale of California's biggest utility

A conversation with Katherine Blunt, author of a new book on PG&E.

Sep 9, 2022 •

52:56

Volts podcast: when transmission planning actually goes well

Volts subscribers are used to hearing about how difficult it is to build new long-distance power transmission lines in the US. But one of the nation's…

Aug 8, 2022 •

48:41

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