[eLab Extra #3] – Grid Modernization and DERPs
This is a special, free "extra" episode recorded at RMI’s eLab Annual Summit in December 2016 in Austin, Texas. Grid architecture is evolving, with loads becoming increasingly indistinguishable from...
View Article[Episode #60] – Demand Flexibility
Demand response and demand flexibility—shifting demand to intervals where electricity is abundant and cheap, and away from when the grid is constrained or power is expensive and dirty—can help keep...
View Article[Episode #61] – Climate Science Part 8 – Melting Glaciers and Sea Level Rise
In this eighth part of our mini-series on climate science, we tackle the subject of ice and melting, and how much sea-level rise it may produce. What if that viral story about a starving polar bear may...
View Article[Duke Energy Week extra #1] – Energy and Environment Education
This is a special, free episode of the Energy Transition Show with Chris Nelder, recorded on November 9, 2017, live from Duke Energy Week at Duke University. What motivates students in the Energy and...
View Article[Duke Energy Week extra #2] – Integration and Market Challenges in Grid...
This is a special, free episode of the Energy Transition Show with Chris Nelder, recorded on November 9, 2017, live from Duke Energy Week at Duke University. How does utility resource procurement need...
View Article[Duke Energy Week extra #3] – Storage Potential, the Role of EVs, and Data...
This is a special, free episode of the Energy Transition Show with Chris Nelder, recorded on November 9, 2017, live from Duke Energy Week at Duke University. In this interview with the Managing...
View Article[Episode #62] – How Advance Cost Recovery Swindled the South
How did the legal innovation of “advance cost recovery” allow utilities in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Mississippi to torch more than $40 billion on nuclear and coal plants that went way over...
View Article[Episode #63] – Pathways to Deep Decarbonization
As energy transition proceeds we’ll need to move well beyond decarbonizing electricity generation and into transportation and space heating powered by renewables. But we’re only beginning to figure out...
View Article[Episode #64] – Ask Eric
In this episode, energy expert Eric Gimon answers questions submitted by Energy Transition Show subscribers on a wide range of topics, including the non-climate effects of climate change; whether we...
View Article[Episode #65] – Climate Science Part 9 – Jet Stream
In this ninth part of our mini-series on climate science, we turn to one of the key suspects in extreme weather events we have experienced in recent years—the shifting shape of the North Atlantic jet...
View Article[Episode #66] – Transition’s Disruptors Part 1
What do the frackers and Tesla have in common? They have both succeeded in disrupting their industries by adopting new technologies, applying financial innovation, appealing to changing consumer...
View Article[Episode #67] – Transition’s Disruptors Part 2
What do the frackers and Tesla have in common? They have both succeeded in disrupting their industries by adopting new technologies, applying financial innovation, appealing to changing consumer...
View Article[Episode #68] – Environmental Economics
In an economy as large and complex as the United States, how can we tell when our efforts at energy transition are working? How do we calculate our carbon emissions? How do we know why emissions fell,...
View Article[Episode #69] – Western Grid Regionalization
California and 12 other US states, plus parts of Canada and Mexico, are considering whether to expand the California wholesale grid and balancing area to include the entire region, in order to increase...
View Article[Episode #70] – Who Should Control Wholesale Markets?
As older coal and nuclear generators are pushed off the grid by cheaper, nimbler, cleaner renewables and other technologies, the owners of conventional generators are becoming increasingly nervous...
View Article[Episode #71] – Australia at the Cutting Edge
Since we last covered Australia one year ago in Episode 39, a lot has changed…it has deployed the largest utility-scale battery system in the world, made numerous technical upgrades to prevent future...
View Article[Episode #72] – The Future of Solar
The cost of solar has dropped so quickly that we’re suddenly in a world nobody really anticipated. Utility power procurement is having to pivot to solar under $0.03/kWh…including dispatchable solar...
View Article[Episode #73] – Regulatory Capture
Utility regulators are playing an increasingly important role in steering the energy transition of the power grid. However, many regulators aren’t equipped to sort through arguments put forward by...
View Article[Episode #74] – Climate Science Part 10: How to limit warming to 1.5°C...
In this tenth part of our series on climate science, we explore a new paper outlining a climate scenario that would limit warming to 1.5 °C without relying on negative emission technologies. It does so...
View Article[Episode #75] – Transportation Transition
Vehicle electrification is gaining real momentum in 2018, from light duty passenger vehicles, to medium and heavy duty vehicles, port equipment, and even ferries. But this rapid transition in...
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