Today’s podcast [https://events.usea.org/events/usea-power-sector-podcast-episode-243-duke-energy-director-for-load-flexibility-brian-lusher] describes Duke Energy’s growing and increasingly valuable virtual power plant programs. open.spotify.com/episode/3qIV...

Today’s podcast [https://events.usea.org/events/usea-power-sector-podcast-episode-241-fram-energy-founder-and-ceo-charlotte-meerstadt] describes how to handle the books for VPPs composed of potentially millions of distributed energy resources. open.spotify.com/episode/3DdQ...

Will DOE's plan work? What will it cost? www.utilitydive.com/news/will-do...

In today’s podcast [https://events.usea.org/events/1102], Audrey Zibelman, formerly NYPSC Chair and Australia power system head, describes the new Pew Charitable Trusts 2026 DER Playbook open.spotify.com/episode/2JWQ...

In today’s podcast [https://events.usea.org/events/1100], Pat Wood III, former FERC Chair and Texas PUC Chair describes the new Pew Charitable Trusts report, “Distributed Energy Can Unleash the Resilient, Affordable Grid of the Future; A policy playbook” open.spotify.com/episode/0jQR...

Today’s podcast [https://events.usea.org/events/1098] is about the concept of a flexibility marketplace and how large loads can use Accelerated Community Energy to meet electricity demand affordably. open.spotify.com/episode/1HiU...

Today’s podcast [https://events.usea.org/events/1096] describes how Itron’s edge DERMS platform enables VPPs to help utilities deliver reliable affordable electricity with aggregated distributed energy resources. open.spotify.com/episode/7s7T...

Today’s podcast [https://events.usea.org/events/1095] is about the “2025 Transmission Planning and Development Report Card Assessing Progress and Shortfalls as Demand Accelerates Nationwide.” [https://gridstrategiesllc.com/project/transmission-report-card/] open.spotify.com/episode/7uYi...

Today’s podcast [https://events.usea.org/events/1094] describes the 2026 Electric Innovation Initiative competition [https://electricinnovation.org/] created to find and reward the best ideas to grow electrification while protecting reliability and affordability. open.spotify.com/episode/429s...

On today’s podcast, [https://events.usea.org/events/1093] Ryan Hledik describes how far VPPs have come since his early work on load flexibility and how far they can go toward meeting today’s electricity demand and affordability challenges. open.spotify.com/episode/0V9f...

Today’s podcast [https://events.usea.org/events/1092] describes how Viridi has proven and deployed its highly safe batteries where safety is vital, like densely populated locations or places with critical infrastructure. open.spotify.com/episode/69uq...

Today’s podcast [https://events.usea.org/events/1086] describes how the just-announced partnership of software provider Uplight, international DER aggregator Octopus, and Schneider Electric could produce the first global energy transition super major. open.spotify.com/episode/6SHc...

Today’s podcast [https://events.usea.org/events/1088] describes impressions from EnergySage’s online DER marketplace about the potential to grow customer awareness of and interest in VPP programs. open.spotify.com/episode/3HWT...

Today’s podcast [https://events.usea.org/events/1085] describes Schneider Electric’s One Digital Grid and One DERMS platforms for optimizing the integration and operation of VPPs and making them a key part of meeting today’s load growth and affordability challenges. open.spotify.com/episode/3JLB...

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In today’s podcast, former FERC Commissioner Allison Clements summarizes 4 state-level policy initiatives that can address rising electricity costs. [https://www.utilitydive.com/news/4-affordability-solutions-states-and-utilities-can-implement-now/811855/] open.spotify.com/episode/3CZk...

Today’s podcast [https://events.usea.org/events/1083] is about the negotiations that led to the just enacted Illinois Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act, which includes what could be a national template for VPP legislation. open.spotify.com/episode/5jFX...

Today’s podcast [https://events.usea.org/events/1081] describes the groundbreaking VPP programs Illinois stakeholders put in place through 2025’s Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act. open.spotify.com/episode/2Vsi...

Today’s podcast [https://events.usea.org/events/897] describes how VPPs composed of aggregated distribution system located, customer-owned resources can help meet today’s demand growth and affordability challenges. open.spotify.com/episode/23wJ...

Today’s podcast [https://events.usea.org/events/896] describes how VPPs composed of aggregated distribution system located, customer-owned resources can help meet today’s demand growth and affordability challenges. open.spotify.com/episode/3gus...

Today’s podcast [https://events.usea.org/events/893] describes how VPPs composed of aggregated distribution system located, customer-owned resources can help meet today’s demand growth and affordability challenges. open.spotify.com/episode/4mad...

Today’s podcast [https://events.usea.org/events/892] describes how Voltus is preparing to lead the evolution of demand response into virtual power plants to help solve the power sector’s demand growth and affordability challenges. open.spotify.com/episode/44rf...

Today’s podcast describes the new partnership between demand response provider Voltus and distributed energy resources aggregator Octopus Energy that could expand VPP use across the US. open.spotify.com/episode/2lcx...

Today’s podcast digs into how virtual power plants, or VPPs, perform and explains the standards and language in the Huels Test that compares VPP performance to that of conventional power plants. open.spotify.com/episode/58So...

Today’s podcast adds to yesterday’s pod about the newest “⁠50 States of Virtual Power Plants,” a comprehensive look at legislative and regulatory policy on VPPs across the US in 2025. open.spotify.com/episode/11ds...

Today’s podcast is about the newest “⁠50 States of Virtual Power Plants,” a comprehensive look at legislative and regulatory policy on VPPs across the US in 2025. It kicks off the PSP’s extended series on VPPs! open.spotify.com/episode/41tE...

Today’s podcast is about the newest “⁠50 States of Virtual Power Plants,” a comprehensive look at legislative and regulatory policy on VPPs across the US in 2025. It kicks off the PSP’s extended series on VPPs! open.spotify.com/episode/41tE...

Today’s podcast describes how real world data shows EV charging’s potential threat of overloading utility distribution systems can be turned to an advantage with active managed charging strategies. open.spotify.com/episode/3D9E...

Today’s podcast describes insights from The Brattle Group’s just released paper on a topic suddenly made critical by the war in Iran, “Securing Battery Energy Storage Systems from Cyberthreats.” open.spotify.com/episode/1ztJ...

Today’s podcast is a briefing on the cutting-edge research being done at DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory from Lab Director John Wagner. youtu.be/QAdFP4ObGyQ

Today’s podcast describes how software provider Gravity turns information from basic industrial facility carbon accounting into a business advantage by using it to reduce operating costs. youtu.be/U5DruTvc8Zk

Today’s podcast describes the technical and market challenges of developing new battery concepts and why so many miracle battery concepts don’t work miracles in the marketplace. youtu.be/9wWKw3zdAOY

Today’s podcast describes offshore wind projects’ enormous benefits – especially during Atlantic Coast cold spells – that would be lost if current regulatory obstructions are sustained by the Supreme Court. youtu.be/Up59Zf4scsw

Today’s podcast describes ACORE’s policy work on the macrogrid initiative to interconnect the nation’s segmented transmission regions and its roots in earlier Department of Energy studies. youtu.be/0XcixY_G8EA

Today’s podcast describes ACORE’s policy work on the macrogrid initiative to interconnect the nation’s segmented transmission regions, which can make electricity delivery more reliable and affordable. youtu.be/zuZblG-EzIE

With the threat of Supreme Court action looming, today’s podcast explains the importance of FIVE recent appeals court rulings against Trump administration efforts to stop US offshore wind projects. youtu.be/6VtCYaXJdpo

Today’s podcast is about the technologies and strategies that would more quickly and cost-effectively move forward the Macrogrid Initiative to interconnect the nation’s segmented transmission regions. youtu.be/rs6HcxCBfXk

Today’s podcast is about the Macrogrid Initiative to integrate the segmented regions of the US electric network and the Department of Energy’s landmark SEAMS study which laid the groundwork for it. youtu.be/i31F6NnHl5A

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On today’s podcast, US Congressman Scott Peters (D-CA) describes the importance of inter-regional transmission to integrate the segmented regions of the US power system to make electricity more reliable and affordable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2qM...

The time for virtual power plants has come www.utilitydive.com/news/in-2026...

Today’s podcast is an independent transmission developer’s perspective on how integrating the segmented regions of the US electric network can make electricity more reliable and affordable. youtu.be/c-LhL9lFWBk

Today’s podcast describes the politics, economics, and regulatory background of the Macrogrid Initiative to connect the nation’s segmented electric network and make electricity more reliable and affordable. youtu.be/-NFK1Lnd-cs

Today’s podcast describes the history and current work on the Macrogrid Initiative to interconnect the nation’s segmented electric network and make electricity delivery more reliable and affordable. youtu.be/cyiLmr-DdME

Today, former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chair Jon Wellinghoff describes the macrogrid initiative to interconnect the power system’s segmented regions and make electricity more reliable and affordable. youtu.be/_IN3tIa777g

Today’s podcast describes why Schneider Eectric’s “One Digital Grid Platform” may be the future of energy intelligence. open.spotify.com/episode/2Ayk...

Today’s podcast describes innovative tools and technologies to keep AI data centers running efficiently and cost-effectively. open.spotify.com/episode/3xtS...

Today’s podcast describes the new UL ECOLOGO certification that brings plug-and-play operability to sustainable energy and industrial automation equipment. open.spotify.com/episode/1J5T...

Today’s podcast describes the new complexities in making power sector financial decisions and how innovation and operational intelligence can turn those complexities into a competitive edge. open.spotify.com/episode/769I...

Today’s podcast defines Electricity 4.0, where electric meets digital and new technologies deliver power system solutions that protect affordability and reliability. open.spotify.com/episode/3VAy...