Amid rapid decarbonization and skyrocketing demand, America’s power grid is straining to continue providing homes and businesses with reliable electricity. What technologies are innovators investing in to combat these challenges? Covarrubia Energy Chairman and CEO Russell Covarrubia joined us for this episode to break down what exactly pyrolysis means – and why it’s opened a door for reducing plastic waste while adding much needed power to the grid.

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What does a previous federal energy regulator have to say about markets, reliability, and the current state of the energy grid today? We got the scoop from Joseph T. Kelliher, former chairman and commissioner on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and former NextEra energy executive. Joe helped shape how competitive power markets function today, establishing structures that guard against market manipulation, encourage reliability, and protect consumers. He also oversaw the implementation of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Listen as Joe sits down with EPSA President and CEO Todd Snitchler and highlights some of the key moments in his career at the Commission – and how they inform today’s challenges.

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What energy priorities do policymakers and decisionmakers need to have no matter what side of the aisle they’re on? In this episode, American Clean Power Association CEO Jason Grumet joins Todd to debrief the impact of the Inflation Reduction Act on energy infrastructure investment, why power system reliability needs to be #1, and the ways clean power can combine with all resources to serve the nation’s demand for electricity.

This is part of our special series featuring four fireside chats from EPSA’s 3rd Annual Competitive Power Summit on March 26. Listen in for audio from the day’s conversations, featuring grid reliability experts, top energy executives, trade association leaders, and competitive power generators, as they discuss reliability, innovation to deliver the energy expansion, state energy priorities, ways to integrate clean power into the grid, and more.

• Ep 38(a): NERC’s Jim Robb on Power Grid Reliability and Security: Competitive Power Summit Fireside Chats
• Ep 38(b): Power Generators CPV and GE Vernova Talk new Tech to for Reliable Energy Expansion: Competitive Power Summit Fireside Chats
• Ep 38(c): What Have the top Utility Regulators Been Up To? NARUC President Fedorchak Shares Priorities: Competitive Power Summit Fireside Chats

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How are state utility commissioners addressing big power system questions like resource adequacy, a changing energy mix, and balancing individual state needs and federal authority? Plus, what’s the latest on NARUC’s new initiative to address gas-electric harmonization, GEAR? North Dakota Public Service Commissioner and NARUC President Julie Fedorchak joins us in this episode to discuss.

This is part of our special series featuring four fireside chats from EPSA’s 3rd Annual Competitive Power Summit on March 26. Listen in for audio from the day’s conversations, featuring grid reliability experts, top energy executives, trade association leaders, and competitive power generators, as they discuss reliability, innovation to deliver the energy expansion, state energy priorities, ways to integrate clean power into the grid, and more.

• Ep 38(a): NERC’s Jim Robb on Power Grid Reliability and Security: Competitive Power Summit Fireside Chats
• Ep 38(b): Power Generators CPV and GE Vernova Talk new Tech to for Reliable Energy Expansion: Competitive Power Summit Fireside Chats
• Ep 38(d): Clean Power and Reliability With ACP’s Jason Grumet: Competitive Power Summit Fireside Chats

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How is technology enabling greater efficiency and performance in power generation? In this episode, Tom Rumsey from Competitive Power Ventures and Roger Martella from GE Vernova discuss the launch of a new highly efficient combined-cycle gas turbine in Illinois, along with other new developments.

This is part of our special series featuring four fireside chats from EPSA’s 3rd Annual Competitive Power Summit on March 26. Listen in for audio from the day’s conversations, featuring grid reliability experts, top energy executives, trade association leaders, and competitive power generators, as they discuss reliability, innovation to deliver the energy expansion, state energy priorities, ways to integrate clean power into the grid, and more.

• Ep 38(a): NERC’s Jim Robb on Power Grid Reliability and Security: Competitive Power Summit Fireside Chats
• Ep 38(c): What Have the top Utility Regulators Been Up To? NARUC President Fedorchak Shares Priorities: Competitive Power Summit Fireside Chats
• Ep 38(d): Clean Power and Reliability With ACP’s Jason Grumet: Competitive Power Summit Fireside Chats

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In this episode, the head of the nation’s regulatory authority for power system reliability gives an update on the reliability and security of the grid – discussing steps to improve performance after 2022’s Winter Storm Elliott and other extreme weather events, the top reliability risks for the power system, and progress on gas-electric harmonization. Listen in to NERC and EPSA Presidents and CEOs Jim Robb and Todd Snitchler’s conversation.

This is part of our special series featuring four fireside chats from EPSA’s 3rd Annual Competitive Power Summit on March 26. Listen in for audio from the day’s conversations, featuring grid reliability experts, top energy executives, trade association leaders, and competitive power generators, as they discuss reliability, innovation to deliver the energy expansion, state energy priorities, ways to integrate clean power into the grid, and more.

• Ep 38(b): Power Generators CPV and GE Vernova Talk new Tech to for Reliable Energy Expansion: Competitive Power Summit Fireside Chats
• Ep 38(c): What Have the top Utility Regulators Been Up To? NARUC President Fedorchak Shares Priorities: Competitive Power Summit Fireside Chats
• Ep 38(d): Clean Power and Reliability With ACP’s Jason Grumet: Competitive Power Summit Fireside Chats

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EPSA’s 3rd annual Competitive Power Summit is just over a week away. What better way to gear up for the Summit than to hear from our speakers themselves? We brought our four panel moderators onto the pod—Politico's Catherine Morehouse, the Forum Consulting’s Ben Marter, former WSJ and Washington Post reporter Tim Puko, and Bloomberg’s Daniel Moore—to discuss the thoughts and questions they’re most looking forward to bringing to their panels.

Want to see them in person? Register here for the Competitive Power Summit on Tuesday, March 26 in Washington, DC: bit.ly/epsa24register

Find this episode's guests on X/Twitter:
Catherine Morehouse: @cmorehouse10
Tim Puko: @TimPuko
Ben Marter: @BenMarter
Daniel Moore: @bydanielmoore

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What will it take to meet the nation’s rising power demand? NARUC President and North Dakota Public Service Commissioner Julie Fedorchak joins EPSA President and CEO Todd Snitchler for this episode, where she shares the initiatives that she has taken to solve the challenges facing a system being asked to perform in ways it has never had to before. Fedorchak unpacks her concerns for power grid reliability amidst a changing resource mix, and why the Peace Garden State continues to prioritize dispatchable generation.

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