How To Save the Power Companies From Themselves

The Energy Gang

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🗓️ 21 September 2013

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Almost everyone admits it: utilities are going to be in for some serious trouble if they don't start thinking about how to properly manage the coming surge in distributed energy. But we can't entirely blame the utilities for moving slowly; regulators play a key role in setting the rules for how power companies operate. In this week's show, we'll look at a comprehensive new report aimed at these decision makers, called America's Power Plan, which lays the foundation for the future of electricity. We'll also discuss a few tremendous improvements in renewable energy economics, as well as the coming surge in Home Energy Management tools that are making houses into virtual power plants. The Energy Gang is produced by Greentechmedia.com. The show features weekly discussion between energy futurist Jigar Shah, energy policy expert Katherine Hamilton and Greentech Editor Stephen Lacey. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	For the week of September 20th, 2013, this is the Energy Gang Podcast from Green
0:09.8	Tech Media. with Green Tech Media in Washington, D.C. The rest of the gang is with me this week as always.
0:25.7	Catherine Hamilton of 38 North Solutions joins us also in Washington, D.C.
0:30.4	Catherine, what's the latest in your world?
0:32.0	Well, it's been an absolutely gorgeous fall week juxtaposed with an awful mass shooting in this neighborhood.
0:41.0	Yeah and your offices are kind of close to the Navy Yard, aren't they?
0:44.0	Well, yeah, my husband and I have to drive by that area to get to our offices.
0:49.0	Yeah.
0:50.0	And Jigger Shaw is with us, author of the upcoming book Creating Climate Wealth.
0:54.3	He's in Seattle today.
0:55.7	Jigger, what are you up to this week?
0:57.6	I had a bunch of conferences this week, and I have to say that, you know, with all of the bad news coming out of DC there's some
1:04.4	great news coming out of Atlanta Georgia and Seattle and some of the places just a
1:09.2	lot of positive energy on clean energy in terms of what?
1:13.0	Well, you know, Georgia just got this 525 megawatt mandate and the conference was really around how we implement it and some of the, you know, fights around how much is going to be utility scale, how much is distributed generation.
1:25.6	And I mean all around the room though there's a lot of climate wealth coming together and folks really believe that this is an area where they can make money in Georgia.
1:34.0	Absolutely and you've got that book coming up creating climate wealth and we'll talk
1:38.0	about that when that is ready to go.
1:40.0	And today guys on the show we have a plan. I mean not that we don't have a plan when we actually record the show but we have an actual energy plan to talk about.
1:51.0	With us to help us flesh out that plan is our guest
1:54.1	Sonia Agar Wall. Sonia is the director of strategy at the energy
1:58.4	innovation out in San Francisco. She's one of 150 experts who helped prepare and edit a comprehensive new report on the future of the electricity system called America's power plan and we're going to talk about that today.
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