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Recording will begin in one minute. From Green Tech Media, this is the Energy Gang, a weekly digest on energy, clean tech, and the environment.

I'm Stephen Lacey, and this week we are live in San Jose, California at GTM's Grid Edge World Forum. So here's what's on the docking.

This event is mostly centered on utilities and power sector upheaval,

but we're going to kick off the show and look at oil majors.

We've witnessed oil companies toy with renewables over the last decades with mixed success, but

is it time to take them seriously in the era of electrification?

Then the latest experience with distributed renewables as grid assets, we're all awaiting

the release of a DOE report ordered by Secretary, Energy Secretary Rick Perry,

on how wind and solar are threatening baseload power and potentially the reliability of the

grid.

And we're going to go beyond the politics

and look at how real world applications

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