Power After Carbon
The Energy Gang
Wood Mackenzie
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The electric grid is a central pillar of a zero-carbon economy. But in an era of unrelenting weather extremes, it’s also one of the most fragile.
This week: what does power after carbon look like?
Katherine and Stephen are joined by Dr. Peter Fox-Penner, author of a new book called, “Power After Carbon.”
Peter is the founder of the Boston University Institute of Sustainable Energy. And he’s a partner and chief strategy officer at the VC firm Energy Impact Partners.
At the turn of the last decade, Peter wrote a book called “Smart Power” that looked at the new pressures that utilities were facing around climate policy, emerging distributed energy, and digitization. We’ll look at what’s changed the most over the last decade.
Plus, we’ll talk about why Entergy’s resistance to distributed energy in Louisiana created vulnerabilities after Hurricane Ida.
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| 0:00.0 | The Energy Gang is brought to you by Sungrove, a leading provider of PV inverter solutions across the world. |
| 0:05.0 | Sungrove is providing energy storage systems to some of the largest projects in the U.S. |
| 0:09.0 | like the Chisholm Grid project in Fort Worth, Texas. |
| 0:12.0 | Chisholm Grid is a 100 megawatt standalone battery storage installation expected to start commercial operation in the middle of this year. |
| 0:18.0 | To learn more about Sungrove's energy storage solutions, email them at info at sungroamericas.com. |
| 0:24.0 | The Energy Gang is brought to you by S&C Electric. |
| 0:27.0 | New technologies are unlocking innovative ways to solve power-related challenges. |
| 0:31.0 | Some of them are wired, and some are non-wired. |
| 0:34.0 | Non-wires alternatives like micro grids can provide more sustainable, resilient, and economic ways to deliver reliable power. |
| 0:40.0 | S&C Electric Company has provided innovative solutions for over 100 years, |
| 0:44.0 | and they will help you meet your energy needs. |
| 0:47.0 | Learn more at sandc.com slash NWA. |
| 0:54.0 | This is the Energy Gang, weekly discussions about the fast-changing world of energy. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm Stephen Lacey, welcome. |
| 1:05.0 | The Electric Grid is a central pillar of a zero-carbon economy. |
| 1:09.0 | But in an era of unrelenting extremes, it's also one of the most fragile. |
| 1:13.0 | This week, what does power after carbon look like? |
| 1:16.0 | Plus, how is the swell of extreme weather accelerating and complicating the ship? |
| 1:24.0 | Catherine Hamilton is here, she's my co-host, she's the chair of 38 North Solutions, |
| 1:28.0 | and it looks like she is back in Virginia. |
| 1:32.0 | That's right, it's beautiful, and I'm super excited about this episode. |
| 1:35.0 | Why are you so excited? |
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