The Energy Gang: The Grid Resiliency Edition

The Energy Gang

Wood Mackenzie

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🗓️ 13 June 2013

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In this week's show, the Energy Gang talks about the strong growth in U.S. solar PV, debates the future of offshore wind, and asks whether utilities are prepared for true "grid resiliency" in the face of extreme weather. (Ironically, the episode was recorded in Washington, DC just minutes before a short, powerful storm overtook the region and knocked out power to thousands.) 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	From Green Tech Media, this is the Energy Gang Tech Media,
0:22.7	based here in Washington, D.C.
0:24.6	And also both in Washington today
0:26.8	are my co-hosts, Catherine Hamilton of 38 North Solutions.
0:30.4	Catherine, welcome, how are you?
0:32.2	Which is great, great to be here again.
0:34.0	And Jiggershaw of Jiggershaw Consulting, who every week seems to be in a different place.
0:39.0	Jigger, how are you?
0:40.0	Good, just trying to make sure that I survive this new Duratio here in DC. I know and we'll talk
0:46.5	about the impact of the Duratio on grid reliability coming up in the show. We're also going to talk about the explosive growth in US solar
0:54.0	PV installations including thousands in California that received no state
0:58.9	incentives. So is the solar industry finally going to get some respect?
1:03.7	We'll move from distributed energy to centralized
1:06.8	and discuss some recent developments for offshore wind in America.
1:10.4	We'll ask whether it makes sense for the US to lead in the sector or simply be a second mover
1:14.4	And then as I mentioned we'll go into the health and resiliency of America's grid
1:19.7	A new report finds US outages were actually down in 2012, but with the impact of Superstorm
1:25.7	Sandy still fresh in people's minds, smart grid advocates are pushing harder than ever for change.
1:31.6	So what does that change really mean? So let's start with this
1:35.2	new report out this week from the folks at GTM research and the Solar Energy
1:39.3	Industries Association that showed the US installed 723 megawatts of solar PV in the first quarter of this year
1:46.8	and that's the best first quarter ever.
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