What If We Redesigned the Grid From Scratch?

Energy Gang

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🗓️ 30 June 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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What would the electric grid look like if we redesigned it from scratch using today's vast array of new technologies and rate designs? Would utilities, regulators and distributed energy providers agree on the design? They might agree on more than you think. In this week's show, we'll talk with Julia Hamm, president and CEO of the Smart Electric Power Alliance, about how to reconcile rapid technology change with the way electric utilities are structured. Then, we’ll talk Brexit. How will Britain’s exit from the European Union complicate energy markets and climate goals? Finally, we’ll untangle the mess in Brazil. It’s been a really rough year economically for the country – and that has spilled over into renewables. This podcast is sponsored by SolarEdge, a leader of the DC optimizer market and a leading supplier of inverters to the U.S. residential market. 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	The Energy Gang is brought to you by Solar Edge, a global provider of solar inverters and solar panel optimization electronics.
0:08.0	Solar Edge is a leader of the DC Optimizer market, a leading supplier of inverters to the U.S. residential market and a
0:14.6	top five supplier to the U.S. commercial market.
0:17.7	The company is active in over 91 countries, having shipped over 11 million power
0:22.0	optimizers and over 450,000 inverters.
0:25.0	To find out more about Solar Edges inverters and optimizers,
0:29.0	visit Solar Edge. From Green Tech Media, this is the Energy Gang, a weekly digest on energy, clean tech and the environment.
0:41.0	I'm Stephen Lacy. This week, what if we designed our grid from scratch today?
0:49.0	Would utilities, regulators, and
0:54.4	distributed energy companies diverge or would they agree? They might agree on
0:58.7	more than you think. Julia Ham, the CEO of the Smart Electric Power Alliance, joins us this week to talk about how utilities
1:05.0	are thinking about the decentralization of power generation.
1:08.8	Then we'll talk about Brexit.
1:10.5	How will Britain's exit from the European Union complicate energy markets and climate goals?
1:15.0	Finally, we'll untangle the mess in Brazil.
1:18.0	It's been a really rough year economically for the country and that has spilled over into renewables.
1:23.8	In Washington, D.C. is my regular co-host, Catherine,
1:26.9	hello, Catherine, how are you?
1:28.5	Hi, great, it's beautiful here in D.C.
1:30.8	Same here.
1:32.0	Jigger is off this week.
1:34.0	Filling in is one of our worldliest solar analysts, Mohit Anand.
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