Why New York Is Trying to Create the Most Innovative Grid in the World

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🗓️ 24 September 2014

⏱️ 55 minutes

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New York is taking a hard look at how to reform the distribution grid and encourage more distributed energy resources. But it’s not doing it through mandates. Instead, New York regulators are developing flexible market structures to encourage utilities to adopt a variety of new distributed technologies, while also empowering customers, creating new business competition and hardening the grid. So how exactly will the model work? In this special live podcast, recorded at WNYC’s performance space in New York City, we spoke with two architects of the plan. Audrey Zibelman, chair of the New York Public Service Commission and Sergej Mahnovski, director of Con Edison’s utility of the future team, joined the Energy Gang to discuss why the state is so unique. “I don’t want to create mediocre wires companies. I want to create excellent, innovative companies that have third parties wanting to come to New York and build businesses around DER because they see it’s a marketplace where they can be successful and then we can lead everywhere else,” explained Zibelman. The live show was organized in partnership with Clean Energy Connections. This podcast is brought to you by SMA, the world's leading solar inverter manufacturer. With more than 850 service experts, 90 service hubs, 30-plus gigawatts installed globally and thousands of commercial and utility projects completed worldwide, SMA is the partner of choice for your PV projects. 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 Media 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	This Podcast is brought to you by SMA, provider of the world's leading inverter technology
0:07.0	and backed by the world's leading service team.
0:10.0	With more than 850 service experts, 90 service hubs, 30 plus gigawatts installed globally
0:16.8	and thousands of commercial and utility scale projects completed worldwide, SMA is the partner
0:22.4	of choice for your PV projects.
0:25.0	For more, visit W.
0:27.0	SMA-America.com. dot com.
0:44.8	For the week of September 22nd, 2014, this is the Energy Gang from Green Tech Media, live in partnership with clean energy connections. I'm Stephen Lacey, a senior editor at Green Tech Media, and we are in New York City at the
0:49.5	Jerome Al Green Performance Space. We got the usual suspects with us. We have a couple
0:54.8	special guests and of course a live audience. Please make yourselves known for the
0:59.7	people back home who will be listening to this. And I know we got a raise of hands before.
1:04.0	And I know we got a raise of hands before but I'm curious I'd like to hear who was at the Climate March yesterday
1:27.0	Good. I think I've seen official estimates that it was around 400,000 strong now. A really remarkable diversity of groups, very inspiring to see.
1:31.0	And today we're going to be covering a topic that is certainly fueled by climate change,
1:36.3	the utility of the future, what some dub utility 2.0, certainly in New York as we consider
1:42.4	the future of how utilities are doing business and delivering electricity to customers,
1:47.0	climate change considerations are a key piece of that.
1:50.0	So, certainly very relevant to yesterday's March.
1:54.0	I do want to, I know we've gone through a lot of notes, even when we started off.
1:58.0	I just want to thank Clean Energy Connections, which is of course Solar One, NYC Acre, NYC Poly for putting this together in Green Tech Media
2:06.1	is really excited to be a partner and to support the many great events that they've
2:11.4	been putting together and getting a lot of
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