Energy Nerd Show
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75 episodes
How Firefighters in Boston are Helping Make Battery Storage Safe
Keith Kelly is the District Fire Chief in charge of the HAZMAT unit in Boston. Keith helps us understand the benefits of properly installed battery storage and gives us a roadmap to avoiding fire and other dangers. Episode 169 of the Energy Ner...
A Powerful New Tool for Siting New Solar Projects
Steve Long from The Nature Conservancy joins us on this episode to discuss powerful new tools for siting solar projects. Episode 168 of the Energy Nerd Show.Links for more info on today's topic:The Nature Conservancy: https://www.na...
Affordability, Efficiency, and Getting Renewable Energy Projects Built
Providence, Rhode Island City Councilor Sue AnderBois talks to us about energy policy in Providence and Rhode Island as a whole, including energy efficiency projects and renewable energy. Episode 167 of the Energy Nerd Show.Links for mo...
How We Educate the Public about Batteries
Climable's Maisy Rohrer talks what folks can expect from battery adoption. Episode 166 of the Energy Nerd Show.Links for more info on today's topic:GreenRoots: https://www.greenrootsej.org/Donate to Climable: https://www.climabl...
Electricity Suppliers are Charging Billions for Hedging and Profits
Synapse's Pat Knight shares a new report about how ratepayers are being overcharged on their electric bills; costing, in total, $3.4 billion! Episode 165 of the Energy Nerd Show.Links for more info on today's topic:The Synapse repor...
The Best Way to Decarbonize Industry in the US
Synapse's Cecilia Springer shares a new Synapse report about the best way to decarbonize the industrial sector. Episode 164 of the Energy Nerd Show.Links for more info on today's topic:The Synapse report: https://www.synapse-energy....
Resource Adequacy Modeling for Reliability
Sabine Chavin tells us about Resource Adequacy Modeling and how it can help us understand how a resource portfolio can serve future load across all four seasons. Episode 163 of the Energy Nerd Show.Links for more info on today's topic:<...
New Electric Rates for Heat Pumps in Massachusetts!
New electric rates for heat pumps in Massachusetts! Amanda Barker from the Green Energy Consumers Alliance walks us through the new rate change and explains how it all works. Episode 162 of the Energy Nerd Show.Links for more info on to...
How Electrifying Buildings and Transport Will Affect the Electric Grid
Ida Weiss from Synapse joins us on this episode to discuss how electrifying buildings and vehicles will affect the electric grid. Episode 161 of the Energy Nerd Show.Links for more info on today's topic:The Report: Coming soon!<...
Fixing Multiyear Rate Plans to Control Utility Cost
Ben Havumaki from Synapse Energy Economics breaks down a new report on Multiyear Rate Plans and how, when used properly, MRPs can incentivize utilities to spend more efficiently and limit cost growth for customers. Episode 160 of the Energy Ner...
Protecting Electricity Customers from the Impacts of Data Centers
Caroline Palmer from Synapse digs into how electric rates for data centers will impact electricity customers around the country and how regulators can help shield those customers. Episode 159 of the Energy Nerd Show.Links for more info ...
How in the World Are We Going to Make Electricity Cheap in America?
Saul Griffith joins us to chat about how we can make electricity cheap in the US. He tells stories from his new book, "Plug In! The Electrification Handbook" and shares how we might be able to use Australia's approach to make electricity cheape...
A Smarter, More Flexible Grid with the Demand Stack
In this episode, we speak with Neil Veilleux from Uplight. Neil shares how the demand stack can be used to create a better, more flexible grid. Episode 157 of the Energy Nerd Show.Links for more info on today's topic:Uplight: https:...
Future Proofing Our Electric Grid with Grid Flexibility
In this episode, we speak with Jeremy McDiarmid from Advanced Energy United. Jeremy gives us a roadmap for what the future looks like for the electric grid and how grid flexibility will be important to keeping up with increasing electrical dema...
The Groundbreaking Design Based High School that's Changing the World (NuVu)
On this episode, we visit NuVu High School to chat with students about their incredible projects. NuVu is an alternative learning model high school that teaches kids via a hands-on design studio approach. This project based learning helps stude...
Responding to Your Heavy Machinery Electrification Comments! (w/RISE Robotics)
Blake Sessions from RISE Robotics answers your Beltdraulic questions at RISE's groundbreaking engineering lab. Blake demystifies RISE’s incredible new inventions that will replace dirty and inefficient hydraulics across the heavy machinery indu...
Electrifying Heavy Machinery at RISE Robotics!
Hiten Sonpal from RISE Robotics gives us a tour of RISE's groundbreaking engineering lab. Hiten shows us the incredible new inventions that RISE is working on that will replace dirty and inefficient hydraulics across the heavy machinery industr...
Why Utility Regulation Impacts Your Life Much More Than You Realize w/Charles Hua
Charles Hua from Powerlines.org shares how important public utility commissions are and why more people should care about their utility regulations if they're worried about their energy bill and where their energy comes from. Episode 152 of the...
The Science Based Approach to Preparing for Climate Change in Boston w/ Paul Kirshen
Can Boston adapt to climate change? Paul Kirshen from the Stone Living Lab shares his philosophy on how cities will have to utilize adaptive management practices in order to prepare for the changing landscape that climate change will bring. Cit...
Gas Utilities Need to Plan for Declining Sales w/Alice Napoleon
How will Natural Gas Utilities adapt to electrification? In order to keep rates reasonable, they'll need to make some big, calculated changes. Alice Napoleon shares what several different approaches will do for the industry. Episode 150 of the ...
The Extremely Sustainable Lifestyle of a Sloth w/Lucy Cooke
Lucy Cooke is a zoologist, author and sloth expert. In this episode, Lucy shares how sloths can teach us a lot about sustainability and energy conservation. Episode 149 of the Energy Nerd Show.Visuals and links available at energynerdsh...
Forests are Key to Solving Climate Change w/Dr. Bill Moomaw
Bill Moomaw shares the story of his career; convincing DuPont to change and help fix the ozone hole, pushing net negative GHG emissions, and pioneering a new type of sustainable forest management: proforestation. Episode 148 of the Energy...
The History of Natural Gas and Oil in the US w/ Cutler Cleveland
Cutler Cleveland shares his new project "Visualizing Energy" and tells the story of the history of Natural Gas and Oil in the US. Episode 147 of the Energy Nerd Show.Visuals and links available at energynerdshow.com/episodesAudio on...
Utilizing Alternative Interconnection for Fast and Cheap Green Energy
Sophie Schadler and Chelsea Mattioda from Synapse Energy Economics show us how utilizing surplus interconnection and generator replacement can allow for faster and cheaper energy projects. Episode 146 of the Energy Nerd Show.Visuals and...
Human Centric Planning for Energy Projects (Distributional Equity Analysis)
Tim Woolf from Synapse Energy Economics shows us how using equity in a DEA can yield positive results when planning energy projects. Episode 145 of the Energy Nerd Show.Visuals and links available at energynerdshow.com/episodesAudio...