The energy economics of safe, comfortable homes
Destenie Nock knows what it’s like to struggle with the high cost of energy. When she was in grad school, her electricity got cut off because she couldn’t afford to pay the bills. At the time, she was...
4 Mar 202520min
The Texas battery boom
Keith Collins knows electricity markets. After a stint consulting for the New York Independent System Operator, he joined FERC in 2004. After that, he spent years working for the California ISO and th...
18 Feb 202520min
Harvesting food and energy with agrivoltaics
Right now, there’s not much growing in Iowa. But Nick Peterson, strategic partnerships manager for Alliant Energy, is already thinking about next summer’s yields. He’s spearheading a collaboration wit...
4 Feb 202519min
The realities of clean energy on tribal land
Chéri Smith is a descendant of the Mi'kmaq Nation, native to northeastern North America. She has worked in clean energy for most of her career, but it took a 2016 visit to the Northern Cheyenne Reser...
21 Jan 202519min
Turning school buses into a VPP
With their short, predictable routes and large battery size, electric school buses are well suited for vehicle-to-grid applications, especially since they’re available during periods of high electrici...
7 Jan 202522min
Severe storms are fast-tracking grid resiliency projects
When Winter Storm Uri hit Texas in 2021, it led to more than 240 deaths and hobbled the electric grid for days. At the time, Arushi Sharma Frank was working on Tesla’s U.S. energy policy team, trying ...
17 Des 202419min
Survey highlights limits of green messaging
In 2014, Nathan Shannon was working for a community land trust in Georgia, building affordable housing. But following his interest in behavioral economics, he attended the Behavior, Energy, and Climat...
3 Des 202422min
What is and isn't clean energy?
Toby Ferenczi used to work for an energy provider that marketed 100% clean energy but also ran a demand response program. When customers started asking him why they should shift their energy use to ce...
19 Nov 202420min
