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In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Michael Smith, CEO of national VPP development powerhouse CPower Energy, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the role VPPs, composed of distribution system located and often largely aggregated customer-owned distributed energy resources, can play in meeting today’s demand growth and affordability challenges.This episode is sponsored by EnergyHub. EnergyHub is helping the electric power industry transition from centralized, controlled, carbon-intensive generation to distributed, intermittent, renewable generation. Learn more at ⁠https://www.energyhub.com/⁠.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Dana Guernsey, CEO of demand response provider Voltus answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how Voltus is preparing to lead the evolution of demand response into virtual power plants to help solve the power sector’s demand growth and affordability challenges.This episode is sponsored by EnergyHub. EnergyHub is helping the electric power industry transition from centralized, controlled, carbon-intensive generation to distributed, intermittent, renewable generation. Learn more at ⁠https://www.energyhub.com/⁠.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Nick Chaset, Executive Vice President for North America of the Octopus Energy Group and CEO of Octopus Energy US answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the new partnership between demand response provider Voltus and distributed energy resources aggregator Octopus Energy that could dramatically expand the use of VPPs to meet the US growing electricity demand.This episode is sponsored by EnergyHub. EnergyHub is helping the electric power industry transition from centralized, controlled, carbon-intensive generation to distributed, intermittent, renewable generation. Learn more at https://www.energyhub.com/.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Seth Frader-Thompson, President of grid edge software platform developer EnergyHub answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the standards and language in the Huels Test that shows how virtual power plant performance is challenging that of conventional power plants. This episode is sponsored by EnergyHub. EnergyHub is helping the electric power industry transition from centralized, controlled, carbon-intensive generation to distributed, intermittent, renewable generation. Learn more at https://www.energyhub.com/.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Rusty Haynes, senior manager for research and industry strategy with clean energy advocacy group the Smart Electric Power Alliance, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the new “50 States of Virtual Power Plants and Supporting Distributed Energy Resources” report describing the growth of legislative and regulatory policy work on VPPs across the US in 2025.This episode is sponsored by EnergyHub. EnergyHub is helping the electric power industry transition from centralized, controlled, carbon-intensive generation to distributed, intermittent, renewable generation. Learn more at https://www.energyhub.com/.

In this episode of CEO Corner, Association of Edison Illuminating Companies CEO Steve Hauser provides an update on their activities.

In this episode of USEA's Global Briefing, Elmar Bouma of the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency (NFIA) explores the 250-year evolution of the U.S.-Dutch partnership, from revolutionary gunpowder trade to today’s critical energy corridor. The conversation highlights the Netherlands' role as the "gateway" for U.S. LNG into Europe via the EemsEnergyTerminal and its rapid transition toward a green economy.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Autumn Proudlove, Managing Director for Policy and Markets with the North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the newest “50 States of Virtual Power Plants and Supporting Distributed Energy Resources," which catalogues and describes the growth of legislative and regulatory policy work on VPPs across the US in 2025.This episode is sponsored by EnergyHub. EnergyHub is helping the electric power industry transition from centralized, controlled, carbon-intensive generation to distributed, intermittent, renewable generation. Learn more at https://www.energyhub.com/.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Akhilesh Ramakrishnan, Managing Associate with global business consultant The Brattle Group, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about how EV charging’s potential threat of overloading utility distribution systems can be turned to an advantage with active managed charging strategies.

In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Dr. Peter Fox-Penner of The Brattle Group and Energy Impact Partners and Katherine Hutton of Fluence and the Technology Advancement Center answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about insights from Brattle’s just released paper, “Securing Battery Energy Storage Systems from Cyberthreats.”