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Nina Dar. The Change Troubleshooter - June 28, 2024 17:00 - 35 minutesChristine Lee has made conscious decisions in her life that allow her to look back at them as different stages, chapters if you like, that are all quite different. In those conscious decisions, her health and wellbeing have been prominent drivers, along with decisions over money, particulary w...
I Wanted To Be An Explorer
Nina Dar. The Change Troubleshooter - June 12, 2024 09:00 - 22 minutesWelcome to a brand new season of the Change Troubleshooter! Amazingly, this is the 6th season of this podcast that started back in 2020. We have now had over 2 and a half thousand downloads from no less than 535 cities in 47 countries spanning 6 continents! Thanks to you all for remaining inte...
ESG Reporting: Are You Ready for the SEC Deadline?
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - May 22, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe pending deadline for the SEC’s new reporting requirements around Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals adds a new layer of complexity for all publicly traded organizations, including utilities. Accurately reporting decarbonization, DR/DER results, environmental stewardship, and c...
Bridging the Gap Barriers and Opportunities at Car Dealerships
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - April 29, 2024 19:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsDelivering a successful utility EV program, whether focused on adoption or managed charging, requires coordination across several different stakeholders, including the utility, utility vendors, and OEMs. Often, car dealerships are ignored due to their unique structure and their relatively new en...
Among the World's Largest Smart Charging Fleets - Meet the Next Gigawatt Utility Resource
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - April 12, 2024 16:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe way customers use energy is changing in fundamental ways. Home energy technology - electric vehicles, air conditioners, solar and storage - can be a headache for utilities and grids, but active load management can unlock great value for customers and utilities. London-based Octopus Energy ...
2024's DR / DER Trends and Opportunities to Watch
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - January 17, 2024 20:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWood Mackenzie has estimated the U.S. could have up to 380GW of DERs connected to the grid as soon as 2025, which represents tens of millions of new DERs. PLMA has invited two industry experts to help us explore the outlook for 2024, including opportunities and challenges they will be watching c...
Smarta Resilience
Nina Dar. The Change Troubleshooter - January 16, 2024 15:00 - 27 minutesWelcome to Season 5 of The Change Troubleshooter: Channel Your Inner Cheeky Monkey This is episode 4, Smarta Resilience. Today Nina talks about resilience with Rachel Robinson, founder of Smarta Group in Tavira, Portugal. Rachel tells her story of how she went from corporate retail in the UK to...
U.S. Department of Energy’s Pathway to Commercial Liftoff for Virtual Power Plants & Federal Financing Support
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - December 07, 2023 22:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings"With electricity demand growing for the first time in a decade and fossil assets retiring, deploying 80-160 GW of virtual power plants (VPPs)—tripling current scale—by 2030 could support rapid electrification while redirecting grid spending from peaker plants to participants and reducing overal...
Paths to Mitigating Climate Change with Lee Krevat of the Climate Champions
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - December 07, 2023 20:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMeet Lee Krevat, a former utility executive with SDG&E and current CEO of Krevat Energy Innovations. Lee hosts a podcast titled “The Climate Champions” in which he discusses the planet’s future with a variety of leaders who are engaged in the fight to mitigate climate change. Each episode includ...
Boxing Clever
Nina Dar. The Change Troubleshooter - December 04, 2023 12:00 - 35 minutesWelcome to Boxing Clever, the 3rd episode in the Channel Your Inner Cheeky Monkey season where we focus on strength. Today Nina talks to Ben Williams, a boxing coach, but Ben's not just any boxing coach, he has been Nina's boxing coach for the last 2 years. Today they talk about how strength...
Rocky Mountain Power's Wattsmart Battery DR Program
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - December 01, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsRocky Mountain Power (RMP) received PLMA's Technology Pioneer Award this Spring for their work partnering with rooftop solar customers to accelerate their transition to the renewable grid of the future. The Wattsmart Battery Program innovation journey started in 2017 as a partnership between the...
Casa Colibri
Nina Dar. The Change Troubleshooter - October 20, 2023 12:00 - 22 minutesHello and welcome to season 5 of The Change Troubleshooter - Channel Your Inner Cheeky Monkey! This is episode 2, Casa Colibri. Colibri is spanish for hummingbird, and represents the transformation that Isabel Albert has been through as she channeled her inner cheeky monkey and visualised the ...
Casa Colibri Version Español
Nina Dar. The Change Troubleshooter - October 20, 2023 12:00 - 28 minutesHola y bienvenido a la temporada 5 de The Change Troubleshooter: ¡Canaliza tu mono descarado interior! (Channel Your Inner Cheeky Monkey!) Este es el episodio 2, Casa Colibri. Colibri representa la transformación que ha atravesado Isabel Alebrt mientras canalizaba su mono descarado interior y...
Ninety Years of Lifting People Up - *Shirley's Cut
Nina Dar. The Change Troubleshooter - September 27, 2023 11:00 - 35 minutesWelcome to Season 5 of The Change Troubleshooter. This season we hope to inspire you to Channel Your Inner Cheeky Monkey! A state of fun, playfulness and happiness that we can sometimes forget needs to remain a core part of our lives. In this 1st episode, Ninety Years of Lifting people Up, Nina...
Ninety Years of Lifting People Up
Nina Dar. The Change Troubleshooter - September 26, 2023 19:00 - 30 minutesWelcome to Season 5 of The Change Troubleshooter. This season we hope to inspire you to Channel Your Inner Cheeky Monkey! A state of fun, playfulness and happiness that we can sometimes forget needs to remain a core part of our lives. In this 1st episode, Ninety Years of Lifting people Up, Nina...
Salt River Project, EnergyHub, Google (Nest), and TechniArt: The BYOT DR Program for Hard-to-Reach Customers
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - September 07, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSalt River Project (SRP) DR program has over 67,000 devices providing 82 MW of load flexibility, and sometimes much more. During a single event in the summer of 2022, the program delivered 133 MW of first-hour load shift, ensuring grid resilience when it was needed most. The reliability and scal...
Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative and ICF: The FlexTemp Pilot
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - September 01, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsGaining Maryland Public Service Commission approval in March of 2022, the SMECO FlexTemp Pilot moved quickly to stand up a flexible load management program directly associated with the management of smart thermostats, during both the cooling and heating seasons. The approach taken for the progra...
SCE, GridX, and Oracle: The TOU Transition
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - August 03, 2023 22:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsTime-of-use (TOU) and other innovative rate designs are critical to managing an increasingly complex grid, achieving decarbonization goals, and integrating DERs. To achieve meaningful results, more energy customers need to adopt them. Southern California Edison (SCE) wanted to get its customers ...
How NREL Assesses Charging Network Requirements to Meet Aggressive Transportation Electrification Goals
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - August 01, 2023 19:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsU.S. climate goals for economy-wide net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 require rapid decarbonization of the light-duty vehicle fleet and plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) are poised to become the preferred technology for achieving this end. Considerable investments in public and private EV ...
Consumers Energy: Overview of the "PowerMIDrive Program"
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - July 20, 2023 18:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsConsumers Energy exceeded its 1,000 EV enrollment target for the PowerMIDrive Program by 33% in 2022, demonstrating the EV load management program can scale to its next target of 10,000 vehicles and far beyond. Join us to learn about this successful program that started in 2019 with networked ...
Flexible Electrification: Heat Pump Water Heaters
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - May 26, 2023 16:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHeat pump water heaters ("HPWH") are significantly more efficient than electric resistance water heaters (“ERWH”), and they’re the future! From IRA funding and electrification initiatives to simply figuring out how to address the customer experience, we forecast a dramatic increase in HPWH depl...
Unlocking a GEBs Future: Accelerating Coordinated Utility Programs for GEBs
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - May 26, 2023 16:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe U.S. electric power industry is in a transformational era. With the potential to save up to $18 billion in power system costs and 80 million tons of carbon emissions annually, grid-interactive efficient buildings (GEBs) are critical to achieve a modern, carbon-free energy system. As part of...
2023 Trends the Experts are Watching
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - January 27, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWood Mackenzie has estimated the U.S. could have up to 380GW of DERs connected to the grid as soon as 2025, which represents tens of millions of new DERs. There's also the question of the impact that the biggest DERs of all might have: the surge in electric vehicles. PLMA has invited two industr...
Opportunities for Public/Private Collaboration to Spur the Energy Transition
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - January 21, 2023 01:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsJoin us for a "fireside chat" with Kim Harriman, SVP, State Government Affairs and Corporate Communications at Avangrid, a sustainable energy company and PLMA member. Kim's extensive background in the development of energy policy from both a governmental and vendor perspective has provided her w...
Changing Mindsets on Sustainable Leadership
Nina Dar. The Change Troubleshooter - December 06, 2022 12:00 - 43 minutesHello and welcome to episode 9 of the Changing Mindsets season of The Change Troubleshooter, this episode is called Changing Mindsets on Sustainable Leadership. Today Nina talks to Brad Peirce, Chief Transformation Officer at Sustainability Mindshift and Principal and Founder of SEED Strategies...
Managed Charging: Blending Insights from the Customer and the Grid
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - November 07, 2022 16:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsOpinion Dynamics and Extensible Energy partnered with PG&E to complete an analysis of the charging patterns of 71,000 PG&E Electric Vehicle (EV) owners and a survey of 3,000 PG&E EV owners. By integrating research findings from the customer and grid perspectives, we will share insights on common...
Changing Mindsets on Being a Changemaker
Nina Dar. The Change Troubleshooter - November 02, 2022 14:00 - 46 minutesThe Change Troubleshooter Season 4 Changing Mindsets Episode 8 Hello and welcome to episode 8 of the Changing Mindsets season of The Change Troubleshooter, this episode is called Changing Mindsets on Being a Changemaker. Today Nina speaks to Susana Paiva, a mechanical engineer, mother, wife, ...
Changing Mindsets on It's Never Too Late
Nina Dar. The Change Troubleshooter - November 02, 2022 11:00 - 24 minutesThe Change Troubleshooter Season 4 Changing Mindsets Episode 7 Hello and welcome to episode 7 of the Changing Mindsets season of the Change Troubleshooter. this episode is called Changing mindsets on it's never too late. Today Nina is joined by Evelyn Kortum, also known, artistically as E Wass...
Duke Energy's Leadership in Demand Response
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - October 24, 2022 22:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsDuke Energy was recognized by PLMA for its Thought Leadership in advancing numerous successful demand response programs across its territory. Its DR team manages these programs for all rate classes in five states, each on its own path to achieve the company’s goal to be carbon neutral by 2050. D...
U.S. Department of Energy's Connected Communities on Scaling Grid-Interactive, Decarbonized Buildings
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - October 24, 2022 19:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has competitively awarded a total of $61 million dollars to 10 comprehensive large-scale projects through its Connected Communities initiative to help accelerate decarbonization of buildings and the electric grid. Connected communities of grid-interactive eff...
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