Lightning Round on Power's Future

Guidehouse

Fourteen Guidehouse experts hit their buzzers and answer our questions: Hector Artze, Dan Bradley, Michelle Fay, Lisa Frantzis, Nicole Reed Fry, Ben Grunfeld, Derek Jones, Robyn Link, Chris Luras, Macky McCleary, David O’Brien, Molly Podolefsky, Danielle Vitoff, and Ted Walker.

Making Less Vulnerable the Minerals Critical to Power's Future

EV Batteries and More

“The secret that not everyone knows is, for many of these critical minerals, the U.S. has them here domestically. They can be found in different sources across the country. But can they be recovered in a way that’s environmentally friendly and can compete on cost?“

Latimer House Museum

Events

The great inventor and collaborator with Thomas Edison, Lewis Latimer, lived in Queens, New York when he was one of Edison’s chief competitors and later when Edison hired him. Latimer’s home was famously a meeting place for African American intellectuals, musicians, businessmen, etc. In the late nineteen nineties his home became a fascinating museum.

With Paul Kjellander’s painting of Latimer on the cover of June’s Public Utilities Fortnightly, we kicked off the campaign to develop a new permanent exhibition and interior renovation of the museum.

The Goal of the Grid

Association of Edison Illuminating Companies

The goal of the grid is to provide the necessary power capacity that links generators to loads, to maintain reliability under normal and stressed conditions, in a way that minimizes both capital and operational costs and maintains low costs to consumers.

Vote Solar's New Executive Director

Solar Power

“There is an evolution from where we were when solar was an upstart and disruptive technology. We’re on that cusp of being an incumbent, and a mainstream technology. We’re the lowest marginal cost energy out there.”