Episode 18 – Charging Ahead With EVs Plugged In: A Guidehouse Insights podcast

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It’s Episode 24 of Plugged In, the Guidehouse Insights podcast about interesting and emerging sustainability technology, and not the show starring Kiefer Sutherland. It’s the dead of winter for many of the listeners of Plugged In, so we brought Ryan Walden, who works with solar energy, to bring some sunshine and warmth to your feed. Ryan is a Managing Consultant on the Integrated Modeling team, where he supports community solar developers, investors, utilities, and other clients across the United States. We have Ryan on to talk about the most important sustainability topic of all: his favorite pizza in Chicago. Then we get on to less contentious topics like how community solar programs work, where they can have the most impact, and how low to moderate income communities can benefit from community solar. We learn how modeling teams like Ryan’s help a solar developer and we talk about what book really got Ryan into the energy space. And, like any good Plugged In episode, we chat about utility bills! Thank you to Guidehouse for providing us this platform for discussion. To keep up to date on other Guidehouse Insights work, follow our Industry Insights blog on our website: guidehouseinsights.com .…

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Episode 23 - Sharing is Caring…and Heating 31:15

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Happy 2025 to the many adoring fans of Plugged In, the Guidehouse Insights podcast where we get deep into sustainability topics and how they can be where you least expect. This month we have a first for Plugged In, a returning guest! We brought Grant Samms back on to talk about his report “Waste Heat Recovery for Data Centers”. Grant is a Research Analyst with Guidehouse Insights focusing on energy use and efficiency, smart city development, and the human/built environment interface. If you haven’t listened to his previous appearance in Episode 3, give it a listen! We have Grant on to chat about an emerging market with potential for massive benefits: waste heat from data centers. The server rooms for everything you do with a computer, from shop to generate AI images, create a lot of heat. With constant and predictable heat, what can a data center operator do with it? They can heat a building, heat water, and maybe even help with animal farming. With the explosive growth of data centers globally, this waste product might become a major opportunity. Thank you to Guidehouse for providing us this platform for discussion. To keep up to date on other Guidehouse Insights work, follow our Industry Insights blog on our website: guidehouseinsights.com .…

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Episode 22 - A Breath Of Fresh Indoor Air 45:07

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It’s the final episode of Plugged In for 2024, the Guidehouse Insights podcast where we get deep into sustainability topics and how they can be where you least expect. This month we have a change of pace, where we interview Bitania Yemane about her upcoming report “Indoor Air Quality in Commercial Buildings”. Bitania is a research analyst on the Guidehouse Insights Smart Buildings team, where she works on everything smart, from smart water sensors to smart air sensors. If you’re listening to this episode while slacking off from work, we wont tell anyone! But you should also be thinking about the quality of air in your office and how it is maintained all day long. We dive deep into air quality as well as the impacts COVID-19 continue to have on the way that we design buildings, the overwhelming amount of data coming from smart sensors, and the curse of adaptability. It is a topic many might be unfamiliar with, but we found incredibly fascinating! Give it a listen as the days finally begin to get longer again. Thank you to Guidehouse for providing us this platform for discussion. To keep up to date on other Guidehouse Insights work, follow our Industry Insights blog on our website: guidehouseinsights.com .…

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Episode 21 – 24/7, 365, Energy Stays On My Mind 39:59

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It's the 21st episode of Plugged In, the Guidehouse Insights podcast where we go deep into emerging sustainability topics and how they can be all around you. This month we have a two-fer for you, where we interview two of our esteemed coworkers: Roberto Rodriguez Labastida and Joe Owens. Roberto is a principal research analyst leading Guidehouse Insights' Power and Renewables team, and Joe is a research analyst at Guidehouse Insights who works on energy storage, resiliency, and climate transition planning. This month we discuss 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy, and how it is a snapshot for developments on the whole power grid. This is a great continuation of Episode 6, so give that a listen if you haven’t yet! We dive deep into these topics, as well as discuss responsibilities for carbon-free energy from the consumer versus the supplier side, differences across corporate carbon-free energy pledges, and the importance of making sure there are attainable goals on the way to 100% clean energy. Give it a listen on the drive to your family’s Thanksgiving dinner! Thank you to Guidehouse for providing us this platform for discussion. To keep up to date on other Guidehouse Insights work, follow our Industry Insights blog on our website: guidehouseinsights.com .…

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Episode 20 - Goin' Bananas 44:42

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It's the 20th episode of Plugged In, the Guidehouse Insights podcast where we go deep into emerging sustainability topics and how they can affect your life. We have an excellent conversation for your feed this month, when we get to talk to the newest research director on the Guidehouse Insights team, Ryan James! We talk shop with Ryan about his background as a research director for consulting firms and as a professor of Urban and Regional planning. Fresh onto the Insights Transportation team, we talk about his goals for the group and his overall goals as a researcher. We keep chatting after that, as we dive deep into issues with vehicle electrification, the difference in community engagement between academia and private industry, and the new technologies he is most excited for. We also talk our least favorite acronyms, econometrics jokes, and create some new environmentalist hashtags. Take a listen, and make sure to #HOTDOG. Thank you to Guidehouse for providing us this platform for discussion. To keep up to date on other Guidehouse Insights work, follow our Industry Insights blog on our website: guidehouseinsights.com .…

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Episode 19 – Bruce Yourself! 40:12

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Bruce yourself! The 19 th episode of Plugged In, the Guidehouse Insights Podcast where we go deep into emerging sustainability topics and how they might be all around you! This month’s episode, we are graced with Bruce Hamilton, a Director of the Generation Services Group that provides consulting services through benchmarking to over 200 owners and developers of power plants worldwide! Coming from a background in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley, tacked on with an MBA from Harvard, Bruce has had experience with nearly every type of energy source and mode. Wind, hydro, coal, and gas are under his belt from his experiences at GE, LG&E, Avangrid, and most importantly, Guidehouse. Bruce has the experience and expertise across nearly every energy generation, so it is worth your while to listen in to this episode. Bruce doesn’t stop at explaining the vital services he and his team provide to power plant owners. Throughout our conversation, we got to hear from him about what is holding wind as an energy resource back and how policies are changing that, and the major trends, challenges, and technologies facing the power plant industry today. It keeps going up as we hear about his experiences scaling wind turbines, serving as the owner of power plants, and looking at bobbing massive offshore wind turbines. To know the inside scoop about wind and its place against other generation sources, listen to Bruce in this episode. Thank you to Guidehouse for providing us this platform for discussion. To keep up to date on other Guidehouse Insights work, follow our Industry Insights blog on our website: guidehouseinsights.com .…

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Episode 18 – Charging Ahead with EVs 34:31

27 weeks之前34:31

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Whoop, whoop! Here is the 18 th episode of Plugged In, the Guidehouse Insights Podcast where we go deep into emerging sustainability topics and how they might be all around you! This new episode, we have on Jason Pandich, a Senior Research Analyst on Insights’ Transportation team, where his specialty is electric vehicles and, more specifically, EV charging. He studied Political Science, Government, Economics, History, and International Relations across his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees! From there, he worked at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation on implementing New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. Most importantly, Jason takes the time to smell the roses and count charging hubs along his driving routes in his free time. Jason talks us and listeners through the basics and not so basics of EV charging. What kinds of chargers are out there, how expensive are they, where are we seeing them, and what is deterring them from being at our local gas stations? More than that, though… what is keeping people from truly transitioning to EVs and swapping their normal cars? To understand more about creating a decarbonized transportation ecosystem, listen to Jason in this episode. Thank you to Guidehouse for providing us this platform for discussion. To keep up to date on other Guidehouse Insights work, follow our Industry Insights blog on our website: guidehouseinsights.com .…

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Epsiode 17 – Brat SumDER 32:12

31 weeks之前32:12

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Come along for the 17th episode of Plugged In, Guidehouse Insights Podcast where we go deep into emerging sustainability topics and how they might be all around you! This episode, we have on Maya Smith, a Research Analyst on Insights Power & Renewables team with a focus on DER (distributed energy resource) technologies and the economic drivers and barriers to them domestically and globally. Her studies in International Economics and Environmental Studies, as well as her passion for rock climbing and all things fish, Maya has a passionate background in all things sustainability that she explores in a multitude of ways. Throughout this episode, Maya gets into emerging markets and just how policies can help promote effective changes to broaden DERs presence. Self-dubbed our resident “DER money scientist”, she brings intriguing economic insight into the global presence and future growth of DERs. If you don’t get what her title means, what DERs are, and you want to know what Maya’s superpower is, you should probably listen. 2024 Brat SumDER has commenced! Thank you to Guidehouse for providing us this platform for discussion. To keep up to date on other Guidehouse Insights work, follow our Industry Insights blog on the website: guidehouseinsights.com .…

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Episode 16 - Generation 101 29:41

36 weeks之前29:41

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Come along for the 16th episode of Plugged In, Guidehouse Insights Podcast where we go deep into emerging sustainability topics and how they might be all around you! This episode features Megan Kuc, an Associate Director in Guidehouse’s Energy Practice. Megan’s background in cost and performance benchmarking and analysis of energy management solutions is used for fossil and hydro generating stations. With 20 years of experience in this industry, she is bridging knowledge and analysis of traditional fossil fuels and their transition to renewables. Piggy-backing off last month’s episode, we wanted to get back to the basics: Generation 101 if you will. In this episode, Megan goes through the fundamentals of energy generation that we all like to think we understand. Like how electricity is generated, how that process changes with certain renewable energies, and how we then transmit that energy to people’s homes. Beyond these elements, we get to hear how data empowers her work and how she makes numbers become animated story tellers of the future. Not to mention, the cool travels she gets to take view behind the scenes of generation facilities! Thank you to Guidehouse for providing us this platform for discussion. To keep up to date on other Guidehouse Insights work, follow our Industry Insights blog on the website: guidehouseinsights.com .…

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Episode 15 – KISS: Keep It Simple and Sustainable 28:26

40 weeks之前28:26

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Join us on the 15th episode of Plugged In, Guidehouse Insights Podcast where we go deep into emerging sustainability topics and how they might be all around you! This episode features Richelle Elberg, an IoT, energy storage, and smart grids expert Principal Research Consultant from Guidehouse Insights’ Power and Renewables team. Richelle leads the company’s energy storage team, utilizing her background in digitalization and connectivity solutions. Are you interested in thriller novels and sustainable manufacturing? We explore that with Richelle, along with what resources are being used for making green the dirty business of manufacturing. We span renewables, digitalizing systems, utilizing CCUS techniques, and recycling, but find the motto of K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) applies more than ever to this space. Richelle’s breadth and depth of experience across sustainability topics gives her considerable insight into the past, present, and future of technologies available and worthy of consideration. Thank you to Guidehouse for providing us this platform for discussion. To keep up to date on other Guidehouse Insights work, follow our Industry Insights blog on the website: guidehouseinsights.com .…

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Episode 14 – No More ExCCUSes for Decarbonization 27:13

45 weeks之前27:13

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Join us on the 14th episode of Plugged In, Guidehouse Insights Podcast where we go deep into emerging sustainability topics and how they might be all around you! We have a new cohost back to helm Plugged In: Grace Zucker! This episode features Serkan Birgel, a geopolitics and sustainability expert Senior Consultant from Guidehouse Insights’ Power and Renewables team. Serkan leads the company’s CCUS project tracker, leveraging his background in both geopolitics and sustainability with his Masters from King’s College and PhD from the University of Oxford. Intrigued by the connection between geopolitics in Cyprus and decarbonization efforts? We explore that with Serkan, along with the exciting potential of CCUS technology. We talk about the current standing and growing capacity for carbon capture, what pairs best with CCUS for effective decarbonization, and what the next 10 years will look like for this still rising industry. This episode spans the United Kingdom to Cyprus and Turkey as we take time to envision ourselves at the dinner table with Serkan’s family growing up, and see the background that fostered the intellectual curiosity Serkan has to offer. Thank you to Guidehouse for providing us this platform for discussion. To keep up to date on other Guidehouse Insights work, follow our Industry Insights blog on the website: guidehouseinsights.com .…

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Episode 13 - March Microgrid Madness 23:26

49 weeks之前23:26

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It’s the 13 th episode of Plugged In, the Guidehouse Insights Podcast where we go deep into emerging sustainability topics and how they might be all around you! This might be our unlucky 13 th episode, but we are blessed to be joined by Grace Zucker. Grace is a Consultant on the Guidehouse Insights team, where she works on carbon capture, corporate sustainability, hydrogen electrolyzers, and pretty much everything else we’ve ever covered on this podcast. She has a BA in Economics and Environmental Science from Barnard College, and has done some insanely cool work in her time there. We dive into that work in the episode, and then discuss microgrids. We look at what they are, why they are used, and where they are being deployed. We talk about how they are an important tool of resiliency, but also an emerging tool for so much more. Grace and Jake also get into a discussion about the beauty of invention and environmental work that is currently happening, and you will not believe what discovery sparks that conversation. Thank you to Guidehouse for providing us this platform for discussion. To keep up to date on other Guidehouse Insights work, follow our Industry Insights blog on the website: guidehouseinsights.com .…

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Episode 12 – Smart Cities: Lighting the Feuer of Sustainability 20:00

1 year之前20:00

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It’s the 1-year anniversary of Plugged In, the Guidehouse Insights Podcast where we go deep into emerging sustainability topics, from the grid to your car, from the phone to your home! For Episode 12, Erin (returning to cohost for the month) and Jake speak to Jared Feuer, a Research and Analysis Consultant on the Guidehouse Insights Built Environment team, about his work tracking smart cities around the globe. Jared’s work focuses on smart cities, energy storage, microgrids, EVs, and more in the sustainability field. He has a bachelor’s in business administration with a double major in environmental sciences from Emory University. We spend the episode talking about how Jared ended up at the intersection of business and environmentalism, what sort of work he puts into Guidehouse Insights’ many trackers, and examples of smart city technology that people might take for granted. We also finally talk about smart meters, which is probably warranted after all of our discussions of behind-the-meter technology. Thank you to Guidehouse for providing us this platform for discussion. To keep up to date on other Guidehouse Insights work, follow our Industry Insights blog on the website: guidehouseinsights.com .…

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Episode 11 – Solar and Storage: Battery Will Get You Everywhere 28:24

1 year之前28:24

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We have an all-timer for you this month! Welcome to Episode 11 of the Plugged In Podcast, where we take a deep dive into emerging sustainability topics from battery trucks to solar trucks to hydrogen trucks. This month we spoke with Erin Winkler, a Research Analyst on the Guidehouse Insights team about her report, “Hybrid Solar Plus Storage Energy Markets.” Erin’s work focuses on energy storage technologies and markets, including generation, deployment, and infrastructure. She has worked as a mathematical statistician at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. She has a BS in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from the Colorado School of Mines, which comes up faster than you might think. In this episode we have a lot of fun talking about solar energy markets, solar energy technology, and what we are doing to store all of that energy the sun produces. This builds a lot on previous episodes, so give Episode 7 a listen if you haven’t! We also talk caving, relaxing goat videos, and an incredible Twitter account, the latter two of which will be linked below! Thank you to Guidehouse for providing us this platform of discussion. To keep up to date on larger Guidehouse Insights work, follow our industry insights blog on the website: www.guidehouseinsights.com Link to a “EweTube’ Live Stream: https://lge-ku.com/sheep#c-overlay Link to the Colorado School of Mines Athletes Page: https://twitter.com/search?lang=en&q=mines%20(from%3Arandomathletess)&src=typed_query…

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Episode 10 – Hydrogen: Number 1 On The Periodic Table, Number 1 In Our Hearts 30:46

1 year之前30:46