PowerTalking by E Source explores the intersection between technology and innovation, sustainability, policy, and utility industry insights. The show is informative and educational, first and foremost, while also exploring interesting and impactful trends in the energy industry.
Enhancing utility storm preparedness, response, and recovery
We’re witnessing storms growing in intensity and severity in recent years. Whether they’re facing hurricanes and wildfires or prolonged heatwaves and flooding, utilities find themselves with a growing need for resources to manage their emergency outage operations. The way utilities have been managing their storm operations is shaping up to be unsustainable in the years to come. Host Bryan Jungers welcomes E Source Data Science colleagues Josh Denzler, director of sales innovation, and Devon Grodkiewicz, solutions adviser, to discuss the storm and outage challenges utilities are up against and identify opportunities for improvement.
Storm preparedness, response, and recovery is part of E Source's grid and asset optimization. You can learn more here: https://www.esource.com/public/grid-and-asset-optimization (https://www.esource.com/public/grid-and-asset-optimization)
5 Oct 2023
What utilities need to know about winning a WaterSMART grant
Host Bryan Jungers welcomes to the podcast Kierra Thomas, senior consultant at E Source, and Eddy Hernandez, director of enterprise solutions for Brownsville Public Utilities Board. They’ll discuss what helped them secure the win and explain what utilities need to know before they apply for grants.
Interested in applying for a WaterSMART grant? E Source can help. Learn more here. (https://pages.esource.com/TPI-WaterSmart-Interest-form_Landing-page-TPI-WaterSmart-interest-form.html)
4 Apr 2023
Creating customer-centric DSM programs
Host Bryan Jungers welcomes to the podcast Tom Lienhard, executive consultant to E Source, and Barend Dronkers, product strategist for Customer Energy Solutions at E Source, to talk about DSM programs and what utilities should be doing to keep them moving forward to benefit customers.
2 Nov 2022
EV Managed Charging
Host Bryan Jungers is joined by Stephanie Leach, Principal Business Analyst at Baltimore Gas and Electric, and Jesse Hitchcock, Senior Analyst of Customer Energy Solutions at E Source, to discuss the concerns surrounding how EV charging may impact the grid.
13 Apr 2022
Why energy equity is a win-win for utilities, cities, and customers
Diversity, equity, and inclusion isn’t a new concept for utilities, but there’s a new energy equity movement sweeping the utility sector. Who better than Dr. Tony Reames, senior adviser of energy justice at the US Department of Energy (DOE) to explain how energy equity can benefit utilities, cities, and customers. Ben Nathan, lead analyst for Customer Energy Solutions at E Source, and Bryan Jungers, E Source director of mobility, discuss with Dr. Reames how to create successful collaborations between utilities and the DOE, how utilities can get federal funding to help with equity efforts, and how we can measure success.
Tony’s and Ben’s beginnings (1:13)
How can utilities improve their efforts with low- and moderate-income (LMI) customers? (5:38)
How can utilities collaborate with local governments and the DOE? (10:04)
Federal funding through an equity lens (12:59)
Specific examples of energy equity programs (15:34)
How can we maintain momentum with work around energy equity? (18:13)
How do we measure success in energy justice? (23:18)
How can utilities better collaborate with their communities? (27:41)
How utilities can shine with these opportunities (32:44)
15 Mar 2022
All about batteries: Environmental impacts, production methods, and second-use ideas
Host Bryan Jungers, director of mobility at E Source, talks with Emily Hersh, CEO of Luna Lithium, and Sam Jaffe, vice president of E Source Battery Solutions, to understand the ins and outs of batteries. Have you ever wondered how exactly batteries are made? Or where the lithium in lithium-ion batteries comes from? We hear from the experts as they discuss:
- The environmental impacts of EV battery manufacturing
- An overview of lithium extraction methods
- Whether hydrogen works as an alternative fuel for transportation
- Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments
- Next-generation battery types
- Second-use battery applications
6 Dec 2021
How our heartbeats can help create better EV ads
Host Bryan Jungers, director of mobility at E Source, talks with Laura Beavin-Yates, vice president of customer success for Immersion Neuroscience, and Rachel Cooper, director of E Source Market Research, to learn about a collaboration between Immersion Neuroscience and E Source that produced some exciting and useful results. They can help us better understand what consumers think of electric vehicles (EVs) and how to change their behavior around EV adoption by showing which ads and messages are most effective with certain audiences.
30 Aug 2021
Humans vs. Machines: Debating data science and ethnographic research
Join Ted Schultz, E Source CEO, and Adam Maxwell, Managing director of E Source consulting, in this deep-dive episode on ethnography versus data science.
What’s better for customer research? Data science identifies your target individuals at a macro level, while ethnography humanizes those insights. Is a blend the best option? Is one better than the other? Host, Bryan Jungers, Director of Mobility, talks with our experts to find out.
8 Jun 2021
The past, present, and future of demand response: A chat with SCE’s Mark Martinez
In our second episode of PowerTalking, host Bryan Jungers is joined by Rachel Buckley, vice president of Enterprise Strategy and New Products at E Source, and Mark Martinez, senior portfolio manager of emerging markets and technology at Southern California Edison. They deliver a brief history of demand response (DR), explain how data science is improving program participation, and describe some of the largest hurdles in the DR space today. Rachel and Mark’s combined decades of DR knowledge help to paint a complete picture of how the strategy works and where it’s headed in the future.
12 Apr 2021
Will legacy car companies ever truly embrace EVs?
In our first episode, lead analyst Bryan Jungers chats with E Source's chief instigation agent, Bill LeBlanc, and electric vehicle (EV) advocate Chelsea Sexton to answer some questions around EV trends. Humorous yet in-depth, this episode is a rich dialogue about the future of EVs, discussing everything from car battery size to EV market penetration.
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