Texas Power Podcast
The Texas Power Podcast is a production of Renewable Energy World and Clarion Energy. Host Doug Lewin, founder of the consulting firm Stoic Energy, guides listeners through the complicated world of Texas energy, focusing on how to build a more reliable, cleaner electric grid. Lewin will provide analysis on the 2021 blackouts during Winter Storm Uri, Texas energy policy, clean energy, energy efficiency, demand response, distributed energy resources, transmission infrastructure, and much more. The Texas Power Podcast aims to serve an audience of energy professionals, policymakers, and academics, but will also be accessible to a general audience by explaining key topics and acronyms. Subscribe today! And be sure to check out Renewable Energy World's solar industry podcast, Factor This! Connect with Doug Lewin on Twitter: @douglewinenergyFor sponsorship inquiries, please email john.engel@clarionevents.com
Podcasting since 2022 • 10 episodes
Texas Power Podcast
Latest Episodes
Texas would be 'crazy to penalize renewables,' CPS Energy CEO Rudy Garza says
Rudy Garza, CEO of CPS Energy, the nation's largest integrated municipal power and gas utility, doesn't mince words when it comes to the effort by some policymakers in Texas to punish renewables for the broad failures during Winter Storm Uri. <...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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55:45
1-on-1 with Vistra CEO Jim Burke
The energy transition is daunting to incumbent energy companies— albeit in very different ways.Vistra CEO Jim Burke joined Episode...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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51:13
A Cambrian explosion of distributed energy in Texas
Texans can now get paid for supporting the grid with their solar panels and batteries as part of a new virtual power plant pilot project.What happens next could lead to rapid deployment of resilient and clean distributed energy resource...
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Episode 6
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58:18
Geothermal energy and the revival of a forgotten renewable
Tim Latimer was working as a drilling engineer in South Texas when he couldn't shake a newfound curiosity.Latimer was new to the oil and gas industry, and in 2012, the industry was at the height of the shale revolution. He was tasked wi...
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Episode 5
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58:26
Drilling for renewables in Texas
As if it wasn’t enough that Texas has some of the best wind resource, best solar resource, and largest shale oil and gas deposits in the world, the Lone Star State also has a great geothermal resource. Unlike the others resources, though, geoth...
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Episode 4
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54:34