Welcome to EPRI Current – bringing you the latest on new and evolving research and findings on the generation, delivery and use of electricity, and how this work benefits society as we shape the future of energy.
Your hosts, Bill Florence and Samantha Gilman, talk to EPRI experts and industry guests who provide insight, context and science-based observations on what’s new – and what is yet to come – in the energy transition.
Latest Episodes
EV Efficiency Gains- What’s Down the Road?
Host: Samantha Gilman
Guests: Luke Tonachel, senior strategist for transportation, NRDC; Geoff Blanford, principal technical executive, energy systems and climate analysis, EPRI.
EPRI and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) recently released a study that found that EV efficiency improvements have the potential to significantly reduce future electric infrastructure buildout, energy usage, and consumer costs over the next three decades. According to the study, continued advances in EV efficiencies could cut electricity consumption per mile in half, and provide consumer energy cost savings of more than $200 billion annually if accomplished without raising vehicle costs.
Join EPRI Current host, Samantha Gilman, as she discusses these findings and more with her guest, the report authors.
See the press release: https://www.epri.com/about/media-resources/press-release/jQmOrOG0vdG6ZX1rK3d74OIggfh3uKez
Download the free report: https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002030215
EPRI Current Exclusive: Energy Roundtable with World Energy Council, USEA, and EPRI
Host: Bill Florence
Guests: Angela Wilkinson, Secretary General of the World Energy Council; Neil Wilmshurst, Senior Vice President of Energy System Resources and Chief Nuclear Officer for EPRI and Chair, US Committee, World Energy Council; and Mark Menezes, President and CEO of the United States Energy Association.
Collaboration, cooperation, and innovation are critical tools in facing future challenges to our energy systems. But how do countries, businesses, and organizations come together to talk about new ways of aligning different interests and making collaborative choices---top down, bottom up, and horizontally---to get impact at speed and scale?
Join EPRI Current host Bill Florence as he welcomes three global energy leaders to discuss their approaches to working together to address energy issues of today and in the future.
Wilkinson, Wilmshurst, and Menezes also discuss how their respective organizations are preparing for and what they aim to accomplish during the 26th World Energy Congress (sponsored by the World Energy Council) in Rotterdam, April 22-25.
Voices of Electrification – Part 1
Host: Samantha Gilman
Guests: Michael Wu, Founder and CEO of Converge Strategies; Sydney Roberts, Director of Technology and Market Solutions at Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance; and Latanza Adjei, Georgia Power SVP & Chief Customer Officer.
Electrification offers the potential to transform industries, like transportation, housing and agriculture, in which electricity is a key fuel. Plus, as the electric supply becomes cleaner, electrification can reduce society’s overall emissions. It can also lower costs and energy use for consumers and improve economic efficiency, equity, indoor environments, and safety. These topics and more were discussed at EPRI’s Electrification 2024 in Savannah, Georgia in early March.
Join EPRI Current, host Samantha Gilman from the show floor where she speaks with several industry thought leaders from the Electrification 2024 on how they envision the future of electrification and what their companies are doing to further the industry’s efforts.
