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 host, Samantha Gilman, talks 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
Powering Europe’s Future: Innovation Through Collaboration
Host: Samantha Gilman
Guests: Consuelo Fierro, Project Manager at Innovation Management Office, National Grid; Mark McGranaghan EPRI Fellow, EPRI Europe
Host Samantha Gilman explores the energy innovation landscape in Europe with her guests Consuelo Fierro from National Grid, and Mark McGranaghan from EPRI. They discuss the prevalent innovation culture driven by EU and UK-funded projects, European innovation working groups and initiatives, the challenges and successes of National Grid's innovation efforts, and the transformative impact of AI on the energy sector.
For more information:
Mercury Consortium: https://www.epri.com/about/media-resources/press-release/qxpp9egqnwuldbnvtvkj2ljuwoas8dgc
ETIP SNET, “Unlocking the Potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI (GenAI) in Smart Grids”: Ongoing work on ETIP SNET Strategic Position Paper: AI and GenAI in Smart Grids | ETIP SNET
Open Power AI Consortium: https://msites.epri.com/opai
Battery Energy Storage Safety: From Cells to Systems
Host: Samantha Gilman
Guests: Stephanie Shaw, Technical Executive, Energy Storage, EPRI; Lakshmi Srinivasan, Principal Team Lead, Energy Storage, EPRI; Kieran Claffey, Senior Research Engineer in the Research Environment and Sustainability Group of Southern Co., Industry Lead, Safety and Grid Security Tiger Team for the Long Duration Energy Storage National Consortium
Join EPRI experts Stephanie Shaw and Lakshmi Srinivasan of EPRI’s Energy Storage research area, and Southern Company’s Kieran Claffey to learn how research, risk assessment, and analysis continues to improve the safety of battery storage technology and operations. As battery storage energy grows across the globe, with the vast majority of deployments being lithium ion, what have we learned about the safety of battery storage as both a source and as part of a larger electric system?
Find out more about EPRI’s Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Failure Incident Database, initiated in 2021. It tracks incidents involving BESS systems, providing valuable data on system age, manufacturer, chemistry, and application.
For more information:
EPRI Failure Incident Database: BESS Failure Incident Database - EPRI Storage Wiki
EPRI Whitepaper: Analysis of Failure Root Cause: Insights from EPRI’s Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) Failure Incident Database: Analysis of Failure Root Cause
Just Keep Swimming: New Tech Enables Fish Migration at Hydro Dams
Host: Samantha Gilman
Guests: Mika Sohlberg, Co-Founder, Fishheart; Michael Melchers, FERC Administrator, Santee Cooper; Paul Jacobson, Technical Executive, generation sector, EPRI
Teach a person to fish, and they just might teach the rest of us how to innovate to preserve the species.
Hydropower is one of the world’s oldest low-carbon sources of electricity generation. And as long as there have been dams, there have been migrating fish needing to swim upstream past them to spawn. Join EPRI Current host Samantha Gilman and her three guests as they discuss testing the new Fishheart fish passage technology in North America. Developed by fishermen in Finland, the technology was tested in North America at the Santee Cooper utility as part of a Department of Energy research project supervised by EPRI.
