There\u2019s nothing to give you a little perspective on what\u2019s happening on planet Earth like getting off it and seeing its beauty\u2014and it\u2019s human-caused destruction\u2014from space. In this wide-ranging interview, former astronaut Jay Apt, a professor of technology and business at Carnegie Mellon University, shares some insights from his voluminous body of research on energy transition topics, including: what the power grid of the future could look like; how we\u2019ll balance it with increasing levels of renewable energy; how to smooth out the fluctuations in wind farm power output; utility business model evolution and resource adequacy planning; what the optimal amount of storage on the PJM Interconnection might be; the economics of behind-the-meter battery systems; the potential future for EVs providing services to the grid; whether carbon capture and sequestration technology and geoengineering can play significant roles in addressing climate change; the new era of electricity de- and re-regulation; and of course, what it\u2019s like to look down on Earth from space. You\u2019ll never see an hour go by as quickly as this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What are the hard problems and interesting questions on the road to energy transition, and what are their solutions? An astronaut and professor has answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[175,233,234,88,107,22,99,28,89,69,64,115,231,232,174,45],"class_list":["post-700","xen_episodes","type-xen_episodes","status-publish","hentry","category-energy-transition-show-podcasts","tag-balancing","tag-batteries","tag-business-models","tag-ccs","tag-climate-change","tag-emissions","tag-energy","tag-evs","tag-geoengineering","tag-grid","tag-solar","tag-storage","tag-transition","tag-transmission","tag-utilities","tag-wind","xen_guests-jay-apt"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n