Episode #6: ‘Transforming ISO New England to Be the Capacity Market of Tomorrow’ with Richard Brooks - [an Energy Central Power Perspectives™ Podcast]

After a brief hiatus, the Energy Central Power Perspectives™ Podcast returns with an innovative topic that one of our most forward-looking Energy Central experts will guide us on. As the nation's grid gets more distributed, has an increasing amount of renewables plugged into it, and experiences more and more pressure from customers, regulators, investors, and other stakeholders to simultaneously achieve affordability, reliability, resilience, and environmental consciousness, the ways in which the capacity markets of tomorrow operate will be front and center in dictating how these goals are accomplished.

Seeking out ways to mold the future capacity markets that will create these answers, Richard Brooks (prolific Energy Central writer and registered to our network of experts for the Load Management Group and the Digital Utility Group) has been hard at work sharing his ideas and looking to leverage the Energy Central community platform to seek out ideas, feedback, and resources to accompany his proposal for the Always on Capacity Exchange. This idea is so compelling that we knew it warranted a deep dive on the latest episode of the Energy Central Power Perspectives™ Podcast.

Key Links:

"2019 Insights: Just in Time Capacity Acquisition through an Always on Capacity Exchange (AOCE)": https://www.energycentral.com/c/em/2019-insights-just-time-capacity-acquisition-through-always-capacity-exchange

"It's time to give Traders, Energy Suppliers and Green Buyers, like Google and Budweiser, free access to Capacity Markets Nationwide": https://www.energycentral.com/c/cp/it%E2%80%99s-time-give-traders-energy-suppliers-and-green-buyers-google-and-budweiser

"Carbon Pricing on Electricity is Bad for Consumers and could slow EV adoption": https://www.energycentral.com/c/pip/carbon-pricing-electricity-bad-consumers-and-could-slow-ev-adoption

"Snowed-in and disappointed I cannot attend the 2019 NEPGA Energy Summit Today": https://www.energycentral.com/c/pip/snowed-and-disappointed-i-cannot-attend-2019-nepga-energy-summit-today

If you want to be a guest on a future episode of the Energy Central Power Perspectives™ Podcast, let us know! We’ll be pulling guests from our community members who submit engaging content that gets our community talking, and perhaps that next guest will be you! Likewise, if you see an article submitted by a fellow Energy Central community member that you’d like to see broken down in more detail in a conversation, feel free to send us a note to nominate them.  For more information, contact us at community@energycentral.com. Podcast interviews are free for Expert Members and professionals who work for a utility.  We have package offers available for solution providers and vendors. 

The Energy Central Power Perspectives™ Podcast is hosted by Jason Price, Community Ambassador of Energy Central. Jason is a Business Development Executive at West Monroe Partners, working in the East Coast Energy and Utilities Group. Jason is joined in the podcast booth by the producer of the podcast, Matt Chester, who is also the Community Manager of Energy Central and energy analyst/independent consultant in energy policy, markets, and technology.  

Happy listening, and stay tuned for episode #7 coming later this month! Like what you hear, have a suggestion for future episodes, or a question for our guest? Leave a note in the comments below.

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