{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/652e6e3b2681ee0012ea47f0/6a9fff81fe3b7e34fd70d031?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Interconnection software: why needs to be improved ","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/652e6e3b2681ee0012ea47f0/1790090523942-7ba4a176-b4d9-438f-865b-e4dbfbca18d1.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Gigawatt loads are being studied on software that looks like it was built for Windows 95. The math underneath has barely changed. Everything around it has.</p><p><br></p><p>Clare Southworth talks with Mike Malguarnera of Transmission Fox about the state of interconnection modeling and what it would take to make the results worth trusting.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode:</p><ul><li>Why interconnection software has not moved since the 1990s and how it makes results less reliable</li><li>Which utilities and regions are winning in the &#39;speed to power&#39; race</li><li>What happens to a model when you have to solve for load and generation at once</li><li>Utilities and risk, and why nobody wants to lose ten cents to make a dollar</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Mike Malguarnera has spent 15 years in power, starting on one of the last coal plants built in the United States, then resource planning and power market strategy at ACES, then solar and storage development and interconnection at BW Solar. He now runs Transmission Fox, helping developers review interconnection results and set transmission strategy.</p><p><br></p><p>Views are his own</p>","author_name":"Powered by Element Six"}