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The Sustainability Agenda

Listen as industry leaders discuss the financial, technical and policy developments shaping the global sustainability transition — and offer actionable insights.
The Sustainability Agenda

Mark Selby of the Canada Nickel Company joins host Tom Heintzman to discuss the Crawford Nickel Project’s strategic importance to Canada’s critical minerals future and its nation-building resource development ambitions. They examine the role of electrifying mining operations, carbon capture through tailings carbonation, and the business case for domestic downstream processing to capture more of the value chain in Canada.

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Inside Oncor and ERCOT’s response to Texas’ surging power demand

Geoffrey Bailey of Oncor joins host Tom Heintzman to discuss Texas’ response to surging electricity demand, particularly from data centers, ERCOT’s evolving approach to interconnection and transmission planning, and Oncor’s infrastructure expansion and grid innovations to support continued growth.
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Demand response and the new economics of grid flexibility

Paul Grod of Rodan Energy joins host, Tom Heintzman, to explore the role of demand response in managing decentralized power, including how commercial battery energy storage systems participate in electricity markets, and the benefits of connecting, dispatching, and coordinating distributed energy assets into a fully managed virtual power plant.
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Future’s so bright (for battery storage), gotta wear shades

Semih Oztreves of Zenobē Energy Limited joins Tom Heintzman, Vice Chair, Energy & Climate Finance, to explore the pivotal role of battery energy storage systems in enhancing grid resilience, the challenges and opportunities facing developers, and the future outlook for the sector.
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