{"author_name":"Interchange Recharged","author_url":"https://art19.com/shows/the-interchange/episodes/ddcbde28-ff43-4072-bfcb-82ec87f0a754","description":"<p>Ryan Hanley is convinced that the distributed electric grid will create vastly more economic, security and societal value than today's centralized system.</p><p>Over the course of his career as a civil engineer -- working at Pacific Gas &amp; Electric,&nbsp;SolarCity, Tesla and now Advanced&nbsp;Microgrid&nbsp;Solutions -- Hanley has worked to understand and extract that value.&nbsp;</p><p>\"A macro theme that I've been tracking in my career is that exchange of value over the grid [that] I'm convinced will only become more&nbsp;transactive&nbsp;over time. More value will be exchanged in markets as the system relentlessly tries to take out economic fat from the system.\"</p><p>In this week's conversation,&nbsp;Shayle&nbsp;Kann&nbsp;talks with Hanley about the tools at hand to re-engineer the distributed,&nbsp;transactive&nbsp;grid system.&nbsp;</p><p>Topics addressed in this interview include:</p><ul><li>What distributed energy resources actually look like to utility distribution engineers and planners.</li><li>The ultimate outcome of net metering battles and the market's natural \"equilibrium.\"</li><li>How markets can extract maximum value from solar, storage and load control.</li><li>What it takes to build a 100-megawatt battery in South Australia in 100 days based on a tweet from&nbsp;Elon&nbsp;Musk.</li><li>The role of&nbsp;blockchain&nbsp;in future electricity markets</li><li>Plus, we'll play a bonus round of \"who said it\" and quiz Hanley on quotes from executives from PG&amp;E,&nbsp;SolarCity, Tesla and Advanced&nbsp;Microgrid&nbsp;Solutions.<em>﻿</em></li></ul><p><br></p><p><em>﻿This podcast is also brought to you by&nbsp;Shoals, the gold standard for solar and storage balance-of-systems solutions.&nbsp;</em><a href=\"http://www.shoals.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Learn more</em></a><em>&nbsp;about how Shoals can make your project operate at the highest level.</em></p><p><em>This podcast is brought to you by&nbsp;Fiveworx, a turnkey customer engagement platform for utilities.&nbsp;</em><a href=\"http://fiveworx.com/theinterchange\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Find out more</em></a><em>&nbsp;about how&nbsp;Fiveworx&nbsp;can help your customer engagement program succeed -- and get you beyond the meter.</em></p>","html":"<iframe src=\"https://art19.com/shows/the-interchange/episodes/ddcbde28-ff43-4072-bfcb-82ec87f0a754/embed\" style=\"width: 720px; height: 200px; border: 0 none;\" width=\"720\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"></iframe>","provider_name":"ART19","provider_url":"https://art19.com","title":"A Blueprint for the Transactive Grid","type":"rich","version":"1.0","width":720,"height":200}