Hosts Lindsay Bell and Jack Murphy, of ICF’s Workforce Innovations, Preparedness, and Poverty Solutions (WIPPS) portfolio, are joined by WIPPS Project Director and Cybersecurity Youth Apprenticeship Initiative (CYAI) coach, Mary Roberto, and Ian McMahon, Director of the Colorado Division of Economic and Workforce Support. Together, they discuss how…

Tune in to Energy in 30, hosted by Joan Collins and David Meisegeier. In this episode, you'll hear from Sally Jacquemin, OSI and AspenTech Business; Sarah Colvin, GE Vernova; and ICF's Chris Najera. The discussion focuses on the crucial role of load management in the energy transition. Topics in today’s episode include: Changes in customer behavior…

Tune in to Energy in 30, hosted by Joan Collins and David Meisegeier. In this episode, hear ICF experts Nancy Caplan and Kelly Zonderwyk talk about building utility customer connections with account-based marketing. Together, we discuss how the whole energy system is in the midst of a major transformation and how utilities are working to engage the…

Tune in to Energy in 30, hosted by Joan Collins and David Meisegeier. In this episode, a panel of our experts revisit their top predictions for 2023. You’ll hear from Justin Rodgers, vice president of energy business development, Mike Jung, founding executive director of the ICF Climate Center, and Meredith Derr, senior director of disaster managem…

Tune in to Energy in 30, hosted by Joan Collins and David Meisegeier. In this episode, hear from authors Mike Lenox and Becky Duff, who talk about their new book, “The Decarbonization Imperative: Transforming the Global Economy of 2050.” Together, we discuss the impacts of the climate crisis, how it’s affecting every sector and industry, and how to…

Tune in to Energy in 30 hosted by Joan Collins and David Meisegeier. In this episode, hear from Dave Roberts, manager of the Residential Buildings Research Group for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and a returning guest, Kevin Duffy, who leads our innovation pilots team. Together, they discuss how technological innovations and coll…

Tune in to Energy in 30 hosted by Joan Collins and David Meisegeier. In this episode, hear from ICF innovation strategy and services lead Nick Lange. Together, they discuss generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and its impact on the energy industry. Topics in today’s episode include: Three reasons why ChatGPT went viral in 2023 Is GenAI trustw…

Tune in to our fifteenth episode of “Energy in 30,” hosted by Joan Collins and David Meisegeier. In this episode, hear from Rohit (Rit) Aggarwala, New York City's Chief Climate Officer and the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner, along with ICF Director of Building Decarbonization Luke Surowiec. Together, they explore how citi…

Tune in to Energy in 30 hosted by Joan Collins and David Meisegeier. On our fourteenth episode, “The future of controlled environment agriculture,” hear from Derek Smith at the Resource Innovation Institute (RII), Jennifer Amann at the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), and ICF’s Director of Energy Efficiency Cody Allen. Toge…

Tune in to Energy in 30 hosted by Joan Collins and David Meisegeier. On our thirteenth episode, "Driving the utility industry toward equity," hear from Jeff Brown, energy efficiency and consumer programs manager at the Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO), and Karen Ehrhardt-Martinez, director of behavioral science and customer insights at ICF.…

Tune in to Energy in 30 hosted by Joan Collins and David Meisegeier. On our twelfth episode, "Insights for a sustainable and low-emissions future," hear from ICF Climate Center Executive Director Michael Jung. Together, we discuss the Climate Center’s mission to establish clear, practical pathways for reaching ambitious climate goals and the role o…

Tune in to Energy in 30 hosted by Joan Collins and David Meisegeier. On our eleventh episode, "Aligning utility branding with industry transformation," hear from ICF Senior Partner of Integrated Communications Matt Silverman and Karen Cleeve, senior vice president of communications for PSEG, New Jersey’s largest utility. Together, they discuss PSEG…

As 988 takes shape across the country as the replacement for the 10-digit National Suicide Prevention Lifeline—part of the bipartisan National Suicide Hotline Designation Act—states continue to respond to the rise in workforce demand. In this second episode of our series on building and preparing the crisis services workforce, host Taylor Moore, di…

Tune in to Energy in 30 hosted by Joan Collins and David Meisegeier. On our tenth episode, "IRA and IIJA strategies for utilities," hear from our thought leaders Michael Jung, Erica Larson, and Justin Rodgers as they share their thoughts on the impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). Together,…

In 2022, the U.S. transitioned the 10-digit National Suicide Prevention Lifeline to 988 as part of the bipartisan National Suicide Hotline Designation Act. To address the nation’s mental health crisis and increase access to crisis care, the transition to 988 demands increased call center capacity to support the influx in callers. In this podcast, T…

Tune in to Energy in 30 hosted by Joan Collins and David Meisegeier. On our ninth episode, "Trends in reaching global decarbonization goals," hear from Mark Allington, vice president, energy in Europe and Asia. With more than 30 years of experience in the industry, Mark provides insight into the long-term goals, challenges, and opportunities faced …

Tune in to Energy in 30 hosted by Joan Collins and David Meisegeier. On our eighth episode, "EV trends for consumers and utilities," hear from Emily Phan-Gruber, associate manager for transportation electrification at Duquesne Light Company (DLC), the utility powering the Pittsburgh area. She joins ICF Vice President for Transportation Electrificat…

In episode 9 of Energy Renewed, Matt Robison talks with Con Edison Director of Statewide Data Integration Damian Sciano and Patricia D’Costa, ICF Lead Energy Advisory Consultant. As New York’s utilities and regulators lead the way in harnessing big data potential, Damian and Patricia share insights into lessons learned and how other stakeholders ar…

Tune in to Energy in 30 hosted by Joan Collins and David Meisegeier. On our seventh episode, "Breaking silos for successful transformation," hear from Nathan Morey, manager of product development of the Arizona-based Salt River Project (SRP). Nathan is responsible for helping integrate customer-facing programs and initiatives with the utility’s sys…

Tune in to Energy in 30 hosted by Joan Collins and David Meisegeier. On our sixth episode, "Breaking down the Inflation Reduction Act," hear from ICF thought leaders Justin Rogers, Maci McDaniel, Mark Pignatelli, and Erica Larson as they offer an initial breakdown of the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) as it relates to the ene…

Tune in to Energy in 30 hosted by Joan Collins and David Meisegeier. On our fifth episode, "Addressing energy efficiency in Indigenous communities,” hear from Yasmin Abraham and Karim Abraham, the brother-and-sister founders of Kambo Energy Group. Their organization focuses on equity-based social enterprise that designs solutions to reduce energy p…

Editor’s Note: The following content deals with the sensitive topic of mass violence. Some listeners may find it distressing. This podcast was recorded in April 2022. ICF has been providing immediate assistance to communities after a mass violence incident (MVI) for over 30 years. In this podcast we share guidance and advice on how communities can …

Tune in to Energy in 30 hosted by Joan Collins and David Meisegeier. On our fourth episode, "Scaling an affordable clean energy transition,” hear from Jigar Shah, Director of the Loan Programs Office at the U.S. Department of Energy. Throughout his career, Shah helped pioneer climate solutions at scale and low-cost infrastructure. This includes fou…

This podcast series was recorded in April 2022. ICF has been providing immediate assistance to communities after a mass violence incident (MVI) for over 30 years. In this podcast we share guidance and advice on how communities can create a plan to respond to MVIs and identify and develop strategies to address the short- and long-term needs of the p…

Tune into our third episode of “Energy in 30: Pressures are motivating tectonic regulatory shifts,” to hear from Cameron Brooks, president of E9 Insight, an information service focusing on regulatory actions and trends that have an impact on clean energy and consumer technologies transforming the electric utility industry. Cameron is also instrumen…

Tune in to Energy in 30 hosted by Joan Collins and David Meisegeier. On our second episode, "Customer co-creation advances clean energy future,” hear from Paul De Martini, executive director of the Pacific Energy Institute, more commonly known as PEI. He recently published white papers that are must-reads for anyone in the energy industry. Paul dra…

Traditional utility pilots have delivered mixed results. They can be slow to get off the ground and take years to complete. But as utility leaders know, today’s most pressing energy challenges—meeting decarbonization goals, ensuring grid resilience, and delivering solutions that satisfy evolving customer needs—demand a faster and more effective way…

The pandemic has helped shed light on serious gaps in rural broadband access and how these gaps can pose significant challenges for rural education. Experts from the Academic Development Institute, Appalachian Regional Commission, Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development, and our Child Welfare and Education division discuss how to…

In this podcast, Kelli Reddick of ICF is joined by Josh Overmyer, a certified floodplain manager for a coastal county in Florida, and Eddy Bouza, deputy state floodplain manager for the State of Florida, to discuss floodplain management and changes coming to FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).…

In this podcast, Jen Folsom of ICF Next speaks with Caitlin Howley of the ICF child welfare and education team, Sam Redding from the Academic Development Institute, and Janet Throckmorton, principal of Fancy Farm Elementary School, to discuss the unique aspects of rural schools in the U.S. and how they’re responding to the challenges of COVID-19.…

In episode 7 of Energy Renewed, Katie Janik of ICF speaks with Chris Pollack of the ICF technical advisory team, Sandy Calvert from insurance advisor Moore-McNeil, and Eric Daniels, founder and owner of Sun Cycle, to discuss how to get renewable energy projects back online after an unforeseen event. This episode is the third of three in our series;…

In this episode of our Climate Risk podcast series, hosted by Brad Hurley, senior communications consultant at ICF, a leading climate expert discusses how floodplain maps alone may misrepresent accurate flood risk, and how climate change and access to flood risk information affects property values. The conversation with Miyuki Hino, Ph.D., assistan…

In episode 6 of Energy Renewed, host Katie Janik speaks with Chris Pollack, of the ICF technical advisory team; Sandy Calvert, from insurance advisor Moore McNeil; and Eric Daniels, founder and owner of Sun Cycle, to discuss how to get renewable energy projects back online after an unforeseen event. This episode is the second of three in our series…

In episode 5 of the Energy Renewed podcast—hosted by Katie Janik, asset management advisor at ICF—we kick off a new Unforeseen Events miniseries. Unforeseen events require diligence and outside-of-the-box thinking to bring renewable energy projects back to a certain level of power production. In part 1, hear from Chris Pollack of the ICF technical …

In episode 4 of our Energy Renewed podcast series — host Katie Janik, asset management advisor at ICF, speaks to Paul McGuire who was part of the team that created a short circuit program that eventually became Computer Aided Protection Engineering (CAPE) software. Katie is also joined by Baldwin Yeung, VP of CMY Solutions, who discusses the impact…

In this episode, host Caitlin Howley, director of child welfare and education at ICF, examines the issue of racial equity in Appalachian education. The conversation with Director of the Regional Comprehensive Center, Kandace Jones, and First2 Network Program Coordinator, Jade Irving, covers such topics as: Why racial equity in education matters so …

In this episode, hosts David Speiser, Ph.D., executive vice president at ICF, and Nicola Dawkins-Lyn, Ph.D., vice president of research science at ICF, explore how public health in the United States links up—and doesn’t—with the larger global health landscape. The conversation with Director of Emory University’s Global Health Institute Dr. Jeff Kop…

In this episode of our podcast, host by Dr. Caitlin Howley , director of child welfare and education at ICF, is joined by Dr. John Ross, one of ICF’s experts on instructional design and blended learning, to discuss the challenges students, parents, and educators across Appalachia are facing as they deal with COVID-19. They cover topics such as: The…

In this episode of our Climate Risk series, host Brad Hurley, senior communications consultant at ICF, is joined by Jesse Keenan, a social scientist at Tulane University and one of the editors of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Managing Climate Risk in the U.S. Financial System report, to discuss how the private sector is poised to …

In this episode, host David Speiser, Ph.D., executive vice president at ICF, and Nicola Dawkins-Lyn, Ph.D., MPH, a behavioral scientist at ICF, speak to Dr. Marcus Plescia, the chief medical officer at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), a national nonprofit organization that tracks, evaluates, and advises public heal…

Host David Speiser, Ph.D., executive vice president at ICF, and Nicola Dawkins-Lyn, Ph.D., MPH, a behavioral scientist at ICF, speak to Lori Freeman of the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), a membership organization representing the nearly 3,000 local health departments across the country, on the role of the public …

How can we unlock the power of the private sector to scale up technologies and services that facilitate climate resilience and adaptation? That’s the question on our minds in this podcast, as we continue to explore climate risk from a variety of perspectives. Hosted by Brad Hurley, senior communications consultant at ICF; and Peter Schultz, Ph.D., …

In this podcast, hosted by David Speiser, Ph.D., executive vice president at ICF, we speak to three leaders at Inova Health System to capture the provider perspective on the challenges and opportunities we face at this moment.The conversation with Stephen J. Motew, MD, MHA, FACS, chief, clinical enterprise, Inova Health System; Maureen Sintich, DNP…

In this podcast, hosted by Brad Hurley, senior communications consultant at ICF, one of ICF’s leading climate experts discusses how businesses plan for climate uncertainty and the corresponding risks. The conversation with Peter Schultz, Ph.D., vice president, climate and resilience, covers topics such as: The difference between the key forms of cl…

Host David Speiser, Ph.D., executive vice president at ICF, is joined by Virginia State Health Commissioner Dr. Norman Oliver for a candid discussion on the pandemic response from the front lines.The conversation covers topics such as: The fragmented nature of public health across the U.S. and how states vary in their approaches. The role of the Vi…

In episode 3 of Energy Renewed, Katie Janik of ICF speaks with Steve Becker of the ICF technical advisory team within our Commercial Energy Division; Whitney Hampton, senior project manager in the RETC Group at US Bank Community Development Corporation; and Dan Miller, managing director of Origination at CIT, to discuss the impact of COVID-19 from …

In episode 2 of Energy Renewed, Katie Janik of ICF speaks with Heidi Marie Larson, who leads the ICF technical advisory team within ICF’s Commercial Energy Division, and Kevin Christy, COO of North America at LightSource BP, to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on owners and developers of renewable energy projects.This episode is part one of a two par…

Given the high stakes involved in the COVID-19 pandemic, there has never been a more urgent time to take a hard look at America’s public health enterprise and all of its deficiencies. Only then can we map out the ambitious plan that will be required to fix it. Join David Speiser, executive vice president at ICF, as he discusses the limitations of A…

Several weeks ago, we released a COVID-19 funding podcast that was based on our initial understanding of the federal funding that’s available for state and local governments with regards to COVID-19 response and recovery. While much of our original recommendations are still relevant and accurate, this is an unprecedented and rapidly evolving situat…