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Episode 44: The United States and Iran: What Will the Next Four Years Hold?

Guest: Kelsey Davenport and Paul Pillar 

The U.S.-Iran relationship is one the most pressing foreign policy challenges the Biden Administration will navigate in the coming years. CCWA was joined by Paul Pillar, Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University, and Kelsey Davenport, Director for Nonproliferation Policy at the Arms Control Association, for a dialogue on effectively engaging Iran. The speakers reflected on the complicated history between the U.S. and Iran and gave insight into today’s most pressing issue, renewing the Iran nuclear agreement.

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The Ad Hoc Gist: Google Plans to Unlock Grid Capacity. Will Regulators Let Them?

Can data centers become part of the solution to the grid constraints they're helping create? That's the premise behind Google's latest work on distributed energy resources — from batteries and demand response to energy efficiency....

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The Ad Hoc Gist: The Case for Utility Wildfire Suppression

Utilities have spent years reducing wildfire ignition risk, and much of that work has been necessary. But prevention has limits. Trees come down. Equipment fails. Lightning strikes. And when an ignition occurs, the first minutes...

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The Ad Hoc Gist: Virginia Has a Data Center Problem

Virginia is ground zero for the country’s data center boom and affordability crunch. Coupled with a new governor and a recently announced mega merger between the state’s biggest utility, Dominion Power and NextEra, things in...

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