More Wealth, Better Living, and Greater Happiness
special celebrity guest host Ben Serrurier channels FDR in a call to renew public power; plus public power and public power adjacent news with Jason Fordney, Arin Guillory, and Paul Dockery
Ben Serrurier, Jason Fordney, Arin Guillory, and Paul Dockery talk about the latest in public power, public-power-adjacent news and exciting acronyms, including BPA in the EIM, CREPC-WIRAB, all-things Tx, NuScale IPO, and another WSJ article!
04:13 - a new merch idea coming from the FDR speech Ben quotes in the cold open
08:24 - Arin Reports
14:40 - BPA joined the EIM on May 3rd
20:49 - Committee on Regional Electric Power Cooperation // Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (CREPC-WIRAB)
35:16 - Ari Peskoe’s Utility Dive guest article
Jim DiPeso’s coverage of FERC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
Keegan Moyer’s (Energy Strategies, Partner) presentation on Transmission Planning from CREPC-WIRAB
43:32 - NuScale starts trading on the NYSE
Coverage from The Oregonian (link from Joel Myer’s Energy News Digest, thanks Joel)
49:40 - WSJ’s Katherine Blunt covers Electricity Shortage Warnings
the February article by Katerine Blunt on the “increasingly unreliable” power grid
Bloomberg’s coverage of California state officials warning
Dan Catchpole’s coverage of PNUCC’s Northwest Regional Forecast (NRF)
1:02:51 - TL;DR the rest of the news in “Energy West, lite”
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