It’s season 3, episode 7 - Markets Week! for Public Power Underground. Underground regulars (Brian Fawcett, Arin Guillory, Ian Bledsoe, and Paul Dockery) are joined by our Podcast Ambassador from Clearing Up, Dan Catchpole, to get our listeners up to speed on public-power and public-power-adjacent news. The episode includes special, feature conversations with The Energy Authority’s (TEA) Chris Lewis and John Raiford to talk about the state of Natural Gas Markets, and Public Generation Pool’s Therese Hampton and Steve Kerns about PGP’s Market Retrospective.

03:49 - Arin Reports
06:16 - TEA’s Chris Lewis and John Raiford explain what’s going on with Natural Gas Markets
23:08 - Global supply chain issues are hitting California’s energy industry
24:07 - Some more Colstrip action in Federal Court
25:13 - Chinook salmon in the Salish Sea leads to surprising findings about southern resident orcas
26:42 - Therese Hampton (Executive Director) and Steve Kerns (Senior Technical Advisor) talk about PGP’s Organized Market Retrospective
39:53 - Our friends from Cowlitz PUD made the news
42:18 - Market expansion is in the news and on people’s minds
43:56 - PJM released study on transmission build out to handle offshore wind
50:20 - TL;DR news stories we ran out of time to discuss

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