It’s season 3, episode 8 - Distributed Demand Resource Response Week! for Public Power Underground. Underground regulars (Karen Heim, Arin Guillory, Ludgie Gelin, and Paul Dockery) are joined by our Podcast Ambassador from California Energy Markets, Jason Fordney this week. The episode includes conversations with Tacoma Power’s Ahlmahz Negash grant funding for microgrids and distributed resources, and PNUCC’s Shauna McReynolds and Tomás Morrisey about Demand Response and Distributed Generation in the Northwest Power and Conservation Council’s draft 2021 Power Plan.

05:18 - Arin Reports
08:46 - The Arizona Corporation Commission is clashing with Arizona Public Service
13:13 - Ahlmahz Negash, PhD, talks Clean Energy Fund awards for grid modernization projects
21:45 - Southern California Edison transitioning residential customers to Time-of-Use rate plans
22:49 - The Diesel-Fired California Dream
30:15 - Shauna McReynolds and Tomás Morrissey talk about Distributed Generation and Demand Response in NWPCC’s draft 2021 Power Plan
48:30 - Avista and Puget Sound Energy file final clean energy implementation plans
51:07 - A Bipartisan Infrastructure Package makes it through Congress
53:19 - Dispatches from #EnergyTwitter: Maine Voters reject transmission and John Oliver talks Power Grid
58:17 - TL;DR news stories we ran out of time to discuss

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