It’s the finale for Season 3 and our Holiday Special! We welcomed special celebrity guests Crystal Ball, Emeka Anyanwu, Russ Mantifel, and NewsData’s Mark Ohrenschall to do a 2021 Energy News Countdown and 2022 prognostication. The episode is interspersed with Energy Carols!

08:06 Careful ‘cause it’s time change
46:04 Silver Generators
1:08:54 Simply forming a wonderful western market
1:18:52 O Power Plan
1:24:52 Ridiculous Things [a Daryl Wayne Dasher original and fitting tribute to public power underground]

The 2021 Energy News Countdown includes a discussion of each of the celebrity guests’ top 5 energy news stories. Each of us had our own list with our own reasons, it’s a great conversation. My top 10 is included here for your enjoyment! Spoiler alert, my list wasn’t the best list!

#10 WRAP Phase 3A
#9 BPA Rate Decrease
#8 Ted Lasso/Dolly Parton/Energy Twitter cross-over
#7 The Power Grid makes John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight”
#6 Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act
#5 Heat Dome event
#4 Texas blackout
#3 European energy crisis driven by Natural gas ^$ 
#2 Iron Air, Long Duration Batteries
#1 F150 EV

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