Kieran Connolly, Dan Catchpole, Abigail Sawyer, and Paul Dockery kick off the Season 5 premier of Public Power Underground.06:11 - what evolution into a centrally dispatched market means for a hydro-centric region
SPP Sees Markets+ as Potential Path to Full RTO in the West
Carrie Simpson to serve as Southwest Power Pool’s director of western services development
California Independent System Operator released its draft final proposal for the Extended Day-Ahead Market (EDAM)
18:42 - how does increased deployment of wind and solar in the Northwest impact hydro operations
Biden Signs Inflation Reduction Act; Permitting Reform Next Step
Rural Electric Co-ops Glad to Be Included in Inflation Reduction Act Benefits
Twitter memo on Ira versus I-R-A
The definitive podcasts on the content of the Inflation Reduction Act

29:05 - thoughts on SMRs in a hydro dominated region like the Pacific Northwest
PacifiCorp, TerraPower to Study Deploying Five More SMRs by 2035
TVA developing plans for 20 small nuclear reactors to power Tennessee Valley by 2050
TVA takes step to build small modular reactor near Oak Ridge
38:52 - hydro operations under stressed grid conditions
California Avoids Rolling Blackouts in Record Heat; Energy Prices Surge
Pacific Northwest heat wave was a freak, 10,000-year event, study finds
An energy emergency alert 3 for CAISO in August of 2020
Extremely constrained system in the Northwest in March of 2019
53:46 - Short to Ground; where we TL;DR our way through the rest of the news
SPP membership elects two new directors
Western Power Pool Approves Nominees for New Independent Board of Directors
SRP coverage by Abigail Sawyer
Southwest elections preview by Abigail Sawyer
Coverage of PPC pressing Columbia Basin Collaborative by K.C. Mehaffey
Fusion coverage by Dan Catchpole
Product switch coverage by Dan Catchpole
Hydrogen project coverage by Steve Ernst
Drought coverage by Linda Dailey Paulson
Briefs in Clearing Up
Spot Market Power
La Nina
NOAA Climate Forecasts
WY2023 Water Supply Forecast
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