Tom Nelson Meredith Angwin: Woke electricity in Spain and Texas | Tom Nelson Pod #301
As a working chemist, Meredith Angwin headed projects that lowered pollution and increased reliability on the electric grid. Her work included pollution control for nitrogen oxides in gas-fired combustion turbines, and corrosion control in geothermal and nuclear systems.
She was one of the first women to be a project manager at the Electric Power Research Institute. She led projects in renewable and nuclear energy.
00:00 Introduction to the Guest and Topic
02:11 Importance of Grid Reliability
05:30 Understanding the Two Grids
11:44 Grid Demand and Supply Management
16:15 Grid Governance Models
22:58 Texas and Spain Grid Failures
30:06 Gas and Electricity Integration Issues
31:12 Spain's Grid Failure: A Case Study
37:33 Inertia and Inverter-Based Resources
41:12 Texas Inertia Crisis
45:11 The Future of the Grid and Citizen Responsibility
48:51 Q&A: Power Demand and Grid Stability
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X: https://twitter.com/MeredithAngwin
Email: meredithangwin@gmail.com
Substack: https://meredithangwin.substack.com/
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