It’s season 3, episode 9 - Leading Innovation Week! for Public Power Underground. Underground regulars (Karen Heim, Brian Fawcett, Ludgie Gelin, and Ian Bledsoe) are joined by our returning Podcast Ambassador from Clearing Up, Dan Catchpole. The episode includes conversations about blockchain technologies with NRU’s Resource Analyst, Ellyn Groves, and a preview of a longer interview by Special Correspondent Matt Schroettnig of Emerald PUD’s General Manager, Scott Coe. The full interview of Scott Coe will be in a follow-up BONUS episode, next week.

02:54 - Arin Reports with Ian Reporting
06:29 - Cooking, Hot Water Grew Residential Demand During Pandemic
11:27 - Ellyn Groves joins as a Special Research Specialist to talk about Blockchain and Paul unpacks some NFTs
20:22 - BPA Study May Be 'Early Warning' of Trouble for Clean Energy Goals
22:43 - NMPRC Hearing Examiner Recommends Against $8-Billion PNM-Avangrid Merger
24:43 - Nuclear Power is having a moment
30:21 - Preview of blockbuster Scott Coe interview w/ Special Correspondent, Matt Schroettnig
40:37 - TL;DR news stories we ran out of time to discuss

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