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Ben Serrurier, Jason Fordney, Arin Guillory, and Paul Dockery talk about the latest in public power, public-power-adjacent news and exciting acronyms, including BPA in the EIM, CREPC-WIRAB, all-things Tx, NuScale IPO, and another WSJ article!

04:07 - a new merch idea coming from the FDR speech Ben quotes in the cold open

08:19 - Arin Reports

14:21 - BPA joined the EIM on May 3rd

• BPA press release
• CAISO press release

20:28 - Committee on Regional Electric Power Cooperation // Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body (CREPC-WIRAB)

• Ben’s live tweet of the event
• CREPC WIRAB agenda
• Jason Fordney’s article

34:53 - Ari Peskoe’s Utility Dive guest article

• Jim DiPeso’s coverage of FERC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
• Keegan Moyer’s (Energy Strategies, Partner) presentation on Transmission Planning from CREPC-WIRAB

43:13 - NuScale starts trading on the NYSE

• Coverage from The Oregonian (link from Joel Myer’s Energy News Digest, thanks Joel)
• Stock tracking

49:19 - WSJ’s Katherine Blunt covers Electricity Shortage Warnings

• the February article by Katerine Blunt on the “increasingly unreliable” power grid
• Bloomberg’s coverage of California state officials warning
• Dan Catchpole’s coverage of PNUCC’s Northwest Regional Forecast (NRF)
• The EI/GridLab/Telos report on CA 2030

1:02:31 - TL;DR the rest of the news in “Energy West, lite”

• Rick Adair
• K.C. Mehaffey
• K.C. Mehaffey
• Linda Dailey Paulson
• Jim DiPeso
• “News Roundup”

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