It’s season 3, episode 10 - Infrastructure Week! for Public Power Underground. Michelle Manary joins us to chat about the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act! Also joining is Juergen Pilot from the National Offshore Wind Research & Development Consortium and returning champion Kurt Miller.
07:28 - Arin Reports with (the newest Honorary Member of the Power Department) Crystal Ball Reporting!
13:39 - FERC, States Kick Off New Task Force Focused on Transmission Buildout
16:15 - Juergen Pilot, the National Offshore Wind Research & Development Consortium's Program Manager, answers a series of questions about offshore wind as quickly and entertainingly as possible
27:41 - Agrivoltaic Farming!
31:05 - Microgrid powering buses in LADWP's service territory
32:23 - Kurt Miller is championing hydropower’s inclusion in the Build Back Better Act
38:16 - Combined Geothermal power production and Lithium extraction
41:59 - Dispatches from #EnergyTwitter: @JesseJenkins did an outstanding, google sheets, summary of all the energy-related provisions of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
47:24 - Michelle Manary joins to chat about DOE, BPA, and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
1:04:37 - TL;DR news stories we ran out of time to discuss
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