Therese Hampton, Jason Fordney, Crystal Ball, and Paul Dockery talk about the latest in public power and public-power-adjacent news, including Blue Wolf Capital, minimum pool elevation for power generation at Glen Canyon Dam, FERC’s take on ROE, innovation at Douglas County PUD, a new President and CEO at WPP, and two new members of WMEG!

06:45 - Arin Reports with Crystal Reporting
13:29 - Blue Wolf Capital is pursuing the restart of the Intalco aluminum smelter 

• Larry Brown opinion piece in The Seattle Times
• Scott Simms rebuttal in The Seattle Times

18:47 - Glen Canyon Dam approaching minimum pool elevation

• Coverage by Jake Bittle at Grist
• AP coverage in October of 2021
• US Bureau of Reclamation Reservoir Storage Dashboard
• US Drought Monitor map

24:20 - FERC Lowers PG&E Transmission ROE, related coverage in Utility Dive
34:16 - Douglas County PUD is innovating with renewable hydrogen (and maybe, possibly, someday expanding)
40:21 - The Western Power Pool announces the selection of Sarah Edmonds as President and CEO
44:22 - TL;DR the rest of the news in “Energy West, lite”
52:30 - the Western Markets Exploratory Group (“W”- “meg”) added two new members since announced in October of 2021
56:56 - BREAKING NEWS from the Chair of the Western Energy Imbalance Market Governance Review Committee

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