People in Power – A NewsData Podcast
NewsData
NewsData's "People in Power" is an exciting new biweekly podcast that explores issues in the energy industry, featuring expert guests from a wide range of backgrounds. Hosted by veteran energy journalists Jason Fordney and Abigail Sawyer of California Energy Markets and including appearances by writers from sister publication Clearing Up, People in Power will explore trends such as development of a Western wholesale electricity trading market, the transition to a more electrified world of new infrastructure and transportation, renewables integration and reliability, wildfire response and mitigation, and many other topics. "People in Power" draws from an unprecedented pool of expertise and insight in a way never seen before! It's available on all major podcast platforms as well as at www.newsdata.com.
Episodes
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Dec 9, 2022 • 19min
Weekly Wrap Up – December 9, 2022
Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about what’s going on in the energy industry in the West.Read more about what’s happening in the power industry in the West at NewsData’s Clearing Up and California Energy Markets.Follow us on Twitter: @CUnewsdata, @CEMnewsdata, @dcatchpole and @fordneyenergy.
Nov 30, 2022 • 23min
Weekly Wrap Up – November 30, 2022
Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about what’s going on in the energy industry in the West.Read more about what’s happening in the power industry in the West at NewsData’s Clearing Up and California Energy Markets.Follow us on Twitter: @CUnewsdata, @CEMnewsdata, @dcatchpole and @fordneyenergy.
Nov 17, 2022 • 11min
Weekly Wrap Up – November 17, 2022
Jason Fordney reports this week's news from NARUC in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Nov 14, 2022 • 55min
Taming the Wild Western Power Grid
Unlike the rest of North America, the West’s power grid outside California is a patchwork of utility fiefdoms generating, wheeling and distributing electricity. Centralized electricity markets dominate the rest of the continent.There is widespread consensus in the energy industry that the West needs greater coordination if it’s going to decarbonize and keep the lights on in millions of homes from New Mexico to British Columbia. Two organizations—the Southwest Power Pool and the California ISO—are pushing competing proposals to create a day-ahead and real-time market in the West.NewsData’s Abigail Sawyer, Jason Fordney and Dan Catchpole have been closely covering these evolutions. They recently sat down to discuss the proposals, what’s happened so far and what could happen next.Read more coverage from NewsData’s Clearing Up and California Energy Markets.
Nov 9, 2022 • 12min
Weekly Wrap Up – November 9, 2022
Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about income and racial disparities in the home solar market, volatility concerns of some BPA customers, Salt River Project adding more grid storage, the uncertain fate of NW Natural’s renewable hydrogen pilot project, and more.Read more about what’s happening in the power industry in the West at Newsdata’s Clearing Up and California Energy Markets.Follow us on Twitter: @CUnewsdata, @CEMnewsdata, @dcatchpole and @fordneyenergy.
Nov 3, 2022 • 21min
Weekly Wrap Up – November 3, 2022
Listen in as Dan Catchpole and Jason Fordney discuss highlights from the energy industry on the northwest and west coast.
Oct 26, 2022 • 15min
Weekly Wrap Up – October 26, 2022
Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about California studying expanding its energy market, rising CAISO prices, wind power off the West Coast, EV battery makers, demand response’s increasing importance in the Northwest, and more.Read more about what’s happening in the power industry in the West at NewsData’s Clearing Up and California Energy Markets.Follow us on Twitter: @CUnewsdata, @CEMnewsdata, @dcatchpole and @fordneyenergy.
Oct 19, 2022 • 18min
Weekly Wrap Up – October 19, 2022
Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about updated load-management standards by the California Energy Commission, the Northwest falling short of its six-year energy efficiency target, how much millionaires in California should pay for new electric vehicle chargers and wildfire mitigation, the huge amount of solar power that FERC expects to be built by 2025, and more.Read more about what’s happening in the power industry in the West at Newsdata’s Clearing Up and California Energy Markets.Follow us on Twitter: @CUnewsdata, @CEMnewsdata, @dcatchpole and @fordneyenergy.
Oct 12, 2022 • 16min
Weekly Wrap Up – October 12, 2022
Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about Southwest Power Pool’s vision for an RTO in the West, intrigue and in-fighting in Arizona’s Salt River Project, a growing rift between Northwest public power utilities and the White House, environmentalists’ objections to hydrogen fuel development, and a push in the Northwest to ban sales of gas-powered cars. They also discuss the tragic death of industry leader Therese Hampton.Read more about what’s happening in the power industry in the West at Newsdata’s Clearing Up and California Energy Markets.Follow us on Twitter: @CUnewsdata, @CEMnewsdata, @dcatchpole and @fordneyenergy.
Oct 6, 2022 • 36min
Weekly Wrap Up – October 3, 2022
Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about: expediting utility undergrounding,Jason's response to opinion columns in the LA Times about whether or not rural California towns that were destroyed by wildfires should be rebuilt,Southwest Power Pool's draft service offering,and electric transportation news.Read more about what’s happening in the power industry in the West at NewsData’s Clearing Up and California Energy Markets.Follow us on Twitter: @CUnewsdata, @CEMnewsdata, @dcatchpole and @fordneyenergy.
