Public Power Underground Podcast
1) Headliners: Crystal Ball, Mark Nelson, and Emeka Anyanwu @ Gridliance Transmission Symposium
In a LIVE! recording at GridLiance’s 2024 Transmission Symposium, Crystal Ball hosts a competition between Mark Nelson and Emeka Anyanwu to determine the most creative prognosticator of energy headlin...Show More
2) Afterparty: Frontlining Energy Justice
[recorded August 28, 2024] Tony Reames and Salma Elmallah discuss their work and research on energy justice in a special episode recorded after the season and series finale.In a much anticipated episo...Show More
3) Eleventy-first episode & Energy System Analogy World Cup Championship
A party of special significance to celebrate the eleventy-first and final episode with an energy system analogy world cup championship tournament, celebrity guests, and stump speechesFriends-of-the-Un...Show More
4) Energy Justice with Prof. Erin Baker
A discussion of the building blocks of a just energy transition with Professor Erin Baker, the Faculty Director of the Energy Transition Institute at UMass Amherst.Professor Erin Baker visited with Ah...Show More
5) Commissioner Ann Rendahl & the Eras of the Electric Sector
The electric sector is evolving like the eras of Taylor Swift; at least that's the hypothesis that Commissioner Ann Rendahl and Gen-Z-Swiftie Scholar, Sherry Zuo, consider in a special episode.Commiss...Show More
6) BONUS: Unprecedented Partnerships for Expanding Electricity Transmission in the West
a special, bonus episode recorded at the Western Power Pool with celebrity guests Sarah Edmonds, Bob Rowe and Debra Smith Crystal Ball and Matthew Schroettnig host a conversation with Sarah Edmonds, B...Show More
BONUS: Unprecedented Partnerships for Expanding Electricity Transmission in the West
1:07:09 | Sep 13th, 2024
7) Big Synchronous Generators, Popular Fallacies, and Unpopular Opinions
A trip to the Skagit River Hydroelectric Project to talk about power system inertia with Seattle City Light operators, plus a discussion of popular fallacies and unpopular opinions with the hosts.To e...Show More
8) Ben Serrurier & the Lighting Design Lab
Ben Serrurier returns to Public Power Underground to share some maybe-good-maybe-bad-but-definitely-not-thought-out ideas with Ahlmahz Negash, Paul Dockery, and Farhad Billimoria in a returning segmen...Show More
9) Lynne Kiesling, Congestible Public Goods, and Common Pool Resources
A discussion about public goods and what classifying services as common pool resources, congestible public goods, or club goods means for grid planning and market design.Lynne Kiesling joins Ahlmahz N...Show More
10) Ari Peskoe Ranks Governance, Footprint, and Market Design
Ari Peskoe describes himself as an electric utility critic and has advice for electric utility enthusiasts.Ari Peskoe is the Director of the Electricity Law Initiative at the Harvard Law School Enviro...Show More