Politics and Policy w/ Travis Kavulla

special celebrity guest star Travis Kavulla brings a regulator's perspective to the discussion of election results, NARUC, bifurcated price formation, and legislatures mandating RTO participation

Show Notes

Travis Kavulla, Abigail Sawyer, Dan Catchpole, and Paul Dockery cover electric utility and electric-utility-adjacent news in Season 5, Episode 2.

05:51 - energy angles to election coverage

• Abigail Sawyer coverage of elections in the Southwest in California Energy Markets
• Anne Ernst coverage of California elections in California Energy Markets
• Dan Catchpole’s coverage of NW election results in Clearing Up

21:15 - Travis Kavulla acts as the Underground’s Special Correspondent from the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners’ (NARUC) Annual Meeting in New Orleans

• White Paper on approaches to State-Federal Cooperation in a Decarbonizing Electricity Sector
• Twitter Wager between Rob Gramlich and Travis Kavulla

32:57 - Travis Kavulla’s take on bifurcating spot market price formation

45:33 - legislative mandates for RTO participation from a former regulator’s perspective

• story on Nevada legislation from Utility Dive
• story on Colorado legislation from Utility Dive
• job opening for Executive Director of the California Electric Transmission Authority

55:58 - Short to Ground; where we TL;DR our way through the rest of the news

• California Public Utilities Commission releases NEM 3.0
• WECC's 2022 resource adequacy assessment
• Powerex committed to joining SPP’s Markets+
• NW Groups Compete for Slice of $7B From Feds for Clean Hydrogen Hub
• Joe Manchin won’t hold a renomination hearing for FERC’s Rich Glick
• Mike Hummel, CEO and general manager of Salt River Project, announced he will retire in May 2023
• PacifiCorp Proposes Nearly 26 Percent Rate Increase for California Customers
• the Public Utility Commission of Texas released a study of Market Reform Options
• Travis Kavulla quoted in the Wall Street Journal
• Spot Market Power
• La Nina
• NOAA Climate Forecasts
• WY2023 Water Supply Forecast

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Public Power Underground is more than a discussion about public ownership of electric infrastructure, the infotaining episodes cover the energy enthusiast trifecta of electrification, markets, and people. The hosts interview industry experts on a broad range of energy industry and energy-industry-adjacent topics at the nexus of electric utilities and the energy transition. The podcast doesn’t take itself too seriously and frequently plays energy inspired games like “energy enthusiasm distilled,” “draw an analogy,” and “say something nice about electric utilities."