Sarah Edmonds on Grid Integration Services

special celebrity guest star Sarah Edmonds brings a executive officer's perspective on resource adequacy program design, market based rate authority, interoperability, and transmission

Show Notes

Sarah Edmonds, Crystal Ball, Ahlmahz Negash, PhD, and Paul Dockery discuss a how resource adequacy design theory applies to resource adequacy program design, why FERC asked questions about market based rate authority, what it means for a program to be interoperable, and where inter-regional transmission is coming from. 

06:08 - Reminder for friends and fans of Therese Hampton to RSVP for her Celebration of Life and information about the Therese Hampton Endowed Scholarship for Economics and Business1at Portland State University.

09:53 - translating theory into a program, debriefing from the interview with Prof. Jacob Mays

23:55 - Market Based Rate Authority and the status at FERC

• FERC Wants More Western Resource Adequacy Program Information
• Western Power Pool’s response to FERC’s deficiency letter

35:45 - Interoperability of a resource adequacy program with multiple markets

• Western US regional grid, reliability efforts reach crossroads in 2023

47:57 - Interregional transmission and the West

• FERC Staff-Led Workshop on Establishing Interregional Transfer Capability Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation Requirements
• FERC urged to set interregional transfer capacity requirements to boost reliability, lower costs
• Inter-regional planning and transmission could help keep the lights on during extreme weather

1:05:55 - Short to Ground; where we TL;DR our way through the rest of the news

• BLM Proposes Solar Plan Expansion to Include 11 Western States
• Harris Attends Ten West Line Groundbreaking
• NRC Certifies First U.S. Small Modular Reactor Design
• Federal Government Says 'Not So Fast' on Diablo Canyon Extension
• Billions in federal dollars could make the Pacific Northwest a hub for renewable hydrogen
• Day-Ahead Market Enhancements decision to be deferred
• Spot Market Power
• La Nina
• NOAA Climate Forecasts
• WY2023 Water Supply Forecast

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