This time on Dam!, author and executive director of ORECA, Ted Case, schools us on the history of hydropower and rural electrification in the Northwest. We discuss the subject matter of his books, Power Plays and Poles, Wires, and War, as well as the public power's representation in US politics, presidential libraries, the value of these assets in the modern day, and where the political trends are headed on the subject. As a bonus, Ted gives us the scoop on ORECA's involvement in bringing a rural electrification movement to Guatemala.