Bill Drummond, Dan Catchpole, Karen Heim, and Paul Dockery talk about the latest in public power and public-power-adjacent news, including Lineworker Appreciation Day, solar developers betting on RTO development, what’s going on with the battery supply chain, and jumpstarting interregional transmission!

08:45 - Arin Reports with Karen Reporting

14:10 - Lineworker Appreciation Day

21:11 - solar developers betting on RTO development

31:08 - a bunch of battery stories

• CAISO is developing a new participation model for energy storage resources
• a Southern California Edison’s energy storage project is facing delays
• Rivian Chief Executive Officer, RJ Scaringe has a warning
• Supply chain issues facing batteries

41:21 - DOE’s $2.5 billion Transmission Jump Start Program

50:01 - TL;DR the rest of the news in “Energy West, lite”

• K.C. Mehaffey
• Rick Adair
• Linda Daily Paulson
• Rick Adair
• Abigail Sawyer
• “News Roundup”
• Albuquerque Journal

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