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Sooner than you think, electricity is going to be cheap, abundant, and boring
Are data centers and electrification going to break the US power grid, or are they the secret to making it cheaper for everyone? In this episode, I talk with Pier LaFarge of Sparkfund about Minnesota’s landmark decision to let Xcel Energy d...
Volts community thread #29
David’s Notes
- It feels weird not to share this with Volts listeners, so I’m sharing:
I’m down in Virginia this week for his funeral. (You are not obliged to email your condolences; if you do, I might not be able to thank you indivi...
Telling the story of the grid
Stepchange podcast hosts Ben Eidelson and Anay Shah discuss the wild, complicated history of the largest machine ever built.
Ben Eidelson and Anay Shah run the Stepchange podcast, which recently put out a magisterial four-hour (!) episode...
Electrifying industrial steam with heat pumps
Boiling water to make steam for industrial processes consumes an enormous amount energy around the globe, yet it has proven remarkably resistant to electrification. In this episode, I talk with Addison Stark of AtmosZero about why replacing...
The case for using prices rather than VPPs to coordinate distributed energy
Most people think that coordinating the behavior of thousands of distributed energy resources requires some kind of third-party middleman, like an aggregator managing a VPP. My guest today, veteran research scientist Bruce Nordman, believes...
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