Beste NewsData podcaster (2024)

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Unpunished Wrongdoing in Southern California? 36:45

19d ago36:45

36:45

Jason Hunter, a former employee of Riverside Public Utilities, is still looking for answers regarding contracting activity he witnessed at the organization years ago. Bolstering his claims of wrongdoing is the fact that some of the individuals involved in the alleged activity are now serving prison sentences for later activities at Los Angeles Depa…

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People in Power Podcast, Episode 1 40:11

2M ago40:11

40:11

The effort to create a regional wholesale energy market in the West moved forward in 2023 when a group of state regulators from Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington advanced a proposal “for ensuring that the benefits of wholesale electricity markets are maximized for customers across the entire Western U.S.” This led to the creati…

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Virtual Power Plants Already Are Making Real Differences 41:03

5M ago41:03

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Virtual power plants are an old idea being revolutionized by new technology. VPPs bundle distributed energy resources, such as rooftop solar, demand response, energy storage and electric-vehicle chargers, into a single grid-scale resource. Proponents say they are essential to decarbonizing and meeting growing demand. The U.S. Department of Energy s…

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Locational Marginal Pricing Methods, With Kyri Baker 21:25

6M ago21:25

21:25

In the latest episode of NewsData’s Energy West podcast, California Energy Markets Editor Jason Fordney interviews Kyri Baker, an assistant professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, about her research into the locational marginal pricing methods currently used by most independent system operators. During her research, Baker noticed that LMP…

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Odd Bedfellows: Big Tech, Artificial Intelligence and Electric Power Utilities 30:40

7M ago30:40

30:40

Demand for artificial intelligence and machine learning is booming—and so is AI’s energy demand. AI requires massive amounts of computing power, which means huge data centers need to be built to enable AI’s widespread adoption. AI’s energy demand is expected to grow faster than new generation comes on line. Solving that will be hard enough, but dif…

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Columbia River Treaty and Low Snowpack with K. C. Mehaffey 22:49

7M ago22:49

22:49

NewsData’s Clearing Up reporter K. C. Mehaffey stops by Energy West with updates on Columbia River Treaty negotiations between the United States and Canada, the low snowpack in the Northwest and efforts to save salmon in the Columbia River Basin.Av NewsData

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CAISO CEO Elliot Mainzer Talks Markets, Reliability and Future of the West, Part 2 39:23

8M ago39:23

39:23

In Part 2 of a wide-ranging interview with California Energy Markets Editor Jason Fordney, California Independent System Operator President and CEO Elliot Mainzer dives into his current priorities, including increased connectivity across the West, transmission planning that looks out 20 years, CAISO's pause of new interconnections to reduce queue c…

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CAISO CEO Elliot Mainzer Talks Markets, Reliability and Future of the West, Part 1 23:55

9M ago23:55

23:55

In the latest episode of the Energy West podcast, California Energy Markets Editor Jason Fordney speaks with Elliot Mainzer, president and CEO of the California Independent System Operator, in Part 1 of a wide-ranging interview about the California electricity grid, a wider Western day-ahead market, managing the huge influx of energy storage coming…

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Untangling Transmission’s Gordian Knot With Rob Gramlich, Part 2 16:57

9M ago16:57

16:57

Join us in Part 2 of the latest episode of Energy West, where NewsData's Dan Catchpole and Grid Strategies' Rob Gramlich continue to discuss the design and development of transmission projects throughout the West. Gramlich also discusses new technologies that may benefit the electric grid in the future.…

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Untangling Transmission’s Gordian Knot With Rob Gramlich 31:27

10M ago31:27

31:27

If the West is going to electrify cars and buildings, decarbonize the grid and keep the lights on, it needs more high-voltage transmission, a lot more. One of the nation’s top transmission experts, Rob Gramlich, talks with NewsData reporter Dan Catchpole about how the West can build more and bigger transmission projects. Rob is founder of GridStrat…

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Weekly Wrap Up – October 12, 2023 27:35

1y ago27:35

27:35

In the latest episode of the Energy West podcast, Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about efforts to jumpstart transmission construction in the West, how the upcoming solar eclipse likely could effect the Western grid and how battery inverter faults could cause big problems for the grid. Read more about w…

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Weekly Wrap Up – October 5, 2023 19:10

1y ago19:10

19:10

In the latest episode of the Energy West podcast, Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about the California Independent System Operator’s decision to delay the launch of its extended day-ahead market from 2025 to 2026, Xcel’s plans to invest $15 billion in its energy transition in Colorado and the need for m…

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Weekly Wrap Up – September 28, 2023 20:45

1y ago20:45

20:45

In the latest episode of the Energy West podcast, Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about an 11th hour push to form a day-ahead market in the West that includes California AND is independently governed. The initiative drew widespread support from potential participants–and lots of questions about legal fe…

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Weekly Wrap Up – September 21, 2023 26:45

1y ago26:45

26:45

In the latest episode of the Energy West podcast, Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about the western United States’ second comprehensive energy market, the future of offshore wind in the West, long-duration battery storage’s arrival, and more. Read more about what’s happening in the power industry in the…

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The West Is Getting a Second RTO! (with SPP's Bruce Rew) 28:29

1y ago28:29

28:29

The West is getting a second RTO (or regional transmission organization). The Southwest Power Pool is launching a western branch of its existing RTO, which covers much of the Midwest. Nine Rocky Mountain utilities and power marketers have committed to launching the western branch in 2026. An RTO manages the transmission grid and wholesale electrici…

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Weekly Wrap Up – September 11, 2023 28:56

1y ago28:56

28:56

In the latest Energy West podcast, California Energy Markets Editor Jason Fordney speaks with CEM Associate Editor Abigail Sawyer about the emerging Western wholesale energy market, a push by Western state regulators to move forward with a regional transmission organization, and a recent forum held in Las Vegas by the California Independent System …

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Weekly Wrap Up – August 31, 2023 10:46

1y ago10:46

10:46

In the latest episode of the Energy West podcast, Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole discusses this week's top stories from the energy industry in the West, including the California Independent System Operator asking federal regulators to approve a Westwide day-ahead energy market, PacifiCorp's plans to convert coal-fired power plants to burn natural gas,…

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Weekly Wrap Up – August 24, 2023 10:38

1y ago10:38

10:38

In the latest episode of the Energy West podcast, Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole looks at the hot temperatures that recently scorched the West, including Arizona’s heat emergency, a new record high peak demand in the Northwest, new research that says climate-driven droughts will lead to more greenhouse gas emissions, offshore wind of Oregon, and more.…

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End of an Era 51:09

1+ y ago51:09

51:09

After more than 30 years at NewsData, publisher Mark Ohrenschall is retiring. Before he leaves, he talks with Jason Fordney, Abigail Sawyer and Dan Catchpole about his time at the company, journalism and the energy industry.Av NewsData

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Weekly Wrap Up – August 11, 2023 17:01

1+ y ago17:01

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In this week's episode of Energy West, California Energy Markets Editor Jason Fordney discusses a proposal by state regulators to increase storage levels at the controversial Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility in southern California; an update on how the California grid is holding up this summer; and a plan by the California Department of Wa…

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Weekly Wrap Up – August 3, 2023 14:30

1+ y ago14:30

14:30

In this episode of Energy West, California Energy Markets Editor Jason Fordney gives a rundown of the latest energy news in the Golden State and beyond, including how wholesale cost to serve load in the California Independent System Operator doubled between 2020 and 2022; a request for rehearing from the California Community Choice Association of a…

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Weekly Wrap Up – July 27, 2023 31:17

1+ y ago31:17

31:17

In the latest episode of the Energy West podcast, Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about concerns that CAISO’s extended day-ahead market could short-circuit the Western Resource Adequacy Program, Energy Northwest and X-Energy’s plans to build 12 small modular nuclear reactors, CAISO’s new subscriber-fund…

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Weekly Wrap Up - July 20, 2023 30:16

1+ y ago30:16

30:16

In the latest episode of the Energy West podcast, Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about about the state of transmission planning in the West, California’s (good) battery boom, Bonneville Power Administration’s announcement of $2 billion in transmission system upgrades, fewer public safety power shut-off…

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Weekly Wrap Up - July 13, 2023 28:11

1+ y ago28:11

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In the latest episode of the Energy West podcast, Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about Western transmission’s problem of the commons, zero-emission trucking in California, limits to offshore wind’s economic benefits, and more. Read more about what’s happening in the power industry in the West at Newsda…

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Weekly Wrap Up – June 22, 2023 17:17

1+ y ago17:17

17:17

In the latest Energy West podcast, California Energy Markets Editor Jason Fordney discusses how the workforce needed to implement California's clean-energy policies does not yet exist; new heavy-duty electric-truck charging infrastructure being built in the state; a California Public Advocates Office report drastically cutting estimates for electri…

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Weekly Wrap Up - June 15, 2023 29:21

1+ y ago29:21

29:21

In the latest episode of the Energy West podcast, Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about state regulators talking utilities to task for vague decarbonization planning, worries about where California will get enough energy to meet its clean energy goals, high prices in Washington’s carbon emissions cap-an…

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Weekly Wrap Up – June 8, 2023 27:56

1+ y ago27:56

27:56

In the latest episode of the Energy West podcast, Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about the largest hydropower dam removal in history getting underway, Shasta County’s dismissing criminal charges against Pacific Gas & Electric after reaching a settlement, truckers’ concerns that California’s zero-emissi…

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Weekly Wrap Up - June 1, 2023 30:23

1+ y ago30:23

30:23

In the latest episode of the Energy West podcast, Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about obstacles to building offshore wind off California, interconnection delays across the country, Washington delaying new building codes in the wake of the 9th Circuit Court’s Berkeley decision, PacifiCorp booking a $12…

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Weekly Wrap Up - May 25, 2023 31:59

1+ y ago31:59

31:59

In the latest episode of the Energy West podcast, Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about growing summer reliability risks for the Western power grid, the latest push to make the California Independent System Operator into an independent organized market, a developer’s proposal to pair pumped storage with…

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Weekly Wrap Up – May 18, 2023 26:59

1+ y ago26:59

26:59

In the latest episode of the Energy West podcast, Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about expanding access to zero-emission vehicles beyond affluent drivers, sea lions decimating salmon populations, wildfires disrupting Canadian natural gas exports to the U.S., utilities’ balancing wildfire mitigation and…

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Weekly Wrap Up – May 11, 2023 24:40

1+ y ago24:40

24:40

In the latest episode of the Energy West podcast, Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about soaring demand forecast for the Northwest, California’s fights over net metering, Portland General Electric’s warning that it can’t meet Oregon’s 2040 zero-emission mandate, $10.5 billion of investments in California…

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Weekly Wrap Up - May 4, 2023 24:04

1+ y ago24:04

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In the latest episode of the Energy West podcast, Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about California’s proposed zero-emission trucking mandate, anger over service connection delays, Washington state lawmakers want utilities to plan more for the future, and more. Read more about what’s happening in the pow…

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Weekly Wrap Up - April 28, 2023 27:53

1+ y ago27:53

27:53

Listen in as Dan Catchpole and Jason Fordney discuss highlights from the energy industry on the northwest and west coast. This episode was recorded on April 24.Av NewsData

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Weekly Wrap Up - April 20, 2023 31:46

1+ y ago31:46

31:46

In the latest episode of the Energy West podcast, Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about California utilities’ push for flat rates, a federal greenlight for the TransWest Express transmission line from Wyoming to Nevada, doing more with less in the Northwest, a lawsuit to shut down Diablo Canyon nuclear …

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Weekly Wrap Up – April 13, 2023 32:38

1+ y ago32:38

32:38

In the latest episode of the Energy West podcast, Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about record high curtailments in California, utilities’ roadmaps for acquiring huge amounts of renewables, storage and even nuclear generation, renewable hydrogen developments, and more. Read more about what’s happening i…

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Weekly Wrap Up – April 6, 2023 11:47

1+ y ago11:47

11:47

In this week's episode of Energy West, California Energy Markets Editor Jason Fordney breaks down the latest energy news in the region, including concerns among analysts about natural gas storage levels in the West, especially on the Pacific Gas & Electric system; daunting challenges facing the Western Interconnection as described by the Western El…

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Weekly Wrap Up – March 30, 2023 25:45

1+ y ago25:45

25:45

In the latest episode of the Energy West podcast, Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about PacifiCorp’s new proposal for a 500-kV, 143-mile transmission line in Wyoming, why there isn’t more geothermal generation in the West, plans for new natural gas peaking plants in Nevada, state lawmakers’ efforts to s…

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Weekly Wrap Up - March 23, 2023 27:23

1+ y ago27:23

27:23

In the latest episode of the Energy West podcast, Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about a second organized comprehensive energy market in the West, California’s investigation into high natural gas prices, opposition to a proposed natural gas pipeline expansion in the Northwest and more. Read more about …

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Weekly Wrap Up – March 15, 2023 23:01

1+ y ago23:01

23:01

In the latest episode of the Energy West podcast, Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about the California Independent System Operator’s latest look at expanding its footprint, Southwest Power Pool’s announcement that Markets+ is moving into development early, big rate increase requests from two SoCal utili…

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Weekly Wrap Up - March 8, 2023 8:17

1+ y ago8:17

8:17

In the latest episode of the Energy West podcast, Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole talks about California's reliance on the nuclear-powered Diablo Canyon generation plant, challenges for expanding the California Independent System Operator's organized market, and allegations that PacifiCorp withheld key documents in a lawsuit stemming from the Labor Day…

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Weekly Wrap Up – March 3, 2023 21:51

1+ y ago21:51

21:51

Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about transportation electrification challenges facing the West, the California Public Utilities Commission’s call to add 15 GW of new generation by 2027, a fight over a natural gas ban in Eugene, Ore., and more. Read more about what’s happening in the power industry in t…

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Weekly Wrap Up – February 23, 2023 15:02

1+ y ago15:02

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In the latest Energy West podcast, California Energy Markets Editor Jason Fordney shares more details about the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners' Winter Policy Summit in Washington, D.C., and his conversation with fellow attendee and former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Richard Glick. Jason also discusses FER…

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Weekly Wrap Up – February 16, 2023 24:29

2y ago24:29

24:29

Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole talks with California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney at the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners’ Winter 2023 policy summit, where Energy Sec. Jennifer Granholm extolled renewable energy’s role in energy security. Dan and Jason also discuss the evolving role of energy efficiency, California’s soaring n…

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Weekly Wrap Up – February 10, 2023 20:06

2y ago20:06

20:06

Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about the risk that solar inverters can trip generation offline, potential news laws in Oregon to spur transportation electrification, new rules for California’s extended day-ahead market, a new partner for a proposed new intertie between the America’s eastern and western…

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Weekly Wrap Up - February 1, 2023 21:54

2y ago21:54

21:54

Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about the latest twist in the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant saga, PacifiCorp delaying its exit from the Colstrip coal power plant, $124 million for electrification in California, what keeps PacifiCorp’s sustainability director up at night, and more. Read more about wh…

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Weekly Wrap Up – January 26, 2023 23:01

2y ago23:01

23:01

Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about California’s call for thousands of megawatts of new generation, the coal-fired Colstrip power plant’s new lease on life, what it is going to take to keep the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant open and the latest legal challenge to Washington’s new carbon emission ca…

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Top 10 Energy Stories from the Northwest Energy Industry in 2022 16:22

2y ago16:22

16:22

Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole goes over the top 10 stories for the Northwest energy industry in 2022. Read more about what’s happening in the power industry in the West at Newsdata’s Clearing Up and California Energy Markets. Follow us on Twitter: @CUnewsdata, @CEMnewsdata, @dcatchpole and @fordneyenergy.…

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Weekly Wrap Up – January 20, 2023 29:27

2y ago29:27

29:27

Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about NorthWestern Energy buying more coal-fired generation, customers responding to time-of-use rates in California, PacifiCorp and Idaho Power converting a power plant from coal to natural gas, California slashing funding for decarbonization programs, and more. Read mor…

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Top 10 Energy Stories from California and the Southwest in 2022 13:47

2y ago13:47

13:47

Jason Fordney, editor of California Energy Markets, runs through the top 10 energy stories from California and and the Southwest in 2022. He is joined by a very special co-host, Marielle Fordney.Av NewsData

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Happy Holidays! 0:39

2y ago0:39

0:39

NewsData’s Energy West is taking off for the holidays. Dan Catchpole and Jason Fordney will be back in the New Year to fill you in on the latest in the energy industry in the West. Until then, stay up to date with the latest reporting from Clearing Up and California Energy Markets at Newsdata.com. And this Friday, Dec. 23, make sure to check out Ne…

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