Politics and Policy w/ Travis Kavulla
special celebrity guest star Travis Kavulla brings a regulator's perspective to the discussion of election results, NARUC, bifurcated price formation, and legislatures mandating RTO participation
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Show Notes
Travis Kavulla, Abigail Sawyer, Dan Catchpole, and Paul Dockery cover electric utility and electric-utility-adjacent news in Season 5, Episode 2.
05:51 - energy angles to election coverage
- Abigail Sawyer coverage of elections in the Southwest in California Energy Markets
- Anne Ernst coverage of California elections in California Energy Markets
- Dan Catchpole’s coverage of NW election results in Clearing Up
- White Paper on approaches to State-Federal Cooperation in a Decarbonizing Electricity Sector
- Twitter Wager between Rob Gramlich and Travis Kavulla
32:57 - Travis Kavulla’s take on bifurcating spot market price formation
45:33 - legislative mandates for RTO participation from a former regulator’s perspective
- story on Nevada legislation from Utility Dive
- story on Colorado legislation from Utility Dive
- job opening for Executive Director of the California Electric Transmission Authority
55:58 - Short to Ground; where we TL;DR our way through the rest of the news
- California Public Utilities Commission releases NEM 3.0
- WECC's 2022 resource adequacy assessment
- Powerex committed to joining SPP’s Markets+
- NW Groups Compete for Slice of $7B From Feds for Clean Hydrogen Hub
- Joe Manchin won’t hold a renomination hearing for FERC’s Rich Glick
- Mike Hummel, CEO and general manager of Salt River Project, announced he will retire in May 2023
- PacifiCorp Proposes Nearly 26 Percent Rate Increase for California Customers
- the Public Utility Commission of Texas released a study of Market Reform Options
- Travis Kavulla quoted in the Wall Street Journal
- Spot Market Power
- La Nina
- NOAA Climate Forecasts
- WY2023 Water Supply Forecast
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