Meredith Angwin: Woke electricity in Spain and Texas | Tom Nelson Pod #301

As a working chemist, Meredith Angwin headed projects that lowered pollution and increased reliability on the electric grid. Her work included pollution control for nitrogen oxides in gas-fired combustion turbines, and corrosion control in geothermal and nuclear systems.

She was one of the first women to be a project manager at the Electric Power Research Institute. She led projects in renewable and nuclear energy.

00:00 Introduction to the Guest and Topic

02:11 Importance of Grid Reliability

05:30 Understanding the Two Grids

11:44 Grid Demand and Supply Management

16:15 Grid Governance Models

22:58 Texas and Spain Grid Failures

30:06 Gas and Electricity Integration Issues

31:12 Spain's Grid Failure: A Case Study

37:33 Inertia and Inverter-Based Resources

41:12 Texas Inertia Crisis

45:11 The Future of the Grid and Citizen Responsibility

48:51 Q&A: Power Demand and Grid Stability

“Shorting the Grid” at Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Shorting-Grid-Hidden-Fragility-Electric/dp/1735358002/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

X: https://twitter.com/MeredithAngwin

Email: [email protected]

Substack: https://meredithangwin.substack.com/

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