A tradition in my house as well.

Great episode. 10/10. One note to @James_McGinniss: Public Power Underground has been talking full strength spot prices with opportunity cost bidding and mandatory forward contracting for a while now thanks to @fnbillimoria, @ConleighByers, and @jacob_mays

Absolutely. I’m in the 3-year, part-time track, so still doing public power in the Pacific Northwest.

Appreciate it!

In personal news, I am on my way to England to start Oxford’s MSc in Energy Systems on Monday. The first session is on thermodynamics and I assume I’ll be learning about the magic of heat pumps from the ghost of J.R.R. Tolkien. Otherwise, I’m totally unprepared.

"The energy transition is going to create wealth. We can harness this [transition] so the wealth is created in communities that have been cut out in the past." - @ErinBakerEnergy

Important insight on the regulatory compact for electric utilities! youtube.com/clip/UgkxsdvRaZ5…

Sherry (@sherrynotsorry) made sure I had the right color scheme and contributed greatly to the quadrant graphs. I am hoping we can write it up as a journal article under @jacob_mays supervision and get the research published!

I settled on referring to the current era as the Global Era for a whole host of reasons we end up talking about on the podcast. Commissioner Rendahl pushes back and we discuss "reshoring". Regardless, 🎶I knew you were trouble when you walked in and 🎶everything has changed

The 2008 Shale Gas Revolution -> “Look what you made me do”. “End Game”, “Don’t Blame Me”, “This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things”, the Energy Independence Era and Reputation album are the same vibe.

The Power Crisis Era enters with Anti-Hero, otherwise known as the 2000-2001 Western Energy Crisis. “You’re on your own kid” -> the 2003 Northeast Blackout. Karma closing the era and NERC getting formed in 2006.

I know that the industry didn’t Deregulate, it restructured, but the market fundamentalism vibe of the era is Deregulation. “I forgot that you existed”, followed by the optimism of new beginnings with “Daylight”, before the line “Devils roll the dice, Angels roll their eyes”.

“The Last Great American Dynasty” and “cardigan” from Folklore transition from Fearless to Folklore just like the collapse of big infrastructure projects like WPPSS (Washington Public Power Supply System) transitioned us from the Electrification Era to the Efficiency Era.

“You Belong with Me” is the anthem of the rural electrification act, which starts the Electrification Era.

Insull Era (h/t Samuel Insull) spans from the War of the Currents in the late 1800s to The passage of the Public Utility Holding Act of 1935. And a hot take is that "Tim McGraw" is to "Taylor Swift (2006) as Thomas Edison was to Sam Insull.

Under our schema Career::Structured, Romantic::Chaotic, Confident::Building, and Pensive::Optimizing. If you disagree, 🎶"it's me, hi, I'm the problem it's me".

Taylor Swift album graphing may be more controversial than eras of the electric sector. We graphed along a Career <-> Romantic vertical axis and Confident <-> Pensive horizontal axis.

The eras of the electric sector are graphed along a Structured <-> Chaotic vertical axis and Building <-> Optimizing horizontal axis. The vectors and the mapping are controversial, and rigorously discussed in the recording with Commissioner Rendahl.