Energy News Beat weekly show – highlights the key question – modernize the existing grid wih ugrades to increase resilience OR spend hundreds of billions more to reduce resilience & support renewables
Terrific show, most of which went over my head!
From this 65-minute video here:
Net Zero's Spanish Blackout - Special Guest Kathryn Porter
Fantastic energy expert, Kathryn Porter, outlines “probable cause” of the Iberina blackout anhighighs the logical fallacies with nergy polcies adopted by “mad milliband” and inyerccors across Europe and the UK.
“You do not want to miss this live podcast with our special guest Kathryn Porter from Watt-Logic. We will be covering the Spain/Portugal power outage and the key issues around the European Grid system. We will be live on X, YouTube, and LinkedIn. Bring your questions as David Blackmon, Irina Slav, Tammy Nemeth, and Stu Turley are set to have a lot of fun, facts, and responses to the live audience.”
Highlights of the Podcast
00:00 - Introduction
03:15 - What Happened in Spain?
07:50 - Grid Design Problems
12:00 - Cross-Border Dependencies
18:30 - Misaligned Policies vs. Engineering Reality
23:40 - Gas and Dispatchable Power Still Needed
28:30 - Demand-Side Measures and Smart Grids
33:50 - Media Misunderstanding and Energy Illiteracy
38:10 - The Cost of Poor Planning
43:15 - Insights on Resilience Planning
48:50 - Energy Market Design and Capacity Markets
55:40 - Final Thoughts on Net Zero and Realism
01:01:30 - Wrap-Up
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