Kathryn Porter: Keeping the lights on | Tom Nelson Pod #314

Independent energy consultant helping businesses with projects across the electricity, gas and oil industries. 00:00 Introduction and Topic Overview 02:37 Grid Inertia and Its Importance 03:25 How Alternating Current Works 04:16 Challenges with Wind and Solar Power 04:43 Grid Frequency and Supply-Demand Balance 06:20 Protection Measures and Grid Stability 07:15 Spain's Response to the Blackout 08:35 Virtue Signaling and Grid Reliability 11:15 Black Start Procedures 13:59 Potential Blackout Risks in Britain 18:11 Reliance on Interconnectors and Batteries 20:37 Electric Cars and Demand Flexibility 24:21 Street Lighting and Energy Savings 26:13 Texas Blackout of 2021 26:49 Regulatory Failures and Grid Freezes 27:37 Historical Development of Power Grids 29:24 Aging Infrastructure and Modern Challenges 30:59 Gas Infrastructure and Future Risks 32:57 Software and Balancing the Grid 33:33 Localized Outages and Transformer Failures 35:54 Solar Flares and Electromagnetic Pulses 37:39 Future Load on the Grid: AI and Electric Cars 41:01 Nuclear Power: The Future of Energy 49:18 Misinformation and the Energy Transition AI summaries of all of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries https://x.com/KathrynPorter26 Kathryn’s site: https://watt-logic.com/ Kathryn’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@KathrynPorter26 ========= My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1