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: meredithangwin@gmail.com Substack: https://meredithangwin.substack.com/ ========= AI summaries of all of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1