About this episode
Volts published eight conversations in August — with two Idaho state legislators, a grid cybersecurity expert, the architect of Uruguay's energy transition, an EV charging exec, and more — which is a lot for anyone to listen to. We've rounded up the highlights into a single hour. Enjoy!
Chapters:
00:00 – Introduction and how the best-of series works
01:59 – Saleem Chapman on why every market design fails ratepayers the same way
07:51 – Patrick Miller on Chinese inverters and commodity boards
12:22 – Ben Toews and Megan Egbert on how Idaho's housing bills happened
18:34 – Seth Cutler on why an IONNA site is technically a bakery
22:52 – Ramón Méndez Galain on getting every Uruguayan party to sign one plan
28:00 – Quinn Nakayama on why a utility would adopt something that saves money
34:16 – Varun Sivaram on workload tiers and who pays when flexing goes wrong
38:44 – Todd Tucker on the Defense Production Act precedent
44:20 – Closing note and what to send in
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