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
Kathryn’s site: https://watt-logic.com/
Kathryn’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@KathrynPorter26
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