Shorting the Grid feat. Meredith Angwin

The Grid has been described as one of the preeminent
engineering accomplishments of the 20th century and the world's
largest machine. However, when people debate the best strategies
to manage a successful energy transition they often limit their
analysis to electricity generation. What is neglected is the
elephant in the room: the grid. There is an obvious reason. To
non-specialists it is complicated. My guest Meredith Angwin is
going to help us get a grip on the grid so that we can make
informed decisions about the best way to move forward to clean,
reliable electricity that can get us to deep decarbonisation
while meeting the demands of the world's poor to fight their way
out of energy poverty.


Meredith is a physical chemist and one of the first women
to be a project manager at the Electric Power Research Institute.
Over her career she has headed projects to help power plants
become more reliable and less polluting. In the past decade, she
has studied the grid as a system, and taken part in grid
oversight and governance.