Kurt Miller, Dan Catchpole, KC Mehaffey, and Paul Dockery get together for a regularly formatted episode to talk about electric utility and electric-utility-adjacent news from a Power Department’s perspective. The crew covers the Murray-Inslee draft report, Australia’s electric market getting suspended, natural gas price slump after a fire, transfer of management of a fish hatchery to the Nez Perce Tribe, and Falconry at the Dalles Dam.
19:10 - A draft report developed for Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Sen. Patty Murray to examine the impacts of breaching the four lower snake river dams
33:12 - Australian Energy Market Operator suspended their national electric market
43:53 - Freeport’s Liquified Natural Gas had an unplanned outaged, and it impacted national natural gas markets
48:25 - Transfer of management of the Dwarshak National Fish Hatchery to the Nez Perce Tribe, also known as the Nimiipuu
56:51 - The ancient art of falconry used to help reduce salmon predation
1:03:49 - TL;DR segment known as “Energy West …. Lite”
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