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The Realignment

283 | California at the Epicenter of America's New Energy Crisis - Katherine Blunt on the Fall of PG&E, the Grid, and New Energy Sources

The Realignment

The Realignment

Saager Enjeti, Technology, Policy, News, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, Politics, News Commentary, Public Policy, U.s. Politics, National Security, Economics

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Katherine Blunt, Wall Street Journal reporter and author of California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric - and What It Means for America's Power Grid, joins The Realignment to discuss the challenge of fixing the nation's overstrained and outmoded power grid, the role of utilities in the wildfire epidemic, and the new energy challenges facing America in the 2020s.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Marshall here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

0:08.7

Hope everyone is having a great start to their long and

0:11.5

Labor Day weekend. I'll be brief with a couple quick show notes before we get into this episode.

0:16.8

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0:21.6

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0:26.6

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0:30.9

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0:35.8

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0:41.3

Number two, this episode is going to talk about a book that's recently come out,

0:44.4

so if you want to support the show and also support authors, you can go to our bookshop,

0:48.5

storefront, which is also linked. Finally, it's Friday, so the substack is coming back,

0:53.6

took a bit of a break because of the end of August month, but if you'd like to get the written

0:57.2

version of this show and get additional content that way, click the show notes link as well too.

1:02.9

That's the wrong least today's episode. I'm incredibly interested in the topic of energy,

1:08.0

not only because I recently bought my first car, but also because it's at the top of everyone's

1:11.9

mind with the war in Ukraine, with gas prices, with the debate over nuclear power,

1:16.8

all these different topics that we've hit a bunch of different times during the show.

1:20.0

So I brought on Catherine Blunt. She is a reporter at the Wall Street Journal. She has a new

1:24.1

book out. It's called California Burning, the fall Pacific gas and electric,

1:27.9

and what it means for America's power grid. So hope you all enjoy this conversation,

1:32.4

and that is what the start of our coverage of energy topics.

1:36.0

For what's said, huge thank you to Lincoln Network supporting our work.

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