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Explain It to Me

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🗓️ 30 July 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Matt is joined by Liza Reed of the Niskanen Center to talk about energy policy, electricity transmission, and how America's complex system of power grids really function. Resources: "Transmission Stalled: Siting Challenges for Interregional Transmission" by Liza Reed (April 14) Summary of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPA) Guest: Liza Reed (@LizaBevin), Research Manager, Low Carbon Technology Policy, Niskanen Center Host: Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Slowboring.com Credits: Erikk Geannikis (@erikk38), Producer Ness Smith-Savedoff, Engineer As the Biden administration gears up, we'll help you understand this unprecedented burst of policymaking. Sign up for The Weeds newsletter each Friday: vox.com/weeds-newsletter. The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production. Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:17.3	I'm Matthew E. Glacias.
0:18.6	My guest today, Liza Reed, is the research manager for low-carbon technology at the NIS
0:23.6	Canon Center.
0:24.6	She's the author of a couple great recent papers that are all about electrical transmission.
0:29.8	Help talk me through this issue for some pieces I've been writing.
0:33.7	I think it's really sort of fascinating, a little bit under discussed aspect of the
0:38.7	energy policy puzzle.
0:40.7	So welcome to the show, Liza.
0:42.3	Let's just start like really basic, Benal.
0:45.1	Like you'd go as a street, there's power lines, right?
0:47.5	They bring electricity to your house.
0:49.6	That's electrical transmission.
0:51.4	What is interregional transmission?
0:53.9	You call it Benal.
0:54.9	I call it one of the most important and interesting parts of the transmission infrastructure.
0:59.5	So, there's a lot of different ways that it can be defined, which I think is one of the
1:03.7	challenges of talking about transmission is the precision of definition, but broadly speaking,
1:10.0	interregional transmission is transmission that connects regions.
1:13.8	And I don't say that glibly, right?
1:15.6	I mean, this is important because how we define regions really impacts what that transmission
1:20.6	can do.
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