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Pantsuit Politics

Infrastructure in Real Life: Electricity

Pantsuit Politics

Lemonada Media

News, Politics, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.54.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

When the power goes out, it's like a record scratching and pushing our normal lives into a weird pause. For most of us, we take for granted the predictability and reliability of our power supply. We count on the infrastructure that brings us energy, but that system needs attention. ⁠ ⁠On this, the second episode of our Infrastructure In Real Life series, we're talking about energy, climate, jobs, and the politics of how these things intersect. We're sharing more insight from our Brookings Institute friends and can't wait to hear what you think, too. ⁠⁠ Click here for our Premium content on Apple Podcasts Subscriptions. Please visit our website for full show notes and episode resources. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Day 4 of the US Winter Weather Crisis and Things Only seem to be getting worse, especially

0:09.6

in Texas.

0:10.7

Encore has a lot of tough questions to answer.

0:13.2

Yeah, it's not just Encore, it's Irkhard and it's state lawmaker.

0:16.8

A half million people are still without power and heat.

0:20.2

And PG&E is right in the thick of it.

0:22.0

But how did this happen and could the grid have been better prepared?

0:25.4

We need a better grid.

0:27.1

But now if we get this through, we will have the means to be able to bring our grid up

0:33.2

to speed for both capacity and for resilience.

0:52.0

From today's bill to tomorrow's jobs, we're looking for the government at work in our tap

0:56.4

water, light switches, bridges and broadband.

0:59.6

You're listening to Pant2 Politics Summer Series.

1:02.0

Inferstructure in real life.

1:27.0

Welcome to the second part of our Infrastructure Series.

1:29.8

We kicked it off with water and now we're moving on to everyone's favorite utility.

1:35.8

Do we pick favorites among the utilities, Beth?

1:38.0

I don't like to tempt faith that way because water is pretty important.

1:41.8

If we have to rank them, probably water is my gold and electricity is my silver.

1:46.4

How's that?

1:47.4

That's good.

1:48.4

And I think that's appropriate because, again, while water and the infrastructure supporting

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