Pacific Northwest, every mention
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every year anyone Gia Schneider 3Tyler Norris 2Shayle Kann 2Rob Gramlich 1Mateo Jaramillo 1
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Unpacking DOE's proposal to transform data center interconnection
- ▶ 20:16 Tyler Norris Uh, that will do also a two hour battery, um, for a new data center in the Pacific Northwest.
- ▶ 30:59 Tyler Norris It's really, to my knowledge, hardly ever been used outside some cases in the Pacific Northwest.
More 2024 trends: ESG, carbon certifications, curtailment, and AI
- ▶ 15:07 Shayle Kann And like, why does that have value, for example, in a market like the Pacific Northwest in the United States, which has a lot of hydropower?
Sourcing biomass for carbon removal
- ▶ 43:35 Shayle Kann If I kill all the salmon in the Pacific Northwest in the United States, it's fine, because globally there's plenty of salmon, but obviously we don't want to do that.
What do you do with a 100-hour battery?
- ▶ 19:35 Mateo Jaramillo It could be a heat dome in the Pacific Northwest, or a polar vortex in the upper Midwest, or a nor'easter, you know, in the Northeast, or an unlikely winter storm Uri in Texas.
Understanding the transmission bottleneck
- ▶ 4:45 Rob Gramlich Then for reliability, they would get some connections between them, and that was our transmission network, um, overlaid with occasional long-distance hydro connections or coal connections, and the occasional random Pacific-DC intertie…
How to build more hydropower
- ▶ 7:57 Gia Schneider And, I mean, the history of hydro is interesting because, um, for example, uh, if you look at when a lot of the big dams were constructed in the Pacific Northwest,
- ▶ 35:03 Gia Schneider Um, last year, I think one thing that was kind of probably a surprising statistic, if you dug into it further, is actually that, um, hydro, despite the West being in an overall drought, it was a pretty great year for hydropower, and it was… 2 times in the scene