web02.fireside.fm Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:52:48 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) ex.haust - Episodes Tagged with “Electricity Markets” https://exhaust.fireside.fm/tags/electricity%20markets Tue, 01 Jun 2021 20:00:00 -0700 Co-hosts Emmet and John plumb the depths of history, culture, and philosophy to understand why it is that despite calamities and rapid change nothing feels possible anymore. Guests include artists, scholars, and thinkers from all over the world. Subscribe to our Patreon to receive 2 extra exclusive episodes a month: https://www.patreon.com/exhaust en-us episodic A podcast about political, cultural, and psychological exhaustion and why nothing feels possible. Emmet Penney Co-hosts Emmet and John plumb the depths of history, culture, and philosophy to understand why it is that despite calamities and rapid change nothing feels possible anymore. Guests include artists, scholars, and thinkers from all over the world. Subscribe to our Patreon to receive 2 extra exclusive episodes a month: https://www.patreon.com/exhaust yes politics, culture, history, philosophy Emmet Penney emmetmpenney@gmail.com Episode 41: A Brief History of the American Electricity Grid From the 1920s to Closure of Indian Point ft. Edgardo Sepulveda https://exhaust.fireside.fm/41 5ac385ed-eddc-4b03-b427-ec8be1dd0fee Tue, 01 Jun 2021 20:00:00 -0700 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Emmet sits down with Edgardo Sepulveda to talk about the history of the electrical grid in America and why certain infrastructure projects no longer feel possible anymore. 1:07:13 yes Emmet sits down with economic historian Edgardo Sepulveda (https://twitter.com/E_R_Sepulveda) to talk about the history of the electrical grid in America from the 1920s until the closure of Indian Point. They talk vertical integration, the dawn of public utilities, the rise of monetarism and neoliberalism, the birth of the RTO system, and whether or not it's feasible to reform this precious infrastructure in an age of diminishing expecations and possibilities. Bibliography (https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/ep41bib). Twitter (https://twitter.com/ex_haustpodcast). Subscribe to our Patreon for 2 exclusive episodes a month (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust)! Closing Song: "OK FM DOA (https://dillingerfour.bandcamp.com/album/midwestern-songs-of-the-americas)" by the Dillinger Four neoliberalism, monetarism, electricity markets, new deal, nuclear energy, indian point, electricity grid, infrastructure, american history Emmet sits down with economic historian Edgardo Sepulveda to talk about the history of the electrical grid in America from the 1920s until the closure of Indian Point. They talk vertical integration, the dawn of public utilities, the rise of monetarism and neoliberalism, the birth of the RTO system, and whether or not it's feasible to reform this precious infrastructure in an age of diminishing expecations and possibilities.

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Closing Song: "OK FM DOA" by the Dillinger Four

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