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Sep 1, 2022 Podcast Wildfires Energy Utilities Climate Change Renewables

Episode 12 - Weather in the Line of Fire (Part II: Energy Under Fire)

We have three main prongs contributing to more destructive fires: first is unfortunately our fire management to put out every fire, second is encroachment of large numbers of people into the wildland urban interface, and third is the changing climate. It's not an easy question to solve for sure.

Aug 26, 2022 Podcast Emergency Management Wildfires News

Episode 11 - Weather in the Line of Fire (Part I: The Incident Meteorologist)

"And so the potential that we saw that afternoon, when, as we're looking at it, everything is coming together for this fire to burn all the way down into Redding. Tonight." Alex Hoon, NV Energy

Aug 19, 2022 Podcast Utilities Energy Water

Episode 10 - Sector Focus: Powering the Utilities Industry

The historic Inflation Reduction Act signed Aug 16 by President Biden apportions just $500 million (0.1%) out of the $370 billion in spending toward advanced weather-climate observations, prediction, and projection capabilities. This leaves the door open for private sector to fill the gap.

Aug 14, 2022 Podcast Public Sector Charitable Organizations

Episode 9 - Sector Focus: Public and Charitable Organizations

One of the key principles in emergency management is unity of information. When there's a meteorological crisis happening, we don't need 100 industry providers providing safety information. When it comes to safety, government agencies need to be the authoritative source the public trusts.

Aug 5, 2022 Podcast Business

Episode 8 - The Business of Weather and Climate

The weather and climate industry is growing at an accelerated pace as technology allows industry to not just ride the backs of government data and models, but serve advanced satellite and modeling capabilities better and faster than governments. Industry relies on government data though.