Grid Lock

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  The State of the Grid: Intro to Grid Lock Dr. Paul Moses 22.07.2026 8min

  I'm Dr. Paul Moses, an electrical engineer, educator, and researcher.Grid Lock: Engineering for the Real WorldEvery system we depend on — the lights that turn on, the grid that holds steady, the infrastructure that scales with demand — is the result of hard tradeoffs engineers and policymakers make every day. Grid Lock: Engineering for the Real World goes inside those tradeoffs.Each episode brings in experts across engineering and energy disciplines to explore the pressures defining our power future: affordability, flexibility, reliability, grid resilience, versatility, capacity, and what it takes to electrify societies for the future.The conversation starts local — right here in Oklahoma — scales up to national policy and infrastructure trends, and connects to the global engineering challenges shaping how the world powers itself.www.mosesconsulting.netIn this episode I discuss the overview of the state of the grid.In recent years, we are seeing a rapid escalation in the amount of electrical energy we useAffordability, even here in Oklahoma which is touted to be one of the lowest cost of living states, is still not immune to electricity price growthUtilities are also in a bind; grid modernizationLegacy equipmentThe impact of new energy consumers; data centersPower system planning has always been a top-level down endeavor – key decisions made at the federal, or boardrooms of power corporations – and seldom or very little input from the communities.  Indeed a bottom-up approach is more sort after in stakeholder engagement, the general public in entering the discussion.These are important decisions, and will have lasting repercussions in everyone, costs of living, our children and grandchildren’s prospects and thinking 22nd century. – Remember, it takes many years, sometimes decades to planout and start building major infrastructure.I look forward to continuing these important conversations over the series of episodes in the podcast Grid Lock.Thank you for listening!