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Welcome to Schweitzer Drive, a podcast that explores what goes on between the generation of electricity and the light switch. 

Oct 23, 2020

Did you know that the power system can reconfigure itself when a fault occurs, and that it can automatically adjust line voltage so that the energy delivered to your house is just right? Did you know that adding wind and solar power to the grid can make it less reliable? Join Dave Whitehead as he talks with automation...


Oct 9, 2020

Often in the wake of a blackout, the focus is on what caused the power to go out, but we seldom hear how utilities get the power back on. In this episode, Dave Whitehead talks with Bill Cook, a power system expert with more than four decades of experience, about how he worked operations team at San Diego Gas & Electric...