Grid Lock
Grid Lock: Engineering for the Real World is a podcast hosted by Dr. Paul Moses, an electrical engineering professor. Each episode explores the tradeoffs in engineering and energy policies that shape our power infrastructure, covering topics like affordability, reliability, and resilience. The conversation starts in Oklahoma and scales to national and global challenges.
Episodes
How Germany is Keeping Its Grid Stable in a Wind-Powered Future - Part II
Grid Lock: Engineering for the Real World, Part IIContinuing our interview with Prof. Clemens Jauch | Flensburg University of Applied Sciences, Wind Energy Technology InstituteIn Part II, Prof. Jauch explains why he thinks a grid built entirely on frequency converters loses the fault current that protection systems depend on, and why some synchronous machines should stay. We cover his hydraulic fl
How Germany Is Keeping Its Grid Stable in a Wind-Powered Future - Part I
Prof. Clemens Jauch (Wind Energy Technology Institute, Flensburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany)In this episode, Dr. Paul Moses talks with Dr. Clemens Jauch about his path from car mechanic to leading wind energy researcher, and what it takes to keep Germany's increasingly wind-powered grid stable. They cover grid congestion and feed-in management, the evolution of low-voltage ride-throug
Power Quality: How Clean is our Electricity?
Grid Lock: Engineering for the Real WorldIs Your Electricity Really Clean?There's a scene from an old British sitcom where a socially anxious housewife asks the meter reader whether her electricity is "clean" — as clean as her neighbor's. This is an apt seqway into a real engineering question: what does clean power actually look like, and how would you know if yours wasn't?In this episode, Paul Mo
Transforming the Grid: An Australian Perspective
Grid Lock: Engineering for the Real WorldWhat can we learn from Australia’s experience transforming the electrical grid?In this episode, I talk with Dr. Sara Deilami, an electrical engineering researcher at Macquarie University, to explore Australia's rapidly changing energy system and what it can teach us about the future of the grid.We discuss renewable energy, virtual power plants, and the chal
Powering the Future: How Electric Cooperatives Are Transforming the Grid
Grid Lock: Engineering for the Real WorldWhat does it take to keep the lights on as storms, aging infrastructure, rapid load growth, and changing customer expectations put increasing pressure on the electric grid?In this episode of Grid Lock, we sit down with Nick Shumaker, Manager of System Engineering at Oklahoma Electric Cooperative (OEC) and National Chair of NRECA’s Transmission and Distribut
Smart Grids: A reality or a dream? with Dr Paul Moses
Smart Grids: An Unrealized Reality?For more than two decades, we've been promised a future where our homes actively participate in a smarter, cleaner, and more resilient electricity grid. Smart meters have been installed in millions of homes around the world, utilities have invested billions in grid modernization, and the term smart grid has become a staple of energy discussions.But has the averag
Grid Lock: The Unequal Grid with Dr. Paul Moses
Episode Show NotesThis episode is a short overview to some of the topics we hope to touch in later in depth details. How Infrastructure Disparities Affect Power ReliabilityWhy do some neighbourhoods get their power back in hours while others wait days after the same storm? In this episode of Grid Lock: Engineering for the Real World, we explore how the design of the electric grid influences reliab
The State of the Grid: Intro to Grid Lock Dr. Paul Moses
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
