Communism = Soviets + Electrification: The Electric Grid

Matt and Rudy join RK to discuss several facets of the electric grid. We talk about the USSR's and China's attempts at electrification, how a modern grid looks like, the current US grid and its governing authorities, and a discussion on possible futures for electricity.

References:

RK's thoughts con rural cooperatives: https://jnanayuddha.wordpress.com/2022/08/16/reflections-on-rural-electric-cooperatives-and-socialist-organizing/

Matt T. Huber & Fred Stafford's articles: Socialist Politics and the Electricity Grid, The Utility of Utilities and Won't Somebody Please Think of the Grid?

Further recommendations, National:

The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future by Gretchen Bakke, 2016

Short Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States by Leah Stokes, 2020

California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas & Electric, and What It Means for America's Power Grid by Katherine Blunt, 2022

The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet by Brett Christophers, 2024

International:

The Low-Carbon Contradiction: Energy Transition, Geopolitics, and the Infrastructural State in Cuba by Gustav Cederlof, 2023

Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882-1955 by Ying Jia Tan, 2021 

Sinews of Power: The Politics of the State Grid Corporation of China by Yi-chong Xu, 2017

Electrifying India: Regional Political Economies of Development by Sunila S. Kale, 2014

The Electrification of Russia, 1880-1926 by Jonathan Coopersmith, 1992

Electrical Palestine: Capitalism and Technology From Empire to Nation by Fredrik Meiton, 2019