[Episode #283] – Transportation Beyond Electrification
Transportation continues to electrify, as a quarter of the world’s new car market in 2025 was electric, both battery and plug-in hybrids. And this area of the energy transition is already showing up in...
View Article[Episode #282] – Regulatory Moats Around Transmission
The energy transition calls for more electrification. As transportation, heating, industry, and now power demand from data centers all crowd the interconnection queues, the US needs more transmission...
View Article[Episode #0] – The Launch
The launch episode of The Energy Transition Show, originally released on the Extraenvironmentalist podcast feed on 24 September 2015. Features the conversation with Chris Nelder from...
View Article[Episode #281] – Revisiting the Jet Stream
Millions of Americans are sweltering under heat domes this summer, with temperatures soaring to record highs when weather systems stall. The grid feels the strain of these events too. This extreme heat...
View Article[Episode #280] – Statistical Review of World Energy 2026
The Statistical Review of World Energy 2026 is out, offering the first complete look at global energy data for 2025. The report’s 75th edition, now presented in partnership with the energy think tank...
View Article[Episode #279] – Debottlenecking Europe’s Grid
Right now, Great Britain has more than enough new solar projects waiting to be connected to its distribution grid to meet its 2030 renewable energy target. Italy and Poland could reach half their 2030...
View Article[Episode #278] – Enhanced Geothermal Energy
It’s taken a very long time to arrive, but next-generation geothermal power is finally becoming a commercial technology. Even though the virtues of geothermal have long been known and appreciated as...
View Article[Episode #277] – Just Transition in South Africa
This is the third and final part of our miniseries about South Africa’s energy transition, based on Chris’ travels there in September and October of 2025. The first part was Episode #264, in which we...
View Article[Episode #276] – Electricity Reform in South Africa
This is the second part of a miniseries about South Africa’s energy transition, based on Chris’ travels there in September and October of 2025. The first part was Episode 264, in which we heard how the...
View Article[Episode #275] – The Cost of Delay
In mid-2026 we’re experiencing the largest energy crisis the world has ever faced. The sudden and prolonged disappearance of one-fifth of the global supply of oil and LNG, set in motion by the Iran war...
View Article[Episode #274] – Global Electricity Review 2026
For years, transition skeptics have argued that what’s really happening globally is “energy addition,” where renewables are piling on top of fossil fuels rather than pushing them aside. The data that’s...
View Article[Episode #273] – Solar and Batteries Can Power the World
In the sunniest parts of the world, solar and batteries are already the cheapest way to build new power generation capacity on an unsubsidized full system cost basis, and that cost advantage is...
View Article[Episode #272] – Global Energy Crisis 2026
The attacks on Iran by US and Israel have touched off a regional conflict that has resulted in the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world’s oil and LNG transits, and is doing...
View Article[Episode #271] – China Update 2026
China’s total CO2 emissions went flat and slowly started declining almost two years ago, but you probably wouldn’t know it from reading the news about how its pipeline of coal power plant projects...
View Article[Episode #270] – View from the Energy Transitions Commission
Both the IEA and BNEF now project that current policies put us on track for roughly 2.5°C of warming. Some voices, like Daniel Yergin and Bill Gates, argue we should accept that trajectory and focus...
View Article[Episode #269] – Trump’s War on the Energy Transition
In the first year of his second term, President Donald Trump waged an all-out war on the energy transition. His administration canceled hundreds of projects created under the Inflation Reduction Act,...
View Article[Episode #268] – Activism 101
If you want to see the energy transition succeed where you live, you might want to get involved in some local advocacy campaigns, or even become an organizer yourself. But how? The energy and climate...
View Article[Episode #267] – Japan: Petrostate or Electrostate?
Depending on where you live, the energy transition might feel like it’s stalling or accelerating faster than ever. Countries are sorting themselves into two camps: petrostates seeking to stay on the...
View Article[Episode #266] – Global Electricity Review 2025 (Lagniappe edition)
Happy new year! To close out 2025, by popular demand, we’re lifting the paywall on Episode #254, our comprehensive review of the state of the global energy transition with Ember’s Nic Fulghum. This is...
View Article[Episode #265] – IEA World Energy Outlook 2025
In November, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its annual World Energy Outlook (WEO) report. It was greeted with cheers from the fossil fuel industry and jeers from energy transitionistas,...
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