[Episode #1] – The Real War on Coal
Guest Michael Grunwald, senior writer at POLITICO and author of The New New Deal – The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era and The Swamp – The Everglades Florida and the Politics of Paradise....
View Article[Episode #2] – Limits on the Grid – Part 1
Guest Mackay Miller, Senior Research Analyst at NREL. @mackaymiller Links NREL: Renewable Electricity Futures Study (RE Futures) (2012) NREL: Power Systems of the Future (May 2015) Nelder: Designing...
View Article[Episode #3] – Limits on the Grid – Part 2
Guest Bentham Paulos, Principal of Paulos Analysis and Director of the Power Markets Project @benpaulos www.paulosanalysis.com www.powermarkets.org Links Bentham Paulos: How Wind and Solar Will Blow...
View Article[Episode #4] – Energiewende
Guest Craig Morris, editor of Renewables International and lead author of EnergyTransition.de On Twitter: @PPChef Links Craig Morris: Did German renewables just peak above 80% of demand? (Aug 27,...
View Article[Episode #5] – Winning the Carbon War
Guest Jeremy Leggett, Founder of Solarcentury and SolarAid, Chair of Carbon Tracker, and author of five books on energy transition. On Twitter: @JeremyLeggett Links Jeremy Leggett: The Winning of the...
View Article[Episode #6] – Transition from Oil
Guest Mark Lewis, Former senior analyst for energy, climate, and sustainability research, Kepler Cheuvreux; former head of energy commodities research, Deutsche Bank. On Twitter: @MCL1965 Links...
View Article[Episode #7] – EROI
All about EROI (Energy Return on Investment), the state of biophysical economics, the relationship between energy and ecology, and what EROI could and should tell us about the outlook for a fuel — for...
View Article[Episode #8] – Storage on the Grid
All about storage on the grid — in front of the meter — with a little bit about behind-the-meter storage. How to value storage, how storage complements and replaces generation, and some geeky...
View Article[Episode #9] – Macro Outlook for 2016
A full-spectrum romp through the macroeconomic context: Stock markets; oil and gas prices; coal’s collapse; the difficult LNG export market; what commodities are telling us about the health of the...
View Article[Episode #10] – Grid Architecture of the Future
What kind of grid architecture and markets will we need in order to actually operate the distributed, decentralized grid of the future? What sorts of regulatory models will be needed? And what does it...
View Article[Episode #11] – India and Coal
Everyone knows that India is the second-largest coal importing nation in the world, after China, and that it is the fastest-growing source of global CO2 emissions thanks to its rapid adoption of coal....
View Article[Episode #12] – Energy Access for the Developing World
What’s the best way to bring energy to those in the developing world who lack it? Why do forecasts by agencies like IEA always seem to overstate the cost of solutions in the developing world? Why do...
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[Episode #13] – The Oracle of Oil
Many have heard of peak oil, but few seem to understand what it really means, and fewer still know much of anything about the father of the idea, M. King Hubbert. In this episode we interview science...
View Article[Episode #14] – China’s Energy Future
China is always a bit of an enigma to the West: It is the world’s largest user of coal and the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide; the world’s largest car market; it has the world’s largest...
View Article[Episode #15] – The Outlook for Electric Vehicles
Electric vehicles are all the rage right now, and hopes are high that we might finally be able to transition off of oil and on to electric cars…preferably, cars powered by clean renewable electricity...
View Article[Episode #16] – Energy Efficiency Markets
Improving efficiency is almost always easier and cheaper than generating new power, so efficiency should be our first target in energy transition. But it’s usually the last. And while there are very...
View Article[Episode #17] – Denmark’s Energy Transition
In percentage terms, Denmark is the world leader in energy transition, as well as the king of wind power. Wind now supplies 42% of all Denmark’s electricity, and by 2020, the country plants to get...
View Article[Episode #18] – The Collapse of Coal
The last of the big-time U.S. coal companies has gone bankrupt, and in the hills of Appalachia, they’re looking for their next move. How will the former coal miners find new careers and build new...
View Article[Episode #19] – Distributed renewables in Latin America and beyond
Finance geeks, this episode is for you! Latin America has had one of the fastest-growing renewable energy markets on the planet for the past several years, but nobody ever talks about it. We aim to...
View Article[Episode #20] – Grid evolution
Utilities face a host of rapid changes in a what used to be a staid business: new business models, changing supply and demand forecasts, new distributed architectures, new types of resources, new...
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