[Episode #172] – IPCC AR6 Part 1
The IPCC published the final part of its Sixth Assessment (“AR6”), the Working Group III report, on April 4, 2022. The IPCC’s Working Group III report contains assessments of how the energy transition...
View Article[Episode #173] – IPCC AR6 Part 2
In this second part of our IPCC Sixth Assessment report (“AR6”) Working Group III coverage, we welcome back our friend and AR6 contributing author Glen Peters of the CICERO Center for International...
View Article[Episode #174] – Decarbonizing Britain’s Grid
As the energy transition proceeds and variable renewable power from wind and solar displaces conventional generators, strict operational limits for the grid’s voltage, frequency, and inertia must be...
View Article[Episode #175] – Community Support and Opposition
Why do people take a NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) attitude toward hosting energy transition solutions like wind, solar farms, and transmission lines in their communities? And what can be done about it?...
View Article[Episode #176] – Climate Scenarios vs. Reality
Why do so many decarbonization scenarios rely on carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) to play a major role in the world’s energy transition portfolio when it really doesn’t even exist as a commercial...
View Article[Episode #177] – Utility Corruption
Many people don’t know their local utility could be actively working against the energy transition and in opposition to public interests. In this episode, we review the manifold ways some utilities...
View Article[Episode #178] – How the Transition Will Unfold
The energy transition is an extremely complex undertaking, with every country, company, and individual taking action in various, largely uncoordinated ways, and often in pursuit of different targets....
View Article[Episode #179] – Offshore Wind in the US
Although offshore wind has been booming for decades in Europe, it has gotten a slow start in the US. But that’s about to change. From a single 30 MW offshore wind farm today, offshore wind capacity in...
View Article[Episode #180] – Transition in Alberta
Alberta is the seat of the Canadian oil & gas industry, as well as a major coal producer, so it has historically struggled to align with the energy transition – focusing more on pipelines than...
View Article[Episode #181] – Command Capitalism
2022 has brought an unprecedented series of energy market interventions as leaders try to stave off domestic unrest in the face of numerous energy supply shocks. Some of the tumult we’ve seen in energy...
View Article[Episode #182] – 7th Anniversary Show
For our Seventh Anniversary show, energy researcher Jonathan Koomey rejoins us to review major stories over the past year, and to take stock of how the energy transition has progressed. We talk about...
View Article[Episode #183] – Global Energy Crisis
What began as a “global energy crunch” one year ago, as we discussed with Will Kennedy in Episode #158, has now become a global energy crisis. It is putting energy consumers into severe financial...
View Article[Episode #184] – EROI of RE
Do renewable energy sources generate enough energy ‘profit’ to make them worth continued investment? And is any energy profit large enough to run our modern world, as renewables displace fossil fuels?...
View Article[Episode #185] – Designing the Mid-transition
Phasing out the old while simultaneously building up the new is always a challenge, and perhaps never more so than with the energy transition. Can we coordinate replacing fossil-fueled assets with...
View Article[Episode #186] – Transition in Vermont, Part 1
This is the first show in a new format we are piloting for the Energy Transition Show. Instead of exploring a particular topic with one guest who has a non-commercial perspective, as most of our shows...
View Article[Episode #187] – Transition in Vermont, Part 2
This is Part 2 of the first series in a new format we are piloting for the Energy Transition Show. Instead of exploring a particular topic with one guest who has a non-commercial perspective, as most...
View Article[Episode #188] – Getting to a 100% Clean Grid
How much of a role might wind, solar, nuclear, transmission, power plants equipped with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology, or direct air capture of CO2 play on a 100% clean power grid?...
View Article[Episode #189] – Financing the Transition
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), almost all of the growth in global clean energy spending is happening in advanced economies and China, while the two-thirds of the global population...
View Article[Episode #190] – Financing Utility Scale RE in Developing Countries
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) like the World Bank are increasingly under pressure to invest more in renewable energy projects in emerging markets. The lack of financing for such projects is a...
View Article[Episode #191] – Shale’s Swan Song
Since 2007 the US transitioned from an oil production has-been that was more than four decades past its previous peak, to the world’s top oil and gas producer, and the top exporter of liquefied natural...
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