Podcast Episodes

The grid is smarter. Why aren't we smarter about the grid?

The grid faces a mismatch: the system is getting smarter, but we're not getting smarter about how we use it.

Utilities have installed 130 million advanced meters. Millions of homes have smart thermos…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

AI rewrites the corporate energy playbook

The exponential growth of AI is colliding with the linear reality of building energy infrastructure — forcing a rethink of how tech companies power their ambitions. 

Is the corporate clean energy pla…

Published on 4 months, 4 weeks ago

How Tesla bootstrapped the Powerwall 2

This week, we’re featuring an episode of The Green Blueprint featuring Drew Baglino, a former SVP at Tesla. Subscribe here. 

In 2014, Drew Baglino was helping build Tesla's energy division with a pas…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

The abundance agenda meets scarcity politics

America is facing an uncomfortable question: do we know how to build anymore? 

House Republicans just passed a reconciliation bill that would repeal much of the Inflation Reduction Act while adding u…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

A high-stakes energy showdown in Texas

Texans take pride in their competitive electricity market, a system designed to let the cheapest resources win. And that market is increasingly choosing clean energy, with wind, solar, and batteries …

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Tesla’s fork in the road

When Elon Musk canceled Tesla's affordable Model 2 last year to go all-in on Robotaxis, he may have made the most consequential decision in the company's history. As Chinese automaker BYD captures gl…

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

Fear and Loathing at the Department of Energy

The Department of Energy is losing talent at an alarming rate. Described by insiders as a "hostile takeover," the agency's transformation under Trump has pushed out thousands of scientists, engineers…

Published on 6 months ago

The battery solution for AI's power problem [parter content]

Alan Cooper and Ricardo de Azevedo have been business partners since they were teenagers. Today, they're tackling one of the most critical infrastructure challenges of the AI revolution: how to manag…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

State of the transition: tariffs, shortages, data centers, and Europe vs China

This week, we’re asking the central question of the energy transition: How fast are we going?

Clean energy is bringing in $2 trillion of investment annually. Wind and solar now account for the vast m…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Who’s really paying AI’s power bill?

When tech giants build massive data centers to power AI, they're often negotiating confidential deals with utilities that few people will ever see — but that everyone might pay for. 

Harvard legal exp…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago