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The Texas Grid Failure
Even for energy veterans, the depth of failures in Texas last week were breathtaking.
As arctic air froze power plants, gas lines, and mechanical ins…
4 years, 10 months ago
How a ‘Climate Emergency’ Could Harness Wartime Powers
This week: climate change is certainly the most urgent issue we face. But should it be formally declared an emergency?
There’s a real conversation ov…
4 years, 11 months ago
The Dirty Secret Behind Utility Climate Goals
Net-zero pledges are becoming common for utilities. But a huge number of them are failing to decarbonize on any timeframe that truly matters. They’re…
4 years, 11 months ago
Reversing Trump's Destruction
It was hard to keep up with the destruction of the Trump era. And it’s already getting hard to keep up with the rebuilding.
This week brought a serie…
4 years, 11 months ago
Why Local Solar + Storage Is a Pillar of the Net-Zero Grid
This week, we finally left behind a destructive regime that thwarted environmental policy at every turn. We exchanged it for a government putting cli…
4 years, 11 months ago
Watt It Takes: BlocPower CEO Donnel Baird
BlocPower CEO Donnel Baird is on a mission to clean up old, inefficient buildings in America’s cities -- and help people who are exposed to the worst…
4 years, 11 months ago
America's Drastic Shift: What Are Paths for Climate?
In the final moments of 2020, the most important U.S. energy legislation in a decade flew in under the radar, attached to the coronavirus relief and …
5 years ago
Year-Ender: Listeners Choose Top Trends of 2020
Goodbye 2020. We’re not sad to see you go.
Even though this year brought a lot of outright bad stuff, it also brought a lot of positive, nuanced stor…
5 years ago
Introducing: Google’s Quest for 24/7 Clean Energy
We’re featuring an episode of Google’s new podcast about data centers, called Where the Internet Lives.
What would it take to run data centers on cle…
5 years ago
Revisiting Pandemic Predictions for Energy
As we close out 2020, we are diving into the top stories that defined this frenzied and heavy year.
This week, we’ll start the show with a look back …
5 years, 1 month ago