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A list of essential episodes & a tool to search the Volts library
Aug 15, 2025
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Samuel R (Volts team)
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1:03:48
Enabling ordinary people to invest in renewable energy projects
Energea co-founder Mike Silvestrini explains why the best returns in renewable energy are hiding in places often overlooked by traditional investors.
Apr 29
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David Roberts
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54:51
Tom Steyer wants to be California's climate governor
Tom Steyer joins me to explain his plan to slash California’s exorbitant electricity bills by taking on monopoly utilities.
Apr 27
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David Roberts
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1:07:17
The big stories from the last year in electricity
The biggest stories from the global power sector in 2025, from India's new path to a possible plateau in fossil generation.
Apr 22
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David Roberts
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1:31:56
Life as a clean energy journalist in an age of madness
Robinson Meyer and I discuss why the traditional climate movement struggles to build infrastructure and how a global oil shock is scrambling US energy…
Apr 20
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David Roberts
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Climate finance, interrupted
Beth Bafford on Climate United, the green fund she designed & ran before Trump killed it -- and the legal fight to revive it.
Apr 17
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David Roberts
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1:30:57
Doing data centers the not-dumb way
Jigar Shah joins me to break down why powering new data centers with behind-the-meter natural gas plants is an engineering and economic disaster.
Apr 15
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David Roberts
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50:26
Ruggedized solar power for the hard places
I chat with Lauren Flanagan about self-contained solar nanogrids in disaster areas & forward deployments.
Apr 10
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David Roberts
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Good news for paid subscribers!
I shall nag you no longer.
Apr 8
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David Roberts
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Samuel R (Volts team)
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1:04:41
Why climate funders don't fund housing policy, and why they oughtta
On the philanthropic obsession with electric vehicles and why Ben Holland and Caroline Spears think state-level housing policy is our next great climate…
Apr 8
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David Roberts
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1:20:49
Rethinking climate regulation from the ground up
I chat with Hannah Safford and Loren Schulman about designing federal policy that actually delivers decarbonization.
Apr 3
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David Roberts
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1:05:20
Using more of the grid we’ve already built
Ian Magruder explains how more efficiently utilizing our existing grid can lower electricity bills and accelerate decarbonization.
Apr 1
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David Roberts
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1:06:14
Should we block some sunlight to cool the planet?
Dakota Gruener joins me to discuss the gaps and unanswered questions in our understanding of solar geoengineering.
Mar 27
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David Roberts
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10
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1:10:37
For data centers, a little flexibility goes a long way
Why developers are scrambling for off-grid jet engines, and how we could fix our broken grid interconnection process instead.
Mar 25
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David Roberts
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