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Volts

Volts is a podcast about leaving fossil fuels behind. I've been reporting on and explaining clean-energy topics for almost 20 years, and I love talking to politicians, analysts, innovators, and activists about the latest progress in the world's most important fight. (Volts is entirely subscriber-supported. Sign up!)
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Checking in on solar power
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Checking in on solar power
Jenny Chase has led a team analyzing the business of solar power for almost 20 years now; she's also the author of a fantastic introductory book on the…
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Managing a distributed grid
Astrid Atkinson helped move Google search from a centralized, top-down system to a massively distributed system. Now she wants to do the same thing to…
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1:10:44
FERC is about to make some very important decisions about transmission
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is close to releasing its final rule on regional transmission planning. It may be the most important…
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An insider's view of the Biden years in clean energy policy
On stage at the third-annual Yale Clean Energy Conference, I chatted with Sonia Aggarwal, who recently re-emerged from years within the Biden…
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The cheapest way to permanently sequester carbon involves ... fizzy water
In Iceland, a company is carbonating water (like with a SodaStream!) and injecting it underground, where the CO2 mineralizes & becomes rock. How much…
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What rural people actually think about clean energy
A new survey reveals how rural Americans feel about clean energy & the developers who are selling it. It casts some light on the arguments that work and…
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The Volts/Catalyst pod crossover you didn't know you were waiting for
That's right, folks, it's the crossover event of the century. In today's episode I talk with veteran cleantech investor Shayle Kann, host of the…
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What? The sun isn't always shining?!
Having recently learned that the sun isn't always shining & the wind isn't always blowing, I turned to Princeton professor Jesse Jenkins to help explain…
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What's the deal with district energy?
District energy -- in which a group of buildings share a common source of heating & cooling -- dates back at least to the Roman Empire, but the…
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What's the deal with Iceland?
I talk with Halla Hrund Logadóttir of Iceland's National Energy Authority about the country's history with geothermal, its current energy mix, and it…
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Reflecting on 20 years in political journalism
As he launches his own newsletter, I wax nostalgic with journalist Brian Beutler about our long journeys through politics and media.
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A super-battery aimed at decarbonizing industry
Storing electricity as heat! It's so, uh, hot right now. I talk with the head of a company that makes a thermal battery that outputs either heat or…
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