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Sooner than you think, electricity is going to be cheap, abundant, and boring
How batteries can enable big new loads like data centers to reduce electricity rates and increase grid reliability.
May 20
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David Roberts
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1:44:04
Telling the story of the grid
Stepchange podcast hosts Ben Eidelson and Anay Shah discuss the wild, complicated history of the largest machine ever built.
May 15
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David Roberts
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4
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1:29:47
The case for using prices rather than VPPs to coordinate distributed energy
Researcher Bruce Nordman explains how dynamic, real-time pricing can do the work of coordinating DERs.
May 8
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David Roberts
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1:28:35
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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12
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1:30:57
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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1:10:37
What is PJM and why is everyone so mad about it?
Clara Summers & I discuss rising prices & growing political discontent in PJM, the country's largest power market.
Feb 20
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David Roberts
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10
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1:15:28
Taiwan's energy dilemma
Yeh-Tang "Ricky" Huang and I discuss the struggle to build renewables, the nuclear debate, and the promise of geothermal power.
Feb 4
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David Roberts
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14
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1:09:45
Let's dig a little deeper into virtual power plants (VPPs)
EnergyHub CEO Seth Frader-Thompson joins me to distinguish between old-school demand response and true virtual power plants (VPPs).
Jan 21
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David Roberts
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9
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1:15:18
Making the electricity grid work like the internet
Jonas Birgersson joins me to explain how "packet-switching" for electrons can lead to energy abundance and grid resilience.
Jan 14
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David Roberts
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24
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1:29:10
Can "second life" EV batteries work as grid-scale energy storage?
Colin Campbell explains how Redwood drains every drop of capacity from used batteries before they are recycled.
Oct 22, 2025
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David Roberts
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59:07
How inverters can stabilize a renewables-heavy grid
Daniel Duckwitz and Catarina Augusto explain how we can run stable electricity grids on inverter-based clean energy resources.
Sep 5, 2025
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David Roberts
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6
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1:02:18
What's the deal with sodium-ion batteries?
Landon Mossburg on beating lithium-ion on cost and safety with a grid storage system that has no moving parts.
Sep 3, 2025
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David Roberts
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9
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1:18:32
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