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The Energy Gang

Weekly discussions about the latest trends in energy, cleantech, renewables, and the environment from Wood Mackenzie.

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Are Renewables Ready to Address the Climate Threat?

Are Renewables Ready to Address the Climate Threat?

The International Energy Agency has once again revised its figures for renewable energy upward, showing that the industr... Read more

2 Jul 2013

39mins

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Watt It Takes: How Sunnova's John Berger Convinced Oil & Gas Investors to Believe in Solar

Watt It Takes: How Sunnova's John Berger Convinced Oil & Gas Investors to Believe in Solar

This week on Watt It Takes: How a Texas entrepreneur with fossil fuel roots came to see solar and storage as the future ... Read more

13 Sep 2018

1hr

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1979-1989: The Decade We Almost Saved the Planet

1979-1989: The Decade We Almost Saved the Planet

This week, we're using an entire episode to discuss an ambitious piece of reporting on climate change. Earlier this mont... Read more

30 Aug 2018

47mins

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Tesla's Cybertruck: Win or Fail?

Tesla's Cybertruck: Win or Fail?

Truck buyers are historically some of the most brand-loyal auto consumers But recent surveys suggest that loyalty is loo... Read more

7 Dec 2019

50mins

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The Battery Storage Market Kicks Into High Gear

The Battery Storage Market Kicks Into High Gear

The latest numbers for U.S. energy storage activity are out. They show a surge of activity coming over the next five yea... Read more

14 Mar 2019

55mins

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Reflections on the Last 10 Years, Projections for the Next 10

Reflections on the Last 10 Years, Projections for the Next 10

We’re closing out the decade this week with a retrospective. We have been doing this show since 2013. So we are going to... Read more

23 Dec 2019

1hr 1min

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Breaking Down President Obama's New Climate Plan

Breaking Down President Obama's New Climate Plan

After promising to deal with climate change in his second term, President Obama unveiled a comprehensive climate plan th... Read more

25 Jun 2013

35mins

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Why New York Is Trying to Create the Most Innovative Grid in the World

Why New York Is Trying to Create the Most Innovative Grid in the World

New York is taking a hard look at how to reform the distribution grid and encourage more distributed energy resources. B... Read more

24 Sep 2014

55mins

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Renewables Beat Fossils on Europe's Grid

Renewables Beat Fossils on Europe's Grid

In the first half of 2020, renewables beat out fossil fuels on the grid in Europe for the first time. They didn’t only b... Read more

11 Sep 2020

50mins

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How Distributed Generation Will Cause 'Creative Destruction' in Power Markets

How Distributed Generation Will Cause 'Creative Destruction' in Power Markets

What does the nation's top energy regulator, FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff, think about the future of solar?"I think we'... Read more

13 Nov 2013

44mins

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Watt It Takes: The Startup Making Solar-Storage Better Than the African Grid

Watt It Takes: The Startup Making Solar-Storage Better Than the African Grid

Could you do us a favor? Take our listener survey so we can give you more relevant content: bit.ly/gtmpodcastThis week o... Read more

2 Oct 2019

1hr 4mins

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Watt It Takes: Michael Liebreich

Watt It Takes: Michael Liebreich

This week on Watt It Takes: Powerhouse CEO Emily Kirsch sits down with Michael Liebreich.You may know Liebreich as the b... Read more

22 Sep 2020

57mins

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A Grab Bag With Vox's David Roberts

A Grab Bag With Vox's David Roberts

This week, David Roberts, a staff writer at Vox, joins the gang to talk about a wide range of topics in the news.How wou... Read more

27 Jul 2018

1hr 2mins

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Debating the New IPCC Report: Hellish or Hopeful?

Debating the New IPCC Report: Hellish or Hopeful?

For two years, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been working on a new analysis about global emissions p... Read more

11 Oct 2018

50mins

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A Top Utility Engineer Talks Distributed Energy Integration

A Top Utility Engineer Talks Distributed Energy Integration

This week, we have a taping of the Energy Gang from GTM’s Grid Edge Live conference in San Diego.We’ll talk with Tom Bia... Read more

29 Jun 2015

50mins

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Introducing Political Climate

Introducing Political Climate

The Gang is on summer vacation this week. We'll be back soon with our regular analysis and debate on the stories in ener... Read more

8 Aug 2018

46mins

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Will America Get Its Act Together on Energy Efficiency?

Will America Get Its Act Together on Energy Efficiency?

America is kicking butt at energy efficiency. Well, sort of. It depends on which way you look at the issue. In this week... Read more

11 Jul 2013

39mins

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Episode 200: We Reflect on the Biggest Changes in Energy

Episode 200: We Reflect on the Biggest Changes in Energy

When we first hit the record button four years ago, the energy landscape looked very different.Oil prices were above $90... Read more

29 Sep 2017

50mins

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Parsing the Green New Deal

Parsing the Green New Deal

The Green New Deal plan is out, and we’re suddenly having a national conversation about climate change again. It’s also ... Read more

14 Feb 2019

59mins

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Solar Loans: Should PV Be More Like Car Sales or Cable Television?

Solar Loans: Should PV Be More Like Car Sales or Cable Television?

Last year, 200,000 residential solar systems were installed in the U.S. More than two-thirds of those systems were third... Read more

22 Jan 2015

49mins

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