California's Grim Climate Future
Solar panels are bringing abandoned cranberry bogs back to life, California faces a sobering new climate forecast, and Minnesota offers a mo...
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20 of 112 episodesAnother Country Goes Electric Due to Gas Prices
California is cutting power to prevent wildfires while offering businesses up to $100,000 per EV fast-charging port. Meanwhile, heat pumps a...
Electric Truck Math Getting Hard to Ignore
France's increasingly strange electricity market, where zero and negative electricity prices have already occurred for 800 hours in 2026. We...
Electric Heavy Duty Trucks Are Catching Up to Cars
China's electric vehicle revolution is moving beyond passenger cars and into heavy-duty trucks, with electric and battery-swapping trucks no...
United Nations: We'll Need Carbon Removal
Why the UN says carbon removal will be needed as the world blows past the 1.5°C target, and why removing carbon from the atmosphere could be...
One Hundred Story Wind Turbine
The world's tallest wind turbine is nearing completion in Germany. Standing 300 metres tall before its blades are attached, the finished tur...
Heat is Grounding Medical Helicopters
Powering reverse osmosis seawater desalination to meet additional UK water demand would require roughly 4 TWh of electricity—adding just ove...
Fighting Wind in the USA (Encore)
An encore of episode 275, featuring stories about the forces fighting offshore wind in the United States, the health benefits of cycling, Sa...
The Wind Turbine Built for Almost No Wind
Saskatchewan could save billions by moving away from coal, France debates air conditioning as deadly heat waves intensify, London homes are...
Solar, Solar, Solar!
China's latest donation of solar-and-storage systems to Cuba, a new generation of perovskite-silicon solar panels that could push efficiency...
Perpetual Motion Solar Car?
California's new "My First EV" rebate is proving that people really do like free money, with the $270 million incentive program already bein...
Heatwaves Kill Nuclear & Laos Bans Gas Cars
Extreme heat is disrupting more than just summer vacations. This week, we look at how climate change is forcing nuclear reactors in Europe o...
A Whole Country Could Burn
Many countries are dealing with unprecidented wildfires this week. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced. Fire Weather author...
Now Cheaper for Chinese Drivers to Take a Taxi
Brian broadcasts from Montreal while James holds down the fort as the Clean Energy Show dives into another week of climate and clean energy...
Smarter Cooling Is On the Way
Electric vehicles continue their remarkable rise around the world, and this week we take a look at the latest global trends from the IEA to...
Climate Change's Deadly Fish Problem
Delhi is taking one of the world's biggest steps toward cleaner transportation by banning new gas-powered rickshaws and motorcycles, while G...
Deadly Heat Waves Only Get Worse From Here
Thousands are dying in Europe on the fifth anniversary of the heat dome that killed hundreds on the West Coast of Canada. James argues we ha...
The Future of $1,000 Home Batteries (Encore)
What happens when batteries become so cheap that every home can afford one? In this encore episode, Brian and James explore a future where u...
The Hidden Cost of Hailstorms and Climate Change
James is recovering from surgery so here's a shortened version of last week's bonus episode for our Patreon supporters. Support The Clean En...
FIFA's World Cup 2026 Climate Problem
China's EV revolution is delivering a surprising health benefit. New research suggests electric vehicles have cut air pollution enough to pr...