[Episode #282] – Regulatory Moats Around Transmission
The energy transition calls for more electrification. As transportation, heating, industry, and now power demand from data centers all crowd...
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Straight talk about the world’s transition from fossil fuels to renewables with energy expert Chris Nelder
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20 of 292 episodes[Episode #281] – Revisiting the Jet Stream
Millions of Americans are sweltering under heat domes this summer, with temperatures soaring to record highs when weather systems stall. The...
[Episode #280] – Statistical Review of World Energy 2026
The Statistical Review of World Energy 2026 is out, offering the first complete look at global energy data for 2025. The report's 75th editi...
[Episode #279] – Debottlenecking Europe’s Grid
Right now, Great Britain has more than enough new solar projects waiting to be connected to its distribution grid to meet its 2030 renewable...
[Episode #278] – Enhanced Geothermal Energy
It's taken a very long time to arrive, but next-generation geothermal power is finally becoming a commercial technology. Even though the vir...
[Episode #277] – Just Transition in South Africa
This is the third and final part of our miniseries about South Africa's energy transition, based on Chris' travels there in September and Oc...
[Episode #276] – Electricity Reform in South Africa
This is the second part of a miniseries about South Africa's energy transition, based on Chris' travels there in September and October of 20...
[Episode #275] – The Cost of Delay
In mid-2026 we're experiencing the largest energy crisis the world has ever faced. The sudden and prolonged disappearance of one-fifth of th...
[Episode #274] – Global Electricity Review 2026
In 2025, renewables generated more electricity globally than fossil fuels for the first time in the modern era, causing power sector emissio...
[Episode #273] – Solar and Batteries Can Power the World
Can solar and batteries power the world cost-effectively? A new model says yes.
[Episode #272] – Global Energy Crisis 2026
The damage to Persian Gulf oil and gas infrastructure and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has thrown the world into a global energy cris...
[Episode #271] – China Update 2026
Why have China’s total CO2 emissions been slowly falling for two years even as it’s building more coal-fired power plants than ever?
[Episode #270] – View from the Energy Transitions Commission
Lord Adair Turner shares his global perspective on the state of the energy transition, as seen from the Energy Transitions Commission.
[Episode #269] – Trump’s War on the Energy Transition
Can the energy transition in the US survive President Trump’s attacks on it?
[Episode #268] – Activism 101
What do aspiring energy transition advocates need to know to become effective changemakers in their communities?
[Episode #267] – Japan: Petrostate or Electrostate?
As one of the most energy vulnerable countries on earth, Japan faces a difficult choice: join the petrostates, or the electrostates?
[Episode #266] – Global Electricity Review 2025 (Lagniappe edition)
Global carbon emissions from the power sector may be close to peaking thanks to an accelerating energy transition.
[Episode #265] – IEA World Energy Outlook 2025
Chris returns to Paris to interview co-lead Tim Gould about the new World Energy Outlook 2025 report, and to explore the futures it contempl...
[Episode #264] – History of the Transition in South Africa
A history of South Africa’s energy transition in the power sector kicks off a new Energy Transition Show miniseries on the African country.
[Episode #263] – The Role of Distribution Utilities
What is the role of distribution utilities in the energy transition?