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Volts covers topics including: news, politics.

Volts

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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!) www.volts.wtf

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Episodes (419)

The case for using prices rather than VPPs to coordinate distributed energy

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Streamlining the difficult work of whole-home retrofits

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Enabling ordinary people to invest in renewable energy projects

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Notable Guests

Episodes (419)

The case for using prices rather than VPPs to coordinate distributed energy

Streamlining the difficult work of whole-home retrofits

Enabling ordinary people to invest in renewable energy projects

Tom Steyer wants to be California's climate governor

The big stories from the last year in electricity

Life as a clean energy journalist in an age of madness

Climate finance, interrupted

Doing data centers the not-dumb way

Ruggedized solar power for the hard places

Why climate funders don't fund housing policy, and why they oughtta

Rethinking climate regulation from the ground up

Using more of the grid we’ve already built

Should we block some sunlight to cool the planet?

For data centers, a little flexibility goes a long way

The high-stakes battle over energy affordability in New York

A Tesla vet tries to master the VPP market

How to design a brand-new city

Is the brand new city in California for real?

The fate of fossil fuel systems in the "mid-transition"

Volts/Catalyst pod crossover: the biggest questions in clean energy

What is PJM and why is everyone so mad about it?

Can fake meat help solve climate change?

Are utilities making too much money?

So, how's the climate doing?

Taiwan's energy dilemma

All about "reactionary centrism"

How to make rooftop solar power as cheap in the US as it is in Australia

Let's dig a little deeper into virtual power plants (VPPs)

Making the electricity grid work like the internet

What's the deal with closed-loop geothermal?

NYC's congestion pricing has been running for a year now. How's it doing?

Sen. Brian Schatz wants permitting reform, but not like this

What's the real story with Australian rooftop solar?

The cure for misinformation is not more information or smarter news consumers

Sen. Ruben Gallego has a new energy plan

Advocating for decarbonization in 2026

California warms up to a larger Western energy market

How Illinois passed its third big clean-energy bill in a decade

What's going on in electricity world?

What's the deal with balcony solar?

Clean electrification is inevitable

What's the deal with indoor air quality?

How to make a market for distributed energy flexibility

So, there were some elections. How'd they go?

Octopus extends its tentacles into America

Hey governors: you can salvage sustainable transportation, but you need to do it...

Michael Liebreich on a "pragmatic climate reset"

The escalating battle over renewable energy certificates (RECs)

Can "second life" EV batteries work as grid-scale energy storage?

Yes, you weenies: a war on cars