Watt It Takes: Van Jones
This week on Watt It Takes: Powerhouse CEO Emily Kirsch sits down with green jobs pioneer Van Jones.Jones may be best known for “The Van Jones Show” and “The Redemption Project,” which both air on CNN...
4 Syys 20201h 5min
Two Months Before the US Election, Climate Stays on Top
We are just over two months away from America’s presidential election. And that means we are days away from one of the most consequential political moments ever for the planet. Joe Biden put climate a...
26 Elo 20201h 2min
What Caused California’s Blackouts?
Last week, short-term blackouts rolled across an overheated California after the grid operator said there was not enough power to meet demand. This wasn’t supposed to happen again. Not after the Enron...
21 Elo 20201h 3min
The Economic Case for Electrifying Everything
“Electrify everything” isn’t just a good slogan. It’s the fastest way to decarbonize and create tens of millions of jobs -- and it can be done using off-the-shelf technology. A respected squad of rese...
14 Elo 20201h 1min
The Era of ‘Super Hybrid’ Renewables?
On this week’s episode of The Energy Gang: big energy companies are putting together bids for multi- renewable power -- and it’s merchant. Global investment in offshore wind more than quadrupled in th...
7 Elo 20201h 6min
Watt It Takes: Opower's Dan Yates on the Origins of Behavioral Efficiency
Dan Yates and his co-founder Alex Laskey built Opower, an efficiency company that saves more energy every year than the hoover dam can generate. It was based on cutting-edge behavioral science -- but ...
29 Heinä 202053min
Biden's Trillion-Dollar Climate Ambitions
Joe Biden just released a plan to address climate change on a trillion-dollar scale. Along with focusing on rapid deployment of renewables, it also devotes resources to environmental justice, sustaina...
24 Heinä 20201h 1min
The Most Complete Climate Policy Plan Ever?
A group of House lawmakers recently released a 547-page report on climate change. Reporters at E&E News call it “arguably the most comprehensive climate policy plan in American politics.”The report sp...
17 Heinä 20201h 4min
