Turmoil at an Iconic American Hydropower Giant
The Bonneville Power Administration, the government-owned “power marketing agency” that serves the Pacific Northwest, is facing a strong current of problems. As cheap renewables make hydro less compet...
27 Sep 201957min
Does Climate Change Make Good Political TV?
This week: We’ve gone from drought to flood.People who care about climate change have spent the last three presidential election cycles cajoling, prodding and begging television news outlets to cover ...
17 Sep 201954min
How America Thwarted a Giant ‘Extension Cord’ for Renewables
America is a place where if you can dream something — no matter how big or ambitious — you can do it. Unless you’re trying to string 700 miles of high-voltage transmission lines to bring wind power fr...
13 Sep 201954min
Watt It Takes: The Startup Reshaping Mobility Planning With Data
This week on Watt It Takes: How an energy researcher obsessed with electric vehicles stumbled upon a vast trove of transportation data and built a company that is reshaping infrastructure planning for...
5 Sep 20191h 6min
The Problem With Carbon Offsets
With flight shame growing in popularity, extreme weather intensifying, and the Amazon burning, there’s more demand than ever for carbon offsets to assuage our guilt and make us feel like we’re doing s...
30 Aug 201952min
The New Normal for the Grid: Batteries
In nearly every corner of the country, energy storage projects are finding their way onto the grid — they’re getting bigger, cheaper, more diverse, and even a little bit weirder. Most of all, they’re ...
23 Aug 201943min
How Electric Cars and Renewables Could Beat Oil
Solar and wind sent European utilities into financial disarray, and U.S. utilities are facing a similar fate. Are global oil companies next?A new report from one of the world’s biggest banks, BNP Pari...
16 Aug 201948min
Watt It Takes: Nest Co-Founder Matt Rogers
This week on Watt It Takes: How a former Apple engineer applied design principles from the iPod and the iPad to smart thermostats — jolting an industry badly in need of change.Powerhouse CEO Emily Kir...
2 Aug 20191h 5min
