Why Solar Might Be Better Off Than You Think
Longtime listeners of Shift Key will recognize the name Intersolar and Energy Storage North America, one of the country’s premier solar industry conferences. Shift Key was live at this year’s event, h...
5 Mar 202547min
The Early Lessons of Trump’s ‘Energy Dominance’
Congress is still debating the fate of the Inflation Reduction Act, but the Trump administration has already torn up energy and climate policies across the federal government. It’s time to step back a...
26 Feb 202542min
How to Talk to Your Friendly Neighborhood Public Utility Regulator
The most important energy regulators in the United States aren’t all in the federal government. Each state has its own public utility commission, a set of elected or appointed officials who regulate l...
19 Feb 20251h 8min
What Senator Brian Schatz Wants Climate Advocates to Know
The first few weeks of the new Trump administration have seen an onslaught of anti-climate actions: an order punishing the wind industry, an attempted reversal of the Environmental Protection Administ...
12 Feb 20251h 2min
The U.S. Auto Industry Wasn’t Built for Tariffs
Over the past 30 years, the U.S. automaking industry has transformed how it builds cars and trucks, constructing a continent-sized network of factories, machine shops, and warehouses that some call “F...
5 Feb 20251h 2min
The Trump Policy That Would Be Really Bad for Oil Companies
On February 1 — that is, three days from now — President Donald Trump has promised to apply a tariff of 25% to all U.S. imports from Canada and Mexico, crude oil very much not excepted. Canada has bee...
29 Jan 202549min
How Wildfires Destroyed California’s Insurance Market
The Los Angeles wildfires have killed at least 27 people, destroyed more than 17,000 structures, and displaced tens of thousands. In the next few months, the billions of costs in damage to homes and p...
22 Jan 20251h 11min
A Beginner’s Guide to the Hydrogen Economy
Hydrogen. What are you even supposed to think about it? If you’ve spent serious time focusing on climate policy, you’ve heard the hype about hydrogen — about the miraculous things that it might do to ...
15 Jan 20251h 11min
