How China’s Power Grid Really Works
China announced a new climate commitment under the Paris Agreement at last month’s United Nations General Assembly meeting, pledging to cut its emissions by 7% to 10% by 2035. Many observers were disa...
8 Okt 20251h 12min
Heatmap’s Reporters Talk About Electricity, Inflation, and the New Era in Climate Politics
It’s been a busy few weeks for climate and energy. New York Climate Week brought hundreds of events — and thousands of people — to the city to discuss decarbonization and energy policy. The New Jersey...
1 Okt 20251h 1min
Live From New York Climate Week: The AI and Electricity Moment
Artificial intelligence is helping to drive up electricity demand in America. Energy costs are rising, and utilities are struggling to adjust. How should policymakers — and companies — respond to this...
26 Sep 20251h 4min
Nobody in the West Knows How to Respond to the ‘Electrotech Revolution’
A new stack of electricity technologies — including solar panels, batteries, electric vehicles, and power electronics — seem to be displacing fossil fuels across China and the developing world. Are we...
24 Sep 20251h 12min
What J.P. Morgan’s Chief Climate Advisor Is Telling Energy Startups
We live in a new energy era — one in which the inputs and technologies key to clean electricity production are at the heart of international politics. What will that mean for decarbonization? And how ...
17 Sep 202546min
Utility Regulation Really Sucks
Electricity is getting more expensive — and the culprit, in much of the country, is the poles and wires. Since the pandemic, utility spending on the “last mile” part of the power grid has surged, and ...
10 Sep 20251h 7min
What Carbon Dioxide Has to Do With the Meaning of Life
How did life first form on Earth? What does entropy have to do with the origins of mammalian life — or the creation of the modern economy? And what chemical process do people, insects, Volkswagens, an...
3 Sep 202559min
Shift Key Classic: How to Hook Up More Power Plants
Shift Key is off for Labor Day, so we’re re-running this classic episode.For the first time in 15 years, American electricity demand is rising again as new data centers, factories, and electric vehicl...
27 Aug 20251h 5min
