Is Solar About to Get Screwed or Saved in California?

For well over a decade, researchers have been modeling the cost of state renewable energy mandates.The results break down in predictable ways: conservative and progressive groups often come to very di...

3 Maj 201946min

This week on Watt It Takes: How a product manager at Google saw promise in geothermal heat pumps — and applied the lessons of solar to an underserved market.In this episode, Powerhouse CEO Emily Kirsc...

24 Apr 201932min

This week, we present a special episode produced in collaboration with CohnReznick Capital.How do you broker billions of dollars worth of renewable energy deals — and do it again and again?It takes gr...

23 Apr 201922min

The tech giants are all going long on renewables, but Amazon seems to be going long on oil and gas.A new story details Amazon’s budding romance with the fossil fuel industry, while also lagging behind...

18 Apr 201939min

This week, the Green New Deal ripples through Washington.A few leading Republicans are responding to the progressive climate plan with some ideas of their own: the New Manhattan Project and the Green ...

12 Apr 201942min

This past week, we recorded a live show at the MIT Energy Conference. The theme of the show: what the grid may look like by 2040.As a topical show, we usually don’t know what we’re going to be discuss...

7 Apr 201946min

Lyft is set for an IPO on Friday; Uber is driving up to the IPO window soon. Investors seem enthusiastic, but skeptics see a lot of risks and a bumpy path to profitability.In 2018, transportation netw...

28 Mars 20191h 3min

We're on spring break this week. We'll be back on Thursday with our regular show.To get you through the next few days, we’re offering up an earlier episode of Watt It Takes about the origin story of G...

24 Mars 201953min