Are Robots Coming to Take Over the Grid?

The 100% renewable energy future doesn’t start with a country, state or region. It starts with a city. One power plant in a city, in fact. In Glendale, California.Glendale is a city of 200,000 people ...

26 Feb 202020min

This week, we are talking about artificial intelligence, machine learning, and many ways they can decarbonize the economy.From optimizing buildings to modeling new industrial processes to better manag...

19 Feb 202051min

This week: predictions for the future of home solar and batteries.Big rooftop solar installers are competing with the largest utility-scale plants in terms of yearly deployed capacity.Batteries are ma...

14 Feb 202047min

A lot of companies and governments are committing to 100% renewable energy. But a target of that scope without considering time of use isn’t technically or economically optimal.So how do we get 24/7 r...

5 Feb 202034min

“Climatetech” is suddenly the hot new thing in venture capital. For years now, venture investors have stayed away from the cleantech category, a hangover from the Solyndra days that we have thoroughly...

29 Jan 202039min

Less than one percent of all hydrogen produced today comes from renewables. Is that about to change?The vice president of Siemens Middle East just called green hydrogen the “new oil” in the coming dec...

22 Jan 202028min

We’re undergoing some great changes here on The Interchange! We’re bringing on a new producer and we’re going to be featuring new voices that will help us tackle the energy transition in new and compe...

16 Jan 202042min

We’re now in the 2020s. Many of the tropes about this era from films and literature may not have come true, but there’s a lot happening around us that does feel futuristic.And this week, we are offeri...

10 Jan 202033min