
A Republican Carbon Tax?
Last week, a group of highly respected Republicans released a plan for a $40-per-ton carbon tax on point-of-source emissions from coal, oil and gas. Why now? With a Republican White House and Congress...
16 Feb 201742min

Will Electric Buses Take Over the Transit World?
By 2020, one-third of new fleet bus purchases will be electric. By 2025, electric buses will make up half of new sales to transit agencies. By 2030, every single transit bus sold will run on electrici...
10 Feb 201758min

Making Sense of Donald Trump
This week, we’re live from Columbia University’s Energy Symposium in New York City. The Gang was joined by former NRG CEO David Crane for a lively conversation about Trumpland. We start the conversati...
4 Feb 20171h 13min

The Grid as a Digital Lab
America’s first power plant was built in Manhattan. The first transmission of electricity occurred between Niagara Falls and Buffalo. And the first public power organization was founded in New York St...
20 Jan 201741min

Autonomous Car Fleets: A Dystopian or Utopian Future?
For years, researchers have been working behind the scenes to improve autonomous vehicles. And all of a sudden that work is playing out in a very public way. Top tech companies and automakers are test...
13 Jan 20171h 2min

2016 Year-End Extravaganza
There are just two weeks left of 2016. And you know what? We're tapping out early. This is the last podcast of the year. It’s been such a crazy 12 months for news that we’re packing it up and saving o...
14 Dec 201647min

Marijuana Legalization and Microgrids
It's often said that electric vehicles are the key to bringing back load growth for utilities in the U.S. But maybe there’s another way: Marijuana. After the November election, seven states and the di...
30 Nov 20161h 1min

Chasing Donald Trump
Two weeks after the election, we have more clues about how president-elect Donald Trump may form a domestic energy policy and position America against the rest of the world on climate. But mostly we'r...
22 Nov 201638min






















