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Volts is a podcast about leaving fossil fuels behind. I've been reporting on and explaining clean-energy topics for almost 20 years, and I love talking to politicians, analysts, innovators, and activists about the latest progress in the world's most important fight. (Volts is entirely subscriber-supported. Sign up!)
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Why is NERC so worried about data centers?
https://www.volts.wtf/p/why-is-nerc-so-worried-about-data
Published: June 10, 2026 16:02
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.volts.wtf/subscribeThe North American Electric Reliability Corporation has issued a historic warning about AI data centers. I chat…
This oil shock won't be like the others
https://www.volts.wtf/p/this-oil-shock-wont-be-like-the-others
Published: June 5, 2026 16:02
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.volts.wtfWhy is the latest fossil fuel crisis pushing the world toward rapid electrification instead of a drilling boom? To find out, I chat with Tim Sahay and Kate Mackenzie, hosts of the…
Are plug-in DERs going to spark a grid revolution?
https://www.volts.wtf/p/are-plug-in-ders-going-to-spark-a
Published: June 3, 2026 16:02
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.volts.wtf/subscribeIn the US, clean energy tends to get bogged down in red tape, but there’s one category that you can install…
Giving clean electricity a political voice of its own
https://www.volts.wtf/p/giving-clean-electricity-a-political
Published: May 29, 2026 16:02
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.volts.wtf/subscribeWhy is clean electrification, the most exciting, dynamic, hopeful sector of the US economy, still such a 98-pound…
A limited defense of Biden's everything-bagel industrial policy
https://www.volts.wtf/p/a-limited-defense-of-bidens-everything
Published: May 27, 2026 16:02
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.volts.wtf/subscribeConventional punditry loves the narrative that woolly-headed progressive standards over-burdened federal climate…
How to phase out residential gas equitably
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Published: May 22, 2026 16:02
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.volts.wtf/subscribeAs affluent homeowners defect to heat pumps, the massive costs of maintaining America’s aging gas pipelines are…
Sooner than you think, electricity is going to be cheap, abundant, and boring
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Published: May 20, 2026 16:02
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.volts.wtf/subscribeAre data centers and electrification going to break the US power grid, or are they the secret to making it cheaper…
Telling the story of the grid
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Published: May 15, 2026 16:03
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.volts.wtfBen Eidelson and Anay Shah run the Stepchange podcast, which recently put out a magisterial four-hour (!) episode on the history of the US electricity grid. I talk with them about…
Electrifying industrial steam with heat pumps
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Published: May 13, 2026 16:02
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.volts.wtf/subscribeBoiling water to make steam for industrial processes consumes an enormous amount energy around the globe, yet it…
The case for using prices rather than VPPs to coordinate distributed energy
https://www.volts.wtf/p/the-case-for-using-prices-rather
Published: May 8, 2026 16:02
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.volts.wtf/subscribeMost people think that coordinating the behavior of thousands of distributed energy resources requires some kind of…