In this episode, Duncan Campbell of Scale Microgrid Solutions makes the case that distributed energy resources (DERs) — solar panels, EVs, home batteries, etc. — are, thanks to rising electricity demand and constraints on grid expansion, poised for a tsunami of deployment.
Volts podcast: Abigail Hopper on the trade case that is crushing the US solar industry
Volts podcast: Lauren Melodia and Kristina Karlsson on energy inflation and how to tame it
Volts podcast: Jesse Morris on building an operating system for distributed energy
Volts podcast: Doug Thompson defends the deep state
Volts podcast: Andy Frank on how to sell whole-home retrofits to skeptical consumers
Volts podcast: Fran Moore on how to represent social change in climate models
Volts podcast: Nan Ransohoff on how (and why) Stripe is kick-starting the carbon-removal market
Volts podcast: Michael Terrell on Google's pursuit of 24/7 clean energy
Volts podcast: Horace Luke on decarbonizing the world's two-wheelers
At long last, I have an EV
Volts podcast: Elizabeth Popp Berman on the "economic style of thinking" that consumed US policy
Volts podcast: Paulina Jaramillo on the IPCC's new climate-solutions report
Me, on the Some More News podcast
Me, interviewed by Noah Smith
Volts podcast: Matthew Metz & Janelle London on gasoline superusers & smarter EV subsidies
Volts podcast: Audrey Schulman and Zeyneb Magavi on how to replace natural gas with renewable heat
Volts podcast: Rob Harmon on how to scale up energy efficiency
The lovely Ford Mustang Mach-E and the danger of electric cars
A note to readers
Volts podcast: Gerald Butts and Catherine McKenna on Canada's carbon tax
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