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Catalyst with Shayle Kann — 254 episodes

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Cracking the code on autonomous trucking

2

How AI is modernizing EPCs

3

Live from Transition-AI 2026: Inside Google’s massive AI CapEx

4

How Base Power plans to use its fresh $1B [re-published]

5

The rise of flexible data centers

6

Frontier Forum: Why clean energy capital boomed in a volatile year [partner content]

7

Building a domestic nuclear fuel supply chain

8

Battery booms and the rise of flexibility [partner content]

9

The state and future of nuclear waste

10

Scaling America's domestic solar supply chain

11

AI scaling pathways: on grid, on edge, off grid, off planet

12

Frontier Forum: How VPPs earn grid-scale trust [partner content]

13

Digging deep for super hot geothermal

14

Volts crossover: Six big energy questions

15

The rise of grid power electronics with Drew Baglino

16

PJM and ERCOT navigate a capacity rollercoaster

17

The path to market for new nuclear reactors

18

The rise of permissionless DERs

19

More 2026 trends: Solar costs, oil oversupply, and the startup slump

20

A ‘rain delay’ for the energy transition [partner content]

21

2026 trends: Gas turbines, Texas’ load queue and China electrifies

22

The VC case for 'full stack deeptech'

23

How AI is changing weather forecasting

24

The gas turbine crunch

25

Will inference move to the edge?

26

Can AI revolutionize EPC?

27

Who benefits from the AI power bottleneck?

28

Looking for a turnaround in transmission

29

New Mexico proves America can still build [partner content]

30

Driving down the cost of green hydrogen

31

Inside a $300 million bet on AI for physical R&D

32

Unpacking DOE's proposal to transform data center interconnection

33

Five big questions about the future of energy

34

Frontier Forum: The new power map for AI infrastructure

35

Calibrating hype with Akshat Rathi

36

How insurance can narrow the valley of death [partner content]

37

How Base Power plans to use its fresh $1B

38

Frontier Forum: A new playbook for clean energy growth

39

The new wave of DERs

40

Ag residue and carbon removal

41

Is now the time for DERs to scale?

42

When to colocate data centers with generation

43

AMA: Geoengineering, nuclear, power prices, and more

44

The mechanics of data center flexibility

45

The Green Blueprint: Terrawatt Infrastructure’s billion-dollar strategy

46

The case for sodium-ion

47

Explaining the ‘Watt-Bit Spread’

48

PJM and the capacity crunch

49

Repurposing EV batteries for grid storage

50

Five big questions emerging from the OBBB

51

Tumult in residential solar

52

Fresh intel from state utility regulatory filings

53

GM's big new battery tech push

54

The story of steam

55

The state of play of data center development

56

The gas turbine crunch

57

How geothermal gets built

58

What to make of Trump's deep-sea minerals push

59

A former race car engineer on battery safety and supply chains [partner content]

60

Terrawatt Infrastructure’s billion-dollar strategy

61

The U.S. nuclear groundswell

62

Frontier Forum: Unlocking next-generation VPPs

63

Catalyst Live at SF Climate Week

64

The geopolitics of rare earth elements

65

What’s next for the battery storage boom? [partner content]

66

Serving data center load with carbon capture

67

How climate disasters are shaping insurance markets

68

Frontier Forum: Future-proofing data center power infrastructure

69

Specialized AI brains for physical industry

70

The potential for flexible data centers

71

Frontier Forum: How tax credit transfers are reshaping energy finance

72

The coming robotics wave

73

An ode to electrochemistry

74

How AI is solving real utility challenges [partner content]

75

A skeptic’s take on AI electricity load growth

76

Cultivated meat’s “trough of disillusionment”

77

The promise and perils of sodium-ion batteries

78

The case for colocating data centers and generation

79

More 2025 trends: DeepSeek, plug-in hybrids, and curtailment

80

Are utilities ready to fully harness demand flexibility? [partner content]

81

2025 trends: aerosols, oil demand, and carbon removal

82

The climate-ag grab bag

83

FOAK tales

84

Making DERs work for load growth

85

Lithium’s wild ride

86

Drew Baglino on Tesla’s Master Plan

87

Scaling low-carbon products with book and claim systems

88

What went wrong at Northvolt?

89

How cyber attacks could threaten the energy transition [partner content]

90

Explaining the 'Watt-Bit Spread'

91

Frontier Forum: Why utilities should go big on VPPs

92

From biowaste to “biogold”

93

TEA breakdown: green ammonia and synthetic methane

94

Getting heat pumps right

95

Fixing the refrigerant problem

96

Why climate tech startups get this one thing wrong

97

The unexplored frontier of methane removal

98

Frontier Forum: An energy-first approach to data centers

99

The complex path to market for low-carbon cement

100

Unpacking China’s cheap battery costs

101

Giving tribes a stake in the critical minerals boom [partner content]

102

DAC’s bumpy road to commercial scale

103

Ammonia: the beer of decarbonization

104

The state of connected DERs [partner content]

105

Can AI revolutionize materials discovery?

106

The better mousetrap fallacy

107

The rise of climate adaptation tech

108

Why are we still flaring gas?

109

Hunting for geologic hydrogen

110

The cost of nuclear

111

Frontier Forum: Is America’s green bank ready?

112

Understanding the transmission bottleneck

113

Pathways to decarbonizing steel

114

The EV market’s awkward teenage years

115

Can chip efficiency slow AI's energy demand?

116

The reshoring of American solar trackers [partner content]

117

Decarbonizing the high seas

118

Going deep on next-gen geothermal

119

Demystifying the Chinese EV market

120

Under the hood of data center power demand

121

Drew Baglino on Tesla’s Master Plan

122

Heavy duty decarbonization

123

With Great Power: Why dynamic rates are gaining momentum

124

Could VPPs save rooftop solar?

125

Understanding SAF buyers

126

The news quiz episode!

127

CO2 utilization

128

Building a supply chain for rare earth elements

129

How an obscure, 100-year old law is disrupting U.S. energy

130

The Big Switch: Are Batteries the New Oil?

131

The world of battery recycling

132

The electricity gauntlet has arrived

133

Digging into the SEC climate disclosure rules

134

Climate tech’s tough year in the public markets

135

The early days of AI on the grid

136

The challenges of building a carbon removal portfolio

137

The electric transformer shortage

138

Frontier Forum: Diving into the booming transferable tax credit market

139

More 2024 trends: ESG, carbon certifications, curtailment, and AI

140

2024 trends: batteries, transferable tax credits, and the cost of capital

141

What’s really happening in the U.S. EV market?

142

Solving the cow burp problem

143

Sourcing biomass for carbon removal

144

2023 climate tech venture investment trends

145

Fixing the messy voluntary carbon market

146

Financing first-of-a-kind climate assets

147

What do you do with a 100-hour battery?

148

Update: What the new Treasury rules mean for EV supply chains

149

EV charging on both sides of the pond

150

The cost of nuclear

151

Mailbag episode! Interest rates, carbon dioxide removal, load growth, and more

152

The Volts crossover episode

153

The market for microgrids

154

The pace of home electrification

155

How is U.S. industrial policy affecting actual climatetech investment?

156

What electric forklifts teach us about creative policy [partner content]

157

Climate tech startups need strong techno-economic analysis (TEA)

158

Reviving the stagnant plant based meat market

159

Fixing interconnection

160

Stopping geoengineering, by accident

161

The food-energy nexus

162

Can the V2X dream become reality?

163

Seeking the holy grail of batteries (Rerun)

164

Navigating the electricity gauntlet

165

Beaming 24/7 solar… from space

166

With Great Power: What other industries can teach utilities about innovation

167

Mining the deep sea

168

The good and bad of carbon capture

169

The early days of transoceanic hydrogen transport

170

The fungus among us

171

Building out a U.S. solar supply chain

172

AI for climate: a real world test

173

The carbon market’s quality problem

174

Keeping copper from limiting the energy transition

175

Four ways to store sunlight

176

Unpacking EPA’s newly proposed power emissions rule

177

The great Bitcoin energy debate

178

Understanding the transmission bottleneck

179

The Carbon Copy: A rogue geoengineering startup sparks worry

180

How to build more hydropower

181

What the new Treasury rules mean for EV supply chains

182

SVB, the banking crisis and climatetech

183

Betting big on renewable natural gas

184

The greenhouse gas you don’t know about

185

The Carbon Copy: The great electrician shortage

186

A theory of change for climate investing [partner content]

187

More 2023 trends: EVs, onshoring, and the three ages of decarbonization

188

2023 trends: biomass, ESG, batteries and more

189

Strong opinions on SMRs

190

What hydrogen leakage means for the climate

191

Mailbag episode! Biotech, layoffs, battery recycling and more

192

The journey to monetizing DERs

193

This episode is trash

194

Introducing: With Great Power, a show about the people building the future grid

195

Natural gas whiplash

196

Ammonia: the beer of decarbonization

197

Why methane matters

198

Advance market commitments to decarbonize heavy industry

199

The trends shaping the energy transition [partner content]

200

Solving the conundrum of industrial heat

201

Unpopular solar opinions, 2022 edition

202

Fixing cement’s carbon problem

203

Unleashing the magic of heat pumps

204

Getting more energy on the wires

205

Climatetech for developing economies

206

How the US climate bill will finance the energy transition [partner content]

207

What’s holding up hydrogen in Europe?

208

What climatetech can learn from the oceans

209

How well does soil actually store carbon?

210

Is the Inflation Reduction Act a win for EVs and batteries?

211

Columbia Energy Exchange: Will Putin’s Energy Strategy Backfire?

212

Averting water wars as we decarbonize

213

Could geothermal become a major zero-emissions player?

214

The dirt on soil carbon credits

215

Booking your first zero-emissions flight

216

Will charging infrastructure be a bottleneck for electric vehicles?

217

What the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 would mean for climatetech

218

Watt It Takes: TeraWatt Infrastructure CEO Neha Palmer

219

Seeking the holy grail of batteries

220

Crossing the valley of death

221

The Carbon Copy: Get ready for the battery recycling boom

222

How to Save a Planet: Spark Tank! How Do We Solve the Energy Storage Problem?

223

Which tech is overhyped, underhyped and just right?

224

Making sense of solar engineering

225

Introducing Climavores: a new show about food and climate

226

From biowaste to “biogold”

227

Climate tech’s surprising bottleneck – land access

228

Tapping the goldmine of consumer energy data

229

How will the downturn affect climate tech?

230

Shayle’s “ask me anything” episode

231

Growing the Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) market

232

Hydrogen, meet salt cavern

233

The great rush for battery metals

234

Alternative protein: it’s what’s for dinner

235

Carbon capture and storage is making a comeback

236

Can Europe quit Russian fossil fuel by next winter?

237

Will this carbon market boom be different?

238

When will batteries take over the world?

239

What the grid can learn from the internet

240

Unlocking hyper-efficient cooling

241

Will advanced reactors solve nuclear's problems?

242

A critical tool for scaling climate tech: insurance

243

The Carbon Copy: The lithium land grab in California

244

The future of the home solar market

245

The many pathways to decarbonizing chemicals

246

Microbes, meat and materials: biotech meets climatetech

247

Inside the Energy Department's loan deal to back hydrogen

248

Is nuclear fusion getting close?

249

Quantum computing could be a critical climate solution

250

The future of natural gas

251

A bumpy ride toward decarbonizing aviation

252

Kickstarting a $1 trillion market for carbon removal

253

Can 'deeptech' venture capital solve climate change?

254

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