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Catalyst with Shayle Kann — 273 episodes
Do data centers actually increase electricity prices? No...and yes
What comes after the data center backlash?
The rise of metal fuels
Can AI revolutionize grid operations?
Is now the time for DERs to scale? [re-published]
Critical Capital: Senator Tillis' case for "all-of-the-above" energy
The electrician shortage slowing the AI boom
The commercial battery comeback
The multi-billion dollar promise of vehicle-to-grid integration
When will quantum computing have its breakout moment?
Inside the AI power wars
Inside the most sophisticated plan for solar geoengineering
How data centers are complicating transmission expansion
Enter the electric supercycle
How China is reshaping the global auto market
Surprising trends in global electricity generation
Building inference data centers on the high seas
A blueprint for scalable fusion power
Inside the global fertilizer crunch
Cracking the code on autonomous trucking
How AI is modernizing EPCs
Inside Google’s massive AI capex (live)
How Base Power plans to use its fresh $1B [re-published]
The rise of flexible data centers
Frontier Forum: Why clean energy capital boomed in a volatile year [partner content]
Building a domestic nuclear fuel supply chain
Battery booms and the rise of flexibility [partner content]
The state and future of nuclear waste
Scaling America's domestic solar supply chain
AI scaling pathways: on grid, on edge, off grid, off planet
Frontier Forum: How VPPs earn grid-scale trust [partner content]
Digging deep for super hot geothermal
Volts crossover: Six big energy questions
The rise of grid power electronics with Drew Baglino
PJM and ERCOT navigate a capacity rollercoaster
The path to market for new nuclear reactors
The rise of permissionless DERs
More 2026 trends: Solar costs, oil oversupply, and the startup slump
A ‘rain delay’ for the energy transition [partner content]
2026 trends: Gas turbines, Texas’ load queue and China electrifies
The VC case for 'full stack deeptech'
How AI is changing weather forecasting
The gas turbine crunch
Will inference move to the edge?
Can AI revolutionize EPC?
Who benefits from the AI power bottleneck?
Looking for a turnaround in transmission
New Mexico proves America can still build [partner content]
Driving down the cost of green hydrogen
Inside a $300 million bet on AI for physical R&D
Unpacking DOE's proposal to transform data center interconnection
Five big questions about the future of energy
Frontier Forum: The new power map for AI infrastructure
Calibrating hype with Akshat Rathi
How insurance can narrow the valley of death [partner content]
How Base Power plans to use its fresh $1B
Frontier Forum: A new playbook for clean energy growth
The new wave of DERs
Ag residue and carbon removal
Is now the time for DERs to scale?
When to colocate data centers with generation
AMA: Geoengineering, nuclear, power prices, and more
The mechanics of data center flexibility
The Green Blueprint: Terrawatt Infrastructure’s billion-dollar strategy
The case for sodium-ion
Explaining the ‘Watt-Bit Spread’
PJM and the capacity crunch
Repurposing EV batteries for grid storage
Five big questions emerging from the OBBB
Tumult in residential solar
Fresh intel from state utility regulatory filings
GM's big new battery tech push
The story of steam
The state of play of data center development
The gas turbine crunch
How geothermal gets built
What to make of Trump's deep-sea minerals push
A former race car engineer on battery safety and supply chains [partner content]
Terrawatt Infrastructure’s billion-dollar strategy
The U.S. nuclear groundswell
Frontier Forum: Unlocking next-generation VPPs
Catalyst Live at SF Climate Week
The geopolitics of rare earth elements
What’s next for the battery storage boom? [partner content]
Serving data center load with carbon capture
How climate disasters are shaping insurance markets
Frontier Forum: Future-proofing data center power infrastructure
Specialized AI brains for physical industry
The potential for flexible data centers
Frontier Forum: How tax credit transfers are reshaping energy finance
The coming robotics wave
An ode to electrochemistry
How AI is solving real utility challenges [partner content]
A skeptic’s take on AI electricity load growth
Cultivated meat’s “trough of disillusionment”
The promise and perils of sodium-ion batteries
The case for colocating data centers and generation
More 2025 trends: DeepSeek, plug-in hybrids, and curtailment
Are utilities ready to fully harness demand flexibility? [partner content]
2025 trends: aerosols, oil demand, and carbon removal
The climate-ag grab bag
FOAK tales
Making DERs work for load growth
Lithium’s wild ride
Drew Baglino on Tesla’s Master Plan
Scaling low-carbon products with book and claim systems
What went wrong at Northvolt?
How cyber attacks could threaten the energy transition [partner content]
Explaining the 'Watt-Bit Spread'
Frontier Forum: Why utilities should go big on VPPs
From biowaste to “biogold”
TEA breakdown: green ammonia and synthetic methane
Getting heat pumps right
Fixing the refrigerant problem
Why climate tech startups get this one thing wrong
The unexplored frontier of methane removal
Frontier Forum: An energy-first approach to data centers
The complex path to market for low-carbon cement
Unpacking China’s cheap battery costs
Giving tribes a stake in the critical minerals boom [partner content]
DAC’s bumpy road to commercial scale
Ammonia: the beer of decarbonization
The state of connected DERs [partner content]
Can AI revolutionize materials discovery?
The better mousetrap fallacy
The rise of climate adaptation tech
Why are we still flaring gas?
Hunting for geologic hydrogen
The cost of nuclear
Frontier Forum: Is America’s green bank ready?
Understanding the transmission bottleneck
Pathways to decarbonizing steel
The EV market’s awkward teenage years
Can chip efficiency slow AI's energy demand?
The reshoring of American solar trackers [partner content]
Decarbonizing the high seas
Going deep on next-gen geothermal
Demystifying the Chinese EV market
Under the hood of data center power demand
Drew Baglino on Tesla’s Master Plan
Heavy duty decarbonization
With Great Power: Why dynamic rates are gaining momentum
Could VPPs save rooftop solar?
Understanding SAF buyers
The news quiz episode!
CO2 utilization
Building a supply chain for rare earth elements
How an obscure, 100-year old law is disrupting U.S. energy
The Big Switch: Are Batteries the New Oil?
The world of battery recycling
The electricity gauntlet has arrived
Digging into the SEC climate disclosure rules
Climate tech’s tough year in the public markets
The early days of AI on the grid
The challenges of building a carbon removal portfolio
The electric transformer shortage
Frontier Forum: Diving into the booming transferable tax credit market
More 2024 trends: ESG, carbon certifications, curtailment, and AI
2024 trends: batteries, transferable tax credits, and the cost of capital
What’s really happening in the U.S. EV market?
Solving the cow burp problem
Sourcing biomass for carbon removal
2023 climate tech venture investment trends
Fixing the messy voluntary carbon market
Financing first-of-a-kind climate assets
What do you do with a 100-hour battery?
Update: What the new Treasury rules mean for EV supply chains
EV charging on both sides of the pond
The cost of nuclear
Mailbag episode! Interest rates, carbon dioxide removal, load growth, and more
The Volts crossover episode
The market for microgrids
The pace of home electrification
How is U.S. industrial policy affecting actual climatetech investment?
What electric forklifts teach us about creative policy [partner content]
Climate tech startups need strong techno-economic analysis (TEA)
Reviving the stagnant plant based meat market
Fixing interconnection
Stopping geoengineering, by accident
The food-energy nexus
Can the V2X dream become reality?
Seeking the holy grail of batteries (Rerun)
Navigating the electricity gauntlet
Beaming 24/7 solar… from space
With Great Power: What other industries can teach utilities about innovation
Mining the deep sea
The good and bad of carbon capture
The early days of transoceanic hydrogen transport
The fungus among us
Building out a U.S. solar supply chain
AI for climate: a real world test
The carbon market’s quality problem
Keeping copper from limiting the energy transition
Four ways to store sunlight
Unpacking EPA’s newly proposed power emissions rule
The great Bitcoin energy debate
Understanding the transmission bottleneck
The Carbon Copy: A rogue geoengineering startup sparks worry
How to build more hydropower
What the new Treasury rules mean for EV supply chains
SVB, the banking crisis and climatetech
Betting big on renewable natural gas
The greenhouse gas you don’t know about
The Carbon Copy: The great electrician shortage
A theory of change for climate investing [partner content]
More 2023 trends: EVs, onshoring, and the three ages of decarbonization
2023 trends: biomass, ESG, batteries and more
Strong opinions on SMRs
What hydrogen leakage means for the climate
Mailbag episode! Biotech, layoffs, battery recycling and more
The journey to monetizing DERs
This episode is trash
Introducing: With Great Power, a show about the people building the future grid
Natural gas whiplash
Ammonia: the beer of decarbonization
Why methane matters
Advance market commitments to decarbonize heavy industry
The trends shaping the energy transition [partner content]
Solving the conundrum of industrial heat
Unpopular solar opinions, 2022 edition
Fixing cement’s carbon problem
Unleashing the magic of heat pumps
Getting more energy on the wires
Climatetech for developing economies
How the US climate bill will finance the energy transition [partner content]
What’s holding up hydrogen in Europe?
What climatetech can learn from the oceans
How well does soil actually store carbon?
Is the Inflation Reduction Act a win for EVs and batteries?
Columbia Energy Exchange: Will Putin’s Energy Strategy Backfire?
Averting water wars as we decarbonize
Could geothermal become a major zero-emissions player?
The dirt on soil carbon credits
Booking your first zero-emissions flight
Will charging infrastructure be a bottleneck for electric vehicles?
What the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 would mean for climatetech
Watt It Takes: TeraWatt Infrastructure CEO Neha Palmer
Seeking the holy grail of batteries
Crossing the valley of death
The Carbon Copy: Get ready for the battery recycling boom
How to Save a Planet: Spark Tank! How Do We Solve the Energy Storage Problem?
Which tech is overhyped, underhyped and just right?
Making sense of solar engineering
Introducing Climavores: a new show about food and climate
From biowaste to “biogold”
Climate tech’s surprising bottleneck – land access
Tapping the goldmine of consumer energy data
How will the downturn affect climate tech?
Shayle’s “ask me anything” episode
Growing the Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) market
Hydrogen, meet salt cavern
The great rush for battery metals
Alternative protein: it’s what’s for dinner
Carbon capture and storage is making a comeback
Can Europe quit Russian fossil fuel by next winter?
Will this carbon market boom be different?
When will batteries take over the world?
What the grid can learn from the internet
Unlocking hyper-efficient cooling
Will advanced reactors solve nuclear's problems?
A critical tool for scaling climate tech: insurance
The Carbon Copy: The lithium land grab in California
The future of the home solar market
The many pathways to decarbonizing chemicals
Microbes, meat and materials: biotech meets climatetech
Inside the Energy Department's loan deal to back hydrogen
Is nuclear fusion getting close?
Quantum computing could be a critical climate solution
The future of natural gas
A bumpy ride toward decarbonizing aviation
Kickstarting a $1 trillion market for carbon removal
Can 'deeptech' venture capital solve climate change?
Introducing: Catalyst w/ Shayle Kann