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Energy Nerd Show — 74 episodes

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A Powerful New Tool for Siting New Solar Projects

2

Affordability, Efficiency, and Getting Renewable Energy Projects Built

3

How We Educate the Public about Batteries

4

Electricity Suppliers are Charging Billions for Hedging and Profits

5

The Best Way to Decarbonize Industry in the US

6

Resource Adequacy Modeling for Reliability

7

New Electric Rates for Heat Pumps in Massachusetts!

8

How Electrifying Buildings and Transport Will Affect the Electric Grid

9

Fixing Multiyear Rate Plans to Control Utility Cost

10

Protecting Electricity Customers from the Impacts of Data Centers

11

How in the World Are We Going to Make Electricity Cheap in America?

12

A Smarter, More Flexible Grid with the Demand Stack

13

Future Proofing Our Electric Grid with Grid Flexibility

14

The Groundbreaking Design Based High School that's Changing the World (NuVu)

15

Responding to Your Heavy Machinery Electrification Comments! (w/RISE Robotics)

16

Electrifying Heavy Machinery at RISE Robotics!

17

Why Utility Regulation Impacts Your Life Much More Than You Realize w/Charles Hua

18

The Science Based Approach to Preparing for Climate Change in Boston w/ Paul Kirshen

19

Gas Utilities Need to Plan for Declining Sales w/Alice Napoleon

20

The Extremely Sustainable Lifestyle of a Sloth w/Lucy Cooke

21

Forests are Key to Solving Climate Change w/Dr. Bill Moomaw

22

The History of Natural Gas and Oil in the US w/ Cutler Cleveland

23

Utilizing Alternative Interconnection for Fast and Cheap Green Energy

24

Human Centric Planning for Energy Projects (Distributional Equity Analysis)

25

The Electric Grid Can Handle Electrification: Here's why.

26

Adding 9 Gigawatts of Wind Power to New England

27

Electric Vehicles are Making Everyone's Electricity Cost Less

28

Overcoming a Key Obstacle to Building Decarbonization

29

An Awesome and Free Interactive Tool for Siting Solar in MA

30

Cracking the Gasoline Code (How Superusers are the Key to Fighting Emissions)

31

The BEST Tool for Analyzing Emissions from Heavy Manufacturing

32

The Portable EV Charger of the Future

33

Planning the Grid to Optimize Distributed Resources (Batteries and Rooftop Solar!)

34

Making Solar Affordable for Everyone (with Resonant Energy)

35

New Orlean’s Community Network of Solar ‘Lighthouses’

36

The Grid of the Future: New Orleans has a Plan for Resilience!

37

Why New England is on the Brink of Rolling Blackouts

38

Why Batteries Fail at Different Rates

39

These Hyper Polluting Coal Plants Waste Hundreds of Millions of Dollars

40

Designing the Tesla EV Charger (NACS)

41

Fighting Big Coal in Australia!

42

National Lab is Helping Communities Access Renewables

43

How Public Utility Commissions are Key to the Energy Transition

44

Let's Talk About Land Use and Siting for Clean Energy Projects!

45

All School Buses will be Electric! Get on Board!

46

Austin's Integrated Approach to Transportation Electrification

47

Office of Public Participation: Empower & Support Public Voices at FERC!

48

Targeted Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) for Maximum Benefit

49

Growing Community Solar So Clean Energy Can Work for Everyone

50

Saul Griffith wants to Rewire the World, Starting in the West Virginia of Australia

51

Saul Griffith Nerds Out About Sankey Diagrams & Clean Energy Economics!

52

Battery, Solar, and Wind Capacity Have Exceeded Coal Capacity as of 2022!

53

Energy Subsidies are an Enormous Problem for Addressing Climate Change

54

We Can't Depend on Nuclear to Solve Climate Change. Here's Why...

55

The Ultimate Guide to Electrifying Your House With The Inflation Reduction Act!

56

The Inflation Reduction Act Gives Americans $10,000 to Electrify

57

What the Experts Say About Buildings and Climate Change (They're Really Important!)

58

EV Proliferation Starts Hyperlocally

59

With Good Rate Design, EVs can Benefit Everyone!

60

West Virginia NEEDS to Ditch Coal!

61

Nuclear Power: Expensive, Slow and Over Budget (Vogtle 3)

62

Gasoline Superusers are key to Solving Transit Sector's Emissions Problem

63

This MIT Lab is Supporting Rapid Transformation of Cities Globally

64

Let's Talk Green Banking and Community Development

65

Arguing with Utilities About Electric System Decarbonization in North Carolina!

66

PG&E, Wildfires, and the Future of California's Electric Grid

67

Electrifying My 1930s House in Boston, MA!

68

Electricity Generation and Emissions Data in the US

69

All About Electric Transmission in the US

70

Here's how TVA can do Carbon Reduction 5x Better!

71

Competing Goals in Climate and Housing (They Don’t Need to Compete!)

72

DERs are Awesome and Necessary. Here's Why:

73

A High Reliability Renewable Energy System is Coming!

74

Why it's so dang hard to pass Climate Change Legislation!