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Interchange Recharged — 354 episodes
The fastest path to more power: How advanced conductors could unlock grid capacity without new transmission
Speed to power: Why data-center load growth is creating a new opening for C&I solar, storage, and microgrids
Thorium’s nuclear pitch: Can molten salt reactors cut cost, use waste, and scale faster than conventional designs?
The inverter security turn: How Europe and the US are redrawing solar procurement around Chinese hardware
Why biomining might finally work: How Endolith is using microbes and data to unlock more copper from low-grade ore
Bigger turbines, bigger consequences: how wind is rethinking risk, insurance, and predictive maintenance
As racks scale, power must change: The AC-to-DC rethink inside AI factories
Handing back the mic: Six months of data center reality, from Bragawatts to behind-the-meter, and the questions still open
The grid's missing operating system: Why a $100,000 AI controller could defer trillions in hardware and why utilities won't buy it
The grid's immune system is retiring: Synchronous condensers, AI data centers and the physics gap that software alone can't close
Beyond combustion: Long Island's first hydrogen-powered linear generator and the fuel-flexible answer to the dispatchable emissions-free resource problem
The electrolyzer reckoning: Can disciplined product development deliver on green hydrogen's promise before the survivors run out of runway?
Flexibility as a service: Can Octopus's acquisition of Uplight finally make US residential VPPs work?
The muscle we forgot: SMRs, hyperscalers, and why this nuclear renaissance might actually be different
The grid nobody planned for: public power, hyperscalers and the race to rewire America for the AI age
Is hyperscaler demand finally giving CCS its moment?
Building the plane while it’s flying: data centers, utilities, and the new rules of power
Fuel cells are powering AI data center demand: they’ve moved from interesting clean tech to major player. How are utilities using them?
AI, and the battle for energy in 2026. What clean energy sources are going to meet demand?
How are key renewable energies faring at the end of 2025? Guest host and energy analyst Bridget van Dorsten talks through developments in geothermal, hydrogen and wind.
Energy policy, technology, and utility challenges: How industry leaders are overcoming barriers
Will energy storage save the grid? How batteries and the software behind them are reshaping reliability in the age of AI demand
From capture to storage: inside the full CCUS value chain | Recorded live at CCUS in Houston
From policy to possibility: How CCUS is moving from talk to action
Can finance and policy unlock the carbon capture boom? | Recorded live at CCUS in Houston
What to do now clean energy subsidies are going? Analysis and insights from clean energy’s biggest North American event
Navigating the world after OB3: implications for innovation and local manufacturing | Sponsored content from Hithium - Recorded Live at the PowerUp Stage at RE+
Gas prices are rising and the demand for renewable energy is growing. How are big players in the green tech industry preparing for the evolving policy around solar energy credits? (Recorded live at RE+ in Las Vegas)
OB3 and market uncertainty has put more pressure than ever on clean energy assets. How are owners and operators getting the most out of their wind, solar and storage? (Recorded Live at RE+ in Las Vegas)
Forget Net Zero. Everyone’s talking about energy dominance, but is a rebrand really the best thing for climate action? Recorded at RE+ in Las Vegas as the energy industry’s biggest event gets underway, storytelling becomes part of the strategy.
Could your EV power your home? A look at how electric vehicles could be used as two-way charging systems, easing strain on the grid.
Transferable tax credits for renewable projects has created a $52 billion market | How are clean energy developers making the most of it?
What’s the forecast for energy projects as the Big Beautiful Bill looms over the industry? Developers and suppliers are adapting to the chaos – but how?
How is geothermal faring in 2025? Investment is booming but is the technology and policy support there?
The oil and gas majors are phasing down their renewable strategies. What does it mean for climate goals?
The world’s most-used carbon accounting rule is about to get a major overhaul. What does it mean for clean energy buyers?
It’s turbulent times for the wind sector in the US, but the outlook is better across the pond. What can the US learn from Europe?
$8 billion in clean energy projects were cancelled this year. Can the US clean energy market survive tariff uncertainty?
What’s the biggest mistake clean energy developers make when chasing tax equity? | Sponsored content from Foss and Company
An energy podcast crossover: Energy Gang and Interchange Recharged join forces to discuss flexibility on the power grid: why it is so important, and how to create it
In uncertain times, is a greater reliance on battery storage what’s needed? And how can developers better prepare for it? | Recorded live at Wood Mackenzie’s Solar & Energy Storage Summit
Solar and energy storage experts debate the current market: what have we seen in the first quarter of 2025?
It’s uncertain times in solar and storage. How can we use smarter grid optimisation to give developers some assurance? | Recorded live at SESS 2025
Are current legal frameworks too restrictive for CCUS projects? What permitting and tax credit reform needs to happen to make things easier?
Uncertainty isn’t good for domestic solar manufacturing. How are suppliers and utilities managing it?
Is the world giving up on green hydrogen? | Hydrogen energy is having an identity crisis but who’s to blame?
The US needs nuclear energy now, more than ever | Are permitting and regulations set up for rapid deployment?
What needs to happen to strengthen climate resilience in the US? | Balancing climate mitigation with adaptation is getting harder and harder
Meeting energy demand requires long-term solutions. What do they look like?
The energy analysts' view on what’s ahead in 2025
Is US solar growth truly unstoppable?
What does a second Trump term mean for US solar?
Can CCUS help achieve net zero?
How can we ease stress on the grid?
How are tariffs and trade policies impacting green energy growth in the US?
How the energy industry is solving issues with battery safety – part 2
How can the industry improve battery and storage fire safety? - part 1
Innovative financing is needed to mobilise clean energy capital in developing countries. What could it look like?
Is the industry taking the wrong approach to Scope 3 emissions reporting?
Green hydrogen may be less clean than we think
Renewable propane is scaling up, but how far can we take it?
To strengthen American competitiveness in energy, the DOE’s ARPA-E department is focusing on advanced nuclear
Out with lithium and nickel, in with salt and bricks?
Distributed energy storage is taking off
The evolution of the solar industry in the US since 2021
Demand for solar power and energy storage is only going to increase. What’s the plan for meeting it?
Two years on from the IRA and the impact on solar and storage is clear
How to build and optimize the grid of the future
Demand for batteries is skyrocketing - we need new ways of extracting lithium
How banks and government are working together to achieve net zero in the UK
What’s the energy transition going to cost?
Can we rely on nuclear as a source of clean, reliable power?
$802 billion on the horizon: the current state of the EV market
A ground-breaking new method of sustainable aviation fuel production
How to create the skilled workforce of 2030
Cutting the red tape around geothermal energy
Transforming EV battery development through the power of AI
Checking in on the hydrogen sector
AI is transforming demand-side management
Carbon capture technology leads the charge for a sustainable future
Textile recycling is helping create a circular economy
What does the world need from COP28?
Creating a circular economy through plastics recycling
How new climate modeling can shape the renewable energy landscape
The Interchange: Recharged - Live at Wood Mackenzie's CCUS Conference - Part 2
Electricity 4.0: A Sustainable, Resilient, and Efficient Future [Sponsored Content]
The Interchange: Recharged - Live at Wood Mackenzie's CCUS Conference - Part 1
Are PPAs Still Playing Their Part In The Expansion Of Solar?
From Hours To Days - Reinventing Long-Duration Energy Storage
Could Deep-Sea Mining Solve Our Critical Metals Dilemma?
A Global Outlook For Local Solar Energy
The Money Circuit – Where Are Banks Investing In Clean Energy?
GHG Accounting Reform Could Transform Energy Investment
Accelerating The Expansion of Utility-Scale Solar [Sponsored Content]
The Interchange Live from Wood Mac's Solar & Energy Storage Summit 2023 – Day 2
The Interchange Live from Woodmac’s Solar & Energy Storage Summit 2023 – Day 1
The US Solar Industry Is Booming - What's Driving The Growth?
How Close Are We To The Perfect Battery?
The Four Horsemen of the Energy Transition: Where’s The Money Going?
The Great Digitization Of The Power Sector Is Underway
Can SMRs Scale Fast Enough To Reach Climate Goals?
The Tide is Turning on Marine Power Investment
Spark of Inspiration: The Huge Opportunity to Power The EV Market
Can Energy Vault’s System Solve Our Storage Problems?
Data and Innovation Are Revolutionizing The Grid
All the Best and Unheard Interviews From the Grid Edge Innovation Summit: Addressing Key Issues Affecting the Sector
Hydrogen Powering Our Future: Would You Bet On It?
The Interchange: Recharged – 2022 In Review
The Interchange Recharged podcast: Live at the Grid Edge Innovation Summit – Recap & Highlights
The Interchange Recharged podcast: Live at the Grid Edge Innovation Summit – Day Two
The Interchange Recharged podcast: Live at the Grid Edge Innovation Summit – Day One
A New Way of Producing Green Hydrogen
Accelerating the transition to net zero – COP27 and the urgency to act now
Using energy technology to balance the grid
Can Maersk lead the charge to net zero by using methanol as a fuel?
Sustainability at sea: How the Maritime Industry is Powering Through the Energy Transition
Speed or Sustainability - Will We Always Have to Choose?
Solving the Food-Cooling Conundrum: Making Storage Sustainable
Could Hydrogen Power the Future of Flight?
A New Way of Procuring Energy
How Wave Power Can Supplement Wind & Solar
The Ever-Changing Role of PPAs In The Energy Transition
Green Tech Investments, Green Washing and SPACS
The Interchange: Live At The Solar & Energy Storage Summit - Day 3 Recap
The Interchange: Live At The Solar & Energy Storage Summit - Day 2 Recap [Bonus Episode]
The Interchange: Live At The Solar & Energy Storage Summit - Day 1 Recap [Bonus Episode]
6 Months of The Interchange: Recharged - Best Of
The Future of Lithium Extraction
Redefining Energy Storage
Timing the Grid to Reduce Emissions
A New Era of the Space Race - Can It Be Done Sustainably?
Residential Solar and Storage
The Future of Community Solar
Scalable Carbon Capture Technology - Putting a Price on Carbon
Quaise Energy Digs Deep - Into The World Of Geothermal
Innovation And Data Are Revolutionizing The Grid
A Conversation With Alight – The Commercial Side of Solar
EVs in the US – Are We Lagging Behind?
The Future of Solar Storage
Solar Power: The Silver Linings of Ditching Silver
Our Transition: Shayle Kann Hands Off the Show
What the Frack Is Happening With Natural Gas?
Would I Lie to You? (Rebroadcast)
Carbon Recycling: Microbes, Jet Fuel and Leggings
Microsoft’s $1B Climate Innovation Fund
Will Hydrogen Look Like Solar?
Climate Tech Brings in $16 Billion. Where's It Going?
The Climate Workhorse: Extremely Cheap, Clean Electricity
Why Fertilizer Is Such a Big Climate Problem
What Does a 'Just Transition' Look Like? (Rebroadcast)
The Big Moment for Carbon Accounting
The Crypto vs Climate Showdown
Form Energy Unveils Its Iron-Air Battery
How Biden's Clean Electricity Standard Might Work
The Price is Right: Deep Decarbonization Edition
Where Are Elon's Solar Roofs?
The New ‘Valleys of Death’ in Climate Investing
Where Are the Gaps in Climate Tech?
How A.I. Will Revolutionize Climate Tech
Is the 'Carbon Transparency' Era Coming? (Rebroadcast)
Where Are We in the Hydrogen Hype Cycle?
How Cheap and Abundant Can Clean Power Get?
Remaking the Climate-Resilient City
Jigar Shah Has $40 Billion. What Will He Do With It?
Pathways to Transforming Heavy Industry
Where Will Big Money Be Made in Climate Tech?
An Island’s Path to 100% Renewables [Special Content From Wärtsilä]
Can Computers and Math Save the Climate? (Rebroadcast)
The Magnitude of 24/7 Zero-Carbon Energy
Why We Underestimate Clean Energy Cost Declines
Oil Majors in a Post-Covid World
What Does a 'Climate Resilience Director' Do?
Are Batteries at a Turning Point?
The State of Climate Tech Investing
How to Strip Carbon From the Atmosphere
Decarbonizing Natural Gas
All Finance Is ‘Climate Finance’
What Could Dethrone Solar in Home Energy?
Covid Gave Us a Glimpse of the Future [Special Content from Wartsila]
Deep Decarbonization: Infinity War
Is 'Too Much' Wind and Solar a Good Thing?
Paths to Net-Zero Emissions by 2050
The Virtuous Climate Tech Cycle of 2020
The Bumpy Road to a Hydrogen Economy
Decoding the New Energy Customer
Autonomous Vehicles Are Going Off-Road
California’s Optimal Decarbonization Path [Special Content From Wartsila]
Energy-Themed Game Show: Would I Lie to You?
The State of Carbon Capture, Removal and Utilization
The Carbon Hidden in Our Buildings
Making Sense of the DER Extravaganza
Will California’s Gas-Car Ban Boost America’s Flat EV Market?
California's Grab Bag of Climate Risks
The Cleantech SPAC Attack
Demand Response and California’s Blackouts
Why Trump’s Energy Dept Squashed a Supergrid Report
The Wild World of ESG
The 'Climatetech' Hype Cycle: Buy, Sell or Hold?
The Summer of Battery Storage
Cleantech Venture Capital in a Pandemic
How Covid Is Reshaping Urban Transportation
The Next Solar Behemoth: Sunrun Buying Vivint
Is the 'Carbon Transparency' Era Coming?
Data Centers: The Epicenter of the Clean Energy Economy
The Strange Hype Around Nikola Motor
A ‘Just Transition’ for Fossil Fuel Workers
Decarbonization Draft: The Corporate Raider Edition
The New Wave of Carbon Offsets: Is This Time Different?
Mapping the Post-Covid Future for EVs and Energy Markets
Fuels Are the Final Piece of the 100% Renewable Grid [Special Content]
A ‘Permanent Reset’ in Oil?
It’s Time to Build: The Climate Edition
Live From the Utility Closet and Sunroom
What Will the New Normal Look Like?
Rewriting the Startup Survival Guide
Quarantine Wonkery
Everything Is Different
Electricity Use During a Pandemic
The Energy Intensity of Your Meal Kit Delivery
A Founder's Tech-to-Climate Journey
The Key to Unlocking 100% Renewables [Special Content]
Using Artificial Intelligence to Mitigate Climate Change
A Home Solar Veteran Talks Batteries, Smart Home, Tesla Roof, and More
24/7 Wind and Solar: The Art of Matching Round-the-Clock Renewables
'Climatetech' Is Hot. Will Venture Investors Learn From the First Cleantech Wave?
Could Green Hydrogen Become the ‘New Oil’?
Would You Take These Bets About Cars, Cities and Voice Control? (Rebroadcast)
Proof the Energy Future Is Here
Our Most Popular Interviews of 2019
Making 100% Clean Energy Goals a Reality [Content From Wartsila]
Decade in Review: Most Influential Deals, Stats, Twists and Buzz Phrases
Emerging Tech That Will Help Revive Our Infrastructure
The Expert Who's Ranking Every Climate Solution
The Deep Decarbonization Draft, Part II
Climate Risk, Part 3: The Underwater Mortgage Market
Climate Risk, Part 2: California's Crisis
Climate Risk, Part 1: How Do We Measure It?
The Internet-of-Things Promise in Buildings [Special Content From Centrica]
3 Barometers of the Energy Transition
Can Venture Capital Make America Do Tough Things Again?
What’s Driving the Residential Battery Surge?
The Stranded Asset Threat to Natural Gas
The Age of 100%
Tesla’s Solar Gigafactory Struggles
How Bad Are Oil & Gas Methane Leaks?
How the Kochs Built an Industrial Empire and Reshaped Politics
Merchant Solar and Wind: A Ticking Time Bomb?
The State of Distributed Energy Aggregation: How Is It Working?
The Surprising Public Opinion Trends Behind the Green New Deal
The Complexity of NYC’s Green New Deal [Special Content From Centrica]
Where Is the Global Energy System Headed?
Solar & Wind Curtailment: A Liability or Asset for Grid Decarbonization?
Challenging Our Beliefs, Part 2: Do Individual Actions Matter for Climate?
Challenging Our Beliefs, Part 1: Do People Care About Energy?
The Epochal Shift in Commercial Energy [Special Content From Centrica]
Jay Inslee's Climate Plan Is Every Wonk's Dream
Are Uber and Lyft Bad for Energy and Climate?
Big Companies Quietly Embracing the Energy Transition
A Futurist’s Take on ‘Exponential’ Energy Shifts
PG&E's Wildfire Saga
Why Shell Is Pouring Billions Into Batteries, Microgrids, EVs and Electrification
Which Legacy Automaker Is Leading the Electric Vehicle Race?
Transmission: The 800kV Gorilla
Replay: Ode to the Pivot!
What’s Up With Tesla’s Energy Business?
What Should We Do With All This Distributed Energy?
The Accidental Green Job Counselors
Building a Career With Intention [Special Content From Wunder Capital]
Cleantech Venture Capital Is Back
Steal This Decarbonization Strategy!
Battle Royale: Utilities vs Oil Majors vs Mobility Providers vs Big Tech
What's Behind Rising US Emissions?
This Republican Campaigned on Renewables and Won [Special Episode from Energy News Network]
How Flexible, Dispatchable Solar Works
Hyped Stories, Underplayed Trends and Breakthroughs of 2018
Live: Energy Storage Trends of 2018, Oscars Style
Europe ’18 Tour: Brexit Chaos, French Gas Riots, & Polish Climate Talks
Blockchain in 2018: Where Are We in the Hype Cycle?
A Game of 'Would You Rather' for Energy Wonks
Plugging 'Plant Factories' Into the Grid
8 Bets About the Future
The Solar Window Shopper
Are Buildings Smart Yet?
Meet the Women Closing Solar Deals [Special Episode From Wunder Capital]
Electric Aviation Is Coming
Judge Kavanaugh's Past
Untangling Solar and Storage Markets
Where Did All Those Electric Scooters Come From?
Best and Worst Cleantech Ad Campaigns of All Time
The Always-On Energy Vampires in Your Home
How a Solar Bromance Cracked the Code for Commercial PV [Special Content From Wunder Capital]
Watt It Takes: How Schwarzenegger’s Chief of Staff Built a Battery Company
Can the Eco-Right Push Republicans on Climate?
Energy Policy in a Tweet
Ode to the Pivot!
'Energy Independence' in Trump's America
Are Robots Coming to Take Over the Grid?
Solar Is Getting Super Cheap. What Next?
Would Electricity Work in a Zombie Apocalypse?
Deep Decarbonization Draft: Fantasy Sports for Energy Nerds
Damn, Commercial Solar Is Hard
Batteries Are Changing Residential Solar
European Solar Rises Again, With Fewer Subsidies
Shell Thinks Solar Could Beat Oil & Gas
What Will Energy Blockchain Become?
How Blockchain Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading Might Work
Gina McCarthy
Solar's Tough Year
Google and Microsoft Are Shaping Energy Markets
A Blueprint for the Transactive Grid
Don't Like the Solar Buying Process? Start Your Own Company
Can Solar Become the World's Dominant Source of Energy?
Cleantech's Top Venture Capitalist, Nancy Pfund
Death to Energy Tribalism
Our Blockchain Explainer Segment: 'Consensus'
Trump Issues Solar Tariffs: We Answer Your Questions
What the Grid Really Needs
Is Trump Saving Coal?
Watt It Takes: The Origin Story of Greentech Media
Rebuilding Puerto Rico With Solar and Batteries
Energy Storage Has Arrived
The Conservative and Progressive View on the Future of Electricity Markets
Tesla's Giant Battery: Pros and Cons
Dan Shugar, the King Midas of Solar
Collision Course: How Wind and Solar Are Disrupting Power Markets
Watt It Takes: Sungevity CEO Andrew Birch
Halloween Special: You Should Fear a Cyber Attack on the Grid
Blockchain for Energy, Part Deux: Real-World Use Cases
Watt It Takes: Dick Swanson, Founder of SunPower
Rick Perry's Value-of-Coal Tariff
The Utility-Startup Paradox
America's Solar Trade War Escalates
Microgrids, Hurricanes and Resiliency
Policymakers Can't Keep Up With Battery and Solar Costs
Travis Fisher on DOE's Epic Grid Reliability Report
From the Vault: Elon Musk and Grid Fan Fiction
Debating Google's Track Record in Energy
Can We Make Nuclear Great Again?
So You Want to Build a Cleantech Startup?
100% Renewables: A Dead End?
Leaked Study Puts Energy Dept. in an Awkward Position
Mark Jacobson Responds to Skeptics of 100% Renewable Energy
A Guide to Blockchain and Energy
The Changing Market Rules for Energy Storage
Inside the Minds of Top Utility Executives
Journey to the Center of the Solar Industry
Suniva Trade Case: A Doomsday Scenario for US Solar?
Sunrun CEO Lynn Jurich Imagines the Future of Solar
Mary Powell Is Not Your Typical Utility Executive
Tesla's Grid Storage Architect
New York's Historic Utility Reform, Three Years On
How Wealthy Are Residential Solar Customers?
The Complexity of a Zero-Carbon Grid
Offshore Wind Is Finally Coming to America