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All Episodes

Open Circuit — 83 episodes

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1

Empowering utility customers with demand flexibility [partner content]

2

Electricity bills are on the ballot

3

The breakout moment for VPPs [partner content]

4

Green Blueprint: Form's storage manufacturing breakthrough

5

AI needs a different kind of power plant [partner content]

6

Did China outsmart America after the oil shock?

7

Data centers have a Texas-sized energy problem

8

A simple fix that could unlock the heat pump market

9

Critical Capital: Is this infrastructure's once-in-a-generation moment?

10

The off-grid data center fantasy

11

Turning customer data into grid intelligence [partner content]

12

Plug-in solar meets the grid crisis

13

The new reality for data centers: no easy answers

14

How APS dove head-first into AI [partner content]

15

Is commercial fusion finally near?

16

SpaceX’s IPO is an energy story

17

America’s electricity rage is here

18

The biggest utility merger in US history?

19

The climate messaging war returns. Does it matter if we can’t build?

20

Crypto’s bare-knuckle politics come to climate

21

Can data centers regain their social license? A former Microsoft exec weighs in

22

Utilities are in the crosshairs of the data center backlash

23

As oil rationing spreads, what comes next? Plus, Fermi America's collapse

24

The hidden bottleneck in clean energy [partner content]

25

A reckoning for the ‘electro-bros’

26

The natural gas ‘bridge’ becomes a highway

27

Have we run out of big ideas to fix the grid?

28

The demand stack: Turning customers into grid capacity [partner content]

29

Grid utilization vs expansion: The 100 GW debate

30

State of the transition: The biggest fights in energy

31

Iran, energy shocks, and the case for distributed power

32

The problem with Trump's AI power pledge

33

Clean energy didn’t collapse in 2025. It adapted.

34

The Green Blueprint: Sage Geosystems' bet on underground energy storage

35

Are investors losing faith in Big Tech's infrastructure frenzy?

36

Is this geothermal’s breakout moment?

37

The politics of making electricity cheaper, from PJM reform to VPPs

38

A five-alarm fire for the grid? (Live)

39

Meta's nuclear deal explained: What's real vs hype?

40

Who controls power in the AI era?

41

Katherine’s final episode

42

The year's twists, villains, and breakout stars in energy

43

3 years after ChatGPT, vibes meet grid realities

44

A feast of hot takes

45

The grid resilience dilemma

46

Bill Gates caused a climate meltdown

47

The real reason electricity prices are rising

48

The AI race is really an electro-industrial race

49

How to spot an AI bubble

50

Is this moment for distributed energy different?

51

The case for a climate reset

52

Electricity is the new price of eggs

53

Trump’s offshore wind war shakes investors

54

JPMorgan’s climate scientist thinks differently about risk

55

Grab bag: the affordability crisis, a VPP tipping point, and solar’s moment

56

The Latitude stage: How AI changes our digital energy footprint

57

The Latitude stage: Solving the AI load growth puzzle

58

Is America giving up on clean energy manufacturing?

59

The great divergence: Can the grid catch up to transportation innovation? [partner content]

60

A post-OBBB market recalibration

61

What can ag tech learn from clean energy?

62

America’s building bottleneck

63

No, solar didn’t collapse Spain's grid

64

Pain and resilience for climate tech investors

65

The grid is smarter. Why aren't we smarter about the grid?

66

AI rewrites the corporate energy playbook

67

How Tesla bootstrapped the Powerwall 2

68

The abundance agenda meets scarcity politics

69

A high-stakes energy showdown in Texas

70

Tesla’s fork in the road

71

Fear and Loathing at the Department of Energy

72

State of the transition: tariffs, shortages, data centers, and Europe vs China

73

Who’s really paying AI’s power bill?

74

A tsunami of uncertainty for clean energy

75

Energy dominance meets economic chaos

76

Tariffs, localization, and a new global energy order

77

Five years later: the pandemic's energy legacy

78

Does residential solar have a bad product?

79

Is Wall Street in climate retreat?

80

Musk takes a chainsaw to 'energy dominance'

81

The data center boom: ‘All the cheap power is gone’

82

Trump's energy paradox

83

The energy transition, decoded