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Power Plays — 26 episodes
Can America secure its renewable energy future without making it more expensive? With Oliver Badenhorst, VP at Solar Landscape
Can Microreactors Deliver on the Nuclear Hype? With Guy Cohen from Currence
Can the world copy Australia's data centre & renewables policy, with Hamish McKenzie from the Grattan Institute
How Battery Swapping Could Transform Electric Trucking, with Will Rowe, CEO of Swaptopus
What Miatta Fahnbulleh means for UK energy, with Sulaiman Ilyas-Jarrett
Carbon Reimagined: eSAF Approval, On's Low-Carbon Running Shoes, CO₂ Electrolysis in India & Europe's €100 Billion Industrial Bet
From heatwaves to hidden capacity: How extreme heat is reshaping the electricity grid
Can AI heat your home instead of overloading the grid?
Will Burnham be good for UK energy policy? And how a US rule change could unlock distributed energy
Part 2: Should the state intervene more in energy?
Part 1: The Supply Chains Behind Nuclear Growth - From Critical Minerals Recovery to Uranium Enrichment, plus Energy Storage updates
Nyobolt's ultra-fast charging batteries, Antora's giant thermal battery, and Trump's attempted coal revival
Trump's trip to China on rare earths, electricity market reforms in the US, and the evolving Chinese EV market
The Renewable Grid (DERs, VPPs, and the Grid Edge), plus the UK’s Cost Reduction Policies
Heavy Industry and the Energy Transition: From Mining inputs and Coal, to Green Iron and Steel projects
Power Plays Live at Octopus HQ: Over-hyped, Under-hyped or Hyped-just right
Secondary Energy Commodities: Refined Fuels, Fertilizers, Helium, and Sulphur, and the UK’s Energy Resilience Response
Energy Geopolitics: Global Market & Regional Trade Exposures, Foreign Exchange Pressures, and Crisis-Driven Electrification
Resilience: Google’s interconnection strategies, Form’s LDES commercialization, Iranian energy implications, and distributed battery benefits
Modernising the Grid: Solid-State Transformers, How coal is being co-opted for defence, and Space-Based Tech
Critical Minerals: Microgrids, Rare-Earths, Copper recycling, and European Industrial Policy for Iron & Steel
Deliverable Capacity: Flexibility, Storage, and the dark side of Data Centres Going Off-Grid
Clean Firm Power: Geothermal matures, Fusion tests the market, and the UK's Warm Homes Plan
Repricing Electricity: Tech to Deliver AI infrastructure, and the UK's Renewable Auctions