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Power Plays — 26 episodes

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Can America secure its renewable energy future without making it more expensive? With Oliver Badenhorst, VP at Solar Landscape

2

Can Microreactors Deliver on the Nuclear Hype? With Guy Cohen from Currence

3

Can the world copy Australia's data centre & renewables policy, with Hamish McKenzie from the Grattan Institute

4

How Battery Swapping Could Transform Electric Trucking, with Will Rowe, CEO of Swaptopus

5

What Miatta Fahnbulleh means for UK energy, with Sulaiman Ilyas-Jarrett

6

Carbon Reimagined: eSAF Approval, On's Low-Carbon Running Shoes, CO₂ Electrolysis in India & Europe's €100 Billion Industrial Bet

7

From heatwaves to hidden capacity: How extreme heat is reshaping the electricity grid

8

Can AI heat your home instead of overloading the grid?

9

Will Burnham be good for UK energy policy? And how a US rule change could unlock distributed energy

10

Part 2: Should the state intervene more in energy?

11

Part 1: The Supply Chains Behind Nuclear Growth - From Critical Minerals Recovery to Uranium Enrichment, plus Energy Storage updates

12

Nyobolt's ultra-fast charging batteries, Antora's giant thermal battery, and Trump's attempted coal revival

13

Trump's trip to China on rare earths, electricity market reforms in the US, and the evolving Chinese EV market

14

The Renewable Grid (DERs, VPPs, and the Grid Edge), plus the UK’s Cost Reduction Policies

15

Heavy Industry and the Energy Transition: From Mining inputs and Coal, to Green Iron and Steel projects

16

Power Plays Live at Octopus HQ: Over-hyped, Under-hyped or Hyped-just right

17

Secondary Energy Commodities: Refined Fuels, Fertilizers, Helium, and Sulphur, and the UK’s Energy Resilience Response

18

Energy Geopolitics: Global Market & Regional Trade Exposures, Foreign Exchange Pressures, and Crisis-Driven Electrification

19

Resilience: Google’s interconnection strategies, Form’s LDES commercialization, Iranian energy implications, and distributed battery benefits

20

Modernising the Grid: Solid-State Transformers, How coal is being co-opted for defence, and Space-Based Tech

21

Critical Minerals: Microgrids, Rare-Earths, Copper recycling, and European Industrial Policy for Iron & Steel

22

Deliverable Capacity: Flexibility, Storage, and the dark side of Data Centres Going Off-Grid

23

Clean Firm Power: Geothermal matures, Fusion tests the market, and the UK's Warm Homes Plan

24

Repricing Electricity: Tech to Deliver AI infrastructure, and the UK's Renewable Auctions