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Redefining Energy — 183 episodes

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224. From Wind farms (yield) to Datacenters (growth) - Apr26

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223. Solar + Storage: The Economic Core of the Future Grid - Apr26

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222. Understanding Energy and Technology in China - Mar26

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221. LNG – Hormuz – “Apocalypse Now” - Mar26

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220. Deal Trends for M&A and Energy Financing - Mar26

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219. Hyperscalers vs US Utilities - Mar26

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218. Climate Tech Battle Royale (Shayle Kann vs. Gerard Reid) - Mar26

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217. Lithium, Copper, Silver and other metals go ballistic - Feb26

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216. Clean Energy Equities Market: "Dancing While the Music Plays" - Feb26

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215. PPAs, FPAs, IPPs, Flex and Capture rates: new paradigms - Feb26

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214. Grid Resilience: hot risks, cold solutions - Feb26

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213. Big Funds, Bigger Bets: Inside Infrastructure’s Power Shift - Jan26

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212. Heat Pumps rise again - Jan26

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211. The last Mile revolution: turning Distribution Networks into Flexibility Powerhouses - Jan26

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210. Our Predictions for 2026

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209. Deals, Scandals and other memorable moments of 2025

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208. AI vs. Energy: the cost of speed - dec25

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207. E-Mobility and V-2-X - dec25

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206. Renewables Repriced: Hedge Funds and Algo power trading - dec25

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205. Elexon: The Hidden Engine of Britain’s Power Market - nov25

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204. Live from COP30 – WTFFF and Other Tales from the Amazon

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203. Peak Solar - nov25

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202. The US Power Industry Mismatch: Large Load Growth vs. Investment Capital - Nov25

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201. Battery Boom or Policy Bust? The Big EV Divergence - Oct25

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200. “200 slides, Energy, AI, and the End of ESG” with Nat Bullard - Oct25

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199. The LNG Mirage - Oct25

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198. Battery Blitz in Germany - Oct25

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197. The fight for accurate Carbon Accounting and 24/7 Green Power - Sep25

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196. Are SAF and Marine Green Fuels worth the Carbon Reductions? - Sep25

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195. The Battery Doctor - Sep25

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194. Next-Gen Weather Forecasting: AI, Satellites, and Drones - Sep25

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193. The Seven Deadly Sins of the Energy Transition

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192. How AI will revolutionise Energy

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191. “How Big Things Get Done” with Pr. Bent Flyvbjerg (hosted by Michael Barnard)

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190. Solar and Flex – Solar Power Summit 2025

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189. Energy Disruptions - (Gerard on "Clean Titans")

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188. US/Petrostate vs EU/Electrostate – a joint episode with Open Circuit

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187. Texas: Power Surge or Power Splurge? - Jul25

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186. Power under Pressure: Fortum’s CEO on Datacenters’ growth and Russian Attacks (Eurelectric)

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185. Blackouts - Jul25

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184. Market dynamics and Pricing of Battery Materials - Jun25

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183. Energy Security from the front line: Eastern Europe and Renewables - Jun25

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182. Broken grids and Datacenters load growth - Jun25

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181. “Hot Air” from Tony Blair - May25

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180. The KKR Energy formula - May25

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179. The future of the Auto Industry: Winners, challengers and zombies - May25

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178. Delivering the Wind Reset - May25

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177. The Transatlantic Power Cable: from concept to reality - Apr25

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176. Renewables are dominating the Electrification of an Energy-hungry world (with Ember) - Apr 25

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175. Capitalizing on the Infrastructure giants’ Blind Spots - Apr25

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174. Live from Cambridge – Laurent and Gerard with Pr. David Cebon on Electrifying trucks

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173. The politization of Critical Materials - Mar25

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172. The new age of Energy Security, Flexibility, and Resilience (with Eurelectric)

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171. PPAs and Tolling: lessons for the future - Mar25

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170. Why is the electricity Supercycle unstoppable? Gerard in Davos

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169. 2025 State of play in the battery universe - Feb25

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168. "Invest where it hurts!" - Laurent at Pexapark

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167. The future growth of LNG - Jan 25

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166. Green Equities Performance: Core vs Periphery - Jan 2025

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165. Our Predictions for 2025

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164. 2024 Wrap up: Successes, Surprises and Shocks

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163. Gerard is live at TedXBerlin / Welcome to the Era of Energy Disruption

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162. Industrial Climate Solutions – Bridging the “Missing Middle” - Dec24

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161. Northvolt - Epitaph

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160. Financing the Residential Energy Transition - Nov24

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159. Live from Baku Cop29. Inside the Zone: Chaos, Shock and Hope

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158. COP – Resilience or Irrelevance?

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157. Mobile batteries, the ultimate flexibility - Nov24

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156. Zeroing in on Electrification with Eurelectric

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155. VPP & DER - Oct24

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154. The people driving the EV revolution

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153. The Battery-coaster - Oct24

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152. Energy Transition – the Global Investment Guide

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151. Peak Fossil Fuels - Sep24

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150. The new Valuation of Wind Assets

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149. Hydropower in a 24/7 Clean Energy System - Sep24

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148. Batteries: the Great Consolidation

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147. Decarbonising buildings - Aug24

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146. NREL: “Our Renewable Energy Future” - Aug24

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145. Clash of Titans (Barnard vs Martin) – Industrial Heat Redefined

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144. Bill Gates and Energy (2/2) – the Investments / Breakthrough Energy Ventures

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143. Bill Gates and Energy (1/2) – the Thesis

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142. Batteries vs Hydrogen (Gerard is Live at EcoSummit 2024)

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141. Texas, California: From Renewable Energy developer to IPP - Jul24

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140. SolarPower Europe introduces the "Flexibility Revolution"

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139. The ESG label is outdated. What now? - Jul24

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138. The Energy Institute’s Statistical Review of World Energy

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137. Subsea interconnectors: new horizons - Jun24

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136. Special Eurelectric with PPC’s CEO Georgios Stassis

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135. 2024: A pivotal year for the Energy Transition in China - Jun24

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134. EcoSummit Preview

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133. AI, Datacenters and Energy - May24

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132. Ember’s Global Electricity Review 2024

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131. The future of distribution grids - May24

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130. EVs: Has Tesla lost its Mojo?

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129. Should the West fear or emulate China?

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128. Tracking and Trading Green Electrons 24/7 - Apr24

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127. Live from Berlin – “Are Renewables still an Infrastructure Play” with Markus Wandt, CIO Aquila Capital

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126. Grid-Enhancing Technologies - Apr24

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125. From Houston to Berlin (via Bilbao), Better Days!

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124. The challenging Energy Transition of Japan - Mar24

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123. Conferences and Exhibitions

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122. The EV fast-charging revolution - Mar24

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121. Data, data and data

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120. The new value of green power and PPAs - Feb24

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119. The decarbonization of the shipping industry

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118. Doubling Energy Efficiency - Feb24

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117. Infrastructure Investing, the consolidation

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116. Cleantech100 – the Hangover

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115. The future of Yieldcos (listed Infrastructure Funds) - Jan24

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114. Nuclear, Offshore Wind and Cummins

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113. Our Predictions for 2024 - Jan24

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112a. Redefining Energy Awards for 2023 (incl. Book of the Year)

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112. Weaponizing of energy: the end of innocence - Dec23

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111a. Special Episode - Live from COP28 in Dubai. With Bruce Douglas, CEO Global Renewable Alliance, on 3xRenewables

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111. The Grand Master of Energy Storage - Dec23

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110. French Nuclear “Oh la la” - Nov23

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109. Top Trends in Climate Tech - Nov23

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108. Wind: the necessary Reset - Oct23

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107. Electrifying islands with Cleantech innovations (Jamaica) - Oct23

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106. Chasing Methane leaks - Sept23

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105. Geothermal: Earth, Wind and Fire - Sept23

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104. Is Carbon the new Crypto? Aug23

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103. Battery chemistry: China against the World - Aug23

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102. Post Energy crisis, the “need for speed” - Live from Brussels / Eurelectric with Leo Birnbaum (CEO E.ON) - Jul23

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101. Iron + Carbon = Innovations (Clean Power, LDES, Hydrogen, CCUS) - Jul23

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100. “2030: have we succeeded the Energy Transition?” with Katherine Hamilton and Jigar Shah - Jun23

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99. Operating a Grid in transition - Jun23

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98. Optimising solar fleets: the “secret sauce” - May23

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97. The endless conundrum of power markets reform - May23

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96. How to monetise large scale Batteries? - Apr23

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95. Zero Carbon Europe : Blue Pill or Red Pill? - Apr23

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94. Heat Pumps are Hot - Mar23

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93. Supply chain - wind, solar, batteries: how to fix the mess? - Mar23

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92. Who’s winning the battery arms race? - Feb23

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91. The radical transformations of the PPA market - Feb23

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90. Blockchain, BigTech and 24/7 Green electrons - Jan23

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89. Our Predictions for 2023 - Jan23

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88. The Solar Juggernaut - dec22

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87. Inflection point for Biogas/Biomethane - dec22

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86. The politics of Energy Infrastructure - nov22

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85. Energy Trading: the "Lehman Moment" - nov22

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84. Floating Offshore Wind - oct22

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83. The rising tide of Electric Shipping - oct22

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82. The new Carbon Markets - sep22

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81. Nuclear industry at the crossroads - sep22

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80. Solar rooftop: the foot soldiers of the Energy Transition - aug22

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79. The best kept secret (not for long): Energy Efficiency - aug22

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78. Batterytech, VCs, SPACs: “There will be blood” - jul22

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77. Subsea interconnectors - jul22

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76. Battery swapping for two-wheelers: Gogoro - jun22

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75. Lithium: “White Gold” rush or the “limiting factor”? - jun22

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74. The new profile of Energy Transition Funds - may22

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73. High energy prices vs. the Energy transition - may22

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72. A Ukrainian Utility at War. A story of resistance, resilience, and hope - apr22

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71. Ventures and breakthroughs to decarbonise Heat - apr22

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70. Why digital management of Batteries matters? - mar22

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69. Escape from Russia: Rewiring Europe - mar22

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68. Green Hydrogen: miracle or mirage? - feb22

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67. From PowerPoint to Gigafactory - feb22

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66. “The missing hours”: in search of 24/7 carbon free power - jan22

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65. Our Predictions for 2022 - jan22

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64. Unstoppable solar - dec21

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63. Ultra-fast EV charging (and mini grids) - dec21

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62. ESG investing: A force for good or blah blah blah? - nov21

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61. The future of power distribution networks (with ENEL) - nov21

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60. From Energy Transition to Energy Crunch: The “Natgaspocalypse” - oct21

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59. Long Duration Energy Storage: the “Final Frontier” - oct21

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58. Fuel Switch or Fuel Fix for Steel and Cement? - sep21

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57. Methane, the invisible elephant in the room - sep21

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56. How to decarbonise Aviation? - aug21

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55. EVs: Tesla against the world - aug21

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54. Energy Trading: it is now man vs. machine - jul21

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53. Oil Majors: the journey from molecules to electrons - jul21

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52. The German "Energiewende" - jun21

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51. Is there a future for coal in Asia? - jun21

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50. Redefining Utilities' strategies in the Electric Decade (with E.ON at Eurelectric Power Summit 21) - may21

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49. The stratospheric rise of Octopus Energy - may21

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48. Solar & batteries: can China’s dominance be challenged? - apr21

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47. Batteries, a new Asset Class in Infrastructure Investing - apr21

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46. Flexible, resilient, sustainable: the making of the XXIst Century Supergrid - mar21

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45. The Green Industrial Revolution - mar21

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44. Hydrogen... it's complicated! - feb21