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Shift Key with Robinson Meyer — 130 episodes
What’s Truly Baffling About the Strait of Hormuz Energy Crisis
What Has All This Back-and-Forth Climate Legislating Bought Us?
The Big Interview: John Arnold
Some Great News About the Global Electricity System
Everything We Didn't Know About the World’s Buzziest Geothermal Startup
Why Microsoft’s Carbon Removal Pullback Is Such a Big Deal
Why the Iran Ceasefire Hasn’t Ended the Energy Crisis
How Utilities Actually Think
A New Look at Why Electricity Prices Have Gone Up in Your ZIP Code
There’s a New Playbook for Cutting Power Prices
The Oil Industry Will Never Be the Same
The Big Reveal in China’s New Five-Year Plan
The Rivian R2 Couldn’t Have Come at a Better Time
A New Theory About Why Biden’s Big Climate Law Failed
A Tale of Two Energy Shocks
Why the Iran War Is a Warning for Natural Gas
The Peril of Talking About Electricity Affordability
Data Centers Are Creating a New Kind of Battery Monster
What the Supreme Court’s Tariff Ruling Means for the Energy Transition
The Outdated Economics Driving Trump’s Car Standards Rollback
Trump’s Assault on the Clean Air Act and What Happens Next
The Power Grid Just Passed Its Biggest Test in Years
What Senator Martin Heinrich Needs to See in a Permitting Deal
Trump’s Most Self-Defeating Move on Rare Minerals
What the China-Canada EV Trade Deal Really Means
Why America’s Climate Emissions Surged in 2025
Heatmap’s Annual Climate Insiders Survey Is Here
Why Trump’s Oil Imperialism Might Be a Tough Sell for Actual Oil Companies
Shift Key Classic: California’s Rooftop Solar Question
The Biggest Energy and Climate Stories of 2026
Say ‘Guten Tag!’ to This New Kind of Geothermal Tech
Why the Rest of the World Is Buying Chinese EVs
The Biggest Lessons of a Not-So-Great Year for Climate Policy
How to Make Your Climate Giving Count, According to an Expert
How Clean Energy Could Prepare for an AI Bubble
Shift Key Live: The 2025 Elections, the Gates Memo, and More
Shift Key Classic: Have China’s Carbon Emissions Peaked?
How EVs Can Actually Help the Electricity Crisis
The Lesson Nuclear Companies Should Take From the Dot-Com Boom
The Startup Trying to Put Geothermal Heat Pumps in America’s Homes
How Julian Brave NoiseCat Changed His Mind About Climate Politics
How China’s Power Grid Really Works
Heatmap’s Reporters Talk About Electricity, Inflation, and the New Era in Climate Politics
Live From New York Climate Week: The AI and Electricity Moment
Nobody in the West Knows How to Respond to the ‘Electrotech Revolution’
What J.P. Morgan’s Chief Climate Advisor Is Telling Energy Startups
Utility Regulation Really Sucks
What Carbon Dioxide Has to Do With the Meaning of Life
Shift Key Classic: How to Hook Up More Power Plants
This Is What It’s Like to Run a Power Grid
How Electricity Markets Work
Trump’s Move to Kill the Clean Air Act’s Climate Authority, Forever
Why We’re Worried About Electricity Prices
How Sun and Wind Become Electricity
Climate Policy in America: Where We Go From Here
How Does a Power Plant Work?
What Is a Watt?
If You Care About Food, You Have to Care About Land
It’s Easiest to Electrify This Type of Truck
A New Grand Theory of Why Decarbonization Is So Hard
The Supreme Court’s Double-Edged Change to Permitting Law
Shift Key Classic: The World Will Miss 1.5C. What Comes Next?
How the GOP Megabill Would Reshape the U.S. Energy Economy
The Fight Over the Inflation Reduction Act Has Arrived
Spain’s Blackout and the Miracle of the Modern Power Grid
How Texas Could Destroy Its Electricity Market
How BYD Got So Big
What Happens to Global Decarbonization in a Trade War?
How China’s Industrial Policy Really Works
The Least-Noticed Climate Scandal of the Trump Administration
What’s Really Holding Back New Data Centers
How to Crash America’s Manufacturing Renaissance
How Trump Has All But Halted Offshore Wind
Why Solar Might Be Better Off Than You Think
The Early Lessons of Trump’s ‘Energy Dominance’
How to Talk to Your Friendly Neighborhood Public Utility Regulator
What Senator Brian Schatz Wants Climate Advocates to Know
The U.S. Auto Industry Wasn’t Built for Tariffs
The Trump Policy That Would Be Really Bad for Oil Companies
How Wildfires Destroyed California’s Insurance Market
A Beginner’s Guide to the Hydrogen Economy
Have China’s Emissions Already Peaked?
Answering Your Questions on AI and Energy, the Economics of Solar, the GND’s Legacy, and More
So, What Does AI Really Mean for Decarbonization?
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on What Comes After Biden’s Climate Agenda
Shift Key Classic: How China Created an EV Juggernaut
How Democrats Are Trying to Trump-proof Their Big Climate Law
How Trump Could Dent EVs in America
The World Will Miss 1.5C. What Comes Next?
Trump, China, and Climate Change: What Happens Next?
The Inflation Reduction Act Is About to Be Tested
Climate-o-Rama: EVs, Oil, Trump, and More
Are Democrats the Party of Nuclear Now?
Talking Permitting Reform, Trade, and More With Biden’s Top Climate Advisor
Want to Decarbonize Your Life? Here’s How.
How Climate Change Shaped Hurricane Helene
The Local Elections That Matter for Decarbonization
The Hardest Working $27 Billion in the IRA
Why Geothermal Is So Hot Right Now
A Beginner’s Guide to the Interconnection Queue
What 2024 Will Mean for Clean Energy — in Megatons
How 2025 Could Reshape Climate Policy — No Matter Who Wins the Election
This Isn’t the Same Kind of Climate Election
Why Treasury’s No. 2 Official Wants Permitting Reform
Humanity’s Most Abundant Material Is a Huge Climate Problem
How to Decarbonize the World’s Biggest Ships
What the Supreme Court’s Rulings Mean for Climate Change
How Europe and America Are Weatherproofing Climate Policy
America’s Nuclear Policy Is Getting … Pretty Good!
How China’s EV Industry Got So Big
How to Fix Electricity Bills in America
How California Broke Its Electricity Bills
How to Unlock Super Cheap Rooftop Solar
It Was a Big Week for the Power Grid
Elon Musk Is Putting the EV Transition in Peril
The EPA’s Carbon Crackdown Is Finally Here
How Jigar Shah Thinks About Risk
The U.S. Has a Tesla Problem
Is This a New Era of ‘Climate Capitalism’?
A Skeptic’s Take on AI and Energy Growth
Why a Climate Startup Is Building the World’s Biggest Airplane
What the New Rivians Say About the Future of EVs
A Conversation With Biden’s Former Top Economic Advisor, Part 2
A Conversation With Biden’s Former Top Economic Advisor, Part 1
Does Rooftop Solar Actually Help the Climate?
The Next Big Climate Tool: Little Chunks of Rock
Is Biden’s Climate Law Actually Working?
Has Offshore Wind Finally Hit Rock Bottom?
The Messy Truth of America’s Natural Gas Exports
Welcome to Shift Key, a new climate podcast from Heatmap News