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| October 22, 2024 | How Virtual Power Plants Could Strengthen the Electrical Grid | Ryan Hledik | Virtual power plants can help electric grid operators address supply shortages and reliability concerns, but policy support is needed. |
| September 24, 2024 | Why AI Consumes So Much Energy and What Might Be Done About It | Dion Harris, Benjamin Lee | Nvidia’s director of accelerated computing, and a Penn expert in AI and datacenters, explain why AI uses so much energy, and how its energy appetite might be curbed. |
| July 30, 2024 | Navigating the Geopolitical Risks of Solar Geoengineering | Scott Moore, Craig Martin | Two experts discuss the geopolitical risks of solar geoengineering and the need for global governance frameworks to prevent conflict. |
| March 19, 2024 | Will Hydrogen Energy Be Clean Energy? | Danny Cullenward | The U.S. Department of the Treasury is finalizing rules that will determine which new clean hydrogen projects will receive the IRA’s generous 45V tax incentives, and whether those projects will deliver promised climate benefits. |
| February 6, 2024 | The CO2 Transportation Challenge | Peter Psarras, Hélène Pilorgé | A national network of CO2 and biomass transportation infrastructure, spanning pipelines to rail routes, will be needed to support the permanent removal of atmospheric CO2. Can the network be economically built? |
| January 23, 2024 | AI’s Big Future in Energy and Climate Regulation | Cary Coglianese | Cary Coglianese, director of the Penn Program on Regulation, explores AI’s potential to help regulators keep pace with energy sector growth and climate-tech innovation. |
| December 5, 2023 | Why the IRA’s Carbon Capture Tax Credit Could Increase Greenhouse Emissions | Emily Grubert | New research raises doubt around the climate benefits of the 45Q tax credit for carbon capture and storage for fossil fuel powerplants. |
| October 24, 2023 | The U.S.’s Critical Mineral Supply Challenge | Brian Menell | A metals industry executive explores the race to develop alternative supplies of critical minerals essential to the energy transition. |
| June 20, 2023 | Tackling Climate Technology Investment Risk | Nicholaus Rohleder | Nick Rohleder, Energy Policy Now’s former editorial assistant and a climate entrepreneur, discusses the challenge of managing investment risk inherent in emerging clean energy technologies. |
| January 31, 2023 | Will New Technology and Climate Change Save Nuclear Power? | Daniel Poneman | Daniel Poneman, former U.S. Deputy Energy Secretary and current CEO of Centrus Energy, explores the resurgent interest in nuclear power a decade after Fukushima. |
| January 17, 2023 | China Plays Competitor, and Collaborator, in the Energy Transition | Scott Moore | Scott Moore, author of China’s Next Act, discusses China’s global role in energy technology and sustainability. |
| September 27, 2022 | Scaling Green Hydrogen for a Global Market | Alicia Eastman | Green hydrogen hubs are being developed in some of the world’s most remote locations, to serve growing clean energy demand in Asia, Europe and the U.S. |
| July 5, 2022 | Can Carbon-Negative Oil Be Climate Positive? | Peter Psarras | The fossil fuel industry is investing billions of dollars into projects that will use carbon dioxide captured from the air to produce more oil. What will be the climate impact? |
| May 10, 2022 | Governing the Promise and Peril of Emerging Climate Technologies | Shuchi Talati | Shuchi Talati, former chief of staff of the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy & Carbon Management, discusses the need for strong governance to balance the potential benefits of carbon dioxide removal technologies with environmental and social risks. This is episode one in the Exploring Governance series. |
| December 14, 2021 | For Solar Geoengineering, Daunting Policy Questions Await | Gernot Wagner | A climate economist discusses why efforts to cool earth’s climate through solar geoengineering appear all but inevitable, and considers the policy questions and political battles to come. |
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Since the first season of our podcast series, Andy Stone has directed each episode of Energy Policy Now—defining topics, inviting guests, and leading informative conversations.
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Andy Stone
Energy Policy Now Host and ProducerAndy Stone is producer and host of Energy Policy Now, the Kleinman Center’s podcast series. He previously worked in business planning with PJM Interconnection and was a senior energy reporter at Forbes Magazine.