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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.
March 23, 2021	A Primer on Carbon Dioxide Removal	Erica L. Belmont, Jeremy Freeman, Noah McQueen, Peter Psarras, Toly Rinberg	Carbon Dioxide Removal is an industrial-scale strategy to hold climate change in check. Five experts weigh in on CDR’s potential, challenges and moral hazards.
January 12, 2021	Europe Maps Out Its Hydrogen Energy Strategy	Kirsten Westphal	Hydrogen energy is a key part of Europe’s plan to zero out carbon emissions by mid-century. But can the bloc build hydrogen capacity, and demand, in time to reach its goal?
December 15, 2020	Energy Storage’s Seasonal Challenge	Oscar Serpell	Electricity storage technologies have proven their worth in balancing daily fluctuations in wind and solar output. But can storage address the challenges presented by the decarbonized grid of the future?
March 3, 2020	The Challenge of Scaling Negative Emissions	Jennifer Wilcox	The author of the first text book on carbon capture looks at the potential for negative emissions technologies to limit global warming, and discusses the challenge to scaling solutions for positive climate impact.
October 15, 2019	The Path Forward for Grid Electricity Storage	Ken Kulak	Battery storage will play a central role in decarbonizing the nation’s electric grid, yet the rules by which batteries will compete in electricity markets have yet to be agreed upon.
April 2, 2019	A Hard Look at Negative Emissions	Glen Peters	Much faith is being put in the ability of negative emissions technologies to slow the pace of climate change. Glen Peters of Norway’s Center for International Climate Research looks at the potential of negative emissions strategies, and the steep challenges to implementing them.
May 1, 2018	Distributed Energy’s Cyber Risk	William Hederman, Steve Kunsman	As distributed energy grows, so does cyber risk to the grid. Two energy security experts discuss solutions.
February 27, 2018	The Promise and Peril of Self-Driving Trucks	Steve Viscelli	Self-driving technology promises to revitalize the trucking industry. But increased energy demand and air pollution are possible downsides.

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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 Producer

Andy 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.