Energi Talks
333 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJournalist Markham Hislop interviews leading energy experts from around the world about the energy transition and climate change.
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Can DERs like solar, batteries save the grid?
July 02, 2024 18:13 - 37 minutes - 51 MBMarkham interviews Dr. Nick Laws and his University of Texas at Austin co-authors' recently published a paper in the Science Direct journal argues that expanding distributed energy resources like rooftop solar and battery storage might reduce the strain on old power grids.
Importance of battery storage depends upon the power grid
July 02, 2024 17:01 - 35 minutes - 48.8 MBMarkham interviews Dr. Tilo Buehler, global product manager for Hitachi Energy's Grid Edge Solutions.
Not ambitious enough: BC's new clean energy strategy
June 29, 2024 12:25 - 42 minutes - 59 MBMarkham interviews Betsy Agar, director of the Pembina Institute's buildings program, about British Columbia's recently announced clean energy strategy.
Will AI spike electricity demand?
June 27, 2024 12:51 - 41 minutes - 56.9 MBMarkham interviews Alex Heil, senior economist at The Conference Board, about a new report, Smart Power: Will AI Spike Electricity Demand or Reduce It Through Efficiencies?
Small Modular Reactors: Still too expensive, too slow, and too risky?
June 26, 2024 14:52 - 40 minutes - 55.1 MBMarkham interviews David Schlissel, director of resource planning analysis for the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, about a new report, “Small Modular Reactors: Still too expensive, too slow and too risky.”
Jury's still out on value of nuclear power for Canada
June 26, 2024 14:48 - 38 minutes - 52.4 MBMarkham interviews Brendan Frank, director of policy and strategy for Clean Prosperity, and lead author of the new report, Nuclear for a Net-Zero Canada.
The 'Sue Big Oil Campaign' Live Event!
June 26, 2024 14:47 - 1 hour - 89 MBMarkham interviews lawyer Andrew Gage of West Coast Environmental Law about the Sue Big Oil campaign to launch a class action lawsuit against oil companies to force them to help pay for climate change adaptations required in communities across British Columbia.
Should Canada slap 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs?
June 20, 2024 20:07 - 35 minutes - 48.5 MBMarkham interviews Flavio Volpe, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers Association.
China has wide lead in nuclear power generation - report
June 20, 2024 16:02 - 36 minutes - 50.7 MBMarkham interviews Stephen Ezell, Vice President, Global Innovation Policy, and Director, Center for Life Sciences Innovation at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.
Deloitte report on impact of oil and gas cap is flawed - economist
June 20, 2024 16:00 - 53 minutes - 73.6 MBMarkham interviews energy economist and modeller Dr. Chris Bataille. Note: in the introduction, Markham incorrectly said that the Government of Canada commissioned the report. In fact it was the Government of Alberta.
Senator Paula Simons on the Sustainable Jobs Act
June 19, 2024 17:52 - 26 minutes - 36.1 MBMarkham interviews Alberta Senator Paula Simons, a former veteran journalist, about Bill C-50, the Sustainable Jobs Act, which passed in the Senate of Canada on June 18.
EVs hit bump in road, but trajectory remains on track to dominate auto sector
June 19, 2024 16:51 - 31 minutes - 43.4 MBMarkham interviews Colin McKerracher, Head of Clean Transport at BloombergNEF, which recently released its EV Outlook 2024.
Energi Talks Live! - Decarbonizing the oil sands with the Rondo Heat Battery
June 18, 2024 21:54 - 54 minutes - 75.1 MBMarkham interviews John O'Donnell, CEO, of Rondo Heat Battery, about applications in the Alberta oil sands.
Building an Article 6 carbon credit system in the Philippines
June 17, 2024 15:41 - 45 minutes - 62.3 MBMarkham interviews Justin Reynolds, CEO of Maharlika Carbon Technologies.
The EV revolution...coming soon to Canada
June 14, 2024 16:29 - 37 minutes - 51.8 MBMarkham interviews Joanna Kyriazis, EV analyst with Clean energy Canada.
Alberta, Saskatchewan dead last in energy transition scorecard
June 01, 2024 16:10 - 38 minutes - 52.5 MBMarkham interviews VP of Policy and Strategy Rachel Doran of Clean Energy Canada.
Danielle Smith's 'authoritarian libertarianism' explained
May 31, 2024 19:08 - 1 hour - 88.4 MBMarkham interviews Dr. Patricia Roberts-Miller, retired professor of rhetoric and writing and former director of the University Writing Center at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of the excellent essay, "Authoritarian Libertarianism and the Freedom to do what I say.” Her related books: Deliberating War (forthcoming) Demagoguery and Democracy (general audience) Rhetoric and Demagoguery (scholarly)
Why are provinces selling power to the US instead of each other?
May 30, 2024 22:29 - 30 minutes - 41.2 MBMarkham interviews Dr. Madeleine McPherson, assistant professor of engineering at the University of Victoria and an experienced energy economics modeller.
Part 2: is AER review suggesting even greater industry influence over regulator?
May 27, 2024 18:41 - 58 minutes - 80.7 MBMarkham interviews a public interest lawyer he has interviewed many times about dysfunction in the AER.
Part 1: AER review doesn't understand AER legislation, ignores landowners and farmers
May 26, 2024 22:46 - 28 minutes - 38.6 MBMarkham interviews Alberta dministrative law expert Mark Dorin.
The 'creeping authoritarianism' of Danielle Smith, UCP
May 24, 2024 20:32 - 43 minutes - 60.2 MBMarkham interviews Professor Jared Wesley, University of Alberta, about his The Tyee article, "Why the UCP Is a Threat to Democracy."
100% tariff could backfire on US, hurt legacy automakers
May 23, 2024 21:33 - 42 minutes - 59 MBMarkham interviews economics Professor James Sallee with the University of California at Berkeley and a Faculty Affiliate at the Energy Institute at Haas. On Tariffs and the EV Transition
Northern Indigenous communities benefit from new energy technologies
May 23, 2024 21:31 - 23 minutes - 31.8 MBMarkham interviews Omar Osorio, Hitachi Power Grid, about renewable energy projects in northern Alberta Indigenous communities Fort Chipewyan and Old Crow First.
Low-carbon fuels to power medium, heavy-duty trucks
May 14, 2024 20:51 - 29 minutes - 40.4 MBMarkham interviews Hongyu Xiao of Pembina Institute about Fuelling the Transition: Low-carbon fuel choices for road freight.
Alberta oil sands production forecast rising, says new report
May 13, 2024 22:09 - 38 minutes - 53.1 MBMarkham interviews Kevin Birn, VP, Canadian Oil Markets Chief Analyst and Head of Center for Emissions Excellence for S&P Global. His team recently released its annual 10-year Production Outlook for the Canadian Oil Sands.
Virtual power plant project will unlock billions of savings for consumers
May 10, 2024 18:58 - 26 minutes - 36.7 MBMarkham interviews Renew Home CEO Ben Brown about the launch of North America’s largest residential virtual power plant.
Creating a Western Canadian power grid to boost wind, solar - an Energi Talks Live episode!
May 08, 2024 21:06 - 1 hour - 102 MBMarkham interviews Professor Kristen van de Bizenbos of the California Western School of Law in San Diego, California, an expert on North American energy law and, until recently, a former faculty member at the University of Calgary.
Squeezing emissions from buildings: new rules, new tech, new approaches
May 06, 2024 19:27 - 26 minutes - 36.9 MBMarkham interviews Pablo La Roche, global head of sustainable building design for Arcadis and the author of "Carbon-Neutral Architectural Design."
The Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline debate, with Max Fawcett
May 03, 2024 15:00 - 52 minutes - 71.9 MBMarkham discusses TMX, which is now transporting crude oil from Alberta to the West Coast, with award-winning columnist Max Fawcett. They discuss Markham's May 1 column, My TMX mea culpa.
USA bombshell rocks clean energy world...Canada snoozes
April 28, 2024 18:52 - 47 minutes - 65.9 MBMarkham interviews Canadian economist Dr. Chris Bataille, who was in the room when US Climate Envoy John Podesta gave his momentous April 16 speech at the Columbia Global Energy Summit.
Energi Talks Live! Kingsmill Bond on clean energy race to the top!
April 24, 2024 22:16 - 58 minutes - 80.7 MBKingsmill Bond of the Rocky Mountain Institute joins Markham and Energy Circle members to talk about his recent report, "The Race to the Top: Cleantech competition between China, Europe, and the United States.
New technology set to increase transmission without new wires
April 24, 2024 22:08 - 29 minutes - 40.9 MBMarkham interviews Julia Selker, Executive Director of the WATT Coalition, about the US Department of Energy's “Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Innovative Grid Deployment” report, which found that Grid Enhancing Technologies – dynamic line ratings, advanced power flow control and topology optimization – increase transmission capacity by making existing infrastructure more efficient.
A year later, no progress on Danielle Smith's "climate plan"
April 24, 2024 22:04 - 41 minutes - 57.4 MBMarkham interviews MC Bouchard, the Pembina Institute’s oil and gas program director.
Post-invasion Europe: less dependence on Russian gas, but not enough progress
April 19, 2024 16:49 - 26 minutes - 36.8 MBMarkham interviews senior research fellow Dr. Kong Chyong of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies about his new paper, “Burning the Bridge to Ostpolitik? Stress-Testing Europe’s Shift from Russian Gas to Renewables Using a Global Energy Model.”
Eavor Technologies: the future of advanced geothermal
April 18, 2024 19:48 - 42 minutes - 58.6 MBMarkham interviews John Redfern, CEO of Calgary-based Eavor Technologies.
Canada's Sustainable Jobs Act
April 17, 2024 18:09 - 33 minutes - 46.3 MBMarkham interviews Megan Gordon of Pembina Institute.
A vigorous debate about Canada's energy future
April 15, 2024 17:38 - 1 hour - 98.8 MBMarkham interviews Heather Exner-Pirot, Senior Fellow and Director of Natural Resources, Energy and Environment for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a national public policy think tank based in Ottawa.
Huge electricity demand growth threatens US power grid
April 11, 2024 20:32 - 42 minutes - 58 MBMarkham interviews Dan Forman of Copper Labs, an expert in energy usage and efficiency, as well as commercial and residential demand response.
Big savings for California grid from Virtual Power Plants
April 11, 2024 20:07 - 34 minutes - 48.1 MBMarkham interviews Ryan Hledik, a principal with the Brattle Group, about a recent report on the potential for Virtual Power Plants in California.
Thin film solar may be answer to building renewables on farm land
April 11, 2024 18:39 - 28 minutes - 39 MBMarkham interviews Paul Warley, CEO of Ascent Solar Technologies.
Calgary utility hires university to create climate model for grid planning
April 10, 2024 16:06 - 20 minutes - 28 MBMarkham interviews Jennifer Saldana, director of ESG performance and reporting for ENMAX, and Professor David Sauchyn, director of the Prairie Adaptation and Research Collaborative and professor of geography and environmental studies at the University of Regina.
Danielle Smith: incompetent chaos agent or savvy populist politician?
April 05, 2024 18:02 - 38 minutes - 52.2 MBMarkham interviews Duane Bratt, professor of political science, Mount Royal University, about Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's first 18 months in power.
Clean energy takes off in the United States
April 05, 2024 17:59 - 25 minutes - 35.7 MBMarkham interviews Lisa Jacobson, president of the Business Council for Sustainable Energy, and Tom Rowlands-Rees, BloombergNEF head of research for North America, about the 2024 Sustainable Energy in America Factbook.
EV sales slower recently, but long-term trends don't change
April 03, 2024 23:45 - 34 minutes - 47.9 MBMarkham interviews Corey Cantor, a senior associate with BloomberNEF, about inflection points on the S-curve and the adoption of electric vehicles. Slow down in the global marketplace?
5 MW solar farm developed by Peace River co-operative
April 03, 2024 23:41 - 38 minutes - 53.2 MBMarkham interviews Colin Smith, project manager of the Peace Energy Cooperative, which recently received approval from the Alberta Utilities Commission to go ahead with the Peace River Energy Project, a 5 MW grid-connected solar farm.
China leads the global energy transition by a big margin - live event
April 03, 2024 23:34 - 1 hour - 96.2 MBEnergi Media's Markham Hislop and Sandy Garossino, National Observer columnist, discussing the role of China in the global energy transition. Recorded live at a March 27 event in Parksville, British Columbia, Canada that was organized by Roy Collver of the Energy Circle.
UK energy transition policies offer plenty of lessons for Canada
March 29, 2024 18:26 - 37 minutes - 51.7 MBMarkham interviews Marla Orenstein, the Canada West Foundation’s director of resources, environment and economy, recently travelled to the U.K. as part of an Energy Commentators Mission organized by the British Consulate. She wrote about the UK’s energy transition and climate policies in the Foundation’s latest Energy Innovation Brief.
Long-duration energy storage needed before 2030
March 27, 2024 18:45 - 44 minutes - 60.7 MBMarkham interviews technology analyst Conrad Nichols' recent IDTechEx report about long duration energy storage for utility scale applications.
A conversation with Dr Doyne Farmer about complexity theory, energy transition
March 27, 2024 12:23 - 45 minutes - 62.6 MBMarkham interviews Dr. Doyne Farmer is the Baillie Gifford Professor of Complex Systems Science at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, at Oxford University. He is the author of “Making Sense of chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World” that will be published by Allen Lane on April 25.
BC LNG's uncertain future
March 27, 2024 12:17 - 46 minutes - 63.9 MBMarkham interviews Mark Zackarias, executive director of Clean Energy Canada.