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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New Alberta oil sands Net-zero by 2050 plan unpacked and explained
June 09, 2021 19:35 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBMarkham interviews economist Kevin Birn of IHS MarkIt about the Oil Sands Pathways to Net Zero initiative launched on June 9.
Hydro's main value is not electricity generation, but storage for renewables
June 07, 2021 18:51 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBMarkham interviews Emil Dimanchev, PhD candidate at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, about his co-authored paper, “The role of hydropower reservoirs in deep decarbonization policy,” recently published in the journal Science Direct.
Canadian greenhouse gas dilemma: What to do about Alberta?
May 27, 2021 21:39 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MBMarkham interviews Dr. Douglas Macdonald, senior lecturer emeritus, School of the Environment, University of Toronto, about his book, CARBON PROVINCE, HYDRO PROVINCE: THE CHALLENGE OF CANADIAN ENERGY AND CLIMATE FEDERALISM.
Uganda and the energy transition: Supporting sustainable diversification in Africa
May 13, 2021 18:47 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBMarkham interviews US Energy Association acting executive director Sheila Hollis and senior program coordinator Elise Voorhis about the agency's recent work helping Uganda modernize and grow the country's electricity system.
TD Bank study says 50%-75% of Canadian oil/gas workers could lose jobs by 2050
April 27, 2021 15:50 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBMarkham interviews TD Economics economist Francis Fong, co-author of "Don’t Let History Repeat: Canada’s Energy Sector Transition and the Potential Impact on Workers.
Decarbonization pathways for Latin America
April 16, 2021 04:13 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBMarkham interviews Dr. Chris Bataille, an associate researcher at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, located in Paris.
Rooftop solar economics: cost vs. value
March 30, 2021 22:00 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBMarkham interviews Behnam Zakeri, research scholar with the Integrated Assessment and Climate Change Research Group about his co-authored paper, "Policy options for enhancing economic profitability of residential solar photovoltaic with battery energy storage."
India faces big decarbonization challenges - study
March 28, 2021 14:33 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBMarkham interviews economist Dr. Vaibhav Chaturvedi of India's Council on Energy, Environment, and Water about his recent paper, "Peaking and Net-Zero for India’s Energy Sector CO2 Emission."
Geeking out on innovation diffusion theory
March 24, 2021 19:33 - 39 minutes - 36 MBMarkham interviews Dr. Christina Hoicka, associate professor in sustainable energy economics, about her team's work developing a model to explain the diffusion of low-carbon innovations.
Ontario's broken electricity system
March 19, 2021 18:42 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MBMarkham interviews Prof. Mark Winfield, an expert in sustainable energy and environmental policy, about the crisis in Ontario's electricity, including the absence of provincial government climate and energy policy.
Coming soon: The electric utility of the future
March 11, 2021 15:11 - 26 minutes - 24 MBMarkham interviews utility veteran Val Jensen about the electric utility of the future. New technologies, changing consumer needs, and climate policies are just some of the forces transforming the current utility business model.
A just decarbonizing of the American energy system
February 28, 2021 21:22 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBMarkham interviews Steve Pacala about the co-authored study, "Accelerating Decarbonization of the United States Energy System," which identifies key technological and socio-economic goals that must be achieved to put the United States on the path to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The report presents a policy blueprint outlining critical near-term actions for the first decade (2021-2030) of this 30-year effort, including ways to support communities that will be most impacted...
USA, China, Europe and the clean energy "arms race"
February 27, 2021 19:09 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBMarkham interviews Barbara Finamore, senior attorney and Asia Director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, about her Oxford Energy Institute article, "Clean tech innovation in China and its impact on the geopolitics of the energy transition."
Net-zero US economy not difficult or expensive - study
February 21, 2021 20:02 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBMarkham interviews economist Prof. Jim Williams of the University of San Francisco about his co-authored paper, Carbon-Neutral Pathways for the United States.
Managing the energy transition: Pathways to Canada's net-zero future
February 10, 2021 19:54 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBMarkham interviews economist Jason Dion of the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices about his new report, "CANADA'S NET ZERO FUTURE: Finding our way in the global transition."
Time for the United States to compete with China in global clean energy finance
January 16, 2021 18:45 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBMarkham interviews Dr. Johannes Urpelainen about how China has become the leading financer of wind, solar, and other green energy projects. They also discuss China's Belt and Road Initiative and why China continues to finance and operate coal power plants in developing countries around the world.
Carbon pricing is over-hyped and not nearly enough
January 08, 2021 17:45 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBMarkham interviews Dr. Danny Cullenward, Stanford energy economist and lawyer, and co-author with Dr. David G. Victor, of the new book, "Making climate policy work."
Pacific NW power going carbon free without natural gas?
December 22, 2020 19:39 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBMarkham interviews Ben Kujala, director of power planning for the Northwest Power and Conservation Council based in Portland, Oregon. They discussed the extent to which natural gas should be relied upon as a "bridge fuel” as the Pacific NW considers the right mix of wind, solar, storage, nuclear and hydropower to provide carbon-free energy at an affordable and reliable level.
Pacific NW electricity going carbon free without natural gas?
December 22, 2020 19:39 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBMarkham interviews Ben Kujala, director of power planning for the Northwest Power and Conservation Council based in Portland, Oregon. They discussed the extent to which natural gas should be relied upon as a "bridge fuel” as the Pacific NW considers the right mix of wind, solar, storage, nuclear and hydropower to provide carbon-free energy at an affordable and reliable level.
Electricity sector responsible for all of American emissions reduction
December 16, 2020 19:49 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBMarkham interviews Dr. Thomas Rowlands-Rees of BloombergNEF about US greenhouse gas emissions falling, but only because of the switch away from coal in the power generation sector.
Klein vs Hislop: Battle climate change like it's WWII?
December 04, 2020 19:08 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBMarkham debates climate activist and academic Seth Klein about his new book, "A GOOD WAR: MOBILIZING CANADA FOR THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY," which argues that governments should direct economic activity to lower greenhouse gas emissions just like Canada did to support its military commitment during World War II.
Wind, solar adoption will soar during 2020s - IEA
November 16, 2020 17:55 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBMarkham interviews Heymi Bahar, the International Energy Agency's senior analyst for renewable energy markets and policy and lead author for "Renewables 2020 Analysis and forecast to 2025." Correction: the study was released on Nov. 10, not Nov. 17 as Markham says at the start of the conversation.
China rises and America is nervous
November 12, 2020 18:54 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MBJohn's column that we discuss on the show: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-power-kemp/column-chinas-rise-and-u-s-fears-about-decline-kemp-idUSKBN2762DR
Germany's Energiewende shows transitions are damned difficult
November 10, 2020 22:36 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBMarkham interviews Dr. Gunther Bachmann, a former director of the German Council for Sustainable Development, about the challenges posed by his country's energy transition plan, the Energiewende.
Tony Seba: Electric revolution by 2030?
November 06, 2020 23:20 - 32 minutes - 30.3 MBMarkham interviews "rethinker" Tony Seba about his study, "Rethinking Energy 2020-2030: 100% Solar, Wind and Batteries is Just the Beginning."
Electricity market reform: No energy transition without it
November 05, 2020 23:25 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBMarkham interviews Prof. Josh Rhodes of the University of Texas at Austin about big changes coming to global electricity markets. He uses examples drawn from the United States and Markham contributes information from the reporting he has done about Canadian (especially British Columbia and Alberta) markets.
California's 2035 zero-emission vehicle mandate
October 30, 2020 17:18 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBMarkham interviews Dr. James Sallee, economist and associate professor in the department of agricultural and resource economics, University of California, Berkeley.
Biden's plans for US energy
October 26, 2020 23:35 - 29 minutes - 27 MBMarkham in conversation with New York-based Ed Crooks, chair of Americas for Wood Mckenzie, about what a Joe Biden presidency might mean for the American energy sector, including oil and gas.
10,000 Amazon delivery e-vans on road by 2022
October 22, 2020 17:54 - 22 minutes - 20.7 MBMarkham interviews Sam Abuelsamid, EV analyst for Guidehouse Research, about Amazon's Oct. 8 announcement it will buy 10,000 custom-designed Rivian electric delivery vans, deployment starting in just 2 years. Combined with other technical and process innovations, the e-van will be "the future of last mile delivery," says Amazon.
Tesla "battery day" science explained
October 19, 2020 15:47 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MBMarkham interviews Dr. Kai-Philipp Kairies - CEO of ACCURE, a German battery intelligence data analytics firm - about Tesla's Sept. 22 "battery day." Tesla's key engineering and scientific advances explained in layman's terms by a battery scientist.
"Global consensus on peak oil shifting rapidly" - Kingsmill Bond
October 16, 2020 17:01 - 23 minutes - 22 MBMarkham interviews Kingsmill Bond, London-based energy strategist for Carbon Tracker, about the recent release of the International Energy Agency's World Energy Outlook 2020. Bottom line: peak oil demand is either here or arriving shortly.
How is Big Oil navigating the Energy Transition?
October 13, 2020 15:56 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBCheck https://energi.media for show notes and links.
China's 2060 carbon neutrality pledge - with Bloomberg journalist Dr. Akshat Rathi
October 06, 2020 17:27 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBBloomberg energy and climate journalist Dr. Akshat Rathi joins Markham Hislop to discuss China's Sept. 23 announcement it will reach peak carbon emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. Not quite the same as net-zero emissions, says Rathi, but progress nonetheless.