In the climate space, every idea sits somewhere along the hype continuum. Some command outsize attention. Others fly under the radar despite big potential. And a rare few hit the sweet spot, earning exactly the buzz they deserve.

But how do you tell which is which?

In this episode, Shayle teams up with Akshat Rathi, senior reporter for climate at Bloomberg News and host of the Zero podcast, to sort it out. Akshat and Shayle run through a list of hot topics and place each one on the hype continuum. They cover topics like:

Using DERs to meet load growth
Co-locating generation with data centers
Infrastructure bottlenecks like generation, transmission, and transformers
The roles of venture capital and the Paris Agreement in shaping markets
A grab-bag of other topics like sodium-ion, advanced geothermal, and advanced nuclear

Resources:

Catalyst: The new wave of DERs

Catalyst: When to colocate data centers with generation

Zero: The Device Throttling Our Electrified Future

Zero: The Gas Turbine Shortage Might Be a Climate Problem

Credits: Hosted by Shayle Kann. Produced and edited by Daniel Woldorff. Original music and engineering by Sean Marquand. Stephen Lacey is our executive editor.

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