The Energy Transition Show with Chris Nelder

XE Network
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Feb 19, 2020 • 31min

[Episode #115] – Wildfire and Transition in Australia

How is Australia dealing with the reality of climate change in this season of hugely destructive wildfires, and what is the outlook for its energy transition?
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Feb 5, 2020 • 28min

[Episode #114] – Cyber and Climate Risks

What does cybersecurity on the grid mean, and what does it have to do with energy transition and climate change?
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Jan 22, 2020 • 28min

[Episode #113] – Coal Plant Self-Scheduling

Fully-regulated utilities can choose to operate their plants at a loss when regulators give them a way to pass those losses onto their customers.
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Jan 8, 2020 • 26min

[Episode #112] – Climate Science Part 11 – Climate Confusion

How likely are the various scenarios for global warming, what do they mean, and where is the current trajectory for climate change likely to take us?
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Dec 25, 2019 • 26min

[Episode #111] – No Coal in our Christmas Stockings

Transitioning to renewables, and moving heating and transportation to the power grid, will save everyone money while reducing emissions.
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Dec 11, 2019 • 21min

[Episode #110] – Death Toll for Petrol

The transition to electric vehicles powered by renewables is all but guaranteed by the massive energetic advantage they have over conventional oil-burning vehicles.
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Nov 27, 2019 • 28min

[Episode #109] – Big Oil’s Climate Denial Machine

Exxon was doing some of the best research on climate change 40 years ago. Why did they then commit to a global climate disinformation campaign?
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Nov 13, 2019 • 34min

[Episode #108] – Will Energy Transition Be Rapid or Gradual?

Fossil fuel incumbents think energy transition will be gradual, while the disruptors think it will be rapid. What can we learn from these contrasting narratives?
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Oct 30, 2019 • 31min

[Episode #107] – Macro-Energy Systems

Energy transition is complex, and understanding it requires expertise in multiple disciplines, so a group of Stanford researchers proposes to study it that way.
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Oct 16, 2019 • 30min

[Episode #106] – Transition in South Africa

South Africa could be one of the world’s greatest success stories in energy transition if it can shed its apartheid-era legacy of coal dependency.

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