

Energi Talks
Markham Hislop
Journalist Markham Hislop interviews leading energy experts from around the world about the energy transition and climate change.
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Aug 2, 2024 • 41min
Canada's high-GHG chemical industries risk becoming uncompetitive
Markham interviews Oliver Sheldrick of Clean Energy Canada about his report, Catalyzing Change: Why Canada Needs a Roadmap to Net-zero Chemistry.

Aug 1, 2024 • 29min
Robo-taxis, autonomous freight trucks not far off
Markham interviews Dr. James Jeffs of UK-based IDTechX about his new report, “Autonomous Trucks 2024-2044: Technologies, Trends, Forecasts.”

Aug 1, 2024 • 32min
After Jasper: How AI can help reduce wildfires
Markham interviews Bryan Spear, the CEO of Technosylva, whose company works with fire agencies and some of America’s biggest utilities to better monitor and forecast weather and wildfire risk scenarios.

Aug 1, 2024 • 41min
Nuclear is not the future
Markham interviews Dr. M.V. Ramana, the Simons Chair in Global Disarmament and Human Security at the school of public policy and global affairs at UBC about his new book, “Nuclear is Not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change.”

Jul 29, 2024 • 50min
Peak battery mineral mining in 10 years
Markham interviews Daan Walter of the Rocky Mountain Institute about a new report, The Battery Mineral Loop, which describes a strategy to address the rising demand for battery minerals.

Jul 23, 2024 • 27min
New hope for US power grid expansion as bill lands in Senate
Markham interviews Rob Gramlich of Grid Strategies in Washington, DC.

Jul 22, 2024 • 58min
What if all the cars in the world are made in China? With Michael Dunne
Markham interviews Michael Dunne, automotive analyst and writer of the Dunne Insights Newsletter, and the main topic of the interview is the meteoric rise of China’s electric vehicle industry.

Jul 16, 2024 • 27min
Bill Gates-backed thermal battery promises to boost wind, solar adoption
Markham interviews Arvin Ganesan, CEO of US firm Fourth Power, which makes a utility-scale thermal battery technology that provides short- and long-duration energy storage for intermittent renewables.

Jul 2, 2024 • 37min
Can DERs like solar, batteries save the grid?
Markham 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.

Jul 2, 2024 • 35min
Importance of battery storage depends upon the power grid
Markham interviews Dr. Tilo Buehler, global product manager for Hitachi Energy's Grid Edge Solutions.