Energi Talks
Markham Hislop
Journalist Markham Hislop interviews leading energy experts from around the world about the energy transition and climate change.
Episodes
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Nov 20, 2024 • 38min
Solar is bigger than Donald Trump
Markham interviews Andries Wantenaar, Solar Analyst at Rethink Technology Research.
Nov 20, 2024 • 54min
Texas' power grid a lot like Alberta's (not in a good way)
Markham interviews Ed Hirs, energy economist with the University of Houston.
Nov 12, 2024 • 46min
Alberta electricity retailer defends de-regulation
Markham interviews Darren Chu, managing director of UTILITYNet, about his recent op-ed defending Alberta’s deregulated system, “Power in the Public Interest: Re-regulation and increased public ownership in Alberta’s electricity sector.”
Nov 12, 2024 • 38min
Trump and American renewables...is there a small silver lining?
Markham interviews Andries Wantenaar, Solar Analyst at Rethink Technology Research.
Nov 9, 2024 • 43min
An insider's view of China's EV industry
Markham interviews Alysha Webb, long-time freelance automotive journalist who pens the ChinaEV blog.
Nov 9, 2024 • 25min
Will Trump roll back Biden’s clean energy industrial policies?
Markham interviews Rachel Doran, VP of policy and strategy for Clean Energy Canada.
Nov 9, 2024 • 27min
Re-regulate the Alberta power grid? Yes, says the Alberta Federation of Labour
Markham interviews Gil McGowan, president of the Alberta Federation of Labour, about the AFL's new report, Power in the Public Interest: Re-regulation and increased public ownership in Alberta’s electricity sector.
Nov 9, 2024 • 27min
The role of gas in a renewables-heavy power grid
Markham interviews UK-based energy journalist Seb Kennedy, who writes the newsletter Energy Flux and penned an article about the German grid titled “Value over volume: Gas-fired power demand is crashing, but its system value is soaring.”
Nov 7, 2024 • 34min
BC LNG economics just don't work
Markham interviews Janetta McKenzie, Pembina’s Oil and Gas Program Manager; Tom Green, Senior Climate Policy Adviser, David Suzuki Foundation; and Maeve O’Connor, Analyst, Oil, Gas and Mining, Carbon Tracker, about the new report Turning Tides: The economic risks of B.C.’s LNG expansion in a changing energy market.
Nov 6, 2024 • 38min
Why won't Canada support GLIP's brilliant electric motor technology?
Markham interviews David Joseph, CEO of GLIP Generation Corporation, based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
