The Energy Transition Show with Chris Nelder

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[Episode #3] – Limits on the Grid – Part 2 Oct 07, 2015

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How energy markets need to change to level the playing field for renewables, how renewables should be valued, and whether wind and solar must "eat their own lunch" by virtue of having a free marginal cost, or whether markets can be adjusted to prevent that. And in the news segment: Shell gives up on the Arctic; the new premier of Alberta does an about-face on fossil fuels; and solar is even cheaper than most energy analysts think (because the data is old).

[Episode #2] – Limits on the Grid – Part 1 Sep 30, 2015

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What the modeling work of our national renewable energy lab tells us about how far renewables can go on the grid under various scenarios, and their real technical limits.

[Episode #0] – The Launch Sep 23, 2015

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The launch episode of The Energy Transition Show, originally released on the Extraenvironmentalist podcast feed on 24 September 2015. Features the conversation with Chris Nelder from Extraenvironmentalist #89 on how global macro trends were influencing the ongoing process of energy transition.

[Episode #1] – The Real War on Coal Sep 23, 2015

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How the real war on coal is about economics, geology, and little skirmishes in local courts, not a national or presidential campaign; and the tragic failing of politics to address the phasing-out of coal that has been going on in the US for many years. And in the news segment: More calls to kill the UK's planned Hinkley Point C nuclear plant; shale drillers' dirty little debt secret; the latest in the battle over the US oil export ban; and what the Fed's inaction says about energy transition.