The 3 Best The Energy Gang Podcast Episodes
1) Reckoning With Utilities’ Dirty Past
We’re doing a free live show from our homes! Sign up here to join us on Wednesday April 22nd. You can watch a behind-the-scenes recording with The Energy Gang and The Interchange. This week: The many...Show More
2) Parsing the Green New Deal
The Green New Deal plan is out, and we’re suddenly having a national conversation about climate change again. It’s also injecting some early drama into the presidential primaries. This week, we’re di...Show More
3) Episode 200: We Reflect on the Biggest Changes in Energy
When we first hit the record button four years ago, the energy landscape looked very different. Oil prices were above $90 per barrel. Utilities were only just starting to take distributed resources se...Show More
4) Electric vehicles create problems for the grid. Could they also help solve them? The plan to turn EVs into reliable grid infrastructure
As we head into 2026, electricity grids aren’t just under strain; they are facing transformational change because of the shifts in the ways that we work, entertain ourselves, and get around. EVs are o...Show More
5) Energy Gang’s year in review: the highs, the lows, the people and the technologies of 2025
It’s the final Energy Gang of the year, and host Ed Crooks is joined by regulars Amy Myers Jaffe, Director of NYU’s Energy, Climate Justice and Sustainability Lab, Shanu Mathew, a portfolio investor a...Show More
Energy Gang’s year in review: the highs, the lows, the people and the technologies of 2025
1:01:09 | Dec 18th, 2025
6) California’s grid under pressure: affordability, AI, and the future of electricity markets
California is often described as the state where you can see the future of the US, and of the world. That has certainly been true in terms of some of the problems faced by the electricity grid. Califo...Show More
7) What happened at COP 30? The key points on cutting emissions, adapting to a warming world, and raising the finance to pay for it
The COP30 climate talks in Belem wrapped up over the weekend, and reactions to the outcome were sharply divided. Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, said “climate cooperation is still ali...Show More
8) What happened in COP30’s first week? Support for energy efficiency and a status report on methane show which climate initiatives are still making progress
Negotiations in the COP 30 climate talks are continuing in Belem, Brazil. The headlines are focusing on the divisions between countries that are shaping this year’s climate talks. But despite the doom...Show More
9) The COP30 climate talks are under way In Brazil. What is the point of the conference?
COP30, which began this week in Belém, Brazil, marks a decade since the Paris Agreement was adopted at COP21 in 2015. It’s being billed as the “implementation COP”: instead of grand new announcements ...Show More
The COP30 climate talks are under way In Brazil. What is the point of the conference?
48:13 | Nov 13th, 2025
10) How are businesses rethinking energy and sustainability? COP30 starts in Belem as climate action falters
COP30, now getting under way in Belem, Brazil, has been billed as “the implementation COP”, which means a focus on governments taking real steps to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. We will be...Show More