Best XE Network Podcasts (2025)

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[Episode #258] – Alaska’s Railbelt Utilities 21:26

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Alaska is an energy superpower with more untapped renewable resources than most countries. Yet its largest population, in the Anchorage area, faces a real risk of blackouts beginning in 2027 due to declining gas supply from the nearby Cook Inlet gas field, which is likely to force this historical major supplier of oil and gas to import LNG to keep …

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[Episode #257] – Remote Microgrids in Alaska 21:31

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Most people probably think of a “microgrid” as a campus or neighborhood that can “island” itself and run independently when needed, but otherwise stays connected to the main grid most of the time. But in Alaska’s remote communities that aren’t even accessible by road, residents depend on microgrids for their very survival in extreme conditions. For…

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[Episode #256] – Electric Farming in New Zealand 1:26:07

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In October 2024, Chris visited the world’s first all-electric farm while traveling across New Zealand. In today’s episode, we speak with the farm’s owner and founder, Mike Casey. In addition to operating the farm, Mike is CEO of Rewiring Aotearoa, a sister organization to Rewiring America. Rewiring Aotearoa works to advance New Zealand’s energy tra…

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[Episode #255] – Dwellings in Alaska 23:38

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In the summer of 2025, Chris traveled to Alaska to explore the state’s unique energy transition story by interviewing some of its energy experts. Like every place, Alaska has a unique set of challenges and opportunities in the energy transition, and can offer insights drawn from its experience to the rest of the world. Alaska’s extreme conditions a…

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[Episode #254] – Global Electricity Review 2025 27:19

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This episode cuts through the noise around energy transition progress with hard data from one of the year’s most important reports. Despite claims from both “fossil gradualists” who would like to see the energy transition fail, and “net-zero puritans” who deny that the energy transition is happening at all because emissions are still rising, the tr…

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[Episode #253] – Bioenergy Illusions 21:23

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Various biofuels such as ethanol, biodiesel, sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), and wood for power plants are labeled as renewable and carbon-neutral. But are they really? If a farmer converts food-producing land to grow corn for ethanol, does that acre actually reduce carbon emissions? When trees are cut down to fire power plants, can we have confi…

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[Episode #252] – Steelmaking in the Mid-Transition 23:25

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On April 12, the British government took control of British Steel under an emergency authorization in order to prevent its last blast furnace from shutting down. Blast furnaces produce primary steel from iron ore and account for about 93% of global primary iron production, but they also generate large amounts of CO2. Alternative, low-carbon technol…

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[Episode #251] – South Australia on Point 16:10

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This episode is the final part in our miniseries about Australia’s energy transition. In late 2024, Chris traveled to Australia and recorded interviews with a wide range of experts who are intimately involved in the energy transition there. We featured some of them in the earlier episodes of this miniseries, namely, Episodes #234, #235, #246, #247,…

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[Episode #250] – Russia Revisited 21:09

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Three years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the resulting Western sanctions, the country remains an oil and gas powerhouse. Despite falling from the world’s second-largest to third-largest global oil producer and seeing its export rankings decline, Russia continues to delay the global energy transition as a major fossil fuel supplier and geo…

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[Episode #249] – Solar Innovation in Australia 16:16

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This episode continues our miniseries on Australia’s energy transition. In late 2024, Chris traveled to Australia and recorded interviews with a wide range of experts who are intimately involved in the energy transition there. Previous episodes in this miniseries are Episode #234, Episode #235, Episode #246, and Episode #247. In this episode, we fe…

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[Episode #248] – The Future of Geothermal 16:48

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What will it take to make next-generation geothermal energy economically competitive and commercially available all over the world?By XE Network

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[Episode #247] – Energy Innovations in Australia 14:33

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Numerous energy innovations in Australia help to integrate DERs, VPPs, microgrids, advanced solar and grid technologies, efficient buildings, and more.By XE Network

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[Episode #246] – Meeting Australia’s 2030 Target 16:12

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How is the Australian government is working with the grid power sector to plan and execute its transition away from fossil fuels and toward renewables?By XE Network

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[Episode #245] – Evolving the UK Energy System Part 3 24:09

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How is Great Britain developing a coordinated plan to evolve all of its energy networks toward complete decarbonization?By XE Network

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[Episode #244] – Rethinking Industrial Strategy 19:12

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What makes for good, effective, and enduring green industrial policy?By XE Network

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[Episode #243] – Decarbonizing Heating 17:40

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Heat pumps are a low-cost way to decarbonize space heating. Dr. Richard Lowes explains how to design policies to encourage the adoption of heat pumps.By XE Network

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[Episode #242] – IEA Outlook 2025 20:40

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What are the implications of the IEA’s view that world demand for all fossil fuels will peak and begin a slow decline within the next five years?By XE Network

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[Episode #241] – Evolving the UK Energy System Part 2 18:35

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In this second part of a miniseries on how the UK is evolving its energy system, we discuss innovations on the electricity grid.By XE Network

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[Episode #240] – Evolving the UK Energy System Part 1 22:19

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In this first part of a miniseries on how the UK is evolving its energy system, we discuss its world-leading efforts to meet its decarbonization goals.By XE Network

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[Episode #239] – Making Sense of Chaos 16:27

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Why have most economic models consistently underestimated the actual speed of the energy transition?By XE Network

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[Episode #238] – Transition in Europe 2024 24:43

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Europe’s energy transition is still gathering momentum and moving ahead according to European energy expert Jan Rosenow.By XE Network

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[Episode #237] – Why Nuclear? 22:47

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Why do governments continue to push nuclear power when it is the most expensive, risky, and slow way to decarbonize the power grid?By XE Network

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[Episode #236] – Zero Carbon Industry 18:14

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What are the specific industrial sectors and processes that produce greenhouse gas emissions, and how can we decarbonize them?By XE Network

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[Episode #235] – China, India and Australia 2024 Update 21:20

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Is China relying on coal to power its growth, or renewables? Are their emissions on track to increase, decrease, or go flat? We review the facts!By XE Network

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[Episode #234] – Transition in Australia 2024 20:45

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Chris travels to Australia and interviews Giles Parkinson, a longtime journalist and observer of the energy transition Down Under.By XE Network