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every year anyone Shayle Kann 19Anne-Sophie Corbeau 10Jesse Jenkins 7Nat Bullard 6James McGinnis 6Rebecca Dell 4Dr. Daniel Yergin 4Rafi Garabedian 3Julio Friedmann 3Jenny Chase 3
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How China is reshaping the global auto market
- ▶ 0:20 Shayle Kann This year, it's tracking somewhere around twelve million, more than Japan or Germany ever shipped at their peaks.
- ▶ 16:18 Michael Dunne And the Germans are not alone.
- ▶ 20:32 Michael Dunne Not only inside China, but we're seeing the Chinese autonomous vehicle makers move into the Middle East, and in the U.K. and Germany now, moving quicker to market than their U.S. counterparts, and this is where we're at risk.
Surprising trends in global electricity generation
- ▶ 32:46 Nick Fulgham But for a country like Germany, Spain, some provinces in China that have high solar capacity and high solar penetration, California, quite a few systems, Australia is also one,
Scaling America's domestic solar supply chain
- ▶ 5:37 Shayle Kann So when I started with looking at solar way back in the day, a couple few years before you did, it was Germany, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:44 Scott Moskowitz Valker mostly gets their semi-grade, or solar-grade polysilicon from Germany. 2 times in the scene
Digging deep for super hot geothermal
- ▶ 14:04 Carlos Araque Like cola in Russia, uh, the KTB in Germany, they're, they're cold.
Volts crossover: Six big energy questions
- ▶ 1:02:19 Shayle Kann I need to learn more about Germany. 2 times in the scene
The rise of permissionless DERs
- ▶ 3:00 Shayle Kann It's a broader category that includes things like balcony solar, which is really popular in Germany.
- ▶ 7:41 Shayle Kann Okay, so there, there's some stuff that's, like, not so relevant in the U.S. currently, but, like, balcony solar, this thing that is pretty big in Germany, not so much here, you know,
- ▶ 14:07 James McGinnis That's what we saw, sort of, why it got adopted so quickly in Germany.
- ▶ 21:08 James McGinnis And for, for them, it's extremely economical, and really is, that's just opening up a TAM that no one's really, I know people do multifamily installs, but, like, the idea of just a tenant buying one of these and having access now is, is… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:59 James McGinnis It is about affordability, and if we can learn from Germany, the more that we see bills go up in the U.S., regardless of what the rules out there are, people are gonna go on Amazon, they're gonna start buying the stuff, they're gonna start…
- ▶ 30:22 James McGinnis Again, if you look to Germany, like, doing a gigawatt in a handful of years in what is a much smaller, you know, country than, than ours, it wouldn't shock me to see tens of gigawatts deployed in the next five to 10 years in the US, um,…
- ▶ 36:16 Shayle Kann You've made repeatedly the point that it is well appreciated in Germany.
More 2026 trends: Solar costs, oil oversupply, and the startup slump
- ▶ 13:59 Nat Bullard Yeah, you were, congratulations at costing thrice what it costs in Australia or Germany, neither of which are particularly low-cost markets for anything.
Driving down the cost of green hydrogen
- ▶ 29:28 Rafi Garabedian Germany's very close. 3 times in the scene
GM's big new battery tech push
- ▶ 27:11 Kurt Kelty Now, if you look at another example, Northvolt in Germany, how they, they tried to do it independently, and we, we all see what, what happened in that case.
How AI is solving real utility challenges [partner content]
- ▶ 11:23 Laurent Bueneau And actually, AI has been used by a customer like Uniper, which is one of the leading, uh, multinational energy company, uh, based in, in, in Germany.
More 2025 trends: DeepSeek, plug-in hybrids, and curtailment
- ▶ 33:44 Nat Bullard It's more than, uh, than Germany exports. 2 times in the scene
Lithium’s wild ride
- ▶ 6:13 Ernest Scheyder Germany or Arkansas or other places that have large brine deposits, but have lots of precipitation.
- ▶ 33:07 Ernest Scheyder So just because it works in Arkansas doesn't mean it's going to work in Chile or western China or parts of Germany.
What went wrong at Northvolt?
How cyber attacks could threaten the energy transition [partner content]
- ▶ 16:44 Bilal Khashid You know, Uniper is a leading international energy company, um, based out of Germany.
The state of connected DERs [partner content]
- ▶ 7:29 Charlotte Johnson Places where there's a real issue, and there's a real issue today that can't be solved, sometimes direct control of assets by networks is required, and we're seeing that in Germany, we see it in Australia, we see it in Norway, both on the…
- ▶ 16:02 Charlotte Johnson The same in Germany, wind is in the north, demand is in the south.
Pathways to decarbonizing steel
- ▶ 39:01 Rebecca Dell Cleveland Cliffs, and then other kind of, like, big steel-producing geographies include Japan, South Korea, and, uh, the European Union, especially Germany. 2 times in the scene
Can chip efficiency slow AI's energy demand?
- ▶ 41:03 Christian Belady I had this little wake-up call in when I was reading a National Geographic article where it showed the number of insects that were captured in a two-week period in Germany back in the seventies or something, or eighties.
Going deep on next-gen geothermal
- ▶ 21:38 Dr. Roland Horne So the system, they're drawing a closed loop system, sort of the first commercial pilot or whatever in Germany right now, which they're
Demystifying the Chinese EV market
- ▶ 35:06 TP Huang (TP Wang) It will be very interesting to see over the next few years how countries will be affected by this, because if you think about Japan and Germany, auto industry is such a huge part of their economy.
Drew Baglino on Tesla’s Master Plan
- ▶ 50:52 Drew Baglino I mean, I saw that within Tesla, not even on lithium refineries, just looking at factories, just like getting them built in China versus getting them built in Germany, um, uh, or the United States.
The news quiz episode!
- ▶ 35:23 Stephen Lacey In Germany, vandals went around sticking ground, ground, uh, chicken or ground pork into the charging ports. 2 times in the scene
CO2 utilization
- ▶ 23:59 unnamed speaker It's not like Germany does it and China doesn't, like all nations have to do this.
- ▶ 45:15 Julio Friedmann They're putting CO₂ on boats and shipping it down the Rhine, and the reason why is because they can't get a pipeline through Germany. 2 times in the scene
More 2024 trends: ESG, carbon certifications, curtailment, and AI
- ▶ 16:05 Nat Bullard And the instantaneous year-on-year or year-on-year gap up in peak demand in China from the thermal fleet was the size of Germany's peak capacity.
What’s really happening in the U.S. EV market?
- ▶ 9:34 Corey Cantor But if you look at Europe, you're seeing more in that 25% to 30% for UK, Germany, France, the major markets in Europe.
EV charging on both sides of the pond
- ▶ 6:37 Nick Woolley If you go to somewhere like Germany, there are literally hundreds of different charging networks you can plug into, and that's created, ah, models like roaming that span above all of those, um, ah, charging networks.
- ▶ 7:13 Shayle Kann I mean, you mentioned roaming, so like, what is the experience like as an EV owner if you're trying to charge outside the home in Germany?
The Volts crossover episode
- ▶ 8:11 Shayle Kann And then what really kickstarted the solar market was demand in Germany first because of their feed-in tariff. 2 times in the scene
The early days of transoceanic hydrogen transport
- ▶ 7:39 Anne-Sophie Corbeau Among these countries in Europe, there is in particular Germany, who really wants to import hydrogen, and they have already a certain number of projects, etc. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:18 Anne-Sophie Corbeau Or you are doing something which has been proposed by the Twin Energy Solution project in Germany from Marco Alvera.
- ▶ 35:11 Anne-Sophie Corbeau Uh, Hydrogen by pipeline from Norway, and there is actually a project which is moving forward uh, between Germany and Norway, which is sponsored by RWE and Equinor, so that's one project. 3 times in the scene
Building out a U.S. solar supply chain
- ▶ 31:29 Shayle Kann I think that's one of the things that, that also is sort of underappreciated about, like, how solar has developed, um, because, you know, in the, in the first wave, right, there was all this solar manufacturing in Germany and places like…
Keeping copper from limiting the energy transition
- ▶ 19:24 Cristobal Undurraga And then Germany, Japan, and developed nations consume roughly a million tons per year.
Four ways to store sunlight
- ▶ 51:05 Andy Lubershane In Europe, they're actually even more clustered in, sort of, Central Europe and Germany.
How to build more hydropower
- ▶ 43:50 Gia Schneider Um, there's a very rigorous study that was just completed in Germany and Austria that, um, just shedding a little bit more light on the fact that a lot of stuff gets through screens that you might not think.
More 2023 trends: EVs, onshoring, and the three ages of decarbonization
- ▶ 25:18 Nat Bullard Like, could you do this at the scale of Germany?
- ▶ 39:16 Nat Bullard This is starting, in my case here, not to go too far back in time, with the German and then the Spanish feed-in tariffs, so starting in 2004.
Natural gas whiplash
- ▶ 19:51 Anne-Sophie Corbeau You know, it was the pipeline from Russia to Germany, which was about to be commissioned. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:13 Anne-Sophie Corbeau So the reduction in nuclear generation is because Germany has decommissioned three nuclear power plants at the end of 2021, and because France has a lot of issues with its nuclear power plants.
Advance market commitments to decarbonize heavy industry
- ▶ 14:53 Varun Sivaram India and the United Kingdom and Germany, et cetera, and Sweden.
Unpopular solar opinions, 2022 edition
- ▶ 7:04 Jenny Chase And for example, in Germany, residential solar installers are booked out till well into next year because they
- ▶ 11:40 Shayle Kann You mentioned Germany residential installers. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:39 Jenny Chase So I've been, I've been reading a bunch of UK proposals for my parents and others, and, um, also a few German ones, and, like, frankly, I think the salespeople are making it up.
- ▶ 42:54 Jenny Chase But when you, when I go through the quarterly process of talking to all my analysts around the world, they cannot imagine the sort of transformative change that has happened in, say, Hawaii, or California, or even Germany, where you've got…
Unleashing the magic of heat pumps
- ▶ 23:36 Shayle Kann I can't remember whether this is Germany or all of
What’s holding up hydrogen in Europe?
- ▶ 28:00 Gnevamir Fleece Then we have liquid organic hydrogen carriers that, um, that, that are being proposed from, for hydrogen imports from Sweden into Germany or in Southeast Asia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:48 Shayle Kann And you had lots of, and it probably even more painful in Europe because there were much more longstanding, important, particularly German solar companies that basically all went bust as China took over that market.
Columbia Energy Exchange: Will Putin’s Energy Strategy Backfire?
- ▶ 17:35 Dr. Daniel Yergin Nobody could have imagined this scenario as it is right now, and the kind of repercussions that Europe just was not prepared at all to deal with this, and, uh, you know, Germany was particularly unprepared.
- ▶ 22:04 Jason Bordoff Coming back to that point about opening up the North Sea, of course, many countries in Europe, Germany, building new LNG import facilities, even in the U.S., the president saying, I want, I want to see more production, more refining in the…
- ▶ 32:03 Dr. Daniel Yergin I mean, Germany should have had some LNG report, importing stations in, in place, but it would have cost money, and so therefore, you know, because we've had a world economy that's largely just run on the principle of economic efficiency,…
- ▶ 44:00 Dr. Daniel Yergin And yet there's the chair, the chancellor of Germany flying to Senegal saying, oh, by the way, can you build some LNG for us?
- ▶ 52:00 Dr. Daniel Yergin You know, I sort of, you know, the pipelines that were critical for World War II in terms of building, getting oil from the Gulf Coast to the East Coast to avoid being, tankers being sunk by German U-boats were built in a year.
Averting water wars as we decarbonize
- ▶ 11:22 Dr. Michael Webber Well, it seems like we have drought everywhere, just everywhere, but right now in Germany and with the Rhine, and also in China, we have rivers so low that barges either can't carry a full load of coal, or they can't carry coal at all. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:23 Dr. Michael Webber We improve the productivity, the throughput, the efficiency, and the ability to move energy from where you produce it, maybe in West Texas, to where you need it, say, France and Germany, if they're trying to get off Russian gas, for…
From biowaste to “biogold”
- ▶ 18:45 Julio Friedmann They do that today in Germany.
Can Europe quit Russian fossil fuel by next winter?
- ▶ 6:39 Jesse Jenkins Uh, with the plan, with the completion and planned, um, startup of the Nord Stream II pipeline, which is an undersea, uh, pipeline that was going to bring additional gas, uh, from Russia into Germany that was scheduled to go online this… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:36 Jesse Jenkins And I think, you know, I don't have these stats right in front of me right now, but I think, you know, where the United States was paying, you know, four dollars a million British thermal units or MMBTU for gas here in the U.S., at the…
- ▶ 27:11 Jesse Jenkins It's, you know, German purchases of natural gas and oil leading to, you know, dollars to the Kremlin that are, you know, quite literally being used to pay for bombs that are killing civilians in Ukraine.
- ▶ 37:24 Jesse Jenkins So far, Germany, who has three reactors that they are about to close this year, has not decided to do that, although it came up as a topic of national conversation, at least, which was, you know, remarkable in and of itself that they were…
Will advanced reactors solve nuclear's problems?
- ▶ 3:30 Lara Pierpoint Meanwhile, safety, waste and security concerns are derailing formerly stalwart nuclear industries in Japan and Germany.
- ▶ 9:20 Jake DeWitt Austria has made it clear they, they aren't interested in their nuclear plants.
The future of the home solar market
- ▶ 12:04 Shayle Kann One of the things that's always been a knock on the US residential solar market, particularly relative to other markets like Germany, that we've actually still never solved amazingly is sort of customer acquisition costs are so much higher… 2 times in the scene
The many pathways to decarbonizing chemicals
- ▶ 1:02:23 Rebecca Dell So, you know, Germany, people often point to as like the gold standard of extended producer responsibility for, uh, disposable packaging. 2 times in the scene
A bumpy ride toward decarbonizing aviation
- ▶ 1:45 Shayle Kann If it were a country, its emissions would rank around sixth in the world, somewhere between Japan and Germany.
- ▶ 4:29 Dan Rutherford So a little bit larger than Germany, somewhat smaller than Japan.
- ▶ 14:54 Dan Rutherford We just, uh, actually there was a, a plant that opened up in Germany, uh, recently, uh, that is now producing e-fuels for the first time.