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The microbial solution to our massive copper shortfall
- ▶ 6:36 Liz Dennett That's not counting places where the grid needs to be modernized, like Alaska, where I grew up, or even in Houston, Texas, where I lived, and electrification of developing nations, whereas you move from small-scale microgrids or not having…
Form Energy's manufacturing breakthrough
- ▶ 12:11 Mateo Jaramillo So of course, famously winter storm URI in Texas in 2001, and, you know, four days of black, so 21, I should say, and, and, you know, four days of blackout that,
Sage Geosystems' bet on underground energy storage
- ▶ 12:44 Cindy Taff They have their, their linear process, and so it's just very slow, and the, the thing is, I, I'm told, and I know it's true, that in Texas, on the ERCOT grid, the process is actually faster than it is on other, um, you know, grids around…
- ▶ 31:15 Cindy Taff These wells, and, and so that's why in Texas there is no conventional geothermal.
The thermal battery transforming cold storage for India’s dairy farmers
This VC wants climate tech to play hardball in Washington
- ▶ 44:46 Shomik Dutta I think just to decarbonize the Texas grid, a Stanford study recently found that you're gonna need 13.4 teralot hours of batteries 2 times in the scene
The sunk cost dilemma
- ▶ 0:48 Lara Pierpoint For years, Eight Rivers had been planning Project Cormorant, a massive, low-carbon ammonia production facility in Port Arthur, Texas. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:41 Lara Pierpoint They finished building a demonstration plant in Texas to prove the Alan Fet-Fet cycle.
- ▶ 19:17 Lara Pierpoint Knocked you off your chair in the context of the permitting process and surprised you, especially given that you're in Texas, right, where there's a relatively favorable regulatory environment for infrastructure.
The rogue idea that saved a hydrogen startup
- ▶ 33:36 Zach Jones So we've got prospective opportunities in Texas, um, in the Midwest, the East Coast.
Building Fervo's geothermal giant
- ▶ 35:17 Lara Pierpoint What are, how are you all interacting with the Texas ecosystem?
Terawatt Infrastructure’s billion-dollar strategy
- ▶ 6:49 Lara Pierpoint It marks the beginning of what Terawatt envisions as a network of charging stations all along the I-Ten corridor, all the way from California to Texas. 2 times in the scene
Nextracker's blueprint for 100 gigawatts of solar trackers
- ▶ 5:20 Dan Shugar He had just had a major hail event happen on one of his projects in Texas.
- ▶ 17:17 Dan Shugar I mentioned the JM Steel facility in Sinton, Texas.
Pioneering one of the first IRA tax credit transfers
- ▶ 25:40 Chris Taylor Um, it's a much bigger project, 220 megawatts, and on a much bigger site, it's Texas, everything's bigger in Texas, um, but we're in the middle of, and, and that's been an interesting one. 4 times in the scene
A complex path for building heat batteries
- ▶ 30:51 John O'Donnell Right now, we are building out the execution organization to deliver these projects in Texas, and Kentucky, and Denmark, and Germany, and Siberia, and Southeast Asia, and California, and growing that team, and also completing the…
Frontier Forum: How rates will make or break the energy transition
- ▶ 13:03 Ahmad Farooqi You're seeing companies like Octopus Energy, like Ovu, like Kavula.
Energy is now the ‘primary bottleneck’ for AI
- ▶ 8:46 Michelle Solomon Their plans also kind of arbitrarily cap the amount of battery storage that can be deployed, which, you know, when places like California and Texas are deploying five or more gigawatts a year, you can see that that's not really an…
The news quiz episode!
- ▶ 35:34 Stephen Lacey In this job, you could theoretically work from anywhere in the world, but few locations you're more likely to work are Texas, Iceland, and Zurich. 2 times in the scene
Political Climate: Is the IRA under political threat?
- ▶ 3:48 Julia Piper She also held positions at the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, and was a policy advisor to Texas Governor Rick Perry during his presidential run.
- ▶ 11:27 Emily Domenech Doesn't surprise me at all that we're seeing American developers want to build in Texas and Georgia and other places that have friendly business environments.
The Latitude: Could government rules hinder green hydrogen?
- ▶ 1:29 Maeve Allsup I talked to the head of ambient fuels who had a massive project planned at the port of Corpus Christi in Texas.
- ▶ 15:29 Lisa Martine Jenkins Ambient's current situation in Texas suggests that planned green hydrogen projects targeting the refinement sector may be particularly hard hit by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .… 2 times in the scene
A view of the $1.8 trillion clean energy economy
- ▶ 2:32 Stephen Lacey She's out in Austin, Texas. 3 times in the scene
Pricing and tech trends shaping the global battery storage market
- ▶ 16:47 Yayoi Sekine Um, and then Texas, which is in itself quite distinct to, to those two other regions, right?
US power demand is set to boom. How will we meet it?
- ▶ 28:11 Shalini Ramanathan Could, I mean, I do charge it overnight with, you know, Texas wind power, but it's not like I was limited to doing that, um, in a way that, um, you know, that, uh, affected the, it's a, an EV's utility.
The storylines of the energy transition in 2023
- ▶ 29:29 Maria Gallucci In Brownsville, Texas, it's one of only a few vessels that can actually do that work of carrying the offshore turbines out to sites.
LNG exports: America’s hidden ‘climate bomb’
- ▶ 8:40 Jeremy Symons You know, working on climate and energy for many years, but I didn't really understand the scale of this until I actually went down to the Gulf and visited with communities in Texas and Louisiana who have been leading this fight for years,…
- ▶ 23:24 Bill McKibben I did a decade ago, uh, and one reason is that there is really great work going on between the local groups down in Louisiana and Texas, and now the national and international environmental movement, and people are understanding that how…
How to triple renewables by 2030
- ▶ 35:22 Shalini Ramanathan Um, so, you know, in, in, when you guys know about, you know, the Texas grid
- ▶ 54:06 Stephen Lacey Of course, going back to politics, we're just riding this carousel of outrage all the time, and every, every time we go around, there's some new thing to get mad at, mad about, and point at, and this plays out continually with clean energy…
The future of the ‘broken’ grid [partner content]
- ▶ 16:52 Sheldon Kimber Most of the constraints going, you know, West to East in Texas to take renewables to the load pockets are, you know, along this pretty stark line called the, you know, generalized transmission constraint in Texas. 2 times in the scene
Inflation plagues clean energy. How bad is it?
- ▶ 26:39 Michael Boyle You can look at what renewables are doing in Texas, which is arguably the most
Why electric cars are driving the auto strikes
- ▶ 29:09 Stephen Lacey And last week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis traveled to Texas to give a big speech on energy, and he was flanked by oil rigs.
America’s historic climate law, one year on
- ▶ 39:56 Julian Spector Like, real, like, money, money-making Texas, uh, entrepreneurial types, and they, they are developing carbon capture projects to make money on them.
A surprise benefit of rooftop solar in New England
- ▶ 4:53 Stephen Lacey First, we'll take a look at what's changed in New England, and then we'll turn our attention to Texas, where renewables have been critical for managing the grid during a sweltering summer that has brought record-breaking power demand.
- ▶ 14:14 Stephen Lacey Well, let's turn to Texas now, a state that has dealt with its own reliability challenges both in the winter and in the summer, and here we are in the middle of summer. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:36 Stephen Lacey So you see this in Texas as well. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:46 Stephen Lacey I mean, we're talking about New England and Texas, which have very different experiences, but they do show how markets can change with even a modest amount of renewable energy, and about the risks involved under a climate-insecure future. 3 times in the scene
A new narrative series on the origins of Europe's energy crisis
- ▶ 0:22 Stephen Lacey Texas has been baking for weeks and has become one of the hottest places on Earth.
Will poor data hold back the potential of AI on the grid?
- ▶ 34:33 Titian Palazzi I mean, even right now in Texas, like, we're seeing peak loads.
How AI is being used in energy, right now
- ▶ 23:39 Priya Donti We are dealing with a lack of, you know, planning for these things as we saw in Texas, for example.
Why Texas Republicans are trying to crush wind and solar
- ▶ 2:03 Stephen Lacey Today he's a business columnist for the Houston Chronicle, covering a state that's sort of like its own country inside the U.S. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:46 Stephen Lacey Bush signed a law that promoted thousands of megawatts of wind in Texas, and then the Republican Governor after George W. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:12 Stephen Lacey And all forms of generation in Texas were debilitated, but it was largely gas infrastructure, the wells, pipelines, power plants that failed. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:01 Chris Tomlinson And says that if you want to build something within the, within the state of Texas, you basically have to go through an extremely onerous and expensive permitting process that would allow anyone living within 50 miles to effectively block… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:18 Chris Tomlinson And it's about a million dollars a mile to run a transmission line in Texas. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:24 Chris Tomlinson Well, you know, the Texas legislature has very little concern for Texas public opinion. 5 times in the scene
EVs are a catalyst for broader electrification [partner content]
- ▶ 10:01 Annette Clayton Because of climate events and Texas freezes and those kinds of things, and then we have this increasing demand on an aging grid infrastructure that's, that's trying to decarbonize from sources like coal.
Live: Is advanced nuclear ready for liftoff?
- ▶ 40:46 Jigar Shah So when I was at Sarah Week, I talked to, like, ExxonMobil, I talked to Dow, you saw the announcement maybe from X-Energy and Dow, where they're gonna, like, create a clean plastics plant, and the goal of that plant in Texas is to then…
Introducing Discarded: Episode 1, David vs. Goliath
- ▶ 20:24 Gloria Riviera Louisiana ranks number two in toxic emissions behind Texas, and the Environmental Protection Agency, the EPA, has officially begun to require industry to track their pollution numbers.
A new catalyst for the smart home: electrify everything
- ▶ 12:39 Julian Spector Maybe it's a local kind of pilot project in a single utility territory, or, um, if you're in one of the more competitive markets like, uh, Texas or increasingly in California, there are these sort of more open space for, for companies to,…
- ▶ 14:55 Julian Spector Now in the U S they operate in Texas where there's also this really decentralized rough and tumble competitive market, uh, around electricity.
- ▶ 22:33 Julian Spector Um, and what I mean by that is, you know, we're already seeing some very exciting programs in Texas where the, the structure of the market allows creative businesses to come in and just
The Ike Dike: the biggest civil engineering project in US history
- ▶ 2:43 Kiah Collier Hurricane Ike was, at the time, the costliest hurricane in Texas history.
- ▶ 19:00 Dr. Bill Merrill In Texas, we'd be screaming and drinking beer.
Drought is surfacing lost relics around the world
- ▶ 5:01 Stephen Lacey So one of these stories that really captured my attention played out in Texas. 5 times in the scene
The frontline of water conflicts: ranching
- ▶ 1:25 Stephen Lacey The Ogallala Aquifer stretches from South Dakota in the north to Texas in the south. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:41 Melody Edwards Parts of Oklahoma, parts of Texas that just don't have that water source anymore.
How air pollution and heat make pregnancy more dangerous
- ▶ 3:37 Alexandria Herr Yeah, so basically, laws passed recently in Texas and Oklahoma actually offer 10,000 dollar rewards to people who can successfully sue anyone who, quote, aids or abets an abortion.
- ▶ 5:59 Alexandria Herr Maternal morbidity, which is basically a term that means any unexpected outcome during birth that might lead to long-term health effects on the birthing parent, well, that rate is twice as high in Baytown than it is on average across the… 5 times in the scene
Introducing Drilled: Bridge to Nowhere
- ▶ 19:24 Amy Westervelt Now they're in Washington, New York, Massachusetts, even Texas.
The hidden history of California oil
- ▶ 7:37 Dr. David Gonzalez We've seen this in Texas.