Episodes
Six years of tape. Every episode is checked claim by claim and playable.
29 episodes in 2024
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
32m A complex path for building heat batteries
In this episode of The Green Blueprint, Rondo Energy co-founder John O'Donnell shares how the company transitioned from garage experiments with brick heat batteries to commercial deployment …
15 statements 4 featured 4 assessments 1 contradicted
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
35m The ‘third inning’ of the energy transition [partner content]
Recorded at the Mintz Energy Transition Summit, this episode examines the structural, financial, and policy forces shaping clean energy deployment, focusing on federal policy durability, sol…
8 statements 2 featured 4 assessments
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
28m The risk of scaling 100x
In this episode of The Green Blueprint, host Lara Pierpoint interviews Via Separations CEO Shreya Dave on the operational, strategic, and financial hurdles of scaling industrial membrane tec…
10 statements 3 featured 2 assessments
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
32m Why concentrated solar couldn’t compete
Former BrightSource Energy CEO John Woolard joins host Lara Pierpoint on The Green Blueprint to analyze the rise, ambitious financing, and ultimate economic disruption of utility-scale conce…
16 statements 6 featured 11 assessments 4 contradicted
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
49m Frontier Forum: How rates will make or break the energy transition
Host Stephen Lacey and energy experts Ahmad Farooqi and Scott Engstrom explore how modernizing electricity rate design and deploying dynamic, customer-centric pricing are critical to achievi…
17 statements 3 featured 6 assessments
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
59m Our final episode: The top stories of 2024 so far
In the series finale of The Carbon Copy, host Stephen Lacey reunites with Energy Gang co-hosts Katherine Hamilton and Jigar Shah to rate major 2024 clean energy storylines, covering AI elect…
21 statements 6 featured 10 assessments 5 contradicted
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
22m Avoiding mistakes from the first smart meters
Sense CEO Mike Phillips joins host Stephen Lacey on The Carbon Copy to discuss how high-resolution edge computing and AI can rectify the architectural failures of first-generation smart mete…
14 statements 5 featured 7 assessments
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
44m Why ditching aluminum is key to securing the US solar supply chain
In this Frontier Forum panel, industry experts discuss the strategic, economic, and environmental imperatives of replacing imported aluminum solar module frames with domestically produced re…
13 statements 3 featured 6 assessments
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
37m AI-fueled geothermal and ‘the edge of the possible’
In this episode of The Carbon Copy, host Stephen Lacey speaks with Obvious Ventures Managing Director Andrew Beebe about the evolution of climate tech investing, the double-edged impact of A…
17 statements 6 featured 5 assessments 2 contradicted
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
30m A macro view on the state of climate tech
Host Stephen Lacey speaks with McKinsey partners Anna Orthofer and Mark Patel to evaluate the commercial readiness, industrial scaling bottlenecks, and technological roadmaps across twelve k…
14 statements 4 featured 6 assessments
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
54m Energy is now the ‘primary bottleneck’ for AI
In this Transition AI roundtable, host Stephen Lacey and energy experts Brian Janus, Michelle Solomon, and John Belizaire examine the unprecedented power demands of artificial intelligence, …
26 statements 8 featured 12 assessments 1 contradicted
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
31m Tesla’s extremely hardcore pivot
In this episode of The Carbon Copy, host Stephen Lacey and veteran energy journalist Steve LeVine examine the internal turmoil at Tesla following Elon Musk's abrupt decision to scrap afforda…
13 statements 4 featured 4 assessments
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
44m The news quiz episode!
Recorded live at the Prelude Climate Summit in Napa, Latitude Media's Stephen Lacey hosts 'Emissions Impossible,' a competitive news quiz where leading climate venture capitalists test their…
12 statements 4 featured 7 assessments
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
41m Political Climate: Is the IRA under political threat?
In the relaunch episode of Political Climate, policy experts Brandon Hurlbut and Emily Domenech join host Julia Pyper to debate the political durability of the Inflation Reduction Act, feder…
25 statements 7 featured 13 assessments 1 contradicted
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
40m An influx of EVs. Surging peaks. Can AI help?
Host Stephen Lacey convenes an expert panel at Distributech to discuss how artificial intelligence, virtual power plants, and managed EV charging can help utilities manage unprecedented grid…
20 statements 7 featured 11 assessments 2 contradicted
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
40m The rise of heat batteries
Host Stephen Lacey interviews Rondo Energy CEO John O'Donnell to explore how brick-based thermal heat batteries utilize cheap, intermittent renewable power to decarbonize global industrial h…
21 statements 7 featured 11 assessments 1 contradicted
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
30m Inside Apple’s failed car program
Host Stephen Lacey interviews Bloomberg chief correspondent Mark Gurman to examine the decade-long journey and eventual cancellation of Apple's secretive electric vehicle initiative, Project…
21 statements 6 featured 4 assessments
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
21m The Latitude: Could government rules hinder green hydrogen?
This episode of The Latitude explores the intense debate surrounding the U.S. Treasury's proposed Section 45V clean hydrogen tax credit rules, examining whether strict emissions standards wi…
16 statements 4 featured 7 assessments
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
26m The achilles heel of AI in the power system: data
In this episode of The Carbon Copy, host Stephen Lacey and Snowflake's Titian Palazzi discuss how modern data architecture and artificial intelligence are transforming electric utilities, ad…
13 statements 4 featured 3 assessments
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
15m The urgent need to simplify clean energy finance [partner content]
In this branded episode, host Stephen Lacey speaks with Banyan Infrastructure COO Amanda Lee about modernizing clean energy finance through software automation to deploy trillions of dollars…
10 statements 4 featured 1 assessments
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
28m New demand is straining the grid. Here’s how to tackle it.
Host Stephen Lacey and former Microsoft energy executive Brian Janis examine how rapid AI growth and industrial electrification are straining the power grid, emphasizing that near-term solut…
12 statements 3 featured 4 assessments
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
21m The right way to recycle batteries [partner content]
AquaMetals CEO Steve Cotton joins host Stephen Lacey to discuss the environmental drawbacks of conventional battery recycling and present AquaRefining, a closed-loop electrochemical technolo…
13 statements 6 featured 7 assessments 2 contradicted
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
46m A view of the $1.8 trillion clean energy economy
Host Stephen Lacey and energy experts Katherine Hamilton and Shalini Ramanathan evaluate the state of the global clean energy transition following a record $1.8 trillion investment year. The…
17 statements 4 featured 9 assessments
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
35m Virtual power plants: the ‘sandwich’ for the grid
In this episode of The Carbon Copy, host Stephen Lacey and Department of Energy official Jen Downing explore how virtual power plants (VPPs) can cost-effectively meet surging electricity dem…
19 statements 5 featured 10 assessments 1 contradicted
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
32m Pricing and tech trends shaping the global battery storage market
Host Stephen Lacey and BNEF's Yayoi Sekine examine the macroeconomic trends, pricing deflation, manufacturing oversupply, regional policies, and emerging battery chemistries reshaping the gl…
12 statements 3 featured 10 assessments 1 contradicted
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
54m US power demand is set to boom. How will we meet it?
Host Stephen Lacey and clean energy analysts Catherine Hamilton and Shalini Ramanathan examine the sudden surge in U.S. electricity demand driven by AI data centers and manufacturing, analyz…
16 statements 4 featured 9 assessments 1 contradicted
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
31m How AI is rapidly advancing new materials for clean energy
In this episode of The Carbon Copy, host Stephen Lacey interviews Citrine Informatics CEO Greg Mulholland to examine how physics-informed artificial intelligence is revolutionizing materials…
11 statements 3 featured 2 assessments
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
43m Venture investors riff on headwinds, hype, and wildcards of 2023
In this 2023 retrospective, Latitude Media host Stephen Lacey and Prelude Ventures investors Gabriel Kra and Dr. Carly Anderson analyze climate tech's venture capital contraction, real-world…
21 statements 6 featured 3 assessments 1 contradicted
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
29m The terawatt era of PV: ‘Solar will be the gas of today’
In this episode of The Carbon Copy, host Stephen Lacey and Wood Mackenzie's Michelle Davis discuss the solar industry's transition into the multi-terawatt era, examining supply chain dominan…
20 statements 6 featured 12 assessments 2 contradicted