Shows
Energi TalksIs the US economy Trump-proof? Or is the worst on its way?Journalist Markham Hislop interviews economist Ed Hirs, of the University of Houston and a frequent media commentator on American economic issues.2025-05-0426 minEnergi TalksSmith following Trump playbook with Bill 54's un-democratic voting changesJournalist Markham Hislop interviews political science Professor Jared Wesley about his provocative Substack column titled, “Danielle Smith’s Electoral Reforms Are Straight from the Trump Playbook.”2025-05-0126 minEnergi TalksGlobal energy system rapidly changing. Will Canada keep up?Journalist Markham Hislop interviews Lucy Craig, Director of Growth, Innovation and Digitalization, Energy Systems at Norwegian firm DNV, which provides risk assessment services to energy companies around the world. They discussed DNV's new report, SHORT-TERM VOLATILITY, LONG-TERM OPTIMISM: Energy Industry Insights 2025.2025-04-3027 minEnergi TalksSolid state batteries about to change everythingJournalist Markham Hislop interviews Greg Hitz, founder of ION Storage Systems, which has developed a unique solid state battery. 2025-04-2922 minEnergi TalksGlobal South's rapid electrification is bad news for oil industryJournalist Markham Hislop interviews Siyi Mi, a Senior Associate at BloombergNEF specializing in electric vehicle markets and clean transport technologies.2025-04-2928 minEnergi TalksIs Trump a fascist?Journalist Markham Hislop interviews veteran American journalist Llewellyn King about his column, “Political Fear Stalks Law, Education, Journalism, Migration." While King says US President Donald Trump hasn't adopted the mantle of fascism, he governs like a fascist. Markham argues that that makes him a fascist whether he describes himself as one or not. A spirited, fascinating look at the descent of the United States into chaos.Dan Gardner's substack post, Is it Fascism?: https://dgardner.substack.com/p/is-it-fascism2025-04-1938 minEnergi TalksDanielle Smith, Ben Shapiro and selling the Alberta myth in the good ole USAEnergy journalist Markham Hislop explains the context for Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's upcoming interview Thursday with US MAGA podcaster Ben Shapiro in Florida. Hint: Alberta thinks the energy future will look just like the energy past and it wants Trump and the Canadian government to get out of its way. The problem is that the future will likely be very different than Alberta expects.2025-04-1918 minEnergi TalksTrump’s Stupid Trade War and Green Party leader Elizabeth May’s responseJournalist Markham Hislop interviews Elizabeth May, Green Party co-leader along with Jonathan Pedneault, about her party's proposal to stop exporting raw natural resources. The Greens also propose create a natural resources "Strategic Reserves" to protect Canadian workers.2025-04-1943 minEnergi TalksShould we ignore Western Canada alienation?Journalist Markham Hislop interviews Professor Christopher Ragan, an associate professor and the founding Director of McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy, as well as the author of a recent op-ed titled, “Western alienation is real and cannot be dismissed.” Markham took the position that many of Alberta's issues with Canadian energy and climate policies are unfounded or overblown.2025-04-181h 11Energi TalksDon’t let Jason Kenney rewrite historyJournalist Markham Hislop revisits some of his columns from 2018 to 2022 about former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney's oil and gas policy approach. After several years out of the public spotlight, Kenney is again active on social media, positioning himself as a political moderate. Will he run for the Conservative Party of Canada leadership if the position opens up? If he does, the Canadians need to review his record as Alberta premier.2025-04-1737 minEnergi TalksHow to fix Canada’s economy so Trump can’t destroy itJournalist Markham Hislop explains Canada 2050's 3-part strategy for adding value to natural resources, electrifying extraction and processing, and building necessary infrastructure. He excerpts from his interview with one of Canada’s leading industrial policy experts, Dr. Bentley Allan of Johns Hopkins University, to explain how Canada 2050's could be implemented.2025-04-1728 minEnergi TalksResist the LNG hype, CanadaJournalist Markham Hislop interviews Janetta McKenzie, director of the oil and gas program for the Pembina Institute, about the report, "Turning Tides: The economic risks of B.C.’s LNG expansion in a changing energy market."2025-04-1725 minEnergi TalksTrump unleashes chaos on the American economyJournalist Markham Hislop interviews Ed Hirs, a University of Houston economist and frequent media commentator on the US economy. They talk tariffs and trade, market volatility, and oil prices.2025-04-1718 minEnergi TalksEnergy as a technology and the fourth industrial revolutionJournalist Markham Hislop interviews Professor Dimitry Anastakis, LR Wilson/RJ Currie Chair in Canadian Business History, University of Toronto. Don't let the title fool you. Canada is already behind in the transition to the new technologies of the 4th industrial revolution, including the development and adoption of clean energy technologies like solar and EVs.2025-04-1731 minEnergi TalksFirst Nations taking lead on renewable energy in CanadaJournalist Markham Hislop Adam Regier, one of the co-authors of “Stretch and transform for energy justice: Indigenous advocacy for institutional transformative change of electricity in British Columbia, Canada,” published in the July, 2025 issue of the journal, Energy Policy2025-04-1735 minEnergi TalksCanada Election 2025: The electricity system Canada desperately needsJournalist Markham Hislop interviews Bruce Lourie, president of the Ivey Foundation and chair of the Transition Accelerator, about his March 20 Globe and Mail op-ed, “Letting electrons free as part of a new Canadian economy.”2025-04-1425 minEnergi TalksManning, Smith hold Big Oil’s gun to Canada’s headJournalist Markham Hislop explains what's behind threats from right-wing activist Preston Manning and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to start a "national unity crisis" that will lead to Western Canada separating from Canada. Globe and Mail columnist Andrew Coyne points out that there is no popular support for independence.2025-04-1423 minEnergi TalksMark Carney’s energy plan: is it any good?Journalist Markham Hislop walks viewers through the Liberal Party of Canada's energy platform, announced April 9 in Calgary, Alberta. The conclusion? Some very good ideas, some that were not as good, and still plenty of questions left to be answered.2025-04-1429 minEnergi TalksMark Carney’s tinkering with big project approvals will win no fans in AlbertaJournalist Markham Hislop interviews law professor Shaun Fluker, University of Calgary, about Liberal Leader Mark Carney's proposals to speed up big project approvals. Like pipelines or transmission lines.2025-04-1433 minEnergi TalksDon’t let Jason Kenney rewrite historyJournalist Markham Hislop revisits some of his columns from 2018 to 2022 about former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney's oil and gas policy approach. After several years out of the public spotlight, Kenney is again active on social media, positioning himself as a political moderate. Will he run for the Conservative Party of Canada leadership if the position opens up? If he does, the Canadians need to review his record as Alberta premier.2025-04-1437 minEnergi TalksCanadian rage at Trump's threatsEnergi Media CEO Markham Hislop appeared the weekend of April 5 and 6, 2025 on the US PBS program, White House Chronicle, hosted by Llewellyn King and Adam Clayton Powell III.Note: the audio is sometimes not synched with the video.2025-04-0529 minEnergi TalksPowering the electrification of the Canadian, American economiesJournalist Markham Hislop interviews Tim King, president of Nexans North America, a global cable products company, about the electrification of the North American economy and how Canadian and American power grids are responding to growing power demand. Hint: not well in the US, better in Canada.2025-04-0436 minEnergi TalksDigging into the deets of Trump's tariffsJournalist Markham Hislop interviews Angella MacEwen, is a senior economist with the Canadian Union of Public Employees and the author of the very interesting Substack, Social Economics.2025-04-0332 minEnergi TalksPBO brutally muffs the math of oil/gas emissions cap impactsEnergy journalist Markham Hislop interviews economist Dave Sawyer of Enviro Economics about the Parliamentary Budget Officer's math mistakes in its economic impact study of the Government of Canada's proposed oil and gas emissions cap. The cap is extremely contentious, especially in Alberta, the epicentre of Canada's oil and gas industry.2025-03-1340 minEnergi TalksDeloitte report on impact of oil and gas cap is flawed - economistMarkham interviews energy economist and modeller Dr. Chris Bataille.Note: in the introduction, Markham incorrectly said that the Government of Canada commissioned the report. In fact it was the Government of Alberta.2024-06-2053 minEnergi TalksThe Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline debate, with Max FawcettMarkham discusses TMX, which is now transporting crude oil from Alberta to the West Coast, with award-winning columnist Max Fawcett. They discuss Markham's May 1 column, My TMX mea culpa. 2024-05-0352 minEnergi TalksChina leads the global energy transition by a big margin - live eventEnergi Media's Markham Hislop and Sandy Garossino, National Observer columnist, discussing the role of China in the global energy transition. Recorded live at a March 27 event in Parksville, British Columbia, Canada that was organized by Roy Collver of the Energy Circle.2024-04-041h 10Energi TalksClimate scientist explains sea level riseMarkham Hislop interviews Dr. Denis Gilbert, a climate scientist who has been active on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, but recently retired from Fisheries and Oceans Canada and hung out his own shingle, Denis Gilbert Scientifik. 2022-12-1235 minEnergi TalksMax Fawcett interview: Pierre Poilievre and conservative energy politicsMarkham interviews Max Fawcett, lead columnist for the National Observer.2022-09-2241 minEnergi TalksCalifornia burning: PG&E's epic failMarkham interviews Katherine Blunt, about her new book, "California Burning." She covers renewable energy and utilities for The Wall Street Journal and is a Pulitzer Prize finalist.2022-09-1521 minEnergi TalksBuilding Canada's EV battery sector is a sprint, not a marathonMarkham interviews Evan Pivnick, Clean energy program manager with Clean Energy Canada, whose new report, “Canada’s New Economic Engine,” explores how Canada can successfully build an EV battery supply chain in order to become a North American battery powerhouse.2022-09-1523 minEnergi TalksDid residential batteries save California's power grid?Markham interviews Bernadette Del Chiaro, Executive Director, California Solar & Storage Association, about the critical role played by rooftop solar and battery storage in supporting California's strained power grid during the crippling heat wave of the first few weeks of September, 2022.2022-09-1429 minEnergi TalksBuilding $200 billion of battery factories by 2030 is herculean taskMarkham interviews Henry Sanderson, Executive Editor, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence and author of the new book, "Volt Rush, the Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green," about why the battery industry needs to invest $200 billion in gigafactories to meet the growing demand for electric vehicles and energy storage by 2030.2022-08-3127 minEnergi TalksCan US Inflation Reduction Act accelerate Canada‘s clean energy transition?Markham interviews Rick Smith, president of the Canadian Climate Institute, about his August 15, 2022 op-ed in the Toronto Star titled, “Four ways the Inflation Reduction Act can accelerate Canada‘s clean energy transition.”2022-08-2525 minEnergi TalksSolar as the model for technology change in the energy transitionMarkham interviews Prof. Gregory Nemet, professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison's La Follette School of Public Affairs, about technology change, the energy transition, and his book, "How Solar Became Cheap: A Model for Low-Carbon Innovation."2022-08-2232 minEnergi TalksNew Canadian auto sector strategy from Unifor focuses on EVsMarkham interviews Angelo DiCaro, research director for Unifor, Canada's largest private sector union organization, about its new report “Navigating the road ahead – rebuilding Canada’s powerhouse auto sector."2022-08-1836 minEnergi TalksUnpacking the Inflation Reduction Act's effect on US climate policyMarkham interviews Dr. Neha Patankar, energy modeller and researcher for the REPEAT Project at Princeton University.2022-08-0831 minEnergi TalksWestern Canada's CO2 storage capacity is hugeMarkham interviews Sean McCoy, assistant professor, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Calgary about a new report from the Transition Accelerator titled, "Review of Carbon-Dioxide Storage Potential in Western Canada: Blue Hydrogen Roadmap to 2050" that he co-authored with Richard Hares and David B. Layzell.2022-08-0527 minEnergi TalksNew study on economics of US advanced nuclear powerMarkham interviews Jonah Messinger, energy analyst, The Breakthrough Institute, co-author of "Advancing Nuclear Energy: Evaluating Deployment, Investment, and Impact In America’s Clean Energy Future."2022-07-2933 minEnergi TalksUS right-wing Atlas Network funding pro-oil and gas activism in CanadaMarkham interviews Geoff Dembicki, investigative climate reporter and author of a July 18 Narwhal article, “How a conservative U.S. network undermined Indigenous energy rights in Canada.” He also has a new book, 'The Petroleum Papers' out in September.2022-07-2622 minEnergi TalksHow Alberta oil/gas can decarbonize AND transition to new net-zero productsMarkham interviews economist Chris Bataille about his new paper, "How the sector can decarbonize operations and develop new net zero products," for the Canadian Climate Institute.
Link: https://climateinstitute.ca/scoping-papers/2022-07-2232 minEnergi TalksEV battery swapping taking off in ChinaMarkham interviews Shazan Siddiqi, technology analyst with the EV team at IDTechEx, about the new report, “Battery Swapping for Electric Vehicles 2022-2032: Technology, Players and Forecasts."2022-07-1527 minEnergi TalksRemoving carbon from bitumen is cheap, creates valuable feedstock for materials manufacturingMarkham interviews Warren Chung, professional engineer and president of Well Resources Inc., located in Calgary about his company's commercially viable process to remove asphaltines and other carbon-intense residue from Alberta oil sands bitumen. 2022-07-1526 minEnergi TalksHow much should governments own of Canadian power grids?Markham interviews energy economist Dr. Chris Bataille.2022-07-0621 minEnergi TalksThe good and the bad of Vaclav SmilMark Jaccard is the author of the 2020 book, “The Citizen's Guide to Climate Success: Overcoming Myths that Hinder Progress.” The Financial Post Markham quoted: https://financialpost.com/opinion/vaclav-smil-why-net-zero-2050-really-wont-work2022-06-2734 minEnergi TalksClean energy Marshall Plan needed for developing countriesMarkham interviews Dr. Homi Kharas, Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Sustainable Development with Brookings Institution based in Washington, DC, about his Brookings policy brief: “A Global Sustainability Program: Lessons from the Marshall Plan for addressing climate change"2022-06-2726 minEnergi TalksGlobal economy more prosperous if we invest in energy transitionMarkham interviews Matthew Stewart, director in the Economics and Financial Advisory group, at Deloitte Canada about the firm's new report, “The Turning Point.”2022-06-2526 minEnergi TalksCanada's energy minister explains transition challenges, opportunities - exclusive interviewMarkham interviews the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Canada’s natural resources minister, about Canada and the global energy transition. They talk about technology disruption, electrifying Canada's economy while doubling or tripling power generation, what the transition means for energy workers, what to do about Alberta and the Canadian oil and gas industry, and the role of hydrogen in the energy future.2022-06-1622 minEnergi TalksBuckle up, the global energy system is being DISRUPTED!Markham interviews Werner Antweiler, director, Sauder School of Business Prediction Markets, associate professor and chair, Strategy and Business Economics Division, chair in International Trade Policy, University of British Columbia.2022-06-0825 minEnergi TalksCommunity-owned power utilities electrifying US economyMarkham interviews Paul Zummo, manager of policy research and analysis, American Public Power Association.2022-05-2422 minEnergi TalksThe Big Switch: Why Canada's electricity system must be bigger, cleaner, smarterMarkham interviews economist Jason Dion, Mitigation Research Director, Canadian Climate Institute, about the new report, “The Big Switch.” Making Canada’s electricity system bigger, cleaner, and smarter.2022-05-1152 minEnergi TalksAlberta cleantech could create 170,000 jobs by 2050Markham interviews John Rilett, vice president, innovation and cleantech at The Delphi Group, and one of the authors of the report, “Alberta Energy Transition” for Calgary Economic Development. 2022-05-0323 minEnergi TalksCan oil and gas use digital tech to forge a low-carbon future?Markham interviews Geoffry Cann, an oil industry veteran, expert on digital technology, and author of the new book, “Carbon, Capital, and the Cloud: A Playbook for Digital Oil and Gas.”2022-04-2134 minEnergi TalksGreen Teacher Magazine and evolution of green educationMarkham interviews Ian Shanahan, the editor of Green Teacher Magazine.2022-04-0523 minEnergi TalksPBS host Llewellyn King on energy crisis, Russian invasionMarkham interviews long-time energy journalist Llewellyn King, host of PBS' White House Chronicle, about his storied 66-year career, the global energy crisis, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. 2022-03-1031 minEnergi Talks2022 a bumpy ride for energy transition, but smoother sailing aheadMarkham interviews Albert Cheung, head of analysis for BloombergNEF about his recent commentary, “Hold Your Nerve: Energy Transition Risks and Red Herrings in 2022.”2022-02-1021 minEnergi TalksIs America's 125-year old power grid ready for the 21st century?Markham interviews Dr. Gretchen Bakke, assistant professor, university of Toronto and author of "The Grid."2022-01-2748 minEnergi TalksCan America's power grid run 100% on wind, solar with enough storage?Markham interviews Jennie Jorgenson, energy systems engineer with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado and the principal researcher for the latest phase of the Storage Futures Study, which modelled the effects of large-scale adoption of storage technologies on power grids.2022-01-2721 minEnergi TalksExxonMobil's net-zero "ambition" by 2050 ain't greatMarkham interviews Dr. Akshat Rathi, Bloomberg energy and climate journalist, about ExxonMobil announcing an “ambition for net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050” on Jan. 18.2022-01-2524 minEnergi TalksWhy isn't Canada modelling changes to electricity systems?Markham interviews energy systems modeller Dr. Taco Niet, a professor in the School of Sustainable Energy Engineering at Simon Fraser University in Surrey, British Columbia.2022-01-2428 minEnergi TalksDo foreign-owned oil/gas companies unduly influence Canadian climate policy?Markham interviews Dr. Gordon Laxer, Political Economist, professor emeritus at the University of Alberta, founding Director and former head of Parkland Institute from 1996-2011, and co-author of a new study, “Posing as Canadian: How Big Foreign Oil captures Canadian energy and climate policy.”2021-12-1647 minEnergi TalksNuclear power not a short-term fix for climate changeMarkham interviews Dr. Allison Macfarlane, director of the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia, chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 2012 to 2014, about her July, 2021 Foreign Affairs op-ed, "Is Nuclear Power the Way Forward to Combat the Climate Crisis?"2021-11-2921 minEnergi TalksMaking sense of the electrification of transportationMarkham interviews Stacy Noblet, senior director, Transportation Electrification, for global consultancy ICF, about her recent blog post, “How electric vehicles can drive our clean transportation future.”2021-11-2229 minEnergi TalksCOP26 post-mortemMarkham interviews Prof. Matthew Hoffmann, co-director of the environmental governance lab at the University of Toronto.2021-11-2225 minEnergi TalksChina's energy crisisMarkham interviews Dr. Michal Meidan, director of the China Energy Programme at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and author of the paper “China’s power crisis: Long-term goals meet short-term realities.”2021-11-2224 minEnergi TalksTony Seba rethinks climate changeMarkham interviews Adam Dorr of RethinkX, an independent think tank co-founded by Tony Seba and James Arbib, about the new study, "Rethinking Climate Change."2021-09-0834 minEnergi Talks7 "feedback loops" speeding up the energy transitionMarkham interviews Kingsmill Bond of Carbon Tracker about a new report, "Spiralling Disruption," which describes seven feedback loops that are driving disruption in the energy system. 2021-09-0825 minEnergi TalksThe future of BC Hydro and the BC electricity systemMarkham interviews Dr. Mark Jaccard, professor and director of the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University and appointed to the 9-member expert committee that advised BC Hydro during the recent Phase 2 review. 2021-07-1644 minEnergi TalksEV beats ICE hands down on carbon emissions, says GREETMarkham interviews Jarod Kelly, principal energy systems analyst at Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, about GREET (Greenhouse Gases, Regulated Emissions and Energy Use in Technologies) model that the Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board - and 43,000 other users - use to compare vehicle emissions in the United States.2021-07-0322 minEnergi TalksHow will America retrofit its building stock to reach net-zero?Markham interviews Andy Frank, an energy efficiency industry expert, president of Sealed, a retrofitting company based in New York, and a board member of Alliance for Clean Energy New York.2021-06-2129 minEnergi TalksNew Alberta oil sands Net-zero by 2050 plan unpacked and explainedMarkham interviews economist Kevin Birn of IHS MarkIt about the Oil Sands Pathways to Net Zero initiative launched on June 9.2021-06-0930 minEnergi TalksHydro's main value is not electricity generation, but storage for renewablesMarkham interviews Emil Dimanchev, PhD candidate at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, about his co-authored paper, “The role of hydropower reservoirs in deep decarbonization policy,” recently published in the journal Science Direct.2021-06-0733 minEnergi TalksCanadian greenhouse gas dilemma: What to do about Alberta?Markham interviews Dr. Douglas Macdonald, senior lecturer emeritus, School of the Environment, University of Toronto, about his book, CARBON PROVINCE, HYDRO PROVINCE:
THE CHALLENGE OF CANADIAN ENERGY AND CLIMATE FEDERALISM.2021-05-2746 minEnergi TalksUganda and the energy transition: Supporting sustainable diversification in AfricaMarkham interviews US Energy Association acting executive director Sheila Hollis and senior program coordinator Elise Voorhis about the agency's recent work helping Uganda modernize and grow the country's electricity system. 2021-05-1328 minEnergi TalksTD Bank study says 50%-75% of Canadian oil/gas workers could lose jobs by 2050Markham interviews TD Economics economist Francis Fong, co-author of "Don’t Let History Repeat:
Canada’s Energy Sector Transition and the Potential Impact on Workers.2021-04-2724 minEnergi TalksDecarbonization pathways for Latin AmericaMarkham interviews Dr. Chris Bataille, an associate researcher at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, located in Paris.2021-04-1628 minEnergi TalksRooftop solar economics: cost vs. valueMarkham interviews Behnam Zakeri, research scholar with the Integrated Assessment and Climate Change Research Group about his co-authored paper, "Policy options for enhancing economic profitability of residential solar photovoltaic with battery energy storage."2021-03-3127 minEnergi TalksIndia faces big decarbonization challenges - studyMarkham interviews economist Dr. Vaibhav Chaturvedi of India's Council on Energy, Environment, and Water about his recent paper, "Peaking and Net-Zero for India’s Energy Sector CO2 Emission."2021-03-2834 minEnergi TalksGeeking out on innovation diffusion theoryMarkham interviews Dr. Christina Hoicka, associate professor in sustainable energy economics, about her team's work developing a model to explain the diffusion of low-carbon innovations. 2021-03-2439 minEnergi TalksOntario's broken electricity systemMarkham interviews Prof. Mark Winfield, an expert in sustainable energy and environmental policy, about the crisis in Ontario's electricity, including the absence of provincial government climate and energy policy.2021-03-1926 minEnergi TalksComing soon: The electric utility of the futureMarkham interviews utility veteran Val Jensen about the electric utility of the future. New technologies, changing consumer needs, and climate policies are just some of the forces transforming the current utility business model. 2021-03-1126 minEnergi TalksA just decarbonizing of the American energy systemMarkham interviews Steve Pacala about the co-authored study, "Accelerating Decarbonization of the United States Energy System," which identifies key technological and socio-economic goals that must be achieved to put the United States on the path to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The report presents a policy blueprint outlining critical near-term actions for the first decade (2021-2030) of this 30-year effort, including ways to support communities that will be most impacted by the transition.2021-02-2832 minEnergi TalksUSA, China, Europe and the clean energy "arms race"Markham interviews Barbara Finamore, senior attorney and Asia Director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, about her Oxford Energy Institute article, "Clean tech innovation in China and its impact on the geopolitics of the energy transition."2021-02-2730 minEnergi TalksNet-zero US economy not difficult or expensive - studyMarkham interviews economist Prof. Jim Williams of the University of San Francisco about his co-authored paper, Carbon-Neutral Pathways for the United States.2021-02-2152 minEnergi TalksManaging the energy transition: Pathways to Canada's net-zero futureMarkham interviews economist Jason Dion of the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices about his new report, "CANADA'S NET ZERO FUTURE: Finding our way in the global transition." 2021-02-1039 minEnergi TalksTime for the United States to compete with China in global clean energy financeMarkham interviews Dr. Johannes Urpelainen about how China has become the leading financer of wind, solar, and other green energy projects. They also discuss China's Belt and Road Initiative and why China continues to finance and operate coal power plants in developing countries around the world.2021-01-1625 minEnergi TalksCarbon pricing is over-hyped and not nearly enoughMarkham interviews Dr. Danny Cullenward, Stanford energy economist and lawyer, and co-author with Dr. David G. Victor, of the new book, "Making climate policy work." 2021-01-0835 minEnergi TalksPacific NW electricity going carbon free without natural gas?Markham interviews Ben Kujala, director of power planning for the Northwest Power and Conservation Council based in Portland, Oregon. They discussed the extent to which natural gas should be relied upon as a "bridge fuel” as the Pacific NW considers the right mix of wind, solar, storage, nuclear and hydropower to provide carbon-free energy at an affordable and reliable level.2020-12-2228 min