Energy Empire explores how abundant, affordable energy is reshaping the global economy. A podcast by Jigar Shah about the people and billion-dollar deals driving the clean energy transition.

Energy Empire explores how abundant, affordable energy is reshaping the global economy. A podcast by Jigar Shah about the people and billion-dollar deals driving the clean energy transition.

Podcast Episode · Energy Empire · September 28 · 37m

Podcast Episode · Energy Empire · September 28 · 37m

California is in the middle of an energy paradox. Electric demand is rising faster than at any point since the postwar era driven by data centers, EV charging, heat pumps, and the broad electrificatio...

Heating oil is at its highest level in years across the Northeast at ~$6.00/gallon. Families are budgeting around $2,300 this season — up $600 from last year. Close watchers who once described Middle ...

Heating oil is at its highest level in years across the Northeast at ~$6.00/gallon. Families are budgeting around $2,300 this season — up $600 from last year. Close watchers who once described Middle ...

November 9, 1977 — December 15, 2021

November 9, 1977 — December 15, 2021

Also: dogs, Denmark, and a birthday request. Mostly dogs.

Care about climate change? Then vote for Nithya Raman.

Care about climate change? Then vote for Nithya Raman.

Cheap EVs alone won't cut gasoline and diesel dependence. The countries getting this right are trading market access for factories, not just fuel savings.

The outlook for storage construction keeps getting brighter as everyone from the Trump White House to clean energy advocates to AI giants clamors for more.

PG&E ended 2025 with five flexible interconnection sites online. Data centers, EV chargers, hospitals are all waiting for hard path infrastructure that takes decades to permit and build. This week, P...

A Nepali-American's Case for Fit-for-Purpose Clean Energy

PG&E ended 2025 with five flexible interconnection sites online. Data centers, EV chargers, hospitals are all waiting for hard path infrastructure that takes decades to permit and build. This week, P...

Secretive state begins repairs on ageing facilities after being revealed as worst country for leaks of potent greenhouse gas

In the fall of 2020, Stephen Lacey asked me on the Energy Gang whether the Loan Programs Office had a shot if Biden won.

Fossil fuel companies spent over $100 million a year selling us all on the "carbon footprint" idea. No wonder this shoddy framework is everywhere. Let's replace it, with a new model for collective ac...

Chris Shelton popularized grid batteries starting in 2006 and now he has an idea that is coming for the whole grid

Data centers didn't break the grid—A regulatory model that rewards building over optimizing did.

New York, now Texas (!) have tapped the brakes (but not closed the door) on Data Center development, causing a bit of anxiety in the industry.Above, a Data Center development CEO has a suggestion f…

On the Occasion of the Retirement of the Energy Transition Show — 280 Episodes, a Decade of Straight Talk, and a Graduate Seminar I Needed

Governor Abbott put in place a moratorium today. On last week's Volts crossover with Energy Empire, Dave Roberts, Arnab Pal, and I said this was coming. Here's why it happened.

A conversation with Saleem Chapman of Climate Cabinet.

Data centers didn't break the grid—A regulatory model that rewards building over optimizing did.

Governor Abbott put in place a moratorium today. On last week's Volts crossover with Energy Empire, Dave Roberts, Arnab Pal, and I said this was coming. Here's why it happened.

Governor Abbott put in place a moratorium today. On last week's Volts crossover with Energy Empire, Dave Roberts, Arnab Pal, and I said this was coming. Here's why it happened.

Since ending his tenure as Director of the Department of Energy’s Loan Program Office under Joe Biden, Jigar Shah has been producing hands down the most useful and informed energy transition …

Higher electricity, natural gas, and gasoline bills add up to a trifecta of failure. And the American entrepreneurs that could fix it are being mocked instead of supported.