Advocates and researchers of the energy transition are woefully ill-equipped to do battle with the fossil fuel industry. In this monologue, Chris identifies what’s needed and what’s missing, then rein...

The bipartisan permitting reform bill would remove key hurdles to the energy transition—especially hurdles to siting transmission—and unlock vast amounts of wind and solar power. On the whole, it woul...

Just as soaring food prices resulted in the Arab Spring, soaring fuel prices today could spell doom for petrostate leaders. In its pursuit of 'energy dominance' through oil and gas production, the Tru...

In NN#9, we welcome Steve McBee, founder of AMPED, “the political and cultural infrastructure the clean energy industry never built.” We discuss how the clean energy industry needs to organize to do b...

Before Big Tech gets much farther along in their heedless pursuit of gas-powered data centers, we ought to have a proper public debate about whether having AI is worth throwing the climate under the b...

The bulk of renewable energy and storage capacity added to the grid thus far has been from large, utility-scale systems. But the potential for smaller distributed energy resources (DERs) is enormous, ...

In NN#8, Chris finally invites a guest to join the podcast rather than just sharing his own views. He cordially welcomes Dr. Emily Grubert to the show to discuss their respective complaints about defi...

The bulk of renewable energy and storage capacity added to the grid thus far has been from large, utility-scale systems. But the potential for smaller distributed energy resources (DERs) is enormous, ...

Most media organizations are still failing to make the critical link between climate change and the wildfires, record heat, and other climate disasters we are witnessing, but a few are getting it righ...

It’s time for energy and climate modelers to start trying to tell the world what’s likely to happen, and show them how to phase out fossil fuels completely.

As data centers continue to be built across the US and elsewhere, popular resistance to them is mounting in reaction to rising grid power costs and resource demands. Accordingly, regulators and legisl...

We review the arguments for and against the idea that the Iran war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz will accelerate the global energy transition.

The summer of 2026 is bringing the most compelling argument yet for the energy transition: Intolerable, deadly, damaging heat.