Investor Shayle Kann is asking big questions about how to decarbonize the planet: How cheap can clean energy get? Will artificial intelligence speed up climate solutions? Where is the smart money going into climate technologies? Every week on Catalyst, Shayle explains the world of climate tech with prominent experts, investors, researchers, and executives. Produced by Latitude Media.
241 episodes transcribedToday virtually all AI compute takes place in centralized data centers, driving the demand for massive power infrastructure. But as workloads shift f...
Big construction projects in the U.S. are notoriously unpredictable, often finishing over budget and behind schedule. Part of the problem is the inher...
The bottleneck holding back AI is a scarcity of power, or so goes the story. That may be true — and plenty of reporting backs it up — but different ac...
After years of stalled transmission buildout, there are new signs of progress. Earlier this month, SPP approved $8.6 billion in transmission projects...
Across the country, people are asking the same question: why is it so hard to build in America? From transmission lines to clean energy factories, pr...
A few years ago, industry and political leaders embraced hydrogen as a solution to a laundry list of hard-to-abate decarbonization challenges — steel...
A big problem with using artificial intelligence to discover new materials? It struggles to predict beyond its training data. That means AI might be b...
Last Thursday, Energy Secretary Chris Wright directed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to consider rulemaking to fast-track interconnection fo...
We’ve covered AI’s massive power appetite in depth over the past year – with good reason. It’s the driving force behind much of the change and uncerta...
As AI reshapes the industrial landscape, companies are questioning whether the grid can keep pace. Permitting delays, transmission constraints, and re...
In the climate space, every idea sits somewhere along the hype continuum. Some command outsize attention. Others fly under the radar despite big poten...
Jamie Daggett started his career as a mechanical engineer working for cleantech startups in Silicon Valley. But after five startups and three buyouts,...
Yesterday, Base Power announced a $1 billion series C, giving the residential battery company an eye-popping $4 billion post-money valuation. Base man...
Demand response was the original distributed energy resource. In its early days, it was surprisingly manual: a grid operator would call up a large loa...
Agricultural byproducts like corn stover, wood chips, and soybean husks typically get left to decompose and release carbon dioxide. Don’t call them “w...
A decade ago, DERs were hot. The hype was that things like batteries, smart devices, and other distributed energy technologies would offset the need f...
The idea of colocating data centers with behind-the-meter generation is picking up steam, including large projects in Memphis, Texas, and Utah develop...
You sent in great questions, and today we’re answering them. In this episode, Shayle hands it over to Lara Pierpoint, the managing director of Trellis...
Adding flexibility to data center loads could ease strain on the grid and reduce the need for costly new generation. And, according to one study, shav...
Editor's note: With the Trump administration's efforts to roll back California's electric trucking rules, there's new attention on heavy duty transp...
