What cleaning the grid means for Californians

When Charles Hua served as a senior policy advisor in the Department of Energy in 2023, he had an epiphany: some of the biggest hurdles to deploying powerful grid technologies are not technological, they’re regulatory. It was a realization that led him to dig into the world of en ...  Show more

Arushi Sharma Frank started working in the energy industry in the early 2010s and quickly learned how vital state and federal regulatory bodies are to the energy transition. Years later, as part of Tesla’s U.S. energy policy team, she convinced Texas regulators to allow Tesla to ...  Show more

We have recently witnessed spectacular black outs: South Australia 2016, Texas Uri 2021, California 2020-21-25 and Iberia 2025. We are not even mentioning fragile grids in the Global South. We will do an episode on those blackouts later this year.The U.S. electrical grid, now ove ...  Show more

What really happened during the Texas grid crisis and what does it say about the transition to clean energy and the future of utilities in America?

Our July episode is all about the energy grid! We discuss how electric grids work, the conditions of grids around the world, and emerging trends and policies that can improve grid sustainability and resiliency.

We are joined in the episode by Kristin ...