Why climate tech startups get this one thing wrong

Why climate tech startups get this one thing ...

Up next

The rise of grid power electronics with Drew Baglino

For decades, the physical equipment underpinning the electric grid has remained largely unchanged: passive, "dumb" devices installed as far back as the 1970s that lack much real-time control. But today, in the face of skyrocketing energy demand, a new class of technologies has em ...  Show more

PJM and ERCOT navigate a capacity rollercoaster

Last year, the PJM capacity crunch became a focal point for an entire industry struggling to navigate the explosive growth of hyperscaler data centers. Yet even in the first two months of 2026, capacity prices have continued to skyrocket, and the economics of energy generation ha ...  Show more

Recommended Episodes

Keeping cleantech investment alive | With technological, economic and policy challenges mounting, how can we keep energy innovation on track?
Energy Gang

These are hard times for investment in low-carbon energy. The lack of progress in international climate negotiations, threats to policy support, and an increased awareness of the challenges of decarbonization, have created some strong headwinds. Everyone agrees that more break ...

  Show more

Introducing: The Green Blueprint
The Green Blueprint

We’ve already invented many of the solutions needed to decarbonize the global economy. But a big chunk of emission reductions will come from technologies that are not yet commercial. We don’t have decades to get these commercialized – we have years. So what can we learn from the ...  Show more

How can the grid help AI, and how can AI help the grid? Live from NYU at New York Climate Week, featuring leaders from Nvidia and Amazon | Energy Gang Live from Climate Week
Energy Gang

Recorded in front of a packed room at NYU’s Kimmel Center during Climate Week NYC, Ed Crooks and Amy Myers Jaffe moderate a debate on the high-stakes topic of AI and energy. They dig deep into the questions raised by the surge of investment in data centers: what it means for g ...

  Show more

Venture Capital and Deep Decarbonization (with Energy Impact Partners’ Shayle Kann)
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

Venture capitalists offer their investors outsized financial returns in exchange for taking on considerable risk. But what if that risk includes backing products where the economics of the end market aren’t clear? Moreover, what if the companies being supported have the non-fi ...

  Show more