What Does The Nuclear Company Do?
In the past few years, something surprising has happened in American energy policy: States and utilities have started trying to build new nuclear plants.A new kind of company — the nuclear developer —...
23 Sep 53min
Starting a Giant Online Data Platform Is the Easy Part
America has some of the world’s best data about its own internal energy, industrial economy, and carbon emissions. That’s thanks to a federal agency called the U.S. Energy Information Administration, ...
16 Sep 35min
Shift Key Classic: What Is a Watt?
As we catch up from summer vacation, we’re bringing you a favorite from the Shift Key archive. We’ll be back in your feed with more fresh episodes starting next week.What is the difference between ene...
9 Sep 47min
How to Understand America’s Gigantic Natural Gas Buildout
The United States is staring down a natural gas buildout of gigantic proportions.Amazon wants to build what would be the country’s largest power plant in Texas — and run it entirely on natural gas. No...
2 Sep 50min
Trump’s Clean Energy Repeal Was Even More Costly Than We Thought
Two years ago, Donald Trump made an outlandish campaign promise: He would cut Americans’ power bills in half.It was a ridiculous, impossible pledge — but even so, the affordability problem didn’t need...
27 Aug 1h 3min
Who Pays for Wildfire Prevention? If You’re in California, You Do — in Your Power Bill.
California now has the most expensive electricity in the continental United States. It also has expensive housing … and an increasingly broken home insurance market.Are the three phenomena linked? The...
20 Aug 41min
Why This El Niño Looks Like a Monster
Every few years, the Pacific Ocean’s surface waters become especially warm near the equator, a climatic phenomenon known as El Niño.El Niño is a normal part of the climate system, but even in a normal...
12 Aug 47min
