# Volts

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Official site: https://www.volts.wtf/podcast
Author: David Roberts
Episodes: 427

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## Episodes
- [Can the UK stay the course with its climate plans?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/volts-3501275/can-the-uk-stay-the-course-with-its-climate-plans) — 2026-06-17T16:02:00+00:00
- [Why is NERC so worried about data centers?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/volts-3501275/why-is-nerc-so-worried-about-data-centers) — 2026-06-10T16:02:00+00:00
- [This oil shock won't be like the others](https://stenobird.com/podcast/volts-3501275/this-oil-shock-won-t-be-like-the-others) — 2026-06-05T16:02:25+00:00
- [Are plug-in DERs going to spark a grid revolution?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/volts-3501275/are-plug-in-ders-going-to-spark-a-grid-revolution) — 2026-06-03T16:02:00+00:00
- [Giving clean electricity a political voice of its own](https://stenobird.com/podcast/volts-3501275/giving-clean-electricity-a-political-voice-of-its-own) — 2026-05-29T16:02:00+00:00
- [A limited defense of Biden's everything-bagel industrial policy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/volts-3501275/a-limited-defense-of-biden-s-everything-bagel-industrial-policy) — 2026-05-27T16:02:00+00:00
- [How to phase out residential gas equitably](https://stenobird.com/podcast/volts-3501275/how-to-phase-out-residential-gas-equitably) — 2026-05-22T16:02:00+00:00
- [Sooner than you think, electricity is going to be cheap, abundant, and boring](https://stenobird.com/podcast/volts-3501275/sooner-than-you-think-electricity-is-going-to-be-cheap-abundant-and-boring) — 2026-05-20T16:02:00+00:00
- [Telling the story of the grid](https://stenobird.com/podcast/volts-3501275/telling-the-story-of-the-grid) — 2026-05-15T16:03:18+00:00
- [Electrifying industrial steam with heat pumps](https://stenobird.com/podcast/volts-3501275/electrifying-industrial-steam-with-heat-pumps) — 2026-05-13T16:02:00+00:00
- [The case for using prices rather than VPPs to coordinate distributed energy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/volts-3501275/the-case-for-using-prices-rather-than-vpps-to-coordinate-distributed-energy) — 2026-05-08T16:02:00+00:00
- [Streamlining the difficult work of whole-home retrofits](https://stenobird.com/podcast/volts-3501275/streamlining-the-difficult-work-of-whole-home-retrofits) — 2026-05-06T16:02:00+00:00
- [Enabling ordinary people to invest in renewable energy projects](https://stenobird.com/podcast/volts-3501275/enabling-ordinary-people-to-invest-in-renewable-energy-projects) — 2026-04-29T16:02:00+00:00
- [Tom Steyer wants to be California's climate governor](https://stenobird.com/podcast/volts-3501275/tom-steyer-wants-to-be-california-s-climate-governor) — 2026-04-27T16:02:00+00:00
- [The big stories from the last year in electricity](https://stenobird.com/podcast/volts-3501275/the-big-stories-from-the-last-year-in-electricity) — 2026-04-22T16:02:00+00:00
- [Life as a clean energy journalist in an age of madness](https://stenobird.com/podcast/volts-3501275/life-as-a-clean-energy-journalist-in-an-age-of-madness) — 2026-04-20T16:03:16+00:00
- [Climate finance, interrupted](https://stenobird.com/podcast/volts-3501275/climate-finance-interrupted) — 2026-04-17T16:02:00+00:00
- [Doing data centers the not-dumb way](https://stenobird.com/podcast/volts-3501275/doing-data-centers-the-not-dumb-way) — 2026-04-15T16:02:00+00:00
- [Ruggedized solar power for the hard places](https://stenobird.com/podcast/volts-3501275/ruggedized-solar-power-for-the-hard-places) — 2026-04-10T16:00:00+00:00
- [Why climate funders don't fund housing policy, and why they oughtta](https://stenobird.com/podcast/volts-3501275/why-climate-funders-don-t-fund-housing-policy-and-why-they-oughtta) — 2026-04-08T02:12:58+00:00
- [Rethinking climate regulation from the ground up](https://stenobird.com/podcast/volts-3501275/rethinking-climate-regulation-from-the-ground-up) — 2026-04-03T16:02:00+00:00
- [Using more of the grid we’ve already built](https://stenobird.com/podcast/volts-3501275/using-more-of-the-grid-we-ve-already-built) — 2026-04-01T16:02:00+00:00
- [Should we block some sunlight to cool the planet?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/volts-3501275/should-we-block-some-sunlight-to-cool-the-planet) — 2026-03-27T16:02:00+00:00
- [For data centers, a little flexibility goes a long way](https://stenobird.com/podcast/volts-3501275/for-data-centers-a-little-flexibility-goes-a-long-way) — 2026-03-25T16:02:00+00:00
- [The high-stakes battle over energy affordability in New York](https://stenobird.com/podcast/volts-3501275/the-high-stakes-battle-over-energy-affordability-in-new-york) — 2026-03-20T16:02:00+00:00
- [A Tesla vet tries to master the VPP market](https://stenobird.com/podcast/volts-3501275/a-tesla-vet-tries-to-master-the-vpp-market) — 2026-03-18T16:02:00+00:00

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