Renewable Energy SmartPod
The Renewable Energy SmartPod offers an inside look at the people, technologies and trends that are powering the energy transition. If you want to hear more about the role renewables are playing to decarbonize the global economy and combat climate change, this is the podcast for you. Follow us on Twitter @RenewablesPod or sign up for our newsletter: Renewable Energy SmartBrief.
Episodes
84 episodes
BP sells its US onshore wind business ... Moss Landing fire sparks BESS pushback
BP sells its US onshore wind business ... Utilities accelerate renewables projects ... Moss Landing sparks more BESS pushback ... Trump taps LaCerte for FERC ... Commerce plans new duty on Chinese graphite ... The EU marks a solar power milesto...
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3:41
Daily Dose of Renewables - July 17, 2025
Should Big Tech fret Interior Department's slow roll of wind and solar? ... Jigar Shah compares renewables now to fracking of the early 2000s ... Amazon's carbon emissions cllimb ... VPPs save the day in heat waves ... GOP districts come to gri...
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5:45
Daily Dose of Renewables - July 16, 2025
A salute to Cipher ... Renewables go missing in Pittsburgh ... The US threatens to pull out of the IEA ... Uncertainty persists for transferability of tax credits ... California bill tweaks net metering for home sales
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4:51
The State of the US Solar Industry
Sponsored by KPMG Policy shifts and market pressures are making big headlines in renewables industry in the US. Amid all the uncertainty, D...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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18:27
Congress Takes Aim at Tax Incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act
Sponsored by KPMGNegotiations currently taking place on Capitol Hill stand to have a dramatic impact on tax incentives in the Infla...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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42:24
How Integrated EPC Teams Are Streamlining Renewables Projects
From project development and permitting to interconnection, construction and startup, the experience of a fully integrated engineer-procure-construct (EPC) team can be a crucial driver of results for renewables projects. With that in mind, two ...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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26:20
State of the Industry: Offshore Wind - Part 2
Walt Musial, a principal engineer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, stops by the show to discuss the current state...
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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24:41
State of the Industry: Offshore Wind - Part 1
Sponsored by EDF RenewablesLearn more about Atlantic Shores Offshore WindThe offshore wind industr...
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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37:14
How Renewables Are Powering Heavy Industry and Data Centers
Wade Gungoll, CEO of Industrial Sun, and Christine Larson, ...
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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26:20
Geothermal Energy Digs Deep to Meet Surging Power Demand
Jason Peart, GM of Strategy and Development at Sage Geosystems, joins the show to outline the many ways geothermal ener...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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28:53
The Big Picture on Batteries - with Roger Miksad from Battery Council International
Sponsored by KPMGWith Climate Week in full swing, tons of speeches, meetings and presentations are taking place in New York, with an eye toward how the energy transition...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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23:44
Suzanne Leta from Fluence on the Policies (And Politics) of Domestic Manufacturing
Sponsored by KPMG and EDF RenewablesWith the electio...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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35:50
Checking in from RE+ with Ryan Pfaff from EDF Renewables
Sponsored by KPMGIn this special episode from RE+,...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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19:32
Checking in from RE+ with Jessica Libby from KPMG
Sponsored by EDF RenewablesThis special episode focusing on RE+ features insights from
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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11:06
Inside the Loan Programs Office with Chris Creed from the DoE
Sponsored by KPMG and Vinson & ElkinsChris Cr...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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30:46
Luis Silva from EDF Renewables Shares a Developer's Perspective on Financing the Energy Transition
Sponsored by KPMGMore resources from KPMG
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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23:08
Crux's Alfred Johnson Outlines Trends in the Market for Transferable Tax Credits
Sponsored by: EDF RenewablesThe Inflation Reduction Act has revolutionized how the energy transition is being financed. The IRA is chock full of tax credits...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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30:42
A Tale of Two Solar Markets in the US
Sponsored by: EDF RenewablesWhen it comes to the utility-scale and residential solar sectors in the US,
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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18:51
Grid Strategies' Rob Gramlich Talks Energy Storage and Transmission
This episode is sponsored by EDF RenewablesRob Gramlich, the founder and president of Grid Strategies, discusses the chall...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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29:23
GridStor's Chris Taylor Surveys the Battery Energy Storage Landscape
With the American Clean Power Association’s brand new RECHARGE conference taking place this week in Portland, Oregon, we decided to bring on a guest who is the leader of a b...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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35:36
The Road Ahead for Renewables
This episode is sponsored by EDF Renewables. Leaders from across the renewable energy industry are gathered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this week for the
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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30:19
Inflation Reduction Act Tax Trends Begin to Take Shape
This episode is sponsored by KPMGMore resources from KPMG:
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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34:18
The Role of Net Zero Buildings-as-a-Service in the Energy Transition
We can produce all the renewable energy we want, but the march to net zero will take an unnecessarily long time if all that power is being used in inefficient buildings. Buildings are responsible for about 40% of energy related carbon emissions...
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Season 2
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Episode 39
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30:20