Markham interviews Jessica McIlroy, manager of Pembina Institute's’s buildings program, about Pembina Institute new report, A Clean, Resilient Future: Recommendations for Advancing British Columbia’s Net-Zero Energy Economy, which outline a roadmap for the province to build a cleaner economy.
Sep 19, 2024•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Markham interviews Andries Wantenaar of UK-based Rethink Technology Research.
Sep 19, 2024•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Markham interviews Pranav Jaswani, technology analyst with UK-based IDTechX.
Sep 17, 2024•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Markham interviews Auke Hoekstra, energy transition researcher at the Eindhoven University of Technology, where he founded the NEON research program.
Sep 13, 2024•40 min•Ep 352•Transcript available on Metacast Markham interviews Joanna Kyriazis of Clean Energy Canada.
Sep 12, 2024•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Markham interviews University of Alberta professor Laurie Adkin, whose scholarship includes “Petro-Universities and the Production of Knowledge for the Post-carbon Future,” in How Corporate Power Blocks Energy Democracy,” edited by William Carroll.
Sep 11, 2024•58 min•Ep 350•Transcript available on Metacast Markham interviews Gil McGowan, president of the Alberta Federation of Labour, about workers and the energy transition. Gil also took questions from the audience.
Sep 10, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Ep 349•Transcript available on Metacast Markham interviews Anders Hove, a member of the China Energy Research Programme at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, about his new study, “Clean energy innovation in China: fact and fiction, and implications for the future.”
Sep 10, 2024•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Markham interviews US News’ expert automotive reviewer Zach Doell.
Sep 05, 2024•24 min•Ep 347•Transcript available on Metacast Markham interviews public interest lawyer Drew Yewchuk.
Aug 30, 2024•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Markham interviews Leslie Chang, one of the Inflation Reduction Act authors and director of strategy and policy for Caelux, a California-based solar startup.
Aug 30, 2024•46 min•Ep 345•Transcript available on Metacast Markham interviews economist Dr. Chris Bataille. Related links: 1. Canada implementing measures to protect Canadian workers and key economic sectors from unfair Chinese trade practices - August 26, 2024 news release 2. What if all the cars in the world are made in China? With Michael Dunne - Episode 335 3. Should Canada slap 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs? - Episode 326...
Aug 27, 2024•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Markham interviews Dr. Zoe Liu about her Foreign Affairs article titled, “China’s Real Economic Crisis: Why Beijing Won’t Give Up on a Failing Model.” She is the Maurice R. Greenberg Fellow for China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of “Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global Ambitions.”
Aug 15, 2024•47 min•Ep 343•Transcript available on Metacast Markham interviews Jordan Dye, executive director of the Business Renewables Centre-Canada, which released a report that calculated the cost of the Alberta government’s wind and solar moratorium for municipal tax revenues.
Aug 09, 2024•24 min•Ep 342•Transcript available on Metacast Markham interviews Oliver Sheldrick of Clean Energy Canada about his report, Catalyzing Change: Why Canada Needs a Roadmap to Net-zero Chemistry.
Aug 02, 2024•41 min•Ep 341•Transcript available on Metacast Markham interviews Dr. James Jeffs of UK-based IDTechX about his new report, “Autonomous Trucks 2024-2044: Technologies, Trends, Forecasts.”
Aug 01, 2024•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Markham interviews Bryan Spear, the CEO of Technosylva, whose company works with fire agencies and some of America’s biggest utilities to better monitor and forecast weather and wildfire risk scenarios.
Aug 01, 2024•32 min•Ep 339•Transcript available on Metacast Markham interviews Dr. M.V. Ramana, the Simons Chair in Global Disarmament and Human Security at the school of public policy and global affairs at UBC about his new book, “Nuclear is Not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change.”
Aug 01, 2024•41 min•Ep 338•Transcript available on Metacast Markham interviews Daan Walter of the Rocky Mountain Institute about a new report, The Battery Mineral Loop, which describes a strategy to address the rising demand for battery minerals.
Jul 29, 2024•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Markham interviews Rob Gramlich of Grid Strategies in Washington, DC.
Jul 23, 2024•27 min•Ep 336•Transcript available on Metacast Markham interviews Michael Dunne, automotive analyst and writer of the Dunne Insights Newsletter, and the main topic of the interview is the meteoric rise of China’s electric vehicle industry.
Jul 22, 2024•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Markham interviews Arvin Ganesan, CEO of US firm Fourth Power, which makes a utility-scale thermal battery technology that provides short- and long-duration energy storage for intermittent renewables.
Jul 16, 2024•27 min•Ep 334•Transcript available on Metacast Markham interviews Dr. Nick Laws and his University of Texas at Austin co-authors' recently published a paper in the Science Direct journal argues that expanding distributed energy resources like rooftop solar and battery storage might reduce the strain on old power grids.
Jul 02, 2024•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Markham interviews Dr. Tilo Buehler, global product manager for Hitachi Energy's Grid Edge Solutions.
Jul 02, 2024•35 min•Ep 332•Transcript available on Metacast Markham interviews Betsy Agar, director of the Pembina Institute's buildings program, about British Columbia's recently announced clean energy strategy .
Jun 29, 2024•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Markham interviews Alex Heil, senior economist at The Conference Board, about a new report, Smart Power: Will AI Spike Electricity Demand or Reduce It Through Efficiencies?
Jun 27, 2024•41 min•Ep 330•Transcript available on Metacast Markham interviews David Schlissel, director of resource planning analysis for the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, about a new report, “Small Modular Reactors: Still too expensive, too slow and too risky.”
Jun 26, 2024•40 min•Ep 329•Transcript available on Metacast Markham interviews Brendan Frank, director of policy and strategy for Clean Prosperity, and lead author of the new report, Nuclear for a Net-Zero Canada.
Jun 26, 2024•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast Markham interviews lawyer Andrew Gage of West Coast Environmental Law about the Sue Big Oil campaign to launch a class action lawsuit against oil companies to force them to help pay for climate change adaptations required in communities across British Columbia.
Jun 26, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep 327•Transcript available on Metacast Markham interviews Flavio Volpe, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers Association.
Jun 20, 2024•35 min•Ep 326•Transcript available on Metacast