Volts by David Roberts

What's Volts about?

Volts is a podcast about leaving fossil fuels behind. I've been reporting on and explaining clean-energy topics for almost 20 years, and I love talking to politicians, analysts, innovators, and activists about the latest progress in the world's most important fight. (Volts is entirely subscriber-supported. Sign up!)

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Volts episodes:

What you need to know about the new EPA power plant standards

The energy transition's 5 supervillains and 5 superheroes

Making geothermal heat pumps work for big buildings

Rising electricity demand requires new gas plants? Not so fast.

Why "transferable" tax credits are such a big deal

What's going on with China these days?

Fashion's climate impact and how to reduce it

How much can urban land use policy do for the climate?

How the EPA will spend $27 billion in carbon-reduction funds

Now is the time for distributed energy

Biden sets out to supercharge industrial decarbonization

What's the deal with these methane satellites?

What's the deal with "scope 3" emissions?

Getting ready for IRA 2

How's IRA doing?

Industrial policy: what it is, how Biden's doing it, and how it could be done better

The obscure but extremely important battle over building codes

So you want to electrify your home

Nuclear? Perhaps!

The Democrats' new consensus bill would supercharge transmission

The current state of unions in America

Another hot rocks company gets in the storage game

One easy way to boost the grid: upgrade the power lines

Electrifying battery recycling

Michigan targets clean electricity and faster permitting

Transitioning off of fossil gas in Australia

The Chevron Doctrine: what it is and why it matters that the Supreme Court might kill it

A Connecticut reformer is shaking up utility regulation

Decarbonizing a sprawling university system

Volts podcast: Will Toor on Colorado's burst of clean energy policy

We are closing in on zero-carbon cement

Getting better at mining the minerals needed for clean energy

What's going on with offshore wind?

Getting local communities on board with renewable energy, Australia edition

The Farm Bill is the most important climate bill this Congress will pass

A note to subscribers on Volts' third anniversary

Checking in on solar power

Managing a distributed grid

FERC is about to make some very important decisions about transmission

An insider's view of the Biden years in clean energy policy

The cheapest way to permanently sequester carbon involves ... fizzy water

What rural people actually think about clean energy

The Volts/Catalyst pod crossover you didn't know you were waiting for

What? The sun isn't always shining?!

What's the deal with district energy?

What's the deal with Iceland?

Reflecting on 20 years in political journalism

A super-battery aimed at decarbonizing industry

Minnesota forces transportation planners to take climate change seriously

The campaign for public power in Maine

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