Open Circuit
The energy transition, decoded. Every week, three industry veterans explore the business models, tech breakthroughs, and market shakeups that are driving the biggest industrial transformation in history. The show offers a rare insider's view of the clean energy market.
Episodes
April 30, 2026 • 67 mins
As the oil crisis persists, the world is running on borrowed time and borrowed oil. Inventories are draining, and the pain that started in Asian petrochemical plants and Indian cooking fuel shipments is now spreading west.
Now, the traders who move the world's oil are saying there's a reckoning coming for the rest of the world.
This week, we dive into what happens if this keeps going. Does a shock this big finally weaken the wor...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
April 28, 2026 • 26 mins
What actually kills a clean energy project?
It’s not always interconnection delays, permitting, or supply chains. Sometimes, it’s the deal itself.
Even after years of development, hundreds of documents, and months of diligence, projects still fall apart late in the process — sometimes just days before closing. Often, it’s because risks aren’t surfaced early enough.
The result: capital gets tied up in deals that don’t move forwar...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
April 20, 2026 • 55 mins
With electricity now the limiting factor in the race to build superintelligence, the tech industry's response has been very Silicon Valley: move fast, break things, and relentlessly scale.
The result? An overtaxed grid, a wave of community pushback, and an obsession with jet engines, ship turbines, and small modular reactors that don’t solve today’s problems.
In this live episode, recorded at the Transition-AI conference in San F...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
April 10, 2026 • 63 mins
For a long time, natural gas was considered a bridge fuel. Even the gas industry called it a bridge, working hand in hand with environmental groups to push coal off the grid.
Then came the pushback over methane leaks, air quality in homes, and residential gas connections. The industry got so rattled it started hiring influencers to win back public opinion.
Well, all that has changed radically. Who needs influencers when you have...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
April 3, 2026 • 63 mins
America’s grid problems are often framed as physical constraints: equipment shortages, interconnection backlogs, and a lack of powered land.
But are we missing an opportunity to bring bigger ideas to the table as we reindustrialize and electrify the economy?
This week, Jane Flegal, a senior fellow at the Searchlight Institute, joins the show to talk about why our biggest constraint is an inability to plan, coordinate, and build a...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
March 31, 2026 • 28 mins
For years, demand-side programs like energy efficiency and demand response were treated as compliance, not real resources.
Now, that’s changing.
As electricity demand surges, utilities are facing a new reality: they can’t build infrastructure fast enough or affordably enough. So they’re starting to look in a different place for capacity: inside homes and businesses.
In this episode, Stephen Lacey speaks with Hannah Bascom, chie...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
March 27, 2026 • 55 mins
We’re entering an electricity supercycle that is reshaping how power gets built, where it gets built, and who controls it.
Across the U.S., developers are scrambling to lock up land with access to electricity. And the century-old grid is being pushed in ways it wasn’t designed for. It’s also sparking a new debate about how exactly to modernize the grid.
For all the talk of capacity scarcity, the system sits idle for much of the t...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
March 20, 2026 • 79 mins
Everyone has a strong opinion on energy right now. If you’ve followed energy for a while, none of this is new. There have always been strong opinions — renewables versus fossil fuels, subsidies versus markets, activists versus infrastructure. But the intensity feels different right now.
People are arguing about everything: the speed of the transition, how to fix broken electricity markets, whether renewables raise or lower power p...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
March 13, 2026 • 62 mins
President Trump’s war with Iran has rattled global energy markets. Oil prices have surged, LNG markets are tightening, and shipping through the Strait of Hormuz — a chokepoint that carries roughly 20% of the world’s oil supply — has been severely disrupted.
Tankers are stalled, shipping costs are soaring, and energy markets are bracing for one of the largest oil supply disruptions in history.
The result: higher fuel prices, risin...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
March 6, 2026 • 59 mins
The politics of AI and electricity came to the White House this week.
On Wednesday, the biggest tech companies in the world — Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Oracle — gathered in Washington to sign what the administration is calling a “ratepayer protection pledge.” The promise: data centers will pay for their own power and grid integration costs.
But is anything actually changing? Or is it just political theater?
Th...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
February 27, 2026 • 65 mins
When President Trump kicked off an aggressive trade war, a lot of people predicted economic doom. But it didn’t happen.
We’re seeing something similar in clean energy right now with ever-shifting tariffs, half-written rules on foreign sourcing, and the weaponization of permitting. But capital hasn’t fled. In fact, it increased last year. So what is happening here?
According to new market intelligence from the clean energy finance...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
February 20, 2026 • 42 mins
This week, we’re featuring an episode of The Green Blueprint.
In this episode, Lara Pierpoint talks with Cindy Taff, CEO of Sage Geosystems.
Cindy and her team at Sage Geosystems are developing geothermal technology that could revolutionize energy storage. Instead of pumping water up a mountain, they pump it deep into the earth, providing cost-effective, long-term storage for intermittent renewable sources.
They’re piloting th...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
February 13, 2026 • 65 mins
This year alone, the biggest tech companies plan to spend more than $600 billion on physical infrastructure — eclipsing the railroad boom, the interstate highway system, and the Apollo space program.
But are investors starting to flinch?
This week, we examine the negative market reaction to tech earnings. Is Wall Street reacting to the infrastructure bottlenecks that stand in the way of building at that scale? Or are they worried...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
February 6, 2026 • 71 mins
2026 could be the year of the mega-IPO, with OpenAI, SpaceX, and Anthropic all rumored to be eyeing public markets. But for energy nerds and hot-rock lovers, there’s another IPO to watch: Fervo Energy.
With Fervo preparing for a long-anticipated IPO, the geothermal sector is heading into a moment of price discovery. It’s a test of whether next-generation geothermal has finally crossed a new commercialization threshold and becoming...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
January 29, 2026 • 76 mins
Electricity affordability has become the defining energy issue of 2026. As policymakers scramble for solutions, two very different playbooks are taking shape.
On one side, a blunt-force federal approach led by the Trump Administration that treats affordability like an emergency. Keep coal plants open. Force markets to change. Make large power users pay directly for new power plants through market interventions.
On the other, a qu...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
January 26, 2026 • 59 mins
It’s been nearly a year since a national energy emergency was declared, with big promises on prices and reliability. So we’re asking a simple question: how’s that going?
In this live episode of Open Circuit, recorded at the Power Resilience Forum in Houston, we take stock of a power system under growing strain. Outages are up, prices are up, markets are stressed, and grid reliability experts are warning of a “five-alarm fire.”
We...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
January 16, 2026 • 70 mins
Meta just unveiled the biggest-ever corporate deal for nuclear power. It’s a sprawling set of contracts for both existing plants and next-generation reactors that totals 6.6 gigawatts.
Just a few years ago, the conversation in the U.S. was about which nuclear plants were going to shut down next. Now, some of the world’s largest technology companies are trying to lock them up under long-term contracts, while building new ones.
But...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
January 9, 2026 • 66 mins
This is an episode with a lot of firsts: the first show of the year, the first full show on video, and the first with our new co-host, Caroline Golin.
In 2026, we’re launching a new chapter for Open Circuit as we sharpen our focus on the physical constraints shaping the energy transition — exploding power demand, grids that can’t keep up, tech companies reshaping electricity markets in real time, and investors trying to figure it ...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
December 19, 2025 • 54 mins
After more than 40 years in the energy industry, Katherine Hamilton is retiring. And that means she’s also retiring from the podcast after a decade behind the microphone.
In this farewell episode, Katherine shares insights into a career that spanned one of the most transformative periods in energy history. We’ll reflect on her accidental entry into grid engineering at Dominion Virginia Power in the 1980s, where she learned to desi...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
December 12, 2025 • 73 mins
This year, the energy industry changed faster than we could talk about it. We collectively said more than 225,000 words on this show — some of them were informed takes, some speculation. So how did they age?
This week, Stephen reaches into a stocking stuffed with quotes from past episodes, and Jigar and Katherine must decide to defend, update, or disown their own words.
Then, we honor the storylines and surprises that defined th...
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
Popular Podcasts
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
Post Run High features conversations with high-performing founders, athletes, artists, health and science experts, and leaders about what it really takes to succeed. Through honest, post-movement conversations, guests share how they’ve navigated challenges, built resilience, and used movement as a tool for clarity, discipline, and growth. Each episode explores the mindset behind performance — what keeps people going when things get hard — and offers tangible advice listeners can apply in their everyday lives.
Buck Sexton breaks down the latest headlines with a fresh and honest perspective! He speaks truth to power, and cuts through the liberal nonsense coming from the mainstream media. Interact with Buck by emailing him at teambuck@iheartmedia.com
Stop doomscrolling. Start decoding the tech rewiring your week - and your world. The Interface is the BBC's fiercely informed, fast and funny take on how tech is changing everything. Hosted by journalists Tom Germain, Karen Hao, and Nicky Woolf, each episode unpacks week-by-week the unfolding story of how technology is shaping all our futures. No guests. No jargon. Just three sharp voices debating the tech news stories that matter - whether they shook a government, broke the internet, or quietly tipped the balance of power. As TikTok shifts geopolitics, Trump drives digital shockwaves, Elon Musk expands his space-internet empire and AI reroutes the routines of everyday life - the trio ask: what world are the tech titans building for us? And do we want to live in it?