Volts
A newsletter, podcast, & community focused on the technology, politics, and policy of decarbonization. In your inbox once or twice a week.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 57 minutes
- Episodes
- 357
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
A Connecticut reformer is shaking up utility regulation
In this episode, Chairman Marisa Gillett of Connecticut’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) talks about her aim to reform the cozy regulatory environment enjoyed by the state’s big utiliti…
Getting local communities on board with renewable energy, Australia edition
In this episode, Jarra Hicks of the Australian nonprofit Community Power Agency talks about addressing rural resistance to clean energy infrastructure through effective community engagement.
A note to subscribers on Volts' third anniversary
The first Volts post went up on Dec. 7, 2020. Believe it or not, that was almost three years ago. I want to mark Volts’ third birthday with a few reflections, a couple of fun announcements, and a req…
An insider's view of the Biden years in clean energy policy
As I previewed for Volts subscribers a few weeks ago, I attended the third annual Yale Clean Energy Conference last week. It was a blast! It’s always energizing (pardon the pun) to be surrounded by s…
The cheapest way to permanently sequester carbon involves ... fizzy water
What's the deal with Iceland?
Iceland aims to be the world’s first carbon-neutral nation; thanks in large part to hydropower and geothermal, it’s well on track to meet that goal by 2040. In this episode, Halla Hrund Logadóttir of…
