Energi Talks

Markham interviews Dr. Allison Macfarlane, director of the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia, chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 2012 to 2014, about her July, 2021 Foreign Affairs op-ed, "Is Nuclear Power the Way Forward to Combat the Climate Crisis?"

Markham interviews Stacy Noblet, senior director, Transportation Electrification, for global consultancy ICF, about her recent blog post, “How electric vehicles can drive our clean transportation future.”

Markham interviews Prof. Matthew Hoffmann, co-director of the environmental governance lab at the University of Toronto.

Markham interviews Dr. Michal Meidan, director of the China Energy Programme at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and author of the paper “China’s power crisis: Long-term goals meet short-term realities.”

Markham interviews Adam Dorr of RethinkX, an independent think tank co-founded by Tony Seba and James Arbib, about the new study, "Rethinking Climate Change."

Markham interviews Kingsmill Bond of Carbon Tracker about a new report, "Spiralling Disruption," which describes seven feedback loops that are driving disruption in the energy system.

Markham interviews Dr. Mark Jaccard, professor and director of the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University and appointed to the 9-member expert committee that advised BC Hydro during the recent Phase 2 review.

Markham interviews Jarod Kelly, principal energy systems analyst at Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, about GREET (Greenhouse Gases, Regulated Emissions and Energy Use in Technologies) model that the Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board - and 43,000 other users - use to compare vehicle emissions in the United States.

Markham interviews Andy Frank, an energy efficiency industry expert, president of Sealed, a retrofitting company based in New York, and a board member of Alliance for Clean Energy New York.

Markham interviews economist Kevin Birn of IHS MarkIt about the Oil Sands Pathways to Net Zero initiative launched on June 9.

Markham interviews Emil Dimanchev, PhD candidate at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, about his co-authored paper, “The role of hydropower reservoirs in deep decarbonization policy,” recently published in the journal Science Direct.

Markham interviews Dr. Douglas Macdonald, senior lecturer emeritus, School of the Environment, University of Toronto, about his book, CARBON PROVINCE, HYDRO PROVINCE: THE CHALLENGE OF CANADIAN ENERGY AND CLIMATE FEDERALISM.

Markham interviews US Energy Association acting executive director Sheila Hollis and senior program coordinator Elise Voorhis about the agency's recent work helping Uganda modernize and grow the country's electricity system.

Markham interviews TD Economics economist Francis Fong, co-author of "Don’t Let History Repeat: Canada’s Energy Sector Transition and the Potential Impact on Workers.

Markham interviews Dr. Chris Bataille, an associate researcher at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, located in Paris.

Markham interviews Behnam Zakeri, research scholar with the Integrated Assessment and Climate Change Research Group about his co-authored paper, "Policy options for enhancing economic profitability of residential solar photovoltaic with battery energy storage."

Markham interviews economist Dr. Vaibhav Chaturvedi of India's Council on Energy, Environment, and Water about his recent paper, "Peaking and Net-Zero for India’s Energy Sector CO2 Emission."

Markham interviews Dr. Christina Hoicka, associate professor in sustainable energy economics, about her team's work developing a model to explain the diffusion of low-carbon innovations.

Markham interviews Prof. Mark Winfield, an expert in sustainable energy and environmental policy, about the crisis in Ontario's electricity, including the absence of provincial government climate and energy policy.

Markham interviews utility veteran Val Jensen about the electric utility of the future. New technologies, changing consumer needs, and climate policies are just some of the forces transforming the current utility business model.

Markham interviews Steve Pacala about the co-authored study, "Accelerating Decarbonization of the United States Energy System," which identifies key technological and socio-economic goals that must be achieved to put the United States on the path to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The report presents a policy blueprint outlining critical near-term actions for the first decade (2021-2030)...

Markham interviews Barbara Finamore, senior attorney and Asia Director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, about her Oxford Energy Institute article, "Clean tech innovation in China and its impact on the geopolitics of the energy transition."

Markham interviews economist Prof. Jim Williams of the University of San Francisco about his co-authored paper, Carbon-Neutral Pathways for the United States.

Markham interviews economist Jason Dion of the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices about his new report, "CANADA'S NET ZERO FUTURE: Finding our way in the global transition."

Markham interviews Dr. Johannes Urpelainen about how China has become the leading financer of wind, solar, and other green energy projects. They also discuss China's Belt and Road Initiative and why China continues to finance and operate coal power plants in developing countries around the world.