Energi Talks

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.

Markham interviews Oliver Sheldrick of Clean Energy Canada about his report, Catalyzing Change: Why Canada Needs a Roadmap to Net-zero Chemistry.

Markham interviews Dr. James Jeffs of UK-based IDTechX about his new report, “Autonomous Trucks 2024-2044: Technologies, Trends, Forecasts.”

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.

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.” 

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.

Markham interviews Rob Gramlich of Grid Strategies in Washington, DC.

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.

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.

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. 

Markham interviews Dr. Tilo Buehler, global product manager for Hitachi Energy's Grid Edge Solutions.

Markham interviews Betsy Agar, director of the Pembina Institute's buildings program, about British Columbia's recently announced clean energy strategy .

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?  

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.”

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.

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.

Markham interviews Flavio Volpe, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers Association.

Markham interviews Stephen Ezell, Vice President, Global Innovation Policy, and Director, Center for Life Sciences Innovation at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.

Markham interviews energy economist and modeller Dr. Chris Bataille. Note: in the introduction, Markham incorrectly said that the Government of Canada commissioned the report. In fact it was the Government of Alberta.

Markham interviews Alberta Senator Paula Simons, a former veteran journalist, about Bill C-50, the Sustainable Jobs Act, which passed in the Senate of Canada on June 18.

Markham interviews Colin McKerracher, Head of Clean Transport at BloombergNEF, which recently released its EV Outlook 2024.

Markham interviews John O'Donnell, CEO, of Rondo Heat Battery, about applications in the Alberta oil sands.

Markham interviews Justin Reynolds, CEO of Maharlika Carbon Technologies.

Markham interviews Joanna Kyriazis, EV analyst with Clean energy Canada.

Markham interviews VP of Policy and Strategy Rachel Doran of Clean Energy Canada.