The Power Hour

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast where host Jack Spencer invites leading energy and environment policy experts to discuss the days most pressing issues. Informative and entertaining, the Power Hour gives listeners the opportunity to be a fly on the wall for no holds barred conversations that are sure to educate as well as, just maybe, put a smile on your face. Today’s episode dives deep into the...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with leading national experts and today that issue is data centers and energy use. The headlines are filled with energy and environment news but what is the story behind the story? Jack invites energy policy insider, Washington Times columnist, former Trump admin official, Power Hour...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with leading national experts and today that issue is data centers and energy use. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, everyone has an opinion on data centers. As with any discussion of national importance, the facts are quickly overtaken by opinion and rhetoric, and the result is frustration by e...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with leading national experts. High fuel prices remain top of mind for most Americans. Whether it’s the price at the pump or at the grocery store, energy costs impact us all. Luckily, the United States is blessed with some of the most abundant energy resources in the world and one so...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with leading national experts. Record high diesel prices are affecting all Americans as these costs increase prices throughout the economy. Some have begun calling for a ban on diesel fuel exports in response. Though tempting, such a policy shift could leave the United States worse o...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with leading national experts. The United States is facing an energy supply crisis. Demand is soring while supply is snoring—and everyone knows why.  The permitting process for any large infrastructure project simply takes too long and is too expensive, yet the political process keep...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy, environmental, and, as it turns out, other policy issues with leading national experts. Americans are living longer than ever before. But are we living healthier and happier? It sure seems like there has been an increase in chronic diseases, allergies, and developmental disorders. Have there been? And what is caus...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. Jack welcomes Power Hour alum, Nick Loris, President, C3 Solutions, back to the program to continue their recent conversation. This week, Jack and Nick leave the past behind and focus on what still needs to happen on energy and environment.  The cover data...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. Jack welcomes Power Hour alum, Nick Loris, President, C3 Solutions, to the program this week to discuss the many energy and environment policy victories that the conservative movement has achieved in recent months. From tackling efficiency mandates to incre...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental  policy issues with top national experts. With the conflict in the Middle East, is now really a good idea for the United States to be cooperating with Saudi Arabia on new commercial nuclear projects? Jack invites  Ted Jones —The Nuclear Energy Institute’s Senior Director for National Security and...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with leading national experts.  For today’s episode, Jack invites Mark Mills, Executive Director, National Center for Energy Analytics, for an extraordinary conversation about energy policy.   Mark’s technical background, policy experience, and intellect make him one of the most resp...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with leading experts. It is no secret that nuclear energy is gaining attention these days and that should be no surprise. It is clean, reliable, and secure. But more than that, what make nuclear unique is its flexibility and scalability. It is not tied to the same infrastructure requ...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with leading national experts.  Jack invites The Heritage Foundation’s Senior Research Fellow Jason Hayes this week to talk about the recent Canadian wildfires.  Aside from being a leading policy expert, Jason has worked as a forester and back woods park ranger and is the perfect per...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with leading national experts.  It has been decades since an American company successfully competed to supply enriched uranium to fuel commercial power reactors.  One company is trying to change that.   That company is  General Matter  and its COO and co-founder, Lee Robinson, joins...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with leading national experts.  On this episode, Jack learns from Jonathan Lesser, PhD,  how renewable portfolio standards and other energy mandates cause higher electricity prices and less reliable energy systems.  Dr. Lesser’s decades of experience studying how power is generated,...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental  policy issues with national experts.  Jack is joined this week by his Heritage Foundation colleague, Sarah Wagoner.  Sarah is an environmental policy scholar who recently wrote about Virginia’s move to rejoin the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.  Among other issues, Sarah and Jack talk about h...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental  policy issues with national experts.  Joining Jack this week is energy and environment policy legend and Power Hour alum, Myron Ebell.  As you might have guessed, Jack and Myron, who is now with the  American Lands Council , spend a lot of time discussing why a decentralized, free enterprise appr...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental  policy issues with national experts.  Jack invites the real AOC,  Amy O. Cooke ,   Always On Energy’s  President and Chairman of the Board.  Amy is also a Visiting Energy Fellow at the State Policy Network where she chairs SPN’s  Energy Policy Working Group .  Of particular interest, Jack and Amy...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental  policy issues with national experts.  Jack has a fascinating conversation with  Everstar AI  CEO,  Kevin Kong  on today’s episode.  Kevin makes a compelling argument that radical shifts in nuclear power’s underlying economics will be made possible with AI technology.  Whether during the regulator...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental  policy issues with top national experts.  Jack invites Peter Okrasa, founder and Chief Investment Officer of Pioneer Nuclear Energy Group to the Power Hour today.  Peter is an investor and entrepreneur who is applying his decades of investment experience to forge a new path for commercial nuclear...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental  policy issues with top national experts.   Ted Ellis  of the  America First Policy Institute  joins Jack this week for a wide-ranging discussion on energy policy.  Ted, who bring experience from Capital Hill, is Campaign Director, Power America and Deputy Director, Energy and Environment at AFPI,...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental  policy issues with top national experts.  The Power Hour expands its horizon with this discussion.  Jack talks with Terri Hall of Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom (TURF) about how our freedom to drive where we want, when we want is being threatened.  Terri is an activist who got sick and tir...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental  policy issues with top national experts.  Jack invites Chris Mowry of Type One Energy to the Power Hour this week to continue our discussion on fusion energy.  Chris explains in detail how fusion works and why it is such a promising energy source.  From the fuel to the economics to the technology...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental  policy issues with top national experts.  This week Jack invites Jackie Siebens of Helion, one of the nation’s leading fusion energy companies, to the Power Hour for a fascinating conversation about this exciting technology.  They discuss how the technology works, how close it is to deployment, w...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts, or sometimes future top national experts.  In fact,  Jack invited three more young professionals to with three very different perspectives to continue the discussion.  Don’t worry.  It is a different conversation.  This time Jack is joined by Laura Escher,...