NEW Episode - The Great Energy Showdown: Solar Takes All?

Sara's back for the launch of Season 7 of Energy vs Climate!

For our first episode, David, Sara, and Ed discuss whether solar will be the big energy winner. Has solar energy already won? What’s driving its rapid ascent? And what does it mean for energy production and policy here in Canada?

Show Notes:

Breast Cancer Screening – Please consider getting yourself screened for breast cancer

(02:10) The Story of Taxol: Nature and Politics in the Pursuit of an Anti-Cancer Drug - Jordan Goodman, Vivien Walsh

(5:25) Solar PV is set to become the largest renewable energy source by 2029 | IEA

(11:00) Energy vs Climate: How Solar Became Cheap with Greg Nemet

(13:58) Surprisingly diverse innovations led to dramatically cheaper solar panels | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(16:42) Jessika Trancik - IDSS:  Evaluating the causes of cost reduction in photovoltaic modules - ScienceDirect

(23:30) Jenny Chase Making Solar Panels Is 'Horrible' Business. The US Still Wants It. | Financial Post

(26:50) Cost Reductions and Complexity: Accelerating Low-Carbon Innovation: Joule

(30:10) AP1000® Pressurized Water Reactor | Westinghouse Nuclear

(30:56) Leveraging Lessons Learned from India’s Unified Payments Interface for Digital Transformation in Asia and the Pacific | Asian Development Bank

(33:02) Post by @ember-energy.org — Bluesky (African Solar Growth)

(39:22) Opinion | Is Decarbonization Dead? - The New York Times

(40:28) Seasonal Renewable Electricity Challenges in Alberta by Kristina Pearson and Sara Hastings-Simon

(48:18) Transmission vs Climate with Michael Skelly

About Your EvC Co-Hosts:

David Keith is Professor and Founding Faculty Director, Climate Systems Engineering Initiative at the University of Chicago. He is the founder of Carbon Engineering and was formerly a professor at Harvard University and the University of Calgary. He splits his time between Canmore and Chicago.

Sara Hastings-Simon studies energy transitions at the intersection of policy, business, and technology. She’s a policy wonk, a physicist turned management consultant, and a professor at the University of Calgary and Director of the Master of Science in Sustainable Energy Development.

Ed Whittingham is a clean energy policy/finance professional specializing in renewable electricity generation and transmission, carbon capture, carbon removal and low carbon transportation. He is a Public Policy Forum fellow and formerly the executive director of the Pembina Institute, a national clean energy think tank.

Produced by Amit Tandon & Bespoke Podcasts

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