Chris Nelder
Resilience.org
California, United States
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Past articles by Chris:
Energy Transition Show: 6-Year Anniversary Show
In this show, we welcome back energy researcher Jonathan Koomey to help us review some of the hot topics in energy transition → Read More
No Limits
Are there fundamental limits to the energy transition that will slow it down, or prevent us from decarbonizing our energy systems? → Read More
Resilient and Reliable Power
As areas like California and Texas struggle amid wildfires, extreme freezes, high winds and other challenges, and take measures to keep the lights on, it’s worth pausing to consider what “resilient” and “reliable” grid power means from the perspective of grid planning. → Read More
Energy and Emissions after COVID
What trajectory of global energy consumption and carbon emissions can we expect as the world starts to recover from the COVID pandemic in the years ahead? → Read More
Hydrogen Economy 2.0 Part 2
This is part two of our interview with Dr. Simon Evans of Carbon Brief about their extensive survey of the developing hydrogen economy. → Read More
Energy and Climate in the Biden Administration
What will the Biden-Harris administration mean for America’s energy transition, its relationship with the rest of the world, and for global action on climate? → Read More
The Economic Superorganism
Will we run into fundamental limits on resources and debt? Or can human ingenuity and technological innovation continue to overcome any limits we encounter? → Read More
Internalizing Climate Risk
From ‘natural’ disasters causing property damage, to climate mitigation measures rendering fossil fuel assets unburnable, to potential impacts of climate change on agricultural production, energy, food, insurance, real estate, and other sectors, it’s clear that private sector companies and all kinds of investments stand to suffer significant losses as a consequence of climate change. → Read More
Energy Basics: The Electricity Business and Power Markets
We hope these episodes will give you a bit more familiarity with the terms and concepts of energy, and help to fill in some of the knowledge that you were never offered in school. → Read More
Energy Basics: What is Energy?
If you have found yourself occasionally challenged to follow some of the more technical conversations we have here, or even if you just want to brush up on the fundamentals, this mini-series is for you! → Read More
Transition as Wildfire Adaptation in California
We are fortunate to have Michael Wara as our guest in this episode—a bona fide expert on the subject who is a member of the state-appointed wildfire commission in California—to help us think through this complex web of issues and understand how to start plotting a new path into the future. → Read More
Energy Transition in India and Southeast Asia, Part 1
India is more likely one of the world’s great success stories in energy transition than one of the world’s largest upcoming carbon emitters. → Read More
Is Transition Worth It?
Are investments in energy transition, especially for public dollars in the form of incentives or subsidies, worth it? Do investments pay off? → Read More
Foreign Aid for Microgrids
If you wanted to build a standalone microgrid in Africa powered by local renewable resources, and make it able to run a local clinic, how would you do it? → Read More
Community Choice Aggregations (CCAs)
What are community choice aggregations, or CCAs, and why are they suddenly playing such a huge role in wholesale power markets? → Read More
How to Limit Warming to 1.5°C without CCS
We explore a new paper outlining a climate scenario that would limit warming to 1.5°C without relying on negative emission technologies. → Read More
The Future of Solar
The cost of solar has dropped so quickly that we’re suddenly in a world nobody really anticipated. Utility power procurement is having to pivot to solar → Read More
Western Grid Regionalization
California and 12 other US states, plus parts of Canada and Mexico, are considering grid regionalization, in order to increase the flow of reliable, affordable, and renewable power across the West. → Read More
Climate Science – Jet Stream
In this ninth part of our mini-series on climate science, we turn to one of the key suspects in extreme weather events we have experienced in recent years—the shifting shape of the North Atlantic jet stream. → Read More
Ask Eric Gimon
In this episode, energy expert Eric Gimon answers questions submitted by Energy Transition Show subscribers on a wide range of topics... → Read More