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Open Circuit

The energy transition, decoded. Every week, three industry veterans explore the tech breakthroughs, market shakeups, and policy shifts that are driving the biggest industrial transformation in history.

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40:18

How Tesla bootstrapped the Powerwall 2

Open Circuit ·

2025/06/06

This week, we’re featuring an episode of The Green Blueprint featuring Drew Baglino, a former SVP at Tesla. Subscribe here. In 2014, Drew Baglino was helping build Tesla's energy division with a passionate, scrappy team. Using parts from Tesla's vehicles, they created the first Powerwall home battery. But as demand grew, they hit a critical bottleneck: cell shortages. Customers across multiple markets were already excited about the Powerwall, but Drew’s team struggled to keep up with demand. With

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76:21

The abundance agenda meets scarcity politics

Open Circuit ·

2025/05/30

America is facing an uncomfortable question: do we know how to build anymore? House Republicans just passed a reconciliation bill that would repeal much of the Inflation Reduction Act while adding up to $5 trillion to the national debt. The legislation doesn't just gut clean energy incentives — it hinders the most realistic path to meeting exploding electricity demand. After leveraging hundreds of billions in clean energy investments, 80% flowing to Republican districts, every GOP House member

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61:45

A high-stakes energy showdown in Texas

Open Circuit ·

2025/05/23

Texans take pride in their competitive electricity market, a system designed to let the cheapest resources win. And that market is increasingly choosing clean energy, with wind, solar, and batteries dominating new generation. Nearly 40 gigawatts have been added in just four years, equivalent to the capacity of a mid-sized European country.This market-driven boom has unequivocally lowered costs and improved reliability. But now, in a major ideological reversal, some Texas lawmakers are trying to

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43:06

Tesla’s fork in the road

Open Circuit ·

2025/05/16

When Elon Musk canceled Tesla's affordable Model 2 last year to go all-in on Robotaxis, he may have made the most consequential decision in the company's history. As Chinese automaker BYD captures global market share with lower-cost vehicles and superior charging technology, has Tesla prematurely surrendered the market it created?"In his mind, I think he ushered in the EV revolution for the world, and that problem is solved, and now he wants to move on to AI and robotics," said Bloomberg reporter

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52:57

Fear and Loathing at the Department of Energy

Open Circuit ·

2025/05/09

The Department of Energy is losing talent at an alarming rate. Described by insiders as a "hostile takeover," the agency's transformation under Trump has pushed out thousands of scientists, engineers, and policy experts. What's left behind are gutted offices, stalled infrastructure projects, and billions in funding commitments thrown into question. This isn't a typical government transition — it's a systematic dismantling of America's energy brain trust. This week, we're joined by Latitude Media

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21:54

The battery solution for AI's power problem [parter...

Open Circuit ·

2025/05/07

Alan Cooper and Ricardo de Azevedo have been business partners since they were teenagers. Today, they're tackling one of the most critical infrastructure challenges of the AI revolution: how to manage the massive, volatile power demands of modern data centers.Founded in 2016, On.Energy has grown into an integrated energy storage company that designs, builds, and manages battery systems for customers across six countries. The company deploys batteries ranging from behind-the-meter commercial

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62:23

State of the transition: tariffs, shortages, data...

Open Circuit ·

2025/05/02

This week, we’re asking the central question of the energy transition: How fast are we going?Clean energy is bringing in $2 trillion of investment annually. Wind and solar now account for the vast majority of new electricity capacity globally. And we may already be at “peak trade” of fossil fuels. And yet, when we look at the share of renewables in final energy consumption, they’re increasing only incrementally around the world. At the current linear pace, meaningful decarbonization may take

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54:30

Who’s really paying AI’s power bill?

Open Circuit ·

2025/04/25

When tech giants build massive data centers to power AI, they're often negotiating confidential deals with utilities that few people will ever see — but that everyone might pay for. Harvard legal expert Ari Peskoe has uncovered a pattern across 40 state regulatory proceedings: special contracts between utilities and data centers being approved with minimal public scrutiny, potentially shifting billions in infrastructure costs to regular ratepayers. With tech companies planning up to $1 trillion

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59:27

A tsunami of uncertainty for clean energy

Open Circuit ·

2025/04/18

The business world is facing a tsunami of uncertainty. Across nearly every industry, investment is seizing up amid unpredictable tariffs and contradictory domestic policies. In this week’s episode of Open Circuit, we examine how this compounding uncertainty is impacting clean energy during a critical moment of spiking demand and rising costs. We dissect the signals from the market, revealing that despite the chaos, certain sectors are finding unexpected advantages. While utility-scale projects

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54:03

Tariff turmoil: energy dominance meets economic chaos

Open Circuit ·

2025/04/10

President Trump promised energy dominance. But his sweeping new tariffs are delivering the opposite – creating unprecedented uncertainty for every sector of the energy economy.Faced with a market in revolt, the president blinked. Just hours after his tariffs went into effect, he put a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs, keeping a 10% baseline tariff and a 125% tariff on China. In this episode of Open Circuit, we examine the contradictions at the heart of the administration's economic agenda

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61:15

Tariffs, localization, and a new global energy order

Open Circuit ·

2025/04/04

It's fair to say the last decade was the climate era of the energy transition. From the Paris Agreement to corporate net zero pledges, reducing carbon emissions dominated the global framework for deploying clean energy. But something profound is shifting.In this episode of Open Circuit, we explore how a new security-driven paradigm is replacing climate as the primary driver of energy investments. As supply chains fractured during the pandemic, Russia weaponized natural gas to Europe, and America's

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53:48

Five years later: the pandemic's energy legacy

Open Circuit ·

2025/03/21

Five years ago, as lockdowns swept the globe, we witnessed an energy shock that destroyed oil demand, upended electricity demand patterns, and dropped global emissions by staggering levels overnight. In this episode of Open Circuit, we revisit predictions made during those early uncertain days and examine three major paradoxes that emerged. First, how staying home rewired our physical and digital lives in ways that created surprising energy impacts. While transportation emissions initially

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49:45

Does residential solar have a bad product?

Open Circuit ·

2025/03/14

The residential solar industry is facing its most challenging period in years. High interest rates, sweeping policy change, and stubbornly high customer acquisition costs are all causing a contraction after years of rapid growth.In this episode of Open Circuit, we examine this market transition. We’ll look at how the industry may emerge from the current downturn — through cost reduction, community-driven models, and evolving beyond a “bad product” to something that provides real grid

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68:32

Is Wall Street in climate retreat?

Open Circuit ·

2025/03/07

Major U.S. financial institutions are backing away from climate commitments – all six largest American banks have exited the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, BlackRock has quit comparable initiatives, and the Federal Reserve has withdrawn from climate risk assessment networks. Is this merely rebranding for the Trump era, or a fundamental shift in how finance approaches sustainable investments?In this episode of Open Circuit, we examine what's driving this retreat — from political and legal pressures to

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63:35

Musk takes a chainsaw to 'energy dominance'

Open Circuit ·

2025/02/28

Elon Musk built Tesla with help from government loans and carbon credits. Today, he's swinging a chainsaw at the very agencies that launched his empire — while directly undermining President Trump's "energy dominance" agenda.In this episode of Open Circuit, we examine the impact of the Department of Government Efficiency's indiscriminate cuts. When these cuts hit nuclear security teams and grid operators at the Bonneville Power Administration, officials had to hastily reverse course. What are the

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60:39

The data center boom: ‘All the cheap power is gone’

Open Circuit ·

2025/02/21

The tech industry is pouring $1.3 trillion into data centers globally over the next five years. While efficiency breakthroughs like the launch of DeepSeek's R1 reasoning model might reduce computing needs, the sheer scale of AI deployment means we're still facing historic demand growth. Data center electricity consumption doubled under Biden — and it's projected to triple by 2030.In this episode, we examine how utilities, tech companies, and policymakers are grappling with the wave of data center

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51:40

Trump's energy paradox

Open Circuit ·

2025/02/14

The Trump administration wants energy abundance. But it just declared war on the fastest and cheapest ways to achieve it.That's the central paradox emerging from the administration's first weeks in office, where a flood of executive orders, permit freezes, and funding delays are creating precisely the kind of uncertainty that could thwart its own energy goals. In our first episode of Open Circuit, we sort through it all. We examine which threats are real, which ones are noise, and how to think

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7:22

The energy transition, decoded

Open Circuit ·

2025/02/05

The greatest industrial transformation in history is well underway — but it's going to be messy, contentious, and certainly not linear.In the midst of a volatile political and economic era, Jigar Shah, Katherine Hamilton, and Stephen Lacey are reuniting to launch Open Circuit, a show that decodes the technology, business, and policy trends shaping clean energy and climate technologies. You might recognize these voices — they were the original co-hosts of The Energy Gang. Open Circuit brings

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