Catalyst with Shayle Kann
Investor Shayle Kann is asking big questions about how to decarbonize the planet: How cheap can clean energy get? Will artificial intelligence speed up climate solutions? Where is the smart money going into climate technologies? Every week on Catalyst, Shayle explains the world of "climate tech" with prominent experts, investors, researchers, and executives. Produced by Latitude Media.
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How an obscure, 100-year old law is disrupting ...
The 1920 Jones Act increases the costs of offshore wind, fossil fuels, and domestic shipping.
39 min
2
The Big Switch: Are Batteries the New Oil?
Batteries are at the center of the clean energy economy. Will they shape geopolitics in similar ways to oil?
46 min
3
The world of battery recycling
34 min
4
The electricity gauntlet has arrived
Utilities were already being squeezed by rising demand and stagnant supply. Then AI began supercharging load growth.
45 min
5
Digging into the SEC climate disclosure rules
The final rules dropped Scope 3 emissions. How much of a difference will that make given existing regulations from the EU and California?
30 min
6
Climate tech’s tough year in the public markets
Lazard’s Shanu Mathew says climate tech investors are fleeing to safer stocks.
38 min
7
The early days of AI on the grid
Wildfire management, predictive maintenance, transmission optimization — the new promises of AI-based grid tech
35 min
8
The challenges of building a carbon removal por...
Shopify’s Head of Sustainability Stacy Kauk explains the practical realities of the early carbon removal market.
41 min
9
The electric transformer shortage
The shortfall in grid equipment is a problem for just about any project that connects to the grid. What’s causing the crunch?
31 min
10
Frontier Forum: Diving into the booming transfe...
A wide-ranging conversation with Crux’s Alfred Johnson on the trends that are reshaping tax finance.
27 min
11
More 2024 trends: ESG, carbon certifications, c...
Part two of a conversation with Nat Bullard about the biggest trends in climate tech.
40 min
12
2024 trends: batteries, transferable tax credit...
Nat Bullard is back with a 200-page slide deck on the biggest decarbonization trends in 2024.
49 min
13
What’s really happening in the U.S. EV market?
34 min
14
Solving the cow burp problem
It’s the early days of research into reducing enteric methane emissions from cows and other ruminants, but there are promising solutions.
40 min
15
Sourcing biomass for carbon removal
Fuzzy carbon math. Competition with food production. Environmental harms. A forest scientist explains how to avoid the pitfalls of sourcing biomass for carbon removal.
45 min
16
2023 climate tech venture investment trends
Despite a drop in total investment dollars, there are signs that climate tech investors are maturing.
41 min
17
Fixing the messy voluntary carbon market
The market for higher-quality credits is growing, but Lowercarbon’s Ryan Orbuch argues the legacy market still needs major reform.
45 min
18
Financing first-of-a-kind climate assets
Before any technology can make it big, it needs its very first project.
43 min
19
What do you do with a 100-hour battery?
Form Energy’s Mateo Jaramillo argues that utilities can use multi-day storage to do more than balance intermittent renewables.
46 min
20
Update: What the new Treasury rules mean for EV...
The rules will likely reshape battery supply chains and restrict Chinese companies from benefiting from the IRA’s EV tax credits.
44 min
21
EV charging on both sides of the pond
What can the U.S. learn from EV charging in Europe, and vice versa?
36 min
22
The cost of nuclear
Building reactors in South Korea is far cheaper than building in the U.S., but why?
44 min
23
Mailbag episode! Interest rates, carbon dioxide...
It’s another ‘ask me anything’ episode with Shayle.
50 min
24
The Volts crossover episode
Thermal storage, SMRs, onshoring, and more with Volts’ David Roberts
65 min
25
The market for microgrids
What supply shortages, new policies, and a changing view of resilience means for the microgrid market.
42 min