Volts
by David Roberts
Is this your podcast?David Roberts is an independent podcast creator known for his extensive knowledge and reporting on clean energy and climate issues. With nearly two decades of experience, he engages with a diverse range of guests, including politicians, ana…
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Audience Interest
- clean energy advancements
- fossil fuel alternatives
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- clean energy discussions
- interviews with experts
Publishing Consistency
- weekly episodes
- active for five years
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- website available
- subscriber-supported model
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Estimated from 19 chart positions in 19 markets.
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- 🇨🇦CA · Politics#1235K to 30K
- 🇺🇸US · Politics#1245K to 30K
- 🇦🇺AU · Politics#1885K to 30K
- 🇬🇧GB · Politics#1895K to 30K
- 🇮🇳IN · Politics#4330K to 100K
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Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
26K to 105K🎙 Daily cadence·410 episodes·Last published 3d ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
87K to 351K🇮🇳28%🇨🇦9%🇺🇸9%+16 more - Active Followers
Loyal subscribers who consistently listen
35K to 140K2.8K real followers tracked across platforms
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America's flagship automaker enters the home energy market
Jun 19, 2026
55m 55s
Can the UK stay the course with its climate plans?
Jun 17, 2026
1h 01m 36s
Why is NERC so worried about data centers?
Jun 10, 2026
1h 13m 39s
This oil shock won't be like the others
Jun 5, 2026
25m 40s
Are plug-in DERs going to spark a grid revolution?
Jun 3, 2026
1h 13m 47s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/19/26 |  America's flagship automaker enters the home energy market | This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.volts.wtf/subscribeIn this episode, I talk with GM Energy executive Aseem Kapur about General Motors’ move into bidirectional EV charging and home energy management. We dig into the practicalities of turning hundreds of thousands of EVs into mobile backup generators, how to navigate a patchwork of 4,000 different utilities, and what it takes to get everyday consumers to see their cars as grid assets. | 55m 55s | ||||||
| 6/17/26 |  Can the UK stay the course with its climate plans? | This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.volts.wtf/subscribeThe UK has just released its seventh carbon budget, recommitting to the aggressive climate targets suggested by its nonpartisan Climate Change Committee. Can the Labour government actually hit those targets while keeping energy prices for the British people under control, even amidst a newly hostile political landscape? In this episode, I talk with the UK’s new climate minister, Katie White, about those challenges and more. | 1h 01m 36s | ||||||
| 6/10/26 |  Why is NERC so worried about data centers?✨ | data centerselectric reliability+4 | Colin McCormickDoug Bryan | North American Electric Reliability Corporation | — | NERCdata centers+5 | — | 1h 13m 39s | |
| 6/5/26 |  This oil shock won't be like the others✨ | fossil fuel crisiselectrification+3 | Tim SahayKate Mackenzie | Polycrisis | — | fossil fuelelectrification+3 | — | 25m 40s | |
| 6/3/26 |  Are plug-in DERs going to spark a grid revolution?✨ | clean energyplug-in DERs+3 | James McGinniss | David Energy | US | plug-in DERsclean energy+4 | — | 1h 13m 47s | |
| 5/29/26 |  Giving clean electricity a political voice of its own✨ | clean electricitypolitical influence+4 | Steve McBee | Amped | — | clean electrificationpolitical voice+5 | — | 1h 41m 15s | |
| 5/27/26 |  A limited defense of Biden's everything-bagel industrial policy✨ | Biden administrationindustrial policy+4 | Betony Jones | DOE | — | Bidenindustrial policy+5 | — | 1h 08m 02s | |
| 5/22/26 |  How to phase out residential gas equitably✨ | residential gas phase-outheat pumps+3 | Kristin George BagdanovPanama Bartholomy | Building Decarbonization Coalition | — | residential gasheat pumps+3 | — | 1h 07m 45s | |
| 5/20/26 |  Sooner than you think, electricity is going to be cheap, abundant, and boring✨ | electricitypower grid+4 | Pier LaFarge | SparkfundXcel Energy | MinnesotaUS | electricitybatteries+5 | — | 1h 45m 39s | |
| 5/15/26 |  Telling the story of the grid✨ | US electricity gridhistory+4 | Ben EidelsonAnay Shah | StepchangeTelling the story of the grid | — | electricity gridhistory+4 | — | 33m 30s | |
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| 5/13/26 |  Electrifying industrial steam with heat pumps✨ | industrial heat pumpselectrification+3 | Addison Stark | AtmosZero | — | industrial processesenergy efficiency+3 | — | 1h 04m 26s | |
| 5/8/26 |  The case for using prices rather than VPPs to coordinate distributed energy✨ | distributed energyretail prices+3 | Bruce Nordman | Voltswww.volts.wtf | — | distributed energy resourcesdynamic pricing+3 | — | 1h 30m 12s | |
| 5/6/26 |  Streamlining the difficult work of whole-home retrofits | This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.volts.wtf/subscribeToday, coordinating a whole-home retrofit — or even just getting a heat pump — involves confusing research, a parade of contractors, and wildly varying quotes. It’s a broken system that practically pushes people to just buy another gas furnace. In this episode, I’m joined by Zero Homes CEO Grant Gunnison to discuss ways to improve this system for both customers and contractors. | 1h 04m 02s | ||||||
| 4/29/26 |  Enabling ordinary people to invest in renewable energy projects✨ | renewable energyinvestment+3 | Mike Silvestrini | Energea | — | renewable energyinvestment+3 | — | 1h 05m 23s | |
| 4/27/26 |  Tom Steyer wants to be California's climate governor✨ | climate policyCalifornia politics+3 | Tom Steyer | investor-owned utilitiesVolts | California | Tom SteyerCalifornia governor+3 | — | 54m 51s | |
| 4/22/26 |  The big stories from the last year in electricity✨ | electricitysolar deployment+4 | Nicolas FulghumKostantsa Rangelova | Ember | IndiaChina | electricitysolar+5 | — | 1h 07m 18s | |
| 4/20/26 |  Life as a clean energy journalist in an age of madness✨ | clean energy journalismnews landscape+4 | Robinson Meyer | MicrosoftIRA | Iran | clean energyjournalism+4 | — | 20m 14s | |
| 4/17/26 |  Climate finance, interrupted✨ | climate financeclean energy policy+3 | Beth Bafford | Climate UnitedGreenhouse Gas Reduction Fund | — | climate financeGreenhouse Gas Reduction Fund+5 | — | 59m 34s | |
| 4/15/26 |  Doing data centers the not-dumb way✨ | data centerselectricity demand+3 | Jigar Shah | tech companies | — | data centerselectricity demand+3 | — | 1h 30m 57s | |
| 4/10/26 |  Ruggedized solar power for the hard places✨ | solar powernanogrids+3 | Lauren Flanagan | Sesame Solar | — | solar PVbatteries+3 | — | 52m 06s | |
| 4/8/26 |  Why climate funders don't fund housing policy, and why they oughtta✨ | climate fundinghousing policy+3 | Ben HollandCaroline Spears | climate foundationsVolts | — | climate fundershousing policy+3 | — | 1h 06m 20s | |
| 4/3/26 |  Rethinking climate regulation from the ground up✨ | climate policyregulation+4 | Hannah SaffordLoren Schulman | Federation of American ScientistsCenter for Regulatory Ingenuity+1 | — | climate regulationfederal policy+3 | — | 1h 20m 50s | |
| 4/1/26 |  Using more of the grid we’ve already built✨ | power gridinfrastructure+3 | Ian Magruder | Utilize Coalition | US | power gridcapacity+4 | — | 1h 05m 20s | |
| 3/27/26 |  Should we block some sunlight to cool the planet? | In this episode, Dakota Gruener of Reflective walks me through her organization's new project, which maps the gaps in our scientific understanding of stratospheric aerosol injection — currently the leading candidate for directly cooling the planet. We get into what we don't know (including a factor-of-two disagreement on basic aerosol physics), who's already doing this without oversight, and the unsettling governance question of who controls the Earth's thermostat once humanity has grabbed it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.volts.wtf/subscribe | 1h 06m 14s | ||||||
| 3/25/26 |  For data centers, a little flexibility goes a long way | The explosive energy demand from data centers is breaking our grid, pushing desperate developers to build their own on-site gas plants just to get online. To figure out how we avoid locking in decades of new fossil fuels, I’m joined by Camus CEO Astrid Atkinson and Princeton’s Jesse Jenkins to break down their proposed alternative. We dig into how adopting flexible grid interconnections and clean, battery-backed “power parks” can meet this massive load growth without abandoning our decarbonization goals. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.volts.wtf/subscribe | 1h 10m 37s | ||||||
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