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Open Circuit

news · EN · 90 episodes

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About this Podcast:

The energy transition, decoded. Every week, three industry veterans explore the business models, tech breakthroughs, and market shakeups that are driving the biggest industrial transformation in history. The show offers a rare insider's view of the clean energy market.

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Booking probability

34%

Guest openness

Selective

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Questions about Open Circuit

What is Open Circuit about?

The energy transition, decoded. Every week, three industry veterans explore the business models, tech breakthroughs, and market shakeups that are driving the biggest industrial transformation in history. The show offers a rare insider's view of the clean energy market.

What has Open Circuit covered recently?

Recent episodes include "Live: A new era for grid flexibility?" (20 October 2026, 58 minutes), "How AI went from climate hero to villain" (13 October 2026, 44 minutes), and "Clean energy loves the permitting bill. Green groups hate it." (6 October 2026, 50 minutes).

How often does Open Circuit publish?

Open Circuit publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 45 minutes across 90 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on Open Circuit?

Booking probability for Open Circuit is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Open Circuit requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Open Circuit's contact route on record: verified email.

Who should pitch Open Circuit?

The strongest fits for Open Circuit are Electric Power and Business & Management Consulting. Open Circuit has a news audience.

About the host

Open Circuit is a news show with 90 episodes published.

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Recent episodes

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    Live: A new era for grid flexibility?

    Oct 20, 202658 min

    The last few months have brought more momentum for grid flexibility than the last decade.  All across the country, load growth is pushing policymakers to leverage DERs and other flexibility tech to get more out of...

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    How AI went from climate hero to villain

    Oct 13, 202644 min

    Not long ago, we were asking if AI would save the climate. Now we’re asking if it will wreck it. The truth is somewhere in between. But it’s easy to see why sentiment swung so radically. When the AI race kicked off, we...

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    Clean energy loves the permitting bill. Green groups hate it.

    Oct 6, 202650 min

    It’s really hard to build infrastructure in America. And it’s particularly hard for clean energy, which is overwhelmingly stalled by outdated and onerous permitting. But we have never been able to get to the root of the...

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    Utilities and Big Tech lost trust. What will earn it back?

    Sep 29, 20261h 9m

    Across America, people are screaming “no” — no to data centers, and no to the energy projects that serve them. So what gets people to a “yes”? Perhaps an enthusiastic yes? Every utility and tech company is scrambling to...

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    Trump’s coal crusade is failing

    Sep 22, 202652 min

    The biggest story in Washington is President Trump's rejection of AI safety regulation. But the White House is waging an equally consequential regulatory battle against carbon regulations. This month, the EPA finally...

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    The hidden power systems behind AI [partner content]

    Sep 18, 202627 min

    Data centers are known for their hulking exteriors, rows of blinking servers, and massive cooling equipment. But there’s an entire ecosystem no one gets to see: the electrical architecture that sits between the power...

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    Power is caught in AI’s doom loop

    Sep 15, 202657 min

    We are in the middle of a radical political and economic realignment, with electricity infrastructure at the center of it. And this summer, the plot thickened. Power sector reforms are coming in fast and furious, across...

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    Empowering utility customers with demand flexibility [partner content]

    Sep 11, 202621 min

    As data centers, factories, and electrification push growth to unprecedented heights, customers are looking for greater control over their energy use. But the traditional one-size-fits-all approach falls short for...

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    Electricity bills are on the ballot

    Sep 8, 202630 min

    Electricity prices have become a central storyline in upcoming U.S. elections. All over the country, Americans are finding it harder to pay their bills, and they’re getting increasingly cynical about utilities and data...

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    The breakout moment for VPPs [partner content]

    Aug 28, 202655 min

    Virtual power plants are having a moment. Suddenly, this once-niche solution for the power sector is breaking into mainstream discourse. The convergence of sudden load growth, aging infrastructure, extreme weather, and...

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    Green Blueprint: Form's storage manufacturing breakthrough

    Aug 21, 202650 min

    We're on vacation through the end of August, so this week we’re featuring an episode of The Green Blueprint. Lithium-ion batteries have revolutionized energy storage. But inexpensive, multi-day storage will still be...

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    AI needs a different kind of power plant [partner content]

    Aug 19, 202623 min

    Arbor Energy is betting that smaller, modular turbines can solve problems the conventional generation model was never designed for. Arbor Energy was founded with an unusual idea: take technologies from rocket engines...

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    Data centers have a Texas-sized energy problem

    Aug 7, 20261h 6m

    The showdown over data centers is taking a new turn. This week, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced a data center pause in order to audit how they’ll impact water supplies and the power grid. This comes weeks after New...

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    A simple fix that could unlock the heat pump market

    Jul 31, 202649 min

    It's been almost a decade since the “Electrify Everything” movement kicked off. And guess what? We aren't electrifying everything. We're seeing strong growth in electric vehicles, heat pumps, and induction cooktops. But...

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    Critical Capital: Is this infrastructure's once-in-a-generation moment?

    Jul 24, 202631 min

    This week, we’re presenting an episode of Critical Capital, a new podcast from Crux and Latitude Studios. We are entering a period of infrastructure development unlike anything we’ve seen in the last century. The...

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    The off-grid data center fantasy

    Jul 17, 20261h 11m

    A major fault line runs through the data center debate: how many will actually go off-grid? There’s a lot of enthusiasm in Silicon Valley for breaking free from the grid. But even the companies pushing hardest for...

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    Turning customer data into grid intelligence [partner content]

    Jul 14, 202623 min

    Utilities across the country are increasingly turning to time-of-day rates as electricity demand grows and delivery costs rise. But a harder challenge is giving customers the tools to save money under those new rates...

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    The new reality for data centers: no easy answers

    Jul 2, 202634 min

    For 20 years, the blueprint for data centers was simple: find some land, get in line for power, and trust that the utility could deliver. Data centers and power infrastructure got built on separate tracks because the...

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    How APS dove head-first into AI [partner content]

    Jun 30, 202621 min

    AI is about far more than chatbots and copilots. For utilities, the bigger opportunity may be in applying purpose-built models to the operational data from smart meters, customer systems, weather, outages, and grid...

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    Is commercial fusion finally near?

    Jun 26, 202659 min

    For a half century, fusion has been a scientific story playing out in national labs, government research budgets, and peer-reviewed journals. Every so often, a bold claim captures the public's attention, and then leads...

Guest Appearances

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J

Jigar Shah

former director of the Loan Programs Office at the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy

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Pier LaFarge

Sparkfund

H

Holly Adams

Beale Infrastructure

I

Ian Black

Digital Realty

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