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JUICE: power, politics & the grid

Juice The Series

Juice The Series

Juice The Series

31 January 2024

The series features interviews with more than 30 top thought leaders, including journalist Michael Shellenberger, historian Patty Limerick, political scientist Roger Pielke Jr., civil rights leader Jennifer Hernandez, nuclear activist Chris Keefer, author Meredith Angwin, former IEA director Nobuo Tanaka, World Nuclear Association Director General Sama Bilbao y León, Campaign for a Green Nuclear Deal founder Madi Hilly, Terra Praxis Founding Partner and Co-CEO Kirsty Gogan, and many others. Each episode spotlights the misplaced incentives and excessive spending on weather-dependent generation sources that have weakened the grid and made electricity less affordable and less reliable in the U.S. and around the world.

The series features interviews with more than 30 top thought leaders, including journalist Michael Shellenberger, historian Patty Limerick, political scientist Roger Pielke Jr., civil rights leader Jennifer Hernandez, nuclear activist Chris Keefer, author Meredith Angwin, former IEA director Nobuo Tanaka, World Nuclear Association Director General Sama Bilbao y León, Campaign for a Green Nuclear Deal founder Madi Hilly, Terra Praxis Founding Partner and Co-CEO Kirsty Gogan, and many others. Each episode spotlights the misplaced incentives and excessive spending on weather-dependent generation sources that have weakened the grid and made electricity less affordable and less reliable in the U.S. and around the world.

You can watch Kirsty Gogan in episode 3: "Green Dreams" and episode 5: "Industrial Cathedrals" below.

"Particularly after Russia's invasion in the Ukraine, we see for the first time an acknowledgement that the so-called "Net Zero pathways" in Europe had a huge amount of gas in them. Combined with energy security, geopolitical issues have forced governments to reevaluate those plans... We need firm, dispatchable power"

This episode features exclusive content on Oklahoma's Osage tribe’s long-running battle with Enel over a 150-megawatt wind project the company built without the tribe’s consent. This sheds light on the need to actually provide not only renewable solutions to climate change, but to complement these with other clean energy sources such as nuclear energy. Watch this episode to hear first hand from Osage tribe's members and nuclear energy experts.

"Despite being really successful in increasing the rates of deployment for renewable energy, we are just not making a dent in our carbon intensity across our whole energy system"

This episode analyses the dire consequences Europe is going through on its energy supply given its dependence on Russia's power after the invasion to the Ukraine and, the need to be energy independent and to count on a resilient, constant power supply, has brought on the nuclear renaissance.

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