Watt Matters: The FORESIGHT energy transition podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
A competitive energy transition
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android.This week marks the end of our ser...
Power prices and competitiveness
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android.The cost of power is inextricably ...
Seizing Europe’s innovative edge
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android.The wind sector could be a key pil...
The efficient use of efficiency to drive European competitiveness
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android.Making Europe’s industry more ef...
Industrial decarbonisation’s competitive edge
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android.Europe’s energy-thirsty industri...
Trade and the transition under Trump
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android.Since his return to the White Hous...
China’s impact on competitiveness
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android.China is the world’s biggest emi...
Flexing our grids
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android.A flexible grid underpins Europe’...
Competitiveness and the energy transition
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android.Today’s uncertain geopolitical c...
Energy in 2030: Can we live up to the challenge?
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android.The energy transition is gaining m...
Enabling renewables through digitalisation
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android.Digitalisation holds big benefits ...
Cleaning the atmosphere of carbon
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android.Carbon removals technologies go be...
Increasing industrial electrification
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android.Electrifying as many sectors as po...
Three tasks for the energy transition
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android.We ask every guest who enters the ...
Decarbonisation’s invisible tool
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android.By minimising our energy needs, we...
Heat from below our feet
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android.Wind and solar energy tend to be t...
2030’s household transformation
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The energy transition needs to happen across society, including in our homes. Big shifts are expected in consumer demand and the technology we use, in...
Building up to 2030
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Last year’s COP28 climate conference saw some big pledges, including tripling renewables and doubling energy efficiency by 2030 and agreeing to tran...
Tearing down circular construction barriers
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A circular approach, which disconnects economic activity from the ever-increasing consumption of natural resources, has emerged as a key strategy for ...
Material changes
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As Europe progresses towards achieving a climate-neutral economy by 2050, the concept of circularity has emerged as a powerful approach to reducing em...
Parliamentary language
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With the latest round of elections for the European Parliament just around the corner, and the formation of a new Commission following closely behind,...
A satellite-eye view of methane emissions
29 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. Addressing methane emissions is k...
Solar’s rooftop revolution
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. Currently, 10-25% of EU buildings...
Renewables steam ahead in Europe
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Record falls in fossil fuels and record levels of renewables - Sarah Brown from think tank Ember joins the Watt Matters team to discuss Europe’s lat...
Not the end of the world
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From climate change to air pollution, there are a lot of issues that need solving in the 21st century. With all the doom and gloom, it’s hard to see...
Decarbonising amid geopolitical tensions
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The energy transition is taking place in a complex world of ongoing historic geopolitical tensions and financial divides between countries. Lisa Fisch...
2024: The year of elections
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
2024 is likely to be the year of elections, with just under half of the world’s population expected to head to the polls, according to Bloomberg. Th...
Rewiring US Customer Relationships
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The US’ electricity system is complicated, with each of the 50 states setting its own rules for how markets work, how power is priced and who manage...
Putting the "net" in net zero emissions
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There are no studies where absolute zero emissions can be reached with reductions alone, meaning carbon removals are crucial to reaching ‘net’ zer...
In the public eye
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Public transport operators are highly visible to the wider public. Increasingly their services are being electrified or run on clean energy. In this s...
Poland’s new green dawn?
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Since 2015, Poland has been governed by the Law and Justice Party, which has been sceptical about EU climate policy and been at loggerheads with Bruss...
Getting your money's worth: the cost of renewables
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every year, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) puts together a report, looking at the cost of renewable power production. 2022’s show...
Indecent proposals
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a special live recording of the podcast, Michael Liebriech, Katharina Umpfenbach and Dennis Hesseling join the team to discuss shifting the energy ...
Power to the people: UK’s net zero transition
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The energy crisis put a spotlight on energy usage for British consumers as soaring bills dropped through letterboxes across the country. Renewable sol...
The Australian sandbox
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The energy transition is a big puzzle for Australia, an important player in the fossil energy world, with large coal and gas reserves. It ranks eighth...
Where are we now?
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the past 12 months, the energy transition has had some successes: the Inflation Reduction Act in the United States and the EU’s response in the f...
Out from the shadows
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As we move into the second half of the year, a key trend of the first part of 2023 is the confidence that surrounds the solar sector. With a number of...
Regulating methane emissions
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The European Union is currently working on a law to monitor and tackle methane emissions, which have a significant impact on the climate and have, so ...
Strength in flexibility
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The smart use of energy within buildings could help support the energy transition. Most of us spend most of our time in buildings, and they are respon...
Advantageous liaisons
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A number of synergies have yet to be unlocked between district heating and cooling networks and industries, with both sectors looking to decarbonise. ...
Neighbourhood watts
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A growing trend within the energy transition is the use of energy communities – collectives of neighbours or nearby residents and end-users coming t...
The future for heat pumps
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The decarbonisation of heating is as important as any other sector in the energy transition but is perhaps sometimes a little overlooked.The sector’...
The EU's new trade weapon
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Greenhouse gas emissions are a global problem as carbon dioxide, and the heating side-effects caused by it do not respect national frontiers. This mea...
Efficient business plans
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Any discussion of energy efficiency immediately conjures images of how our homes can use power better or more economically. But this ignores the whole...
Securing a slice of the PPA market
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The world of PPAs is complex, particularly for corporations seeking to secure and decarbonise their power sources.But as demand for clean capacity fro...
The problem with wind power
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The wind industry should be experiencing a golden age. As one of the world’s cheapest forms of new generation, with a renewed global focus on energy...
Hydrogen set to spread its wings
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The branches of the burgeoning green hydrogen sector are spreading slowly around the world. This creates huge uncertainty but also significant opportu...
Europe breaks fossil fuel shackles
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As Europe emerges from the long dark winter days, many grid operators around Europe are breathing a sigh of relief. A milder winter than expected mean...
Shocks, stability and sustainable markets
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
European energy markets are at a crossroads: on the one hand, they need to face the immediate shocks posed by the ongoing energy price crisis. On the ...
Policy promoting climate finance
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Inflation Reduction Act is the largest climate and energy package in the history of the United States. It will unleash some $370 billion for energ...
Are COP talks really worthwhile?
25 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Off the back of an intense two weeks in Egypt, the COP27 negotiations were once again deemed underwhelming. There were some successes: Developed coun...
The present and the future of solar
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Global solar capacity continues to rise and solar PV is becoming ever more popular among homeowners as costs fall. As its role in the energy transitio...
The heating policy paradox
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Heating is becoming an increasingly pivotal issue in the energy transition, especially as we enter a winter where many of us are thinking twice about ...
From range anxiety to charging confidence
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The electrification of the transport sector is one of the most dynamic areas in the global energy transition, as sales of electric vehicles (EVs) glob...
A toolbox for the EU’s energy crisis
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In response to the energy price crisis, EU national governments have been grappling with finding the proper measures to reduce their energy demand and...
An attractive profession
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The risk of a widening skills gap in the energy transition is one of the most underestimated challenges for the global energy transition. But as Europ...
A strategy for carbon capture technologies
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The role of carbon capture and storage (CCS) is perhaps one of the most divisive topics in the global energy transition. Economic and financial constr...
From forecast to reality
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Environmental think-tank Ember found that 70-80% of the power system in Europe—including the EU27, Norway, Switzerland, the UK, and the Western Balk...
The need for climate finance Jedi
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Private capital investments are crucial to close the financing ‘gap’ in the global race to net-zero emissions.The world’s major economies and th...
The American experience
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Biden administration was meant to bring renewed momentum for climate action in the US, with ambitious plans to deploy low-carbon technologies and ...
Finding the right narrative
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With the current trio of crises facing many consumers around the world—high energy prices, the fallout of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and climate...
The energy transition must bring consumers on board
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The energy transition will only work if we engage consumers. The energy price crisis has made it clear that energy poverty is not a niche issue anymor...
A systems approach to the energy transition
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The complex nature of our energy systems requires all sectors and actors to stop thinking in silos and develop a “whole system” approach to make t...
From efficiency to sufficiency
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lawmakers around the globe have spoken extensively about energy efficiency. However, there is an increasing interest in policy and academic circles ar...
Eastern Europe and the energy transition
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Much of the power across Eastern Europe is still supplied by destructive coal power plants. However, many of these markets across the region also have...
Behind the hydrogen hype
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The use of hydrogen as part of our future energy mix has been debated for several years. For it to have any future, in a decarbonised economy, hydroge...
In from the cold
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Energy efficiency has often been overlooked as a key tool in the energy transition. Talk instead frequently focuses on how to add more renewables or r...
The questions facing low-carbon heating
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The decarbonisation of the heating sector is subject to serious debate. With lots of potential options on the tables, choosing the correct pathway is ...
A secure Europe
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week is Kristian Ruby, secretary-general of Eurelectric, to discuss what role the energy market can play in shutting off Russian influe...
A market fit-for-purpose
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jan, Michaela and David are joined by Jorge Vasconcelos, chair of New Energy Solutions (NEWES) and part of the Florence School of Regulatio...
The Energiewende and the new government
18 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Whichever way you look at it, Germany is going to play a highly significant role if Europe is to meet its climate targets by 2050. After 16 years of r...
A new utility
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To advance the energy transition, utilities are a vital part of getting clean energy to where it is needed at the times it is needed. Whether it is he...
How did we get here and where are we going?
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From FORESIGHT Climate & Energy, Watt Matters is a podcast all about the energy transition and the shift to a decarbonised economy.In this episode, Da...
Introducing: Watt Matters
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to the trailer for the new podcast Watt Matters, bringing biweekly debates and discussions on the energy transition in Europe, North America an...