Plugged In: the energy news podcast

El Niño and the Polar Vortex - the key weather drivers for Q4

Send us your thoughts! With European gas storage levels relatively low, periods of cold temperatures, weak wind or low rainfall could have an outsized impact on gas and

Global trade risks threaten energy security

Send us your thoughts! The rules that have underpinned global shipping and energy trade for decades are coming under increasing strain. From the Strait of Hormuz and the

Europe braces for winter gas crunch

Send us your thoughts! Europe is heading into winter with gas storage well below comfortable levels, LNG supplies under pressure and the Strait of Hormuz crisis adding f

Summer price volatility: Batteries take the spoils?

Send us your thoughts! Batteries are emerging as one of the big winners from Europe’s increasingly volatile power markets. In this episode, we look at how huge amounts

Hormuz crisis: Outlook remains highly uncertain

Send us your thoughts! The Strait of Hormuz crisis has reshaped the outlook for global energy markets, with uncertainty over LNG flows, European gas storage and geopolit

Norway faces a dry, expensive winter

Send us your thoughts! Reservoir levels in southern Norway are at their lowest for 30 years raising concerns about power prices in the months ahead and the Nordic region

Europe feels the heat: Extreme weather becomes the norm

Send us your thoughts! Extreme heat and drought are putting Europe’s power system under pressure on close to an annual basis.  Low river levels and high water temperatu

Europe’s energy transition: Full speed ahead?

Send us your thoughts! After a summer spent exploring the technologies, markets and policies shaping Europe's energy transition, the final episode of the Plugged In

Keeping pace with power hungry data centres

Send us your thoughts! Artificial intelligence is transforming the global economy at extraordinary speed, but it's also creating one of the biggest new sources of e

Market design: Driving or derailing the transition?

Send us your thoughts! Europe's electricity system is changing fast. As renewables continue to reshape the power mix, new challenges are emerging; from negative pri

Grids: Easing bottlenecks

Send us your thoughts! Europe has made remarkable progress in developing renewable energy, but grids – both at distribution and transmission level, are struggling to kee

Renewables Roll-Out: Saturation Reached?

Send us your thoughts! Europe is developing green energy at lighting speed.  But as solar and wind generation reaches record levels, new challenges are emerging across t

State of Play: Where Are We Now?

Send us your thoughts! Europe's energy transition has delivered record renewable deployment and significant emissions reductions, but a new wave of geopolitical ins

Can Britain Still Deliver Net Zero? Chris Stark on “ungumming the system” and the UK's Energy Future

Send us your thoughts! The UK has set one of the most ambitious energy targets in Europe: a fully clean power system by 2030. But achieving it will require a transformat

Data Centre Boom: catalysts and constraints

Send us your thoughts! Europe is experiencing a rush of investment into data centres as artificial intelligence, cloud computing and digital services drive a new wave of

Finland - a power success story?

Send us your thoughts! As Europe grapples with energy security concerns, expectations of rising electricity demand, and the rapid growth of AI-driven data centres, Finla

Sweden’s energy spat with Brussels

Send us your thoughts! Sweden's dispute with Brussels over electricity market rules is quickly becoming one of the biggest political energy stories in Europe. At t

Feeling the heat: Preparing Europe's grids for summer

Send us your thoughts! Europe's power systems are facing a new reality. As heatwaves become more frequent and intense, electricity networks are coming under growin

How many wake up calls does Europe need?

Send us your thoughts! The US-Israeli led war in Iran and the prolonged disruption in the Strait of Hormuz is once again exposing Europe’s vulnerability to global energy

Celebrating curtailment: Are negative prices really that bad?

Send us your thoughts! Negative power prices  are becoming increasingly commonplace in Europe’s electricity markets.   With solar generation soaring and renewable build