High Energy Planet
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High Energy Planet
A podcast on about new ideas to solve global energy poverty — and the people behind them. Hosted by Katie Auth & Rose Mutiso at the Energy for Growth Hub.
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34 epizod
Matthew Yglesias: Foreign Aid, Climate Politics, and Plastic Straws
For the last episode of Season 4, Rose and Katie are joined by Matthew Yglesias, journalist and author of the Substack, Slow Boring. They cover everyt...
Ken Opalo: Why Growth Must Be at the Center of Africa’s Future
Ken Opalo, associate professor at Georgetown University and author of An Africanist Perspective, joins the show to discuss what’s really behind chroni...
Katie and Rose on the Future of Foreign Aid
Rose and Katie unpack the fallout from the Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID and what it means for global energy investment and energy acces...
Kanika Chawla: Clean Energy for Development, Not Just Decarbonization
Kanika Chawla, Chief of Staff at SEforALL, joins Rose and Katie to discuss what to expect from the 2025 SEforALL Global Forum, how SEforALL builds tru...
Faten Aggad: Building Africa’s Policy Negotiation Power
Faten Aggad, the founder and executive director of the African Future Policies Hub, discusses the future of climate diplomacy, Africa’s green industri...
Special Episode: Ramsey Day on the Future of Energy Poverty Under Trump
What might a second Trump presidency mean for energy access and energy investment? In this special episode, we share a recent conversation between Kat...
Mark Thurber: Renewables Are Changing the Rules of the Game
Mark Thurber, associate director of the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, comes on the show to discuss the unique challenges of integrati...
Kate Steel: On a Mission for Universal Energy Access
Kate Steel, co-founder and CEO of Nithio, a start-up focused on financing clean energy companies and informing climate investments in Africa. In this...
Joel Nana: There Is No One-Size-Fits-All Energy Transition
Joel Nana, program manager at Sustainable Energy Africa and Hub fellow, joins the show to talk about climate action planning, the importance of energy...
The High Energy Rewind: Season 3 Highlights with Katie and Rose
Welcome to the last episode of Season 3! Hosts Rose Mutiso and Katie Auth sit down together to revisit their favorite moments from the past season. Th...
Benjamin Attia: Why We Want Climate Finance to Be Boring
Benjamin Attia, energy transition researcher, energy systems modeler, and long-time Hub fellow, joins the show to talk about his career as a professio...
Sheila Herrling: Culture Is Everything
Sheila Herrling, the Energy for Growth Hub’s first Board Chair and expert in international development, US foreign policy, entrepreneurship, and phila...
Murefu Barasa: Everyone Has a Role in the Energy Transition
Murefu Barasa, founder and managing partner at EED Advisory, comes on the show to discuss starting one of the only Pan-African energy consulting firms...
Hannah Ritchie: From Climate Anxiety to Data-Driven Optimism
Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher at Our World in Data, joins Rose and Katie to explore why ending energy poverty is a top strategy fo...
Ask Me Anything with Katie and Rose
Welcome to our first ever Ask Me Anything episode! Hosts Katie Auth and Rose Mutiso sit down together to answer listeners’ questions on topics includi...
Tisha Schuller: Bridging Divides on Our Path to Decarbonization
Tisha Schuller, founder & CEO of Adamantine Energy, joins the show for a conversation on her unique perspective as an oil & gas expert working towards...
Habiba Ahut Daggash: The Energy Transition Needs New Ideas
Habiba Ahut Daggash, Senior Associate with the Africa Energy Program at the Rocky Mountain Institute, discusses Nigeria’s energy transition, how clima...
Tim McDonnell: Reporting on Climate and Energy With Empathy
Tim McDonnell, Climate & Energy Editor at Semafor, joins Rose and Katie for a conversation about his approach to climate reporting for varied audience...
Vijaya Ramachandran: Every Country Has the Right to Its Own Energy Choices
Welcome to Season 3 of High Energy Planet! Vijaya Ramachandran, Director for Energy and Development at the Breakthrough Institute, explains what spark...
Ashvin Dayal: We Need to Redefine Energy & Development Progress
Dayal, Senior Vice President of Power & Climate and The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet at The Rockefeller Foundation, discusses how he g...
Moussa Blimpo: Energy is Not the Answer to Everything
Blimpo, Senior Fellow at the University of Toronto's Munk’s School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, discusses his experiences turning policy into re...
Uzodinma Iweala: Climate Justice Demands New African Narratives
Iweala, CEO of The Africa Center, discusses the experiences and identities that led him to narrative work, how narratives are formed and how we can sh...
Jay Taneja: Using Machine Learning to Inform Energy Access Solutions
Taneja, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, discusses his work on creat...
Katie Hill: The First Pillar of Decarbonization Needs to be Green Growth
Hill, Partner & Associate Director at Boston Consulting Group, talks about the future of African cities, the imperative for green growth in low-income...
Sudeshna Ghosh Banerjee: Decarbonization is a Very Long Game
Banerjee, practice manager in the Energy and Extractives Global Practice at the World Bank Group, talks with Katie and Rose about whether net zero mak...
Damilola Ogunbiyi: Putting People at the Center of Energy Transitions
The CEO of Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) on whether the international community is failing on SDG7, what she thinks net zero means for Africa...
Rebekah Shirley Lukera: Small Island Nations are Hypervisible & Hyper Invisible
The director of research, data & innovation for WRI Africa talks with Katie & Rose about climate justice and building resilient energy infrastructure...
Arvind Subramanian: We Have to Fight Carbon Imperialism
The former chief economic advisor to India’s government on how climate policy has become disconnected from energy needs of poorer countries, the polit...
Ken Caldeira: Let’s Align Self-Interest With Global Climate Interest
One of the world’s most visionary climate scientists tells Katie & Rose why he thinks nuclear energy is key to quelling climate change and delivering...
Mimi Alemayehou: Climate Justice Means Africa Needs More Energy Investment
The former OPIC, African Development Bank and Black Rhino Group official tells Katie & Rose why she's frustrated with energy and climate finance doubl...
Rachel Pritzker: Poverty's Not My Favorite Climate Change Solution
The globally recognized climate & energy philanthropist on loving cities, funding overlooked technologies & why optimism is the best approach to tackl...
Trailer Episode
Hosts Katie Auth & Rose Mutiso on why High Energy Planet isn't your usual global energy podcast.
Zainab Usman: What Does Net-Zero Mean for Africans?
The new director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Africa Program on why resource curse thinking is wrong, politics is integral to...
Mohamed Rali Badissy: Power-Sector Transparency & Energy Access
Mohamed explains why transparency is an overlooked issue in addressing energy poverty, why he thinks decarbonization will increase public demands for...