Shift Key with Robinson Meyer
Every week, Heatmap News Executive Editor Robinson Meyer and Princeton University Professor and energy systems expert Jesse Jenkins make sense of the biggest shift of our time -- navigating the energy transition away from fossil fuels. Drawing on their years of experience reporting on and researching climate change and decarbonization, Meyer and Jenkins unpack the most important issues of the week and how the impacts of climate change and efforts to address it are transforming our economy, polit...
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Episodes (126)
What Has All This Back-and-Forth Climate Legislating Bought Us?
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The Big Interview: John Arnold
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Some Great News About the Global Electricity System
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Everything We Didn't Know About the World’s Buzziest Geothermal Startup
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Why Microsoft’s Carbon Removal Pullback Is Such a Big Deal
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Why the Iran Ceasefire Hasn’t Ended the Energy Crisis
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How Utilities Actually Think
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A New Look at Why Electricity Prices Have Gone Up in Your ZIP Code
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There’s a New Playbook for Cutting Power Prices
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The Oil Industry Will Never Be the Same
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The Big Reveal in China’s New Five-Year Plan
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The Rivian R2 Couldn’t Have Come at a Better Time
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A New Theory About Why Biden’s Big Climate Law Failed
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A Tale of Two Energy Shocks
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Why the Iran War Is a Warning for Natural Gas
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The Peril of Talking About Electricity Affordability
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Data Centers Are Creating a New Kind of Battery Monster
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What the Supreme Court’s Tariff Ruling Means for the Energy Transition
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The Outdated Economics Driving Trump’s Car Standards Rollback
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Trump’s Assault on the Clean Air Act and What Happens Next
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The Power Grid Just Passed Its Biggest Test in Years
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What Senator Martin Heinrich Needs to See in a Permitting Deal
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Trump’s Most Self-Defeating Move on Rare Minerals
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What the China-Canada EV Trade Deal Really Means
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Why America’s Climate Emissions Surged in 2025
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Heatmap’s Annual Climate Insiders Survey Is Here
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Why Trump’s Oil Imperialism Might Be a Tough Sell for Actual Oil Companies
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Shift Key Classic: California’s Rooftop Solar Question
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The Biggest Energy and Climate Stories of 2026
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Say ‘Guten Tag!’ to This New Kind of Geothermal Tech
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Why the Rest of the World Is Buying Chinese EVs
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The Biggest Lessons of a Not-So-Great Year for Climate Policy
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How to Make Your Climate Giving Count, According to an Expert
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How Clean Energy Could Prepare for an AI Bubble
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Shift Key Live: The 2025 Elections, the Gates Memo, and More
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Shift Key Classic: Have China’s Carbon Emissions Peaked?
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How EVs Can Actually Help the Electricity Crisis
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The Lesson Nuclear Companies Should Take From the Dot-Com Boom
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The Startup Trying to Put Geothermal Heat Pumps in America’s Homes
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How Julian Brave NoiseCat Changed His Mind About Climate Politics
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How China’s Power Grid Really Works
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Heatmap’s Reporters Talk About Electricity, Inflation, and the New Era in Climat...
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Live From New York Climate Week: The AI and Electricity Moment
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Nobody in the West Knows How to Respond to the ‘Electrotech Revolution’
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What J.P. Morgan’s Chief Climate Advisor Is Telling Energy Startups
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Utility Regulation Really Sucks
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What Carbon Dioxide Has to Do With the Meaning of Life
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Shift Key Classic: How to Hook Up More Power Plants
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This Is What It’s Like to Run a Power Grid
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How Electricity Markets Work
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