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Energy Empire is a podcast with 42 episodes in the PodLexicon database, each accompanied by a full searchable transcript and AI-generated summary. Clean energy transition — covers the people, capital, and billion-dollar deals shaping the future of energy, hosted by Jigar Shah. PodLexicon indexes every episode of Energy Empire and turns each one into a searchable AI summary — find the episode that covers a topic, track how that topic evolved over time, or compare what different guests said about it.
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Ask Jigar: Is a $20,000 used EV the cheapest home battery you can buy? — August 20, 2026Who Is Jigar Shah? (Part 3): Taking Over the Office He Called "Irredeemable" — August 20, 2026Five Months Into the Iran War, China Is Saving Its Oil for the Next One — August 13, 2026Introducing Grid 2.0, the Open Protocol for the American Grid (Bonus episode) — August 11, 2026AI Is Breaking the Grid. A Flywheel Could Fix It. — August 06, 2026A Decade as Clean Energy's Republican Whisperer with Heather Reams — July 30, 2026Adam Met on Permitting Reform, Building Clean Energy Superfans, and Selling Out Madison Square Garden — July 23, 2026Crossover with Volts: Data Centers Could Win Over Neighbors for Pennies. They'd Rather Fight — July 20, 2026The Nurse Who Built a $400 Million Generator Company — July 16, 2026Sheldon Kimber on Why Google Paid $4.75 Billion for His Power Company — July 09, 2026How to Add 300 Gigawatts to the Grid Without Building a Single Power Plant — July 02, 2026Jennifer Granholm's Data Center Playbook for Governors — June 25, 2026The Costco of Solar — Meet the Man Quietly Cutting the Cost of Clean Energy — June 18, 2026Can a Climate Democrat Win a Trump District? — with Rep. Kathy Castor — June 11, 2026Forget Solar Stocks. The Best Solar Returns Are Overseas. — June 04, 2026The Utilities Want $1.4 Trillion. The Hyperscalers Want a Gigawatt. Nobody Did the Math. — May 28, 2026Ask Jigar: Should You Cut the Cord on Your Utility? — May 26, 2026Inside California's Plan to Fix the Utility Business Model with Senator Josh Becker — May 21, 2026Ask Jigar: Where do you actually start when you want to electrify your life? — May 15, 2026What If Data Centers Paid You? — May 14, 2026The Guy Who Built American Wind — and What He’s Betting On Next — May 07, 2026Bonus episode: Why Is Lady Liberty Holding a Power Cable? — May 05, 2026"Nobody Cared About Deployment" — Who is Jigar Shah? (Part 2) — April 30, 2026Bonus Episode: Dan Shugar on Reshoring Solar Manufacturing (recorded at UNC Clean Tech Summit) — April 28, 2026Bonus Episode: Former EPA Administrator Michael Regan on Data Centers and Public Health (Recorded at UNC Clean Tech Summit) — April 24, 2026Trump's Iran War: Hubris, Blowback, and Peak Oil — April 21, 2026Russell Gold on Leaving The Wall Street Journal for the Solar Industry — April 16, 2026Bonus Episode: Tom Fanning on 43 Years at Southern Company (recorded at UNC Clean Tech Summit) — April 14, 2026We've Been Piloting Grid Solutions for 20 Years. It's Time to Deploy. — April 09, 2026No Fertilizer. No Data Centers. No Birthday Balloons. The Iran War Is Not Just Impacting Oil. — April 02, 2026How My Retired EV Ended Up Powering Homes in Ukraine — March 26, 2026500 Miles on a Charge: Is This the End of the Diesel Semi? — March 20, 2026Trump: The Accidental Clean Energy President — March 18, 2026The Cheapest Grid Is the One We Already Paid For — March 12, 2026Why the War in Iran Is Speeding Up the Clean Energy Transition — March 04, 2026The Case Against Off-Grid Data Centers with Tim Hade — February 26, 2026The American-Made Solar Billionaire with Dean Solon — February 19, 2026Why Wars No Longer Move Oil Markets with Kevin Book — February 19, 2026A Decade as Solar’s Top Lobbyist with Abby Hopper — February 19, 2026Who is Jigar Shah? — February 19, 2026Energy Empire Trailer — February 09, 2026Welcome to Energy Empire — February 09, 2026
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