The Power Hour

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The Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment’s (CECE) Power Hour, hosted by Jack Spencer, brings together leading experts to discuss a wide range of timely and critical issues in energy, climate, and the environment. If you support unleashing abundant and affordable domestic energy, combatting climate alarmism, and advancing environmental policy that respects federalism, property rights, and sound science, then The Power Hour is a must-listen program.

  1. há 1 dia

    The Wild Facts About Wildfires and Why Smokey Bear Might Have Been Wrong with Jason Hayes

    The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with leading national experts.  Jack invites The Heritage Foundation’s Senior Research Fellow Jason Hayes this week to talk about the recent Canadian wildfires.  Aside from being a leading policy expert, Jason has worked as a forester and back woods park ranger and is the perfect person to help us to understand what is going on and why.  He will tell us why fires in Canada are impacting us here in the United State, why do these seemingly out of control wildfires keep happening, and what can be done about? You can learn more about Jason Hayes here and read a recent piece that he wrote on this issue here.  As always, you can join the conversation at thepowerhour@heritage.org! Get Jack’s book, Nuclear Revolution, and our documentary about nuclear energy, Powering America.  Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word.

  2. 20 de jul.

    The American Uranium Enrichment Company that You Need to Hear About with Lee Robinson

    The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with leading national experts.  It has been decades since an American company successfully competed to supply enriched uranium to fuel commercial power reactors.  One company is trying to change that.   That company is General Matter and its COO and co-founder, Lee Robinson, joins Jack this week to tell us how they are doing it.  Lee is an innovator and entrepreneur and is the kind of visionary that America needs if our enthusiasm about new nuclear energy is ever going to become actual new nuclear energy.    You can learn more about General Matter here and you can check out a recent interview that Lee did here.

  3. 6 de jul.

    How Renewable Energy Mandates Lead to Higher Costs and Less Reliability with Jonathan Lesser

    The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with leading national experts.  On this episode, Jack learns from Jonathan Lesser, PhD,  how renewable portfolio standards and other energy mandates cause higher electricity prices and less reliable energy systems.  Dr. Lesser’s decades of experience studying how power is generated, distributed, and regulated give him a unique perspective that you won’t want to miss.  Currently, Dr. Lesser serves as a Senior Fellow at the National Center for Energy Analytics and President of Continental Economics.      Be sure to check out Dr. Lesser’s work  at the National Center for Energy Analytics and Continental Economics.      As always, you can join the conversation at  thepowerhour@heritage.org!  Get Jack’s book, Nuclear Revolution, and our documentary about nuclear energy, Powering America.  Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word.

  4. 29 de jun.

    How the Virginia Government is Increasing Energy Prices with Sarah Wagoner

    The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental  policy issues with national experts.  Jack is joined this week by his Heritage Foundation colleague, Sarah Wagoner.  Sarah is an environmental policy scholar who recently wrote about Virginia’s move to rejoin the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.  Among other issues, Sarah and Jack talk about how and why this is the exact wrong policy at the exact wrong time.   You can read Sarah’s article here and see what else she is working on here.   As always, you can join the conversation at  thepowerhour@heritage.org!  Get Jack’s book, Nuclear Revolution, and our documentary about nuclear energy, Powering America.  Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word.

  5. 22 de jun.

    Stopping the EPA’s Post Permit Power Grab with Myron Ebell

    The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental  policy issues with national experts.  Joining Jack this week is energy and environment policy legend and Power Hour alum, Myron Ebell.  As you might have guessed, Jack and Myron, who is now with the American Lands Council, spend a lot of time discussing why a decentralized, free enterprise approach that puts the power in the hands of the people and localities is a better approach to solving energy and environment challenges than centralizing control in Washington, but the conversation doesn’t stop there.  They discuss whether Washington’s bureaucratic regulatory regimes are broken and beyond repair, how the Left has worked for decades to normalize a bureaucracy-first approach, and if the end it nigh for global warming policy.  While that is all worthwhile, the reason to you don’t want to miss this one is you need to hear how the EPA has used its authority to retroactively revoke permits and how that impacts infrastructure investment decisions.   To see some of Myron’s work, check out this Youtube link.  You won’t be disappointed.  And you can click here to see what’s going on at the American Lands Council.   And finally, you can reach out to Myron directly via email at: myrontebell@gmail.com.  As always, you can join the conversation at  thepowerhour@heritage.org!  Get Jack’s book, Nuclear Revolution, and our documentary about nuclear energy, Powering America.  Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word.

  6. 15 de jun.

    How States are Getting Energy Policy Right (and Wrong) with Amy Cooke

    The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental  policy issues with national experts.  Jack invites the real AOC, Amy O. Cooke,  Always On Energy’s President and Chairman of the Board.  Amy is also a Visiting Energy Fellow at the State Policy Network where she chairs SPN’s Energy Policy Working Group.  Of particular interest, Jack and Amy talk about how much of the energy affordability issues we are facing today have nothing to do with increase demand and everything to do with the past bad energy policies.  And Amy explains how the work being done at Always On Energy puts real numbers behind the argument.  Of course, that’s just the tip of the iceberg of issues covered by Jack and Amy over the course of their conversation.  You can learn more about the great work being done at Always On Energy here and SPN’s energy work here.  After you listen to the Power Hour, go check Amy’s podcast PowerGab here, where she talks about energy issues and Colorado.   As always, you can join the conversation at  thepowerhour@heritage.org!  Get Jack’s book, Nuclear Revolution, and our documentary about nuclear energy, Powering America.  Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word.

  7. 8 de jun.

    Will AI Unlock the Future of Affordable Nuclear Energy with Kevin Kong

    The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental  policy issues with national experts.  Jack has a fascinating conversation with Everstar AI CEO, Kevin Kong on today’s episode.  Kevin makes a compelling argument that radical shifts in nuclear power’s underlying economics will be made possible with AI technology.  Whether during the regulatory process, supply chain development, or plant construction, AI will transform how nuclear power plants are built by harnessing massive efficiencies and this, in turn, will result in lower prices.  You will also get a crash course in AI technology as Jack starts the conversation by asking Kevin “what is AI?” and “how does it work?”   To get the answers, you will have to listen. You can learn more about Everstr AI here and Kevin Kong here.  You can reach out to Kevin on his Instagram page. As always, you can join the conversation at  thepowerhour@heritage.org!  Get Jack’s book, Nuclear Revolution, and our documentary about nuclear energy, Powering America.  Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word.

  8. 1 de jun.

    Pioneering a Path Forward on New Commercial Nuclear Energy with Peter Okrasa

    The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental  policy issues with top national experts.  Jack invites Peter Okrasa, founder and Chief Investment Officer of Pioneer Nuclear Energy Group to the Power Hour today.  Peter is an investor and entrepreneur who is applying his decades of investment experience to forge a new path for commercial nuclear energy.  What makes Peter exceptional is that he’s not just talking about the promise of nuclear energy, but he founded a company, Pioneer Nuclear, to make it happen.  Peter explains why nuclear presents such a unique financial opportunity and what makes his company unique in its approach to developing commercial nuclear projects.  Jack and Peter cover a lot of ground in this conversation from why nuclear energy is the energy of the future to what challenges remain in it reaching its full potential.  rse, nuclear energy.     You can learn more about Peter and Pioneer Nuclear  here and you can reach out to Peter via email at po@pioneernuclear.com As always, you can join the conversation at  thepowerhour@heritage.org!  Get Jack’s book, Nuclear Revolution, and our documentary about nuclear energy, Powering America.  Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word.

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The Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment’s (CECE) Power Hour, hosted by Jack Spencer, brings together leading experts to discuss a wide range of timely and critical issues in energy, climate, and the environment. If you support unleashing abundant and affordable domestic energy, combatting climate alarmism, and advancing environmental policy that respects federalism, property rights, and sound science, then The Power Hour is a must-listen program.

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