127 episodes

Energy Evolution is a podcast from S&P Global Commodity Insights that explores how the energy industry is changing in response to the growing call for cleaner energy. Co-hosts Dan Testa and Taylor Kuykendall, veteran S&P Global Commodity Insights journalists, spend each episode talking to leading experts from the energy, mining and finance sectors and breaking down the energy transition trends that the policymakers, traders and industry professionals need to know about. The team uses the reporting firepower and data resources of Market Intelligence. It taps into experts worldwide to tackle the climate and energy issues of the day, as well as changes on the horizon.

Energy Evolution S&P Global Commodity Insights

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    • 4.9 • 14 Ratings

Energy Evolution is a podcast from S&P Global Commodity Insights that explores how the energy industry is changing in response to the growing call for cleaner energy. Co-hosts Dan Testa and Taylor Kuykendall, veteran S&P Global Commodity Insights journalists, spend each episode talking to leading experts from the energy, mining and finance sectors and breaking down the energy transition trends that the policymakers, traders and industry professionals need to know about. The team uses the reporting firepower and data resources of Market Intelligence. It taps into experts worldwide to tackle the climate and energy issues of the day, as well as changes on the horizon.

    Catching up with Innovators throughout the battery materials supply chain

    Catching up with Innovators throughout the battery materials supply chain

    Wrapping up the series of episodes featuring interviews gathered at CERAWeek by S&P Global, co-host of Energy Evolution Taylor Kuykendall shares bits of conversations with executives from new, innovative companies across different parts of the battery materials supply chain. Guests on this episode are: Gabi Knesel, a senior vice president at Locus Fermentation Solutions; Mahesh Konduru, CEO of Momentum Technologies; Srini Godavarthy, CEO of Li Metal; and John Busbee, the CEO and co-founder of Xerion Advanced Battery Corp.
    Subscribe to Energy Evolution to stay current on the energy transition and its implications. Veteran journalists Dan Testa and Taylor Kuykendall co-host the show.

    • 24 min
    National Grid, Portland General Electric CEOs share thoughts on the energy transition

    National Grid, Portland General Electric CEOs share thoughts on the energy transition

    Energy Evolution continues to showcase interviews with influential leaders in the energy transition after co-host Taylor Kuykendall returned from CERAWeek 2024 by S&P Global, the company's flagship energy conference. 
    In this episode of the Energy Evolution podcast, Maria Pope, President and CEO of Portland General Electric, and John Pettigrew, CEO of National Grid, discuss the future of energy and the challenges facing the industry in the coming years. PGE provides electricity to a service area with a population of about 1.9 million people. National Grid is a large investor-owned utility with operations in the UK and in the northeastern US.
    Subscribe to Energy Evolution to stay current on the energy transition and its implications. The show is co-hosted by veteran journalists Dan Testa and Taylor Kuykendall.

    • 34 min
    Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Svante CEOs on the future of carbon capture

    Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Svante CEOs on the future of carbon capture

    Energy Evolution continues to showcase interviews with influential leaders in the energy transition after co-host Taylor Kuykendall returned from CERAWeek 2024 by S&P Global, the company's flagship energy conference. 
    For this episode, Taylor sat down with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America CEO Takajiro Ishikawa and Svante President and CEO Claude Letourneau about the past and future of carbon capture projects. Carbon capture is a key technology for reducing emissions, particularly for hard-to-abate sectors such as heavy industry and transportation. These sectors are responsible for significant global carbon emissions and are difficult to decarbonize using conventional methods. Carbon capture technology offers a promising solution by capturing carbon dioxide emissions before they are released into the atmosphere and storing them safely and securely.
    Subscribe to Energy Evolution to stay current on the energy transition and its implications. The show is co-hosted by veteran journalists Dan Testa and Taylor Kuykendall.

    • 34 min
    Catching up with the CEO behind the largest clean energy infrastructure project in US history

    Catching up with the CEO behind the largest clean energy infrastructure project in US history

    Energy Evolution continues to showcase interviews with influential leaders in the energy transition as co-host Taylor Kuykendall returns from CERAWeek 2024, by S&P Global, the company's flagship energy conference. 
    In this episode, we talk with Hunter Armistead, the CEO of Pattern Energy. Pattern Energy is developing SunZia Wind and Transmission to capture energy from the winds of New Mexico to power three million Americans in the western US. Hunter and Taylor talk about the challenges and opportunities of renewable energy, the importance of transmission in meeting demand, and the role of green fuels. They also touch on the difficulties of financing large-scale projects like SunZia, as well as the policy changes that could make it easier to build transmission and allocate costs.
    Subscribe to Energy Evolution to stay current on the energy transition and its implications. The show is co-hosted by veteran journalists Dan Testa and Taylor Kuykendall.

    • 25 min
    Energy transition insights from a former DOE Secretary and the COP24 President from CERAWeek

    Energy transition insights from a former DOE Secretary and the COP24 President from CERAWeek

    Energy Evolution continues to showcase interviews with influential leaders in the energy transition as co-host Taylor Kuykendall returns from CERAWeek 2024, by S&P Global, the company's flagship energy conference. 
    On this episode, we start with a chat with Ernest Moniz, former US energy secretary under the Obama administration, and now president and CEO of the Energy Futures Initiative think tank. Then, we talk to Michał Kurtyka, a fellow with the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center, the first minister of Poland’s Ministry of Climate and the President of COP24 — the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties in Poland. 
    In wide-ranging conversations, Energy Evolution talks to the two officials about policy changes, the need to act on climate and rapidly changing energy technologies — from coal to hydrogen to fusion.
    Subscribe to Energy Evolution to stay current on the energy transition and its implications. The show is co-hosted by veteran journalists Dan Testa and Taylor Kuykendall.

    • 37 min
    Curbing emissions in the oil and gas industry

    Curbing emissions in the oil and gas industry

    This week, Energy Evolution reports from CERAWeek, S&P Global's flagship energy conference.
    Today’s conversation is with Colin Parfitt, vice president of Midstream at Chevron Corporation.
    Parfitt discussed Chevron’s approach to cutting carbon emissions intensity in the oil and gas business amid growing energy demand, the role of liquified natural gas in the energy space, and the pace of energy sector decarbonization with podcast co-host Taylor Kuykendall on the sidelines of the event.
    Subscribe to Energy Evolution to stay current on the energy transition and its implications. The show is co-hosted by veteran journalists Dan Testa and Taylor Kuykendall.

    • 18 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
14 Ratings

14 Ratings

TheLoneComic ,

As a retail investor and trader…

This is information packed without a lot of political griping earmarking other energy podcasts (often triggering ad nausea switch away) never getting close to your production standards.

As a comedian, production standards are my lifeblood.

The quality of the information is as good as I have heard anywhere, and in the wrap, please keep ‘em coming, and I will listen.

Recommending green investment to other comedians is about as effective as speaking to the financial IQ of the average person in Oakland to value the notion of strategic personal investment.

However, I will tout you nonetheless, and am currently contemplating how to work that into shutting down a heckler.

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