The Great Energy Showdown: Solar Takes All?

The Great Energy Showdown: Solar Takes All?

Update: 2025-09-18
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Sara's back for the launch of Season 7 of Energy vs Climate!


For our first episode, David, Sara, and Ed discuss whether solar will be the big energy winner. Has solar energy already won? What’s driving its rapid ascent? And what does it mean for energy production and policy here in Canada?


Show notes & references available on episode page.


About Your EvC Co-Hosts:

David Keith is Professor and Founding Faculty Director, Climate Systems Engineering Initiative at the University of Chicago. He is the founder of Carbon Engineering and was formerly a professor at Harvard University and the University of Calgary. He splits his time between Canmore and Chicago.

Sara Hastings-Simon studies energy transitions at the intersection of policy, business, and technology. She’s a policy wonk, a physicist turned management consultant, and a professor at the University of Calgary and Director of the Master of Science in Sustainable Energy Development.

Ed Whittingham is a clean energy policy/finance professional specializing in renewable electricity generation and transmission, carbon capture, carbon removal and low carbon transportation. He is a Public Policy Forum fellow and formerly the executive director of the Pembina Institute, a national clean energy think tank.


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The Great Energy Showdown: Solar Takes All?

The Great Energy Showdown: Solar Takes All?

Energy vs Climate | Produced by Amit Tandon & Bespoke Podcasts