Energy transition, measured in markets.
Energy Evolution treats the energy transition as a market system under stress. Its interviews connect sanctions, carbon pricing, methane measurement, nuclear buildouts, LNG, copper, and power demand to the decisions facing governments and companies.
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Energy Evolution is industry journalism for the energy transition at market speed. It is built around interviews, but the questions do real framing work. Recent episodes examine how war, sanctions, climate risk, and infrastructure age are forcing new calculations in Russian energy. The Arctic is not treated as a simple opportunity story; permafrost, pipelines, methane hydrates, and trade dependence all complicate the picture. The show also follows Europe's carbon market as political pressure, industrial competitiveness concerns, and falling carbon prices test one of the world's most watched climate policy tools. It gets technical quickly. That is part of the value. Conversations about carbon accounting explain why emissions data now affects capital allocation, trade flows, accountability, and strategy. A listener hears how standards that once felt voluntary can become embedded in regulation and market behavior. Energy Evolution also keeps one eye on supply. Copper is framed as both the enabler of electrification and a possible bottleneck for electric vehicles, wind turbines, data centers, and grid expansion. Nuclear is handled through concrete project progress, including Ontario Power Generation's advanced nuclear work at Darlington. Methane episodes look at measurement and reduction technology inside the U.S. gas industry rather than treating gas only as a political symbol. Geopolitics is never far away. Conversations from CERA Week connect Middle East conflict, LNG exports, renewables, coal, pipeline gas, and oil trade routes to broader questions of affordability and security. The show is composed, brisk, and dense with sector language. It assumes the audience can follow carbon prices, export capacity, supply-chain inputs, and policy mechanics. For energy professionals, policy watchers, climate analysts, and commodity-market followers, it offers a clear view of how decarbonization meets war, regulation, money, and physical limits.
Made for: For energy professionals, climate-policy followers, commodity-market watchers, and listeners who want detailed explanations of how decarbonization affects trade, security, infrastructure, and investment.
What sets it apart: Energy Evolution stands out by linking climate policy to commodity flows, geopolitical risk, and physical supply constraints. Its interview format favors market mechanics and implementation details over broad transition rhetoric.
Interviews, analysis and reporting from S&P Global Commodity Insights on energy and commodities' transition to a cleaner future. Hosts Taylor Kuykendall and Eklavya Gupte speak with policymakers, industry professionals and SPGCI in-house experts worldwide on topics related to decarbonization, climate, emerging fuels and energy sources, and the outlook for commodity markets from oil to power to metals. The Energy Evolution podcast has merged with the Platts Future Energy podcast as of January 2025.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Energy Evolution connects energy technology to the standards, infrastructure, markets and geopolitical pressures that determine what can actually be built.
Energy Evolution treats energy technology as a system of rules, markets and physical constraints rather than a parade of inventions. Eklavya Gupte and Taylor Kuykendall lead interviews and roundtables that connect technical mechanisms to their consequences: how carbon-accounting…
Carbon math becomes trade policy here, so you can follow the money without losing the emissions.
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War, warming, and sanctions reshape Russia's energy outlook.
Energy Evolution looks at Russia's energy sector under the strain of war and climate pressure. Ikhlaweer Gupte and Rosemary Griffin follow the invasion of Ukraine, the reach of sanctions, rerouted export flows, and steep oil discounts, and they make clear that the war is costly…
A steady look at energy transition pressures and the tensions around them.
Ernest Moniz keeps energy policy grounded in practical pressure points: conflict, volatile oil prices, LNG export capacity, growing demand for power, and the uneven pace of the transition. He ranges from the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement to new technologies and the U.S.
A clear CERAWeek briefing on how conflict, trade, and rising power demand are reshaping energy markets.
CERAWeek brings together conflict, policy, and global trade in a way that makes the strain on energy markets feel immediate. Dave Ernstberger helps connect the Middle East, geopolitical risk, renewable power, LNG, pipeline gas, coal, and oil into one steady view of where…
A clear read on why emissions math now shapes trade, reporting, and capital.
Carbon accounting is treated here as a live language of emissions, and the episode makes a solid case that the language is changing under pressure.
CERA Week's policy talk meets practical AI uses in energy.
Energy Evolution uses CERA Week in Houston as a useful frame for the conference's blend of policy talk and dealmaking, with Taylor Kirkendall, Dave Ernsberger, Corey Paul, and Kasia Misek moving from the event's scale to the specifics emerging from it.
Commodity risk, explained from the market floor.
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
Energy Evolution’s CERAWeek panel in Houston, Texas, brings Taylor Kirkendall, Eklavya Gupte, Dave Ernsberger, Corey Paul, and Kasia Misek together to sort through the week’s biggest energy takeaways.
Trafigura's Global Head of Carbon Trading explains the basics of carbon markets at CERAWeek.
This episode explores the FuelEU Maritime regulation, a new EU law aimed at decarbonizing shipping by setting greenhouse gas intensity limits for ships in European waters.
Energy Evolution looks at how war, sanctions, and climate change are reshaping Russia's energy landscape.
Energy Evolution's March 25 conversation with Ernest Moniz centers on the Iran war, oil and LNG volatility, EV costs, and grid bottlenecks.
This episode examines the political and economic pressures on Europe's carbon market, including falling prices and proposed reforms.
An interview at CERA Week with Courtney Loper from EQT discussing methane emissions reduction technology in the US gas industry.
Ontario Power Generation leads North America in building advanced nuclear, with the first SMR in the G7 under construction at Darlington.
Energy Evolution’s CERAWeek preview with Eklavya Gupte and Dave Ernstberger focuses on the Middle East conflict, the Strait of Hormuz, and the 23-27 March Houston conference theme of “convergence and competition.” Ernstberger says markets look resilient on futures screens, yet India, Asian refiners, and airlines are already facing LPG, jet fuel, and diesel disruptions.
Eklavvya Gupte opens Energy Evolution with a discussion of carbon accounting, EU CBAM, and the greenhouse gas protocol’s biggest revision in years.
This episode explores the critical role of copper in the energy transition, highlighting a projected 10 million metric ton supply deficit by 2040 due to surging demand from EVs, wind turbines, and data centers.
This episode discusses the April 2025 Iberian blackout that affected Spain and Portugal, its causes, and implications for decarbonized power systems.
This episode explores the credibility crisis in voluntary carbon markets and how South Pole is working to restore trust and integrity.