We believe that energy transition is the most important story of our time, and we aim to offer the highest-quality, thoughtful commentary about it anywhere. No other podcast goes as deep into the important details, and covers as broad a range of relevant topics, in such a well-produced package. We aim to help listeners really understand this enormously complex and oftentimes technical subject. If you really care about energy transition, and want to learn something new in every show, this is the show for you!
Most other high-quality podcasts are supported by some parent organization that actually pays the bills, or by advertisers and sponsors. We don’t have a big parent organization that brings in revenue from some other source. And we have elected not to go the sponsorship route for two reasons: 1) Our circulation isn’t big enough to attract sponsors that can bring in enough revenue to support the show, and 2) We want our show to be as unbiased, honest, and unfiltered as we can possibly make it. The only paymasters we want to be responsible to are you, the listeners.
Our memberships give you access to:
- A special feed with two full episodes per month. The full shows, available to members only, are generally over an hour in length (some are considerably longer). The free “teaser” episodes for non-members are generally 15 minutes or less. You can put your members-only feed into your favorite fully-featured podcast player to stream or download episodes for listening on demand.
- An extensive bibliography of sources consulted for each show, which are listed in the show notes of each episode (visible to members only).
- Access to an interactive transcript player of each interview’s text.
- Advanced search tools that make it easy to find what you’re looking for in our full back catalog of episodes – filter and sort by geek rating or air date, and search the full text of each interview’s transcript.
- Plus, as time goes on, we intend to offer other additional features and other special goodies for our members.
Yes, you can cancel at any time. If you’d like to cancel your account before your next renewal date, visit the Manage Membership page on our website and click the cancel button.
If you elect to cancel, your account will stay active until the end of your membership term. If you do not wish to cancel at this time, you will receive a notification of your membership details 90 days before your next renewal. We do not offer refunds for partial, unused memberships.
We hope that after you lose access to the full version of our podcast you’ll keep listening to the free episodes and rejoin us as a full member down the road!
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Yes! We have group members from over 40 countries across 6 continents—including organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, India, South Africa, Brazil, Japan, and many more.
For small groups under 50 users: You can get started right away using our automatic bulk membership form. We offer discounts that scale based on the number of accounts in your group—up to 30% off for 50 users.
See all group membership options, or if you still have questions, write us and we’ll figure something out for you.
It’s an indication of how esoteric the material in that episode is, on a scale of 1 (anyone should be able to follow it) to 10 (very specialized, technical, or otherwise “advanced” material), in Chris’ subjective opinion. And once in a rare while, an episode goes to 11. A high rating doesn’t indicate that the episode isn’t comprehensible to mere mortals; in fact we think our guests explain the material in those episodes brilliantly and in a highly accessible fashion. But it may take a bit of background study to get up to speed on the topic.
Yes! When you become a member, you’ll get a link to feed configuration instructions with a range of options to support your specific player. The Energy Transition Show members-only feed is compatible with any podcast app that supports subscribing to a podcast URL. Most podcast apps support this functionality. Unfortunately, podcast directory apps like Spotify are not supported at this time, but we’re hopeful that can change soon! If you have any questions, you can always reach out to our support email address for help.
Just use the comment form on the show page for an episode. Or write to Chris at the email address given at the end of each episode. (We don’t display our email addresses on the site in an effort to limit incoming spam.)
You can follow us on Mastodon at @transitionshow@mastodon.energy or on Bluesky at @transitionshow.bsky.social. We encourage listeners to discuss the show and share it with their friends on any social platform!
You can rate and review the Energy Transition Show on Apple Podcasts or most other podcast apps. Search for “Energy Transition Show” in your app and look for the rating/review option on our show page.
Most podcast players allow you to download episodes for offline listening. Check your podcast app’s settings or episode options for a download button.
The podcast transcripts we provide to our members are not intended to be perfectly authentic translations of spoken word to text, however they come very close! From time to time you’ll notice a word in the podcast transcript that’s missing, or simply replaced with a “???” – that’s because variable audio quality, accents, vernaculars, acronyms, names and other proper nouns lead our transcription team to just add a placeholder. Over time we may get a chance to return and refine each podcast transcript for even higher accuracy, so for now we’re just aiming for 95% transcript coverage rather than 100%.