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Let’s Talk Energy is a podcast from Rystad Energy that delivers timely, expert-led insights into the global energy landscape.

Podcast · By Rystad Energy · English · Official site

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Sep 23, 2026
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Jul 8, 2026

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  1. Episode · Sep 23, 2026

    The data center power crunch: “Physics is going to win” — Robert Gaudette, CEO, NRG (opens the original)

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    Let’s Talk Energy and get an inside look at how US power producers are responding to surging electricity demand. US power demand had been growing slowly for the last few decades but now electrification, re-industrialization and large-load data centers is pushing demand growth up dramatically, straining markets, the grid and the pocket books of consumers and putting producers at the center of some of the hottest issues in this year’s mid-term election. CORRECTION: At 9:20 minutes - NRG estimates

  2. Episode · Sep 9, 2026

    How data centers and natural disasters are pushing the grid to its limits (opens the original)

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    Let’s Talk Energy and look at the growing stresses to power grids from the growing amount and severity of extreme weather and wildfires alongside rapidly rising demand from data centers. Keeping the lights on during natural disasters has never been more important as lifesaving services – and life in general- require more power and computing capacity than ever before. And that task is getting more difficult. From 2018 to 2024, the number of major outage events each year - power cuts affecting 30,

  3. Episode · Aug 26, 2026

    Why the Permian Basin won’t replace lost Middle East oil, with Jai Singh and Matthew Bernstein (opens the original)

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    Let’s Talk Energy and kick off our first episode back from our summer break with a look at the Permian Basin. The production trajectory in the Permian has been one of the single most important variables to understanding global oil supply – if not the entire oil industry – for much of the past decade. Permian production more than tripled since the start of the US tight oil revolution around 2014 and now sits above 6.6 million barrels of oil per day -almost half of US oil output – and well over 25

  4. Episode · Jul 8, 2026

    Host note: Back in August and future plans (opens the original)

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    We're on summer break and back with new episodes in late August 2026. That’s a wrap on the first half of 2026 and our 44th episode. Over the past 10 months, Let’s Talk Energy has surpassed 1 million views on YouTube, tallied more than 70,000 hours of watch time and totaled over 25,000 downloads across Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Thank you for spending your time with us We’re taking a summer break from early July to recharge. While we’re away, the full archive is there for the road trip, the beac

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