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Welcome to the Energy Central Podcast Network—your ultimate resource for the biggest ideas, boldest perspectives, and best insights from across the electric power industry. We publish… Power Perspectives. From CEOs of major utilities to founders of energy tech startups pushing the envelope, Power Perspectives curates the news, thought leaders, and big picture conversations most important to modern power professionals—every week on Tuesdays. The Watt & Why. Dive deep into utility business strategies, straight from the minds of the leaders deciding what comes next. Host Mike Smith leverages his own decades of power utility industry experience and leadership to get to the bottom of what inspires, drives, and challenges utility decision makers. And there’s even more to come. Energy Central is a community where 250K electric power professionals share, learn, and connect in a collaborative environment. Want to join in? Visit www.EnergyCentral.com to register for free.

Episodes

The real cost of outdated utility regulation, according to PowerLines CEO Charles Hua

13 Jan 2026

36m

The podcast explores building resilient economies amid the clean energy transition, focusing on communities dependent on fossil fuels. Economist Noah Kaufman discusses the Resilient Energy Economies Initiative, emphasizing the economic distress faced when dominant employers and taxpayers leave regions. He notes that re...

A Google exec’s POV on the energy bets worth making

18 Dec 2025

How to protect a grid under siege

16 Dec 2025

What’s really keeping utility CEOs up at night

11 Dec 2025

How to un-duck the grid

09 Dec 2025

Judith Curry: We’re wrong about climate change

04 Dec 2025

SPP's plan to power 18 million futures—straight from the CEO

02 Dec 2025

How capacity markets broke—and what it takes to fix them

24 Nov 2025AI processed

In this episode of Energy Central's Power Perspectives, Kinsey Grant Baker interviews Christoph Graf, a senior economist, about capacity markets and electricity prices in the U.S. They discuss the basics of capacity markets, their purpose in ensuring grid reliability, and how they function differently across various re...