Doug Lewin Videos

Texas’s new era of electricity demand is forcing policymakers to walk an unprecedented tightrope. The state has to keep the lights on – and it has to make sure that Texans can afford to do so.. Massive load growth from data centers, population, and […]

Texas keeps adding load, adding generation, and adding complexity. But attracting the next wave of investment often comes down to a crucial question: How does ERCOT use market forces – especially signals that determine where energy prices are set – to […]

Every time a winter storm hits, Texans run through a mental checklist: gather more blankets, drip the pipes, and hope the grid holds up. Kurt Heim, Vice President of Environmental Advancement at Daikin Comfort Technologies North America Inc., understands why […]

Texas just got another winter gut-check—not on the level of the deadly 2021 freeze, but still with enough ice, outages, and anxious headlines to remind everyone how fast confidence can evaporate. In this episode, Matt Boms and Josh Rhodes unpack what they […]

In two weeks, Texas will observe the five-year anniversary of Winter Storm Uri — the devastating 2021 freeze that drove electricity demand to unprecedented heights, froze gas lines and plants, and triggered a blackout that darkened nearly half of the […]

Texas is not short on energy. Texas is short on time. New load is arriving faster than the grid can plan, permit, and build, raising a question that will shape our state’s future: can Texas grow without sacrificing reliability or pushing costs onto the […]

This episode is a little different. As I wrote on Friday: this is both a transition and an expansion (https://www.douglewin.com/p/its-a-transition-and-an-expansion) . Several folks will be stepping up to use this platform and I couldn’t be more excited […]

Everyone’s talking about the cost of power lately. But the Texas Energy Poverty Research Institute has been studying, talking, writing, and working to do something about it, for over a decade. In recent research, TEPRI found that 65 percent of low and […]

Thanksgiving Week RepostThis episode originally aired in June 2024. We’re resurfacing it because the core idea discussed here were timely then and even more timely now. We’ve also refreshed the audio, with improved mixing and mastering for a clearer, […]

“Everyone hates data centers.” That was the subject line on the email newsletter from Heatmap Daily the day before I sat down with Dr. Varun Sivaram, co-founder and CEO of Emerald AI. Communities see huge new loads coming onto the grid, hear about […]

This is part 2 of my conversation with Nat Bullard. Check out Part 1 here: We talk a lot about the grid of the future. The truth is, that future is already showing up in Texas. Batteries are being built at record pace, data centers are chasing cheap and […]

Texas energy forecasts are shifting fast — and few people track those shifts better than Nat Bullard. From ERCOT’s data center surge to $2,500 gas plants, this conversation breaks down what’s really driving the Texas grid’s next chapter. Load growth, […]

Texas is quietly leading a clean-energy revolution, building one of the world’s most advanced end-to-end solar manufacturing chains, right here at home. Doug Lewin talks with Dan Barcelo, CEO of T1 Energy, about how Texas could become the center of […]

A 2001 wildfire in Alberta was so massive that U.S. satellites mistook it for a nuclear explosion. That moment marked the dawn of a new era: 21st-century firestorms powerful enough to punch into the stratosphere. In this clip from the Energy Capital […]

We’ve entered a new era where floods, fires, and storms don’t just break records, they rewrite them. Doug Lewin and author John discuss why our institutions are still fighting 1990s-sized disasters while the 21st century demands a whole new playbook. […]