The Jolt by FORESIGHT

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Recent Episodes

1. US pipeline plan, Albania’s first wind farm

   Nov 2, 2026

   Host Sam Morgan delivers a solo news roundup of energy and climate developments, with no guest interviewed. Topics include a reported US-brokered plan to route Russian gas to Europe via Ukraine as part of a ceasefire proposal, Germany missing its gas storage target, Norway's floating offshore wind funding, and Albania's first wind farm, the 72 MW Spiller project. The episode also briefly covers Russia's floating nuclear reactor plans.

2. Gas-electricity price gap fight, Russia’s floating nukes business

   Oct 30, 2026

   Host Sam Morgan delivers a weekly news roundup of energy and climate stories for the 666th episode of The Jolt, with no guest. Topics include EU governments resisting a Commission proposal to make electricity cheaper than gas, UK budget changes to gas and electricity bills and the Warm Homes Plan, and Indonesian wildfire smoke linked to rising deaths. The episode also covers Rosatom's offer of floating nuclear plants to African nations and Finland's first operating license for the Onkalo spent fuel repository.

3. Big election shocks, Romania learns nuclear lessons

   Oct 26, 2026

   Host Sam Morgan presents a news roundup for The Jolt, a Foresight podcast on energy and climate. The episode covers the political fallout of election results in Brazil and Serbia and their likely effects on Amazon deforestation and Russian gas, plus Sri Lanka's clean energy push, South Korea's renewables overtaking coal, and a Romanian nuclear plant offline due to low Danube water levels. It also includes a listener poll on whether the UK's Jackdaw approval will lead to Rosebank's approval.

4. Britain’s gas green light, Australia’s hydro delay

   Oct 23, 2026

   This solo episode of The Jolt, hosted by Sam Morgan, is a weekly roundup of energy and climate news. Topics include the UK government's approval of the Jackdaw North Sea gas field after a court had struck down the earlier decision, and a UN report on the world's warming trajectory. Sam also covers cost and timeline overruns on Australia's Snowy Hydro 2.0 pumped hydro project and a European Parliament vote to delay EU methane regulation for fossil fuel importers.

5. Franco-German car deal, Southeast Asia chokes on fumes

   Oct 19, 2026

   Host Sam Morgan returns from a break to cover the week's energy and climate news, including France and Germany's side deal on the EU's 2035 car CO2 target, Italy's plan to cap electricity prices, and US sanctions decisions on Russian oil and diesel. He also reports on wildfire haze across Southeast Asia, which has forced school closures and strained cross-border relations. The episode opens with a reader poll on the EU's one-year delay to methane regulation reporting rules.

6. Heat pumps 101

   Oct 16, 2026

   Thomas Novak, a policy expert at Swedish heat pump manufacturer Crantum International, joins host Sam Morgan for a back-to-basics episode on heat pumps. They cover how the technology works using evaporation and compression, the differences between air-source, ground-source, and water-based systems, and which buildings suit different configurations. The conversation also addresses installation and maintenance requirements, the policy and grid-integration hurdles to wider adoption, and how Sweden and other European countries are approaching the technology.

7. Lessons from the Baltic grid's independence anniversary

   Oct 9, 2026

   Energy expert Suzanne Nees of the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin returns to The Jolt, one year after the Baltic states' power grid was synchronized with continental Europe, to assess whether the feared consequences materialized. She discusses the trial synchronization phase, the Baltics' continued island-like grid operation, the limited risks of Russian retaliation and price spikes, and the slow timeline for the Harmony Link cable to Poland. The conversation also covers the tension between grid integration and decentralization for energy security.

8. Why more coal plants doesn’t mean more coal power

   Oct 5, 2026

   Christine Shearer, energy analyst at Global Energy Monitor, discusses the paradox of rising global coal plant capacity alongside falling coal power generation. The conversation explores why countries like China and India continue building coal plants despite economic disadvantages, examines regional variations (Turkey's dramatic coal phase-out, Australia's coal export contradiction, the US Trump-era reversal), and explains the critical distinction between installed capacity and actual generation for climate communication and policy.

9. The Jolt and CLEW Review, #4

   Oct 2, 2026

   Sam Morgan hosts a special collaborative episode featuring Sven Egenter, founder of Clean Energy Wire, and Casper Tyril Gärtner, co-founder of Foresight Climate & Energy. The two discuss why they started their respective media outlets a decade ago, how the energy transition journalism landscape has evolved, and the challenges of maintaining editorial independence and building audience trust in an era of information overload and AI-generated content.

10. EU urges energy frugality, record-breaking solar prototype

    Sep 28, 2026

    Sam Morgan hosts The Jolt, a weekly energy and climate news roundup covering major developments in the energy transition. This episode features stories on EU energy demand curbs amid gas storage concerns, US-Iran negotiations affecting the Strait of Hormuz, Trump administration rollbacks of vehicle efficiency standards, Vattenfall's record onshore wind farm proposal in England, and a Chinese solar company's new 28.29% efficiency record for prototype solar cells.