IR Interchange Recharged

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Interchange Recharged

Clean tech, green finance and energy innovation are the three lanes on the road to a successful global energy transition. At the intersection of these lanes is a place where ideas on finance, technology and policy are shared and debated. That intersection is Interchange Recharged.Your host is Sylvia Leyva Martinez, principal analyst and research director at Wood Mackenzie. When Sylvia isn't tracking the technologies and markets driving the build-out of renewable power, she's speaking with visionaries, entrepreneurs, policy-makers and energy analysts to explore the newest developments in renewa...

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Said on Interchange Recharged

“Typically, a consumer flexibility program that requires consumer opt-in, you see less than 5% of consumers who participate. For device-based programs, Rush Hour Rewards with Nest thermostats, even there you're only seeing 25%. At Octopus, we're seeing 50, 60, 70% participation rates of our electric vehicle drivers.” — Nick Chaset, Interchange Recharged
Nick Chaset · 3 Nov 2026 Listen →
“If I have tens of thousands of homes that are participating in a flexibility program, I can statistically be confident that during the highest load, 50, 100, 250 hours a summer, those thermostats are going to respond. … I then can get confident in connecting a 500-megawatt data center at a 400-megawatt point of interconnection. Because that incremental 100 megawatts is a few hundred hours a year where supply and demand are mismatched that load flexibility can operate against.” — Nick Chaset, Interchange Recharged
Nick Chaset · 3 Nov 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Interchange Recharged is hosted by Sylvia Leyva Martinez , Shayle Kann , Stephen Lacey , Bridget Van Dorsten , Scott Clavenna , David Banmiller and Ingrid Lobet .

Recent Episodes

  1. 3 Nov 2026

    Re-release: Flexibility as a service: Can Octopus's acquisition of Uplight finally make US residential VPPs work?

    With Nick Chaset

  2. 20 Oct 2026

    Re-release: Fuel cells are powering AI data center demand: they’ve moved from interesting clean tech to major player

    With Akhil Batheja

  3. 6 Oct 2026

    Re-release: Building the plane while it’s flying: data centers, utilities, and the new rules of power

    With Chris Seiple

  4. 22 Sep 2026

    When hydro is no longer enough: Colombia’s race to diversify before the next El Niño

    With Álvaro Villasante

  5. 15 Sep 2026

    The fastest path to more power: How advanced conductors could unlock grid capacity without new transmission

    With JD Sitton and Theodore Paradise

  6. 8 Sep 2026

    Speed to power: Why data-center load growth is creating a new opening for C&I solar, storage, and microgrids

    With Tim Montague

  7. 25 Aug 2026

    Thorium’s nuclear pitch: Can molten salt reactors cut cost, use waste, and scale faster than conventional designs?

    With Thomas Jam Pedersen

  8. 11 Aug 2026

    The inverter security turn: How Europe and the US are redrawing solar procurement around Chinese hardware

    With Joe Shangraw

  9. 28 Jul 2026

    Why biomining might finally work: How Endolith is using microbes and data to unlock more copper from low-grade ore

    With Liz Dennett

  10. 14 Jul 2026

    Bigger turbines, bigger consequences: how wind is rethinking risk, insurance, and predictive maintenance

    With Olly Litterick and Alexis Grenon

  11. 30 Jun 2026

    As racks scale, power must change: The AC-to-DC rethink inside AI factories

    With Nick Wright

  12. 16 Jun 2026

    Handing back the mic: Six months of data center reality, from Bragawatts to behind-the-meter, and the questions still open

Guests

Chris Seiple (6 episodes), Ed Crooks (6 episodes), Emily Kirsch (5 episodes), Andy Lubershane (4 episodes), Abe Yokell (4 episodes), Priya Donti (3 episodes), Melissa Lott (3 episodes), Kelly Sarber (3 episodes), Julian Spector (3 episodes), Nick Chaset (3 episodes), Adam James (3 episodes), Kate Gordon (3 episodes), and 351 more.