The Best Green Energy Podcasts in 2026
Why Listen to Green Energy Podcasts?
Green energy is no longer a niche topic about solar panels and wind turbines. It now includes grid expansion, storage, electric vehicles, heat pumps, hydrogen, power markets, permitting, clean-energy finance, artificial intelligence demand, industrial decarbonization, and the policy choices that determine how quickly fossil-fuel systems are replaced.
A good energy-transition podcast helps listeners follow that complexity. The best shows combine clear explanations with expert interviews, market context, technical depth, and a practical view of what is actually being built. This updated list prioritizes podcasts that are active, useful, current, and relevant in 2026.
To make the list, podcasts needed to have a live public page, recent or ongoing publishing activity, a clear green-energy or energy-transition focus, and enough editorial depth to remain useful beyond a single news cycle. Preference was given to shows with strong hosts, reputable publishers, useful archives, and coverage of clean-energy deployment, markets, policy, technology, or infrastructure.
List of the Best Green Energy and Energy Transition Podcasts
Here is an overview, sorted alphabetically. Detailed descriptions are below the table.
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Catalyst with Shayle Kann | Climate technology, decarbonization, investment, startups, and deployment | Shayle Kann |
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Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change | Clean energy, mobility, climate finance, and net-zero leadership | Michael Liebreich and Bryony Worthington |
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CleanTech Talk — Solar, Batteries, EVs, AI | EVs, batteries, solar, AI, cleantech business, and clean technology | Zach Shahan / CleanTechnica |
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Energy Insiders | Australian energy markets, renewables, storage, grids, and politics | Giles Parkinson and David Leitch |
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Energy Policy Now | Energy policy, markets, geopolitics, regulation, and environmental impacts | Andy Stone / Kleinman Center for Energy Policy |
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Green Energy Futures | Short clean-energy stories, local projects, buildings, solar, and sustainable communities | David Dodge |
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Inevitable, an MCJ podcast | Climate innovation, startups, industrial transition, and climate-tech entrepreneurship | Cody Simms / MCJ |
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Interchange Recharged | Clean technology, infrastructure, finance, grids, storage, and energy projects | Wood Mackenzie |
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Open Circuit | Power markets, AI load growth, grids, supply chains, and energy-transition strategy | Latitude Media |
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Redefining Energy | Energy transition, finance, markets, regulation, digitalization, and storage | Gerard Reid, Laurent Segalen, and Michael Barnard |
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Renewable Energy SmartPod | Renewables, clean-energy deployment, project finance, and industry trends | Renewable Energy SmartBrief |
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Smart Energy Voices | Corporate clean-energy procurement, renewables, decarbonization, and energy management | Smart Energy Decisions |
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The Carbon Copy | Clean-energy business, climate-tech deployment, decarbonization, and energy news | Stephen Lacey |
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The Clean Energy Show | Clean-energy news, EVs, solar, wind, batteries, and grid technology | James Whittingham and Brian Stockton |
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The Energy Gang | Energy news, clean technology, climate policy, and global energy systems | Ed Crooks / Wood Mackenzie |
About These Green Energy Podcasts
Catalyst with Shayle Kann
Catalyst with Shayle Kann is a weekly climate-technology show from Latitude Media. It is one of the clearest replacements for older green-energy podcasts because it focuses on the practical questions behind decarbonization: how clean technologies scale, where money is flowing, how policy changes markets, and what bottlenecks remain.
Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change
Cleaning Up brings high-level interviews with leaders across clean energy, mobility, climate finance, and sustainable development. It is a strong addition because it combines energy-transition substance with policy, business, and technology perspectives.
CleanTech Talk — Solar, Batteries, EVs, AI
CleanTech Talk remains a useful specialist show for readers who want interviews and commentary on electric vehicles, batteries, solar power, artificial intelligence, and the companies building clean-technology markets. The updated show name, CleanTech Talk — Solar, Batteries, EVs, AI, reflects that broader clean-technology scope.
Energy Insiders
Energy Insiders from RenewEconomy is one of the best choices for readers who want a detailed view of Australia's clean-energy transition. The show regularly covers solar, storage, grid reform, electricity markets, political decisions, and the economics of replacing fossil generation.
Energy Policy Now
Energy Policy Now is produced by the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. It is a good fit for listeners who want a policy-focused energy podcast with expert guests and clear discussion of how energy systems affect society, the economy, and the environment.
Green Energy Futures
Green Energy Futures offers short, accessible stories about people and projects building a cleaner energy future. Its concise format makes it especially useful for readers who want practical examples of solar, green buildings, energy efficiency, electrification, and community-scale solutions.
Inevitable, an MCJ podcast
Inevitable is the updated name for the show formerly known as My Climate Journey. It keeps the original green-energy page's image filename while pointing readers to the current MCJ podcast page. The show is useful for climate-tech entrepreneurship, industrial decarbonization, venture investment, and energy-transition innovation.
Interchange Recharged
Interchange Recharged is Wood Mackenzie's technical clean-energy podcast. It is a strong replacement-page anchor because it goes deeper on the technologies, infrastructure, financing models, and project realities that determine how fast the energy transition can move.
Open Circuit
Open Circuit is a newer Latitude Media show that deserves inclusion because the green-energy conversation has shifted toward grids, power demand, AI data centers, supply chains, and market design. It adds a current, infrastructure-heavy perspective to the list.
Redefining Energy
Redefining Energy is a well-established energy-transition podcast focused on how technology, finance, markets, regulation, and digitalization are changing energy systems. It is a strong addition for readers who want commercially literate clean-energy analysis.
Renewable Energy SmartPod
Renewable Energy SmartPod offers interviews and industry conversations about the people, technologies, and trends powering the energy transition. It is more industry-facing than narrative, but it remains useful for readers following renewable-energy deployment and business developments.
Smart Energy Voices
Smart Energy Voices brings a corporate-energy perspective to the list, with conversations about renewable-energy procurement, decarbonization targets, energy management, and the practical decisions large organizations make as they move toward cleaner power.
The Carbon Copy
The Carbon Copy is a weekly narrative-news show about the business and technology trends shaping decarbonization. It belongs on the refreshed page because it translates clean-energy news into a wider story about deployment, markets, and the changing energy economy.
The Clean Energy Show
The Clean Energy Show remains one of the more accessible green-energy podcasts for general listeners. Hosts James Whittingham and Brian Stockton cover electric vehicles, solar, wind, batteries, and clean-energy news with an informal, conversational style.
The Energy Gang
The Energy Gang remains one of the most recognizable clean-energy podcasts. The refreshed page should link to Wood Mackenzie rather than the older Greentech Media URL because the show now lives there. It is best for listeners who want fast analysis of energy news, cleantech, climate policy, and the global energy transition.