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More 2025 trends: DeepSeek, plug-in hybrids, and curtailment

Didn’t catch last week’s episode on Nat Bullard’s mega slide deck on energy transition? Start there.

This is the second half of our extended conversation with Nat, the former chief content officer at BloombergNEF and current co-founder at data insights company Halcyon.

In this episode, Shayle and Nat dig into topics like:

Rising solar installations and stagnating wind

Why we’re wasting so much renewable power amid skyrocketing load growth

The rise of Chinese plug-in hybrids and exports

Whether DeepSeek’s efficiency will temper or turbocharge load growth

The woeful state of transmission…

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