Here's Why: The Iran war resets the energy transition
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🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Here's Why is Bloomberg’s short explainer podcast, where we take one big news story and break it down in just a few minutes with help from our experts across the newsroom.
We're dropping into your feed with a special episode featuring Akshat Rathi, who joined us to discuss why the Iran war is making a new argument for renewable energy.
The war in the Middle East has roiled oil and gas markets. The unrest and price spikes are making countries look again at renewable energy like solar and wind — produced at home and insulated from external tensions. But experts warn that the picture is more complicated.
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| 0:59.8 | get your podcast. Hi, it's Akshad. The war in the Middle East continues to royal energy markets, |
| 1:06.5 | but it's not just fossil fuels that have been affected. This crisis is going to reshape the transition to clean energy. |
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| 1:39.3 | The world in the Middle East is creating the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market. If the IEA wasn't out there warning, this is the worst energy crisis in human history and saying |
| 1:44.8 | release your reserves now then you'd have a much higher energy price but they're one-trick |
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