PARTNER POD: Speed & Scale: Electrifying the grid with Amol Phadke

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🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Today, we have a special episode to share with you from TED’s brand new podcast, Speed & Scale. Speed & Scale was created to help combat the doom and gloom that comes when thinking and learning about climate change. The hosts Anjali Grover and Ryan Panchadsaram interview experts from around the world on the measurable changes they’re making to combat the climate crisis and create a better future for the planet – and for those of us living on it. In this episode, Ryan and Anjali reflect on what to do about fossil gas, and they are joined by some incredible people coming up with bold solutions. The kind of solutions that save billions of dollars for energy companies – and consumers. Check out more episodes of the TED podcast Speed & Scale wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.9	Hi, Climate One listeners. Today we have a special episode to share with you from Ted's brand
1:05.1	new podcast, Speed and Scale. This podcast was created to help combat the doom and gloom that sometimes comes when
1:12.2	thinking and learning about climate change. The host's Anjali Grover and Ryan Padchadzurum
1:17.5	interview experts from around the world on measurable changes they're making to combat the
1:22.4	climate crisis and create a better future for the planet and those of us living on it. If you like this episode,
1:29.8	you can check out more of the TED podcast, Speed and Scale, wherever you get your podcasts. And now
1:35.3	on to the episode. So, Ryan, do you remember last September when the UK closed its very last
1:42.0	coal plant? Yeah. That was pretty big news, right?
1:45.8	It was.
1:46.8	I was curious about how all this happened, and it turns out the story is wild.
1:51.5	It starts about 250 years ago when the Industrial Revolution was just getting underway.
1:56.9	That's like steam engine days.
1:58.8	Yeah, and steam engines, which powered trains, used coal.
2:02.1	Coal was everywhere.
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