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Latest episodes

  • Inside Lowercarbon’s apolitical approach to cleantech investing

    October 13, 2026 · 45 min

    Have feedback on Critical Capital? Fill out our listener survey to let us know what topics and guests you’d like to hear next! For decades, clean energy technology was framed as a moral imperative; a necessary strategy for saving the…

  • Senator Martin Heinrich unpacks his new permitting reform bill

    October 1, 2026 · 27 min

    If there’s one thing stakeholders in the energy sector can agree on, it’s that new infrastructure needs to get built faster and more reliably. A recent Crux study, for instance, found that federal permitting delays hamper clean energy…

  • Data centers gave nuclear its moment. Can it deliver?

    September 29, 2026 · 35 min

    The rush to build data centers has sparked an energy debate: will gas meet the growing demand or will clean firm power like nuclear step in? Nuclear has bipartisan support, new contracts from tech companies, and the capital to build. What…

  • What it costs to make power cheap

    September 15, 2026 · 37 min

    Home energy has spent most of a decade being sold as a premium product, priced at a margin homeowners would pay for something they wanted. Zach Dell says there’s a better way. He argues that electricity is a commodity, that the cheapest…

  • What it takes to build in America again

    September 1, 2026 · 37 min

    American industry is building factories, mines, and grid hardware at a scale not attempted in decades, and the capital is there. But Erin Price-Wright says the cost of money no longer sets the return on an industrial project. It’s the time…

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  • AI is disrupting services. What does that mean for power demand?

    August 18, 2026 · 33 min

    AI is still in the foothills of enterprise adoption, but the infrastructure buildout required to support it is already reshaping energy markets, capital allocation, and industrial policy. Data centers are driving demand for new generation…

  • Senator Thom Tillis on energy, China, and leaving Congress

    August 4, 2026 · 30 min

    Energy policy has become increasingly polarized just as the U.S. faces record electricity demand, a rapidly expanding AI economy, and growing competition from China.  In this episode, Alfred Johnson speaks with North Carolina Sen. Thom…

  • The unprecedented opportunity for infrastructure investors

    July 21, 2026 · 29 min

    We are entering a period of infrastructure development unlike anything we’ve seen in the last century. The infrastructure economy is witnessing a generational redesign and a fundamental reshaping of the physical fabric on which society is…

  • Navigating the new world disorder

    July 7, 2026 · 34 min

    Conflict and disaster displace millions of people around the world every year, and millions more live with food insecurity, unreliable access to electricity or no electricity at all.  These same populations are also the most adversely…

  • The trillion-dollar collision between AI and the grid

    June 23, 2026 · 35 min

    The rapid rise of AI has sparked a multi-trillion-dollar collision between our aging power grid and massive, energy-hungry AI "factories."  Unlike traditional cloud data centers, AI training workloads are incredibly dense and volatile…

  • The US-China rivalry runs through energy and minerals

    June 9, 2026 · 36 min

    On today’s stage, China is the rising global power, and U.S. dominance is under threat. Geopolitical tensions like wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, combined with supply chain disruptions and a growing demand for rare earth minerals…

  • The clean energy transition has a hardware problem

    May 26, 2026 · 35 min

    The electric grid is under pressure from every direction: surging demand from AI data centers, electrification, utility-scale renewables, and new industrial loads. But according to Drew Baglino, one of the biggest constraints isn’t…

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About the show

The future of energy is shaped by markets, policy, and capital flows — not just technology. Hosted by Crux CEO Alfred Johnson, Critical Capital explores the interlocking forces powering clean and critical infrastructure. The show features in-depth conversations at the intersection of energy, government, and global markets.