The best renewables and sustainability podcasts (2025 edition)

We’ve collected the most entertaining, informative podcasts covering climate, the energy transition, and technologies like offshore and onshore wind, solar and storage, and green hydrogen.

Originally published in 2019, the list is fully updated and expanded for 2025, with 17 new additions, 16 updates, plus 9 inactive shows we removed.

A Matter of Degrees

Dr. Leah Stokes and Dr. Katharine Wilkinson tell stories about the powerful forces behind climate change and the tools we have to fix it. Find out more on their website, or listen on Spotify.

BetaTalk: The Renewable Energy and Low Carbon Heating Podcast

BetaTalk is a go-to for heat pump fanatics, heating engineers, and decarbonisation enthusiasts. Host Nathan Gambling brings deep industry knowledge to conversations about low-carbon heating, home energy systems, and the challenges of real-world deployment in the UK and beyond.

Big Ideas Into Action

The Big Ideas Into Action Podcast from the World Resources Institute examines a different big idea at the nexus of people, nature and the climate, from the sustainable ocean economy to the ways water-related conflicts can be solved. Subscribe via Soundcloud or wherever you download your podcasts.

Catalyst with Shayle Kann

A weekly podcast with climatetech veteran Shayle Kann interviewing experts about the future of decarbonisation.

Every Thursday, investor Kann explains the world of climate tech with prominent experts, investors, researchers and executives, and asks the big questions about how to decarbonise the planet: how cheap can clean energy get? Will artificial intelligence speed up climate solutions? And where is the smart money going into climate technologies? Listen at Canary Media or wherever you download your podcasts.

Clean Integration by Soluna Computing

The Clean Integration pod explores the intersection of renewable energy and data infrastructure. Hosted by the team at Soluna Computing, the podcast delves into how computing resources, like AI and data centres, can act as flexible demand to stabilise grids and accelerate the clean energy transition.

Cleaning up

Once a week on their Cleaning Up podcast, Michael Liebreich and Bryony Worthington have a conversation with a leader in clean energy, mobility, climate finance or sustainable development.

Each episode covers the technical ground on some aspect of the low-carbon transition – but it also delves into the nature of leadership in the climate transition: whether to be optimistic or pessimistic, how to communicate in order to inspire change, personal credos and so on.

The conversations are engaging, informative, inspirational and – most of all – fun, as most of the guests are Michael’s and Bryony’s friends.

Climate One

The Climate One pod from The Commonwealth Club is a podcast for empowering conversations that connect all aspects of the climate emergency. The podcast creates opportunities for dialogue and inspires a more complete understanding of the climate crisis.

Columbia Energy Exchange

Columbia Energy Exchange features in-depth conversations with the world’s top energy and climate leaders from government, business, academia and civil society. The pod explores today’s most pressing opportunities and challenges across energy sources, financial markets, geopolitics and climate change as well as their implications for the U.S. and the world.

Delta-EE: Talking New Energy

Experience the energy transition with the Talking New Energy podcast from investment specialists LCP Delta. The pod caters to a wide spectrum of enthusiasts, including EV professionals, HVAC experts, strategic masterminds at major oil corporations, and savvy PV product managers. Listen here and join a global community, reaching audiences in Europe, North America, East Asia, and beyond.

Factor This

The Factor This podcast, hosted by John Engel of Renewable Energy World, has featured many of the most influential leaders driving the energy transition. From solar and battery storage executives to utility CEOs,  Factor This brings unique insights and answers to the energy industry’s most pressing challenges – and goes beyond high-level trends and mainstream talking points with actionable takeaways.

Frontier

Discussions around investment with sustainability professionals, addressing climate, energy and the environment.

In one of our favourite recent episodes Joe Davis, Associate Director at Foresight Group and William Mezzullo, Head of Hydrogen at Centrica, explored the development of green hydrogen as a vital part of the energy transition, what stands in its way, and what needs to be done to realise its potential to decarbonise transportation, industry, and heating. Other recent episodes focused on interconnectors, and the relationship between sport and climate change.

Green Energy Futures

Green Energy Futures is a radio series from Canada telling the stories of green energy pioneers driving climate action in their communities. The multi-media series is hosted by David Dodge and with each episode only four minutes long, it’s perfect for consuming on commutes and walks. Listen now on Spotify.

Interchange Recharged

Interchange Recharged is a series of energy conversations from the data and analytics solutions provider Wood Mackenzie. David Banmiller hosts bi-weekly discussions on the global energy transition and the transformative technology that underpins it.

OIES Podcast

The OIES Podcast features Informal conversations with the authors of Oxford University’s Institute for Energy Studies research publications, through which listeners can further explore and understand the underpinnings and implications of their research.

Redefining Energy

On the Redefining Energy podcast, Gerard Reid and Laurent Segalen host twice-monthly debates how the world of energy is being radically redefined through tech innovations, finance, markets, regulations and digitisation.

ReEnergise by ORE Catapult

Regular podcast by the UK’s leading technology innovation and research centre ORE Catapult, discussing emerging tech in offshore renewables and the UK’s efforts to harness low carbon energy sources to grow businesses, create jobs and deliver economic impact.

Shift Key by Heatmap News

Every week, Heatmap News Executive Editor Robinson Meyer and Princeton University Professor and energy systems expert Jesse Jenkins make sense of the biggest shift of our time — navigating the energy transition away from fossil fuels. Drawing on their years of experience reporting on and researching climate change and decarbonisation, Meyer and Jenkins unpack the most important issues of the week and how the impacts of climate change and efforts to address it are transforming our economy, politics, and society.

SunCast by Nico Johnson

Hosted by solar expert Nico Johnson, SunCast dives into the minds of clean energy leaders shaping the global transition. Through candid interviews with entrepreneurs, developers, and investors, the podcast offers insight, inspiration, and practical lessons for anyone navigating the solar and cleantech industries.

Switched On by Bloomberg

The future of energy, transport, sustainability and more, as told by global business news leaders Bloomberg. Each week on Switched On, Dana Perkins sits down with Bloomberg analysts to uncover the key findings and stories behind their latest research.

The Carbon Copy

A weekly news magazine about our changing planet, hosted by Stephen Lacey.

We’ve entered a new era of mass deployment of climate solutions. How will it play out? The Carbon Copy is a weekly narrative-news show that explains the business and tech trends shaping decarbonisation. Each week, host Stephen Lacey digs into the business and technology stories that explain the rise of clean energy, the challenge to fossil fuels, and how the energy system is transforming in dramatic ways.

The Energy Gang

Another great pod from data and analytics leaders Wood Mackenzie. On The Energy Gang, the firm’s Vice-Chair, Americas Ed Crooks hosts a bi-weekly digest of current stories and developments in energy and clean tech. Expert analysis is provided from leading climate and energy figures.

The Energy Transition Show

Straight talk about the world’s transition from fossil fuels to renewables. Long-time energy expert Chris Nelder interviews some of the smartest and knowledgeable people in energy, exploring global infrastructure and markets during the ongoing transition away from fossil fuels and toward renewables.

The Energy Transition Show covers solar, wind, emerging renewables, nuclear, grid power, transportation systems, macroeconomics, and more, including the latest news and research, policy developments, and market events.

The Offshore Wind Podcast by GWEC

The Offshore Wind Podcast, hosted by Stewart Mullin and Rebecca Williams of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), examines the issues facing the offshore wind industry today and tomorrow.

The rise of floating offshore wind, increasing interest in power-to-x and green hydrogen solutions are creating the basis for offshore wind to propel the global energy transition forwards.

Covering a range of themes from vessels, skills and diversity, floating wind to China’s offshore market and more.

The Pexapark Podcast

Impactful intelligence in renewable energy, PPAs and beyond. Hosted bi-weekly by Luca Pedretti, COO and Co-Founder at intelligence platform, Pexapark.

Key market, regulatory, pricing and deal making updates in Europe and North America, followed by a candid discussion with an industry expert on the critical trends shaping the renewables sector.

The ReVolting Podcast

The Sustainability Agenda

The Sustainability Agenda is a weekly podcast exploring today’s biggest sustainability questions. Industry leaders offer their views on the biggest sustainability challenges, share the latest thinking, identify what’s working, what needs to change — and think about the future.

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast focuses on improving the efficiency of wind turbines and renewables assets. Learn about current business trends and renewables technology, as expert Allen Hall breaks down the research and news from the wind industry. Listeners will come away with deeper knowledge on how to improve wind turbine uptime.

Volts

David Roberts has been reporting on and explaining clean energy for almost 20 years. His Volts podcast is also a US-focused newsletter and community about leaving fossil fuels behind. The podcast covers the technology, politics, and policy of decarbonisation. Recent episodes include analysts on co-located solar and storage, data centres, and electric shipping.

Watt Matters

From Foresight Climate and Energy, Watt Matters is all about the energy transition and the shift to a decarbonised economy. Through biweekly debates and discussions on the energy transition in Europe, North America and around the world, Watt Matters focuses on how to achieve thriving renewables markets and liveable cities through the right mix of policy, regulation, finance and technology.

Wind Wiser

Produced by Stuttgart Wind Energy, Wind Wiser is a storytelling podcast that traces the evolution of wind power through the people who helped build it. From the early days of small, experimental turbines to today’s utility-scale machines, each episode captures first-hand lessons from engineers, pioneers, and practitioners who learned by doing. It’s a reflective, technically grounded look at how wind energy grew into a cornerstone of the sustainable energy system — and what those hard-earned insights still teach us today.

The ZENERGY Podcast: Climate Leadership, Finance and Technology

ZENERGY brings together the worlds of climate tech, finance, and leadership in one dynamic podcast. Host Karan Takhar spotlights founders, investors, and change-makers who are advancing climate innovation, from clean tech startups to big capital moves.

Zero from Bloomberg

Zero explores the policies, tactics and clean technologies taking us to a future of zero emissions as the world fights climate change. Bloomberg Green’s award-winning climate reporter Akshat Rathi talks to the people who are making it happen.