Cleaning Up
Once a week, Michael Liebreich and Baroness Bryony Worthington sit down with a leader in clean energy, mobility, climate finance or sustainable development.
These in-depth interviews are illuminating and inspiring, and with a catalogue of nearly 200 episodes, there are few better guides to the net-zero transition.
Recent Episodes
May 14, 2025
Can You Run a Grid Entirely On Renewables? Ep208: Anders Lindberg
Can You Run A Grid Without Fossil Fuels? "Yes," says Anders Lindberg, President of Energy and Executive VP at Wärtsilä, on this week's episode of Cleaning Up. It'll just cost €65 trillion extra by 2050. Anders' team at Wärtsi...
May 7, 2025
Is Geothermal The Future For Oil & Gas? Ep207: Jamie Beard
Geothermal seems to have found new favour under Donald Trump's presidency, but can it ever live up to its potential? Will the oil and gas industry reinvent itself before becoming obsolete? And how might geothermal energy chan...
April 30, 2025
Uniper Rising: Can Germany's Gas Giant Go Green? Ep206: Michael Lewis
When Russia unleashed its illegal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, gas prices in Europe spiked by a factor of 10, driving a wave of bankruptcies and restructurings of European energy companies. Uniper was ...
April 23, 2025
Trump vs The Transition, The Pope’s Climate Legacy & The High Price of UK Electricity — Ep205
In 100 short days, the world has transformed. Since the reelection of President Donald Trump, US federal climate policy has largely been abandoned, with the government seeking to reopen coal-fired power plants and lower envir...
April 9, 2025
We Built a Solar System That's Saving Babies’ Lives — Ep204: Project Bo, Sierra Leone
In Sierra Leone, a 20-minute power cut can be the difference between life and death for newborn babies. In 2013, an extraordinary doctor called Dr Niall Conroy set up a neonatal intensive care unit at the Bo Government Hospit...
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