DER Task Force

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Publisher

DER Task Force

Category

society & culture · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 May 2020

Latest episode

27 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

32 of 87 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   27 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Energy, Compute, & Capital Markets with Meltem Demirors + Honour Masters

   Host David Energy interviews Meltem Demirors and Honour Masters about energy, compute, capital markets, and the environmental impact of AI.

2. 

   24 Mar 2026

   Electromaxxing With Daan Walter

   Buckle up, this is a long one. But when we’re talking about a revolution of this magnitude, how could it not be? We couldn’t help ourselves once we sat down with Daan Walter, principal of Ember (https://ember-energy.org/), to unpack how solar and batteries are fueling the electrotech revolution, why it’s happening faster than anyone expected, and what this looks like far beyond the U.S. This disruption is all about cheaper, better technology winning the day across the entire stack, from generation and storage to how we consume energy. It’s particularly interesting in emerging markets, where energy is evolving like smartphones did—leapfrogging traditional infrastructure. As global oil supply disruptions have reclaimed the front page because of the war in Iran, this episode is a refreshing deep dive into the inevitable future where solar is the dominant supply of energy. And if you need some visuals to dig into, check out the Ember team’s post for us on the electrotech revolution in 10 charts and not too many numbers (https://www.dertaskforce.com/p/the-electrotech-revolution-in-10). This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.dertaskforce.com/subscribe (https://www.dertaskforce.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2)

3. 

   30 Jan 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The dawn of a new DERcade

   The host discusses DERVOS '25 and '26, exploring key themes like permissionless DERs, scalability, affordability, and electricity's rise on the national stage, while also touching on AI, data centers, and institutional decay.

Inside a recent episode

Energy, Compute, & Capital Markets with Meltem Demirors + Honour Masters

Published 27 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And so by an extension of that, is that like kind of almost the like philosophy behind arriving at energy capital markets and AI? Well, so it's energy compute capital markets, right? And the view really is the only thing that matters in reality, right? Physics is rooted in like a very foundational reality. It's thermodynamics. Mm-hmm. There's four laws in thermodynamics, the zeroth law and then one, two, three. But what that means in the current paradigm we're in, and this is something I learned from working in Bitcoin for the last 10 years, is energy is the precursor to computation. Computation is the precursor to fungible or non-fungible tokens, right? […]

Who has been a guest on DER Task Force

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Meltem Demirors
• Honour Masters
• Cole Ashman
• Jigar Shah
• Tim Hade

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

34 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

28 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 58 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

76

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

97

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