Hello Energy Transition Show members,
You may have seen Chris Nelder’s recent post about the show’s future. In it, after nearly eleven years and 280 episodes, Chris tells our audience that he is moving on to new projects, and we thank him for a remarkable run as host of a show we have all come to know and love.
As we were putting together Episode #280 for release on July 15, Chris made clear that he wanted to wind down his tenure as host, and over the weeks since, we had been working out a plan that would allow us to share that news jointly. His August 5 post was not coordinated with us, and it does not accurately reflect the state of the Energy Transition Show or his role in it.
Once we had worked out how Chris could move on to new projects in a way that honored your time as a member with us, we would have preferred a simple farewell to our members, one carrying the gratitude for your part in this journey that Chris expressed so often on air, and in the conversations we had making episodes together. A significant portion of the notice he posted on his website is instead focused on setting out contractual and intellectual property positions, coupled with an invitation for our members to subscribe to his new paid platform.
For you as an Energy Transition Show member, what this means is that our show continues. Your membership is unchanged, and our next episode arrives in mid-August. We’ll have more news about the Show’s next chapter.
His announcement was sudden for all of us, and we’re working to keep the release schedule Chris committed to you, whether you joined us recently or have been with us for years.
In the meantime, several of our next releases over the coming months will revisit the most enduring conversations from the Show’s archive of 280+ episodes, many of which our current members have never heard and that remain strikingly relevant today. When we looked back at our member data, we found that more than 80% of our members joined in 2020 or later, by which time the Show had already produced 111 episodes. We’ll be sharing those with you, so Chris’s voice will be with us for some time yet.
Chris has said he wants to focus on opinion writing, newsletters, and a podcast that is currently an audio version of this content. The Energy Transition Show remains what it has always been: long-form, in-depth exploration that stays relevant long after it publishes, for people working on the transition all over the world.
The Energy Transition Show and our membership have continued going strong, and grown a great deal over the years, thanks to the partners who helped make it happen and to the members who backed it. Whatever comes next for the Show has to respect what all of you have put into it.
Our vision when we originally built the Energy Transition Show was that there is a broad audience across the globe for in-depth, meaty conversations about the energy transition. Many thousands of members later, that hasn’t changed, and we’ve been thrilled to do it all with you.
We look forward to bringing you many more episodes, in the format and to the standard you have come to know and that Chris helped us establish. We’re excited about what comes next.
We understand that a sudden post like this from the Energy Transition Show’s host may have made you reconsider your membership, or you may have thoughts to share. We’ve set up a form so that anything you send us reaches the right person: member-request.energytransition.show
For any other questions or feedback, we’d love to hear from you at support@xenetwork.org, as always.
Thank you for being part of the Energy Transition Show’s journey.
Sincerely,
Justin Ritchie
Producer, Energy Transition Show
Executive Director, XE Network
and the XE Network team