Hello Energy Transition Show members,
You may have seen Chris Nelder’s recent post about the show’s future. After nearly eleven years and 280 episodes, Chris has now made clear to us and 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.
Chris let us know, before Episode #280 was released on July 15, that he was exploring winding 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 our own conversations about the show. A significant portion of his notice 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 news about the Show’s next chapter soon after.
This is sudden news 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, we’re revisiting some of the most popular 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 the best of those with you, so Chris’s voice will be with us for some time yet.
Chris has described his new work as opinion writing, newsletters, and a podcast that began as an audio version of a newsletter. The Energy Transition Show remains what it has always been: the long-form, in-depth exploration you have come to know.
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 build it with you.
We look forward to bringing you many more of them, 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 make 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.
Sincerely,
Justin Ritchie
Executive Director, XE Network
and the XE Network team