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912: How Energy Narratives Shape Capital -A Former WSJ Reporter’s Perspective | Russell Gold
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:27:09
Publish Date: 2026-03-21 14:30:00
Description:

Russell Gold has spent years explaining the energy transition from the outside. First as one of The Wall Street Journal’s leading energy reporters, and now from inside one of clean energy’s fastest-growing new entrants, T1 Energy.

At The Wall Street Journal, his award-winning work covered the fracking boom, Deepwater Horizon, and the investigation into the Camp Fire in California. He also wrote The Boom and Superpower, digging into the people, decisions, and forces shaping modern energy.

Now, he’s on the other side of the table.

As EVP of Strategic Communications at T1 Energy, Russell is helping shape how a new U.S. solar manufacturer shows up to the market—and how that story connects to capital.

In this conversation, we explore what that shift in perspective reveals. Where the industry is actually making progress. Where the bottlenecks persist. And why clean energy still struggles to tell a clear reliability story, even as deployment continues at record pace.

We also dig into something most people underestimate: how much narrative influences where capital flows—and what leaders in this industry should be doing about it.

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