Welcome to Big Digital Energy with Chuck Yates, Mark Meyer and Kirk Coburn. Weekly news in energy covering oil and gas and cleantech.

Latest Episodes

ExxonMobil in Trinidad, Presidio goes public, AI data centers, Putin & Zelensk | BDE 08.22.25

Exxon’s latest play in Trinidad and Tobago is a big one, 2,700 square miles of offshore exploration rights that could reshape energy in the Western Hemisphere. Chuck a...

Crude is down, Trump & Putin, EPA CO2 repeal, Enverus sale | BDE 08.11.25

Orsted’s massive $9.5 billion rights offering has the wind power world buzzing and not in the way they’d like. Chuck and Mark unpack how the company got here, from bal...

BP hits their biggest oil discovery in a decade | BDE 08.06.25

BP just hit what might be their biggest oil discovery in a decade, and it’s turning heads. We’re talking about a massive hydrocarbon column in Brazil’s Santos Basin, p...

wind farm drama, EU trade, Palisades nuclear plant, Baker Hughes acquisition | BDE 07.30.25

Dead whales, wind farms, and Nantucket drama, what's really happening off the South Shore? From plummeting property values to environmental consequences like fiberglas...

CA's refining crisis, PJM capacity, China's $167B dam | BDE 07.25.25

California’s losing refineries, the East Coast grid is running tight, and everyone’s asking, can distributed power actually save the day? In this episode, I break down...

More Episodes »