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Can renewables ever be profitable enough?

Ed speaks to Brett Christophers about electricty markets and the role of the private sector in renewable energy projects.
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Ed speaks to Brett Christophers about his new book The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet.

Brett Christophers is a professor of human geography at Uppsala University’s Institute for Housing and Urban Research and the author of four books on economic geography and political economy.

Brett and Ed discuss the commodification of electricity, the role of the state in renewable energy projects and why markets can’t be relied on to decarbonise the energy sector.

The Price is Wrong was published in February and is available to buy from Verso books here.

Audio engineering by Vasko Kostovski.

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