Talking long-duration energy storage with the CEO of Inlyte Energy

Inlyte Energy is a U.S.-based manufacturer of iron-sodium battery energy storage systems. The five-year-old company completed a successful test of its first field-ready battery late in 2025 and is preparing for a pilot installation in 2026 through a partnership with Southern Co.

Inlyte Energy CEO Antonio Baclig joins hosts Hill Vaden and Sam Humphreys to discuss the company's choice to focus on iron-sodium chemistry in its bid to commercialize long-duration energy storage (LDES) and how its use of abundant raw materials could help Inlyte to rebrand LDES as 'low-dollar energy storage'.

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The global upstream sector will navigate increased cost pressures this year as it faces a well-supplied oil market. This expectation and four other key trends will direct the attention of E&P executives over the next 12 months, according to S&P Global Energy's recently released report, "Charting the Future: Top 5 trends shaping Upstream in 2026." S&P Global Energy Expert Nick Sharma joins hosts Hill Vaden and Sam Humphreys to discuss his team's top five trends to watch in global upstream in 2026.

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Africa is often discussed as a single entity, but the energy profiles differ widely between North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa as well as within the 54 countries that define those regions. Much of North Africa, for example, enjoys universal access to electricity while 50% of the Sub-Saharan African population outside of South Africa does not. S&P Global Energy Experts Silvia Macri and Anastasia Pantazopoulou join hosts Hill Vaden and Sam Humphreys to discuss the challenges and opportunities for a resource abundant continent to address energy poverty in many of its less developed countries.

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