Premiering October 17 on Southern Oregon PBS, Energy Horizons will explore the future of energy in Oregon. Learn the importance of energy, climate change, and resource depletion and explore potential solutions underway across Oregon. This series will encapsulate the reality of Oregon’s transition to renewable energy through in-depth interviews with over 40 Oregonian scientists, engineers, politicians, and people on the ground. The stakes are high, and nothing is simple. What will a changing energy landscape mean for Oregon? What does our story mean for the future of humanity?
This six-part series takes us on a journey to understand the importance of energy, climate change, and resource depletion, along with potential solutions across Oregon. The show, hosted by Keegan Van Hook, takes us across the state, exploring current successes in renewable energy, frontier technologies in development, and the challenges around energy storage and transmission.
The series includes interviews with renewable energy advocates:
- Oregon Representative Pam Marsh
- SOCAN cofacilitator Alan Journet
- Southern Oregon University Sustainability Director Becs Walker.
- Solarize Rogue’s Ray Sanchez-Pescador
Directed by SOPBS’s Keegan Van Hook (US AS WE ARE), filmed by Tripp White, with music by Oregon-local cello legend Daniel Sperry. If you’ve ever strolled through Lithia Park in Ashland, you may have heard Daniel Austin Sperry playing the Cello.
Episode 1: Transition – Resource Depletion and Pollution
October 17, 8pm (Repeats 10/19-7pm; 10/20-2am; 10/20-6pm)
We explore Oregon’s energy landscape, environmental challenges, and possible ways forward. Keegan and Tripp examine why energy is so vital to us and how Oregonians are building our future.
Episode 2: Solar Revolution – Rooftops and Farm Fields
October 24, 8pm (Repeats on 10/26-7pm; 10/27-2am; 10/27-6pm)
We learn about solar energy and the explosion in rooftop solar adoption and options for non-homeowners across Oregon.
Episode 3: Offshore Wind – Potential and Controversy
October 31, 8pm (Repeats 11/2-7pm; 11/03-2am; 11/03-6pm)
Oregon has long maintained a robust wind energy sector. Now, with new interest in the powerful winds off Oregon’s South Coast, potential is everywhere. But amid its promise, conflict, and tensions are rising.
Episodes 4: Frontier Tech – Wave, Geothermal & Hydrogen
November 7, 8pm (Repeats 11/9-7pm; 11/11-2am; 11/11-6pm)
This fourth episode in a 6-part series looks at the future of renewable energy in Oregon. It includes niche or further-future ideas, like wave, geothermal, and hydrogen. While still in development, these ideas reveal Oregon as a major player in future energy research.
Episode 5: How Energy Moves – Storage & Transmission
November 14, 8pm (Repeats 11/16-7pm; 11/17-2am; 11/17-6pm)
How can we make renewable energy available with investment in energy storage and transmission essential for a new energy future? Whether it’s rolling out transmission lines across valuable farmland or building massive storage facilities on Native American sacred lands, changes to our grid are embroiled in bureaucracy and controversy.
Episode 6: The Long Game – Energy & The Future
November 21, 8pm (Repeats 11/23-7pm; 11/24-2am; 11/24-6pm)
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