This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less. 

This week’s episode features AP News climate solutions reporter Alexa St. John, who reported on new polling that tests whether or not the Inflation Reduction Act is resonating with voters.

This Week in Cleantech — April 26, 2024

This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is Antoine Wagschal, Sales Director of Southeast Asia at Nextracker!

1. Why Europe is the fastest-warming continent on Earth — NPR
2. Biden wants to triple China tariffs on steel, aluminum imports — CNBC
3. U.S. Solar Factories Urge Biden To Crack Down On China — HuffPost
4. Energy-Guzzling AI Is Also the Future of Energy Savings — Wall Street Journal
5. Climate change concerns grow, but few think Biden's climate law will help, an AP-NORC poll finds — AP News

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This Week in Cleantech is hosted by Renewable Energy World senior content director John Engel and Tigercomm president Mike Casey. The show is produced by Brian Mendes with research support from Alex Petersen and Clare Quirin.

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This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less. 

This week’s episode features E&E News reporter Christian Robles who covered the controversial debate over federal green hydrogen incentive rules.

This Week in Cleantech —  April 5, 2024

This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” goes to Bill Weihl, who is transitioning from ClimateVoice’s Co-Executive Director to the role of Founder & Chief Strategic Advisor.

1. Berkeley Will Repeal Its Landmark Ban on Natural Gas in New Homes — The New York Times
2. BlackRock Issued Legal Warning Over ESG Strategy by Mississippi — Bloomberg
3. Can We Engineer Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis? — The New York Times
4. NOAA gets dire warning about solar geoengineering — POLITICO
5. How do you ensure hydrogen is ‘clean’? Treasury rules draw fire. – E&E News

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This week's episode features Kelly Livingston of ABC News who covered the EPA's new vehicle standards meant to spur the adoption of electric and hybrid vehicles.

This Week in Cleantech  — March 29, 2024

This week’s “Cleantecher(s) of the Week” are Michael Tekabe, chief operating officer, and Hayat Bedane, engineering lead at Kubik, an Africa-based startup.

1. Yellen Warns China Against Flood of Cheap Green Energy Exports — The New York Times
2. Oil Executives Are Getting Refreshingly Honest These Days — The New Republic
3. US Announces $6 Billion to Clean Up Heavy Manufacturing — Bloomberg
4. The Last Coal-Fired Power Plants in New England Are to Close — The New York Times
5. New EPA vehicle standards would cut US emissions, ramp up pressure for more EVs — ABC News

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This week’s episode features Heatmap's Andrew Moseman who reported on a dilemma facing rooftop solar owners and the beleaguered industry: is it better to save your solar, or sell it?

This Week in Cleantech — March 22 2024

This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is Sylvia Leyva Martinez, Principal Analyst at Wood Mackenzie!

1. How the World’s Biggest Plane Would Supersize Wind Energy — The Wall Street Journal
2. Bill Gates’ TerraPower plans to build first US next-generation nuclear plant — Financial Times
3. The Zombies of the U.S. Tax Code: Why Fossil Fuels Subsidies Seem Impossible to Kill — New York Times
4. Britain to import energy from US under plan for transatlantic power cable — The Telegraph
5. Is It Better to Save Your Solar, or Sell It? — Heatmap

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This week's episode features Syris Valentine, who reported in Grist on private capital that has followed the Inflation Reduction Act. 

This Week in Cleantech — March 15, 2024

This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is Riley Neugebauer!

1. How China Came to Dominate the World in Solar Energy — The New York Times
2. Emissions hit a record high in 2023. Blame hydropower — MIT Tech Review
3. How changes to Hawaiʻi’s home battery program could hinder its clean energy transition — Grist
4. Does Rooftop Solar Actually Help the Climate? — Heatmap’s “Shift Key”
5. The IRA has injected $240 billion into clean energy. The US still needs more. — Grist

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Distributed generation doesn't quite grab the headlines like utility-scale. A megawatt here, a few megawatts there pales in comparison to multi-gigawatt projects spanning thousands of acres.

But Nexamp — the Boston-based community solar developer — is proving scale isn't monolithic. Bit by bit, the company has become one of the most influential developers in the country, both in deploying projects and influencing policy, with a private valuation surpassing $1 billion. That's unicorn status for a so-called small player.

Episode 76 of the Factor This! podcast features Zaid Ashai, the cerebral CEO who built Nexamp into a forceful DG platform. Ashai shares his outlook for the crowded community solar market, the potential impact of Donald Trump returning to the White House, and why, now, solar is only the beginning.

That's all next on Factor This!

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This Week in Cleantech — March 8, 2024

This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is EDP CEO Miguel Stilwell d'Andrade!

1. Spanish Power Is Almost Free With Renewables Set for Record — Bloomberg
2. Fury after Exxon chief says public to blame for climate failures — The Guardian
3. New York Awards Offshore Wind Deals to Orsted, Equinor — Bloomberg
4. New satellites will make oil and gas companies’ methane emissions public — The Washington Post
5. Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power

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This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less. This week's episode was recorded live from DISTRIBUTECH International, North America's largest transmission and distribution utility event.

This week's episode features Latitude Media co-founder Stephen Lacey, whose podcast Carbon Copy, broke down the latest data on clean energy investment and whether it's enough to achieve climate goals.

This Week in Cleantech — March 2, 2024

This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is Jon Pevitali from VDE Americas.

1. Profiteering Hampers U.S. Grid Expansion — IEEE Spectrum
2. Coal's influence on energy generation is fading fast — Axios
3. Why Oil Stocks Aren’t That Hot — The New York Times
4. How BYD and CATL’s Solid-state Battery Partnership Impacts Toyota And Tesla — TopSpeed
5. Views on the $1.8 trillion clean energy economy — Latitude Media’s “Carbon Copy”

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This week’s episode features Amanda Chu, US energy reporter for the Financial Times, who reported on President Biden’s challenge of making investments in clean energy and infrastructure resonate with voters.

This Week in Cleantech — Feb. 23, 2024

This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is Dan Shugar, CEO of the Nextracker, which was recently featured on CNBC's "Mad Money" for its successful IPO and stock performance.

1. JPMorgan, State Street quit climate group, BlackRock steps back — Reuters
2. 'We got your money, see ya': Customers frustrated by Encor Solar closure — WRAL
3. How the housing industry is working to stop energy efficient homes — The Washington Post
4. A traditional automaker just turned a profit on EVs — CNN
5. Biden’s clean energy conundrums — Financial Times

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Most CEOs are deliberate and careful, often neutering commentary of any hint of controversy. Sheldon Kimber is not like most CEOs.

He's known to pen a thousand words, or two, on the ebbs and flows of the energy transition. His comments are not always complimentary. But they're aimed at pushing the industry toward new heights.

Don't be mistaken— Kimber is deliberate, too. He uses his voice not for attention, but because he passionately believes the clean energy industry needs an unashamed advocate.

His latest campaign may be his most bold. In Episode 75 of the Factor This! podcast, Kimber shares why you should forget everything you know about clean energy development. He's convinced a fresh business model is necessary to sustain an industry battered by rising capital costs, which have shaken even the likes of sector king NextEra.

Clean energy is in desperate need of a new bellwether, and way of thinking, to survive and thrive. Kimber, and Intersect Power, say they are ready to lead the charge. 

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This week’s episode features Latitude Media founding reporter Maeve Allsup, who covered some of the challenges facing one of the first virtual power plants deployed in the U.S.

This Week in Cleantech - Feb. 16, 2024

This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is world-renowned Climate Scientist Michael Mann.

1. This Arctic Circle Town Expected a Green Energy Boom. Then Came Bidenomics. — New York Times
2. California could make — or break — the Western grid — E&E News
3. The world is reducing its reliance on fossil fuels – except for in three key sectors — The Guardian
4. Fervo Energy Is Quickly Making Geothermal Cheaper — Heatmap News
5. Under the hood of PG&E's summer VPP pilot with Sunrun — Latitude Media

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This week’s episode features USA Today national correspondent Elizabeth Weise, who reported on overwhelming local opposition to clean energy projects.

This Week in Cleantech  — February 9, 2024

This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is Tom Matzzie, CEO of CleanChoice Energy.

1. Summer Has Long Stressed Electric Grids. Now Winter Does, Too. — New York Times
2. ‘Gold’ hydrogen: The next clean fuel? — E&E News
3. How bad is Tesla’s hazardous waste problem in California? — The Verge
4. EV Slowdown Turns the Table for Leaders and Laggards — Bloomberg
5. Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built — USA Today

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This week's episode features Associated Press climate change reporter Matthew Daly, who reported on President Biden's controversial pause on considering new LNG export terminals.

This Week in Cleantech — Feb. 2, 2024 (not Jan. 26!)

This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is Jimmy Rogers, Manager of Communications at Redaptive.

1. The Rooftop Solar Industry Could Be On the Verge of Collapse — TIME
2. U.S. Oil Drillers Are Going Electric—if They Can Get the Electricity — Wall Street Journal
3. China Leads Global Clean Energy Spending, Which Record $1.8 Trillion in 2023 — Bloomberg
4. The Coolest Thing in Climate Tech is a Super Hot Rock — Heatmap News
5. Liquefied Natural Gas: What to know about LNG and Biden's decision to delay gas export proposals — Associated Press

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By all accounts, community solar looks like an unstoppable force. One of the hottest clean energy sectors continues to flourish thanks to new markets and rich incentives.

But it's also getting tougher. First-mover states are saturating, fueling intense competition. And those rich incentives? They're increasingly tied to serving elusive low-income customers often skeptical of promises that are too good to be true.

So what's in store for community solar in 2024?

Episode 74 of the Factor This! podcast features Bruce Stewart, the CEO of community solar subscriber management platform Perch Energy.

Stewart maps out new markets on the way this year, breaks down the challenge of acquiring, and keeping, low-income customers, and shares the latest on the highly-anticipated reboot of California's troubled community solar program. 

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This week's episode features Quillian Robinson, an associate fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, who wrote an op-ed in TIME about the true cost of China's clean energy dominance.

This Week in Cleantech — Jan. 25, 2024

This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is David Arfin, CEO of NineDot Energy. Send your nominations and story recommendations to rew@clarionevents.com.

1. Biden needs young voters. Can his climate policy rally them? — E&E News
2. US unveils solar energy plan for western public lands — Reuters
3. How Biden’s climate law spurred a tax credit revolution — Financial Times
4. Growth in low-emissions power expected to cover demand - IEA — Reuters
5. The True Cost of Chinese Solar Panels — TIME

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A common knock on distributed energy resources, or DERs, is that they don't scale. 

DERs uniquely provide resilience and defer grid upgrades. But their bespoke nature leads to highly-customized and expensive projects compared to larger projects that offer more routine system designs.

But what if DERs could capitalize on the same efficiencies that fueled the rapid deployment of utility-scale solar and storage? Small-scale could go big… in a big way.

Episode 73 of the Factor This! podcast features Dr. Michael Stadler, who wrote much of the early research on microgrid design and optimization. He's now the chief technology officer for software startup Xendee, which aims to bring speed and efficiency to DER deployment. 

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This week’s episode features Grist reporter Kate Yoder, who breaks down a new trend of corporations "greenhushing," or limiting what they say about sustainability efforts.

This Week in Cleantech — Jan. 19, 2024

This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is Rondo Energy's Helen Sweet. Nominate your picks for "Cleantecher of the Week" by emailing the show.

1. Winter storm tests Texas green grid upgrades — The Washington Post
2. Octopus Energy Has Texas-Size Ambitions — The Wall Street Journal
3. States with big climate goals strip local power to block green projects — AP News
4. California Has Dealt a Blow to Renewable Energy, Some Businesses Say — The New York Times
5. Companies are hiding their climate progress. A new report explains why. — Grist

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Three decades ago, FERC recommended implementing independent entities to manage regional power markets and system planning.

The resulting seven RTOs and ISOs have largely been successful. But now experts believe they've become part of the problem, exacerbating the country's woefully inadequate supply of transmission, allegedly by pandering to utility interests.

Episode 72 of the Factor This! podcast features Ari Peskoe, an expert on transmission policy and the director of the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard.

Peskoe shares his recent research on how regional grid operators have failed to evolve with the advent of clean energy technology, and why a reboot could be the key to realizing an electrified future. 

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This week’s episode features Floodlight News investigative reporter Mario Alejandro Ariza, who reported on how utilities used money to influence civil rights leaders in the South.

This Week in Cleantech — Jan. 11, 2024

This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is Scott Kubly, who last week shared an introspective post about the challenges and joys of launching, and leading, a cleantech company. Nominate your picks for "Cleantecher of the Week" by emailing the show.

1. The Problem With De-Risking: Transitioning to Clean Energy Requires Trade With China — Foreign Affairs
2. Housing wind fall — Semafor
3. Smart Energy Use Draws Big Money From Private Equity — Bloomberg
4. New York jump-starts the "building decarbonization" trend — Axios
5. Power companies paid civil rights leaders in the US south. They became loyal industry advocates — Floodlight News

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When Jenny Chase speaks or, more frequently, tweets, the solar industry listens.

For nearly 20 years, Chase has chronicled the twists and turns of solar's meteoric growth as a market analyst for BloombergNEF. Her research is indispensable. Her annual prediction mega-threads are legendary.

As much as the moniker makes her squirm, Chase is the closest solar has to an oracle. She joined Episode 71 of the Factor This! podcast to discuss her spiciest predictions for 2024, as well as the release of the second edition of her book, Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon, which is available now.

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This week’s episode features reporter Renee Fox from WOSU Public Media, which launched a new podcast series chronicling the $61 million bribery scandal involving FirstEnergy and former Ohio House of Representatives Speaker Larry Householder.

This Week in Cleantech — Dec. 22, 2023

This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is Julia McPherson, Manager of Community Relations at EDP Renewables. Send your nominations, and story recommendations, to rew@clarionevents.com.

1. What No One at COP28 Wanted to Say Out Loud: Prepare for 1.5 Degrees — New York Times
2. Volkswagen, Audi, And Porsche Finally Commit To Using Tesla’s NACS Plug — InsideEV’s
3. The United States is producing more oil than any country in history — CNN
4. US Treasury unveils rules for clean energy manufacturing subsidy — Reuters
5. The Power Grab — WOSU Public Media

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Battery storage is booming in the U.S., and for good reason. So much intermittent renewable energy on the grid demands flexible resources to fill gaps. And, short of reverting back to fossil fuels, batteries are the best answer to support the energy transition.

Investors have poured billions of dollars into battery storage development to cash in, largely based on speculative opportunities. But there's one problem: markets have been slow to evolve, leading to an uptick in consolidation and growing uncertainty about the path ahead.

A battery bubble may be forming. What happens if it pops?

Episode 70 of the Factor This! podcast answers that question by taking an intimate look at the two top battery markets in the U.S. — California and Texas — and their diverging trajectories. 

Guests:
Jason Burwen, VP of Policy & Strategy, GridStor
Cody Hill, SVP, REV Renewables
Renae Steichen, Director of Regulatory Affairs, REV Renewables

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This week’s episode features science journalist Maddie Stone who reported in Grist about the challenges facing electric vehicle battery repair.

This Week in Cleantech — Dec. 15, 2023

This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is Robin Laine, co-founder and CEO of renewable SaaS company Transect.

1. Transmission rulings pave path for renewable energy — E&E News
2. Tesla recalls nearly all vehicles on US roads over lack of Autopilot safeguards — Reuters
3. Solar and Wind to Top Coal Power in US for First Time in 2024 — Bloomberg
4. Nations at COP28 Agree for First Time to Transition From Fossil Fuels — Wall Street Journal
5. EV battery repair is dangerous. Here’s why mechanics want to do it anyway — Grist

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This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less.

This week’s episode features Inside Climate News reporter Dan Gearino who breaks down plummeting prices for batteries, and why it's good news for the climate.

This Week in Cleantech — Dec. 8, 2023

This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is Ryan Quint, Director of Engineering and Security Integration at NERC. You can hear more about Ryan in Episode 67 of Factor This!

1. Hydrogen Industry Signals Alarm Over Proposed US Tax Credits — Bloomberg
2. New California rules are crushing the solar industry — PBS
3. Treasury Department lays out EV tax credit foreign sourcing rules — Axios
4. Congress spent billions on EV chargers. But not one has come online — Politico
5. Battery Prices Are Falling Again, and That’s a Good Thing — Inside Climate News

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I first met Dominion Energy CEO Bob Blue at a shipping terminal in Norfolk, Virginia.

We stood two years ago at the site that would one day support Dominion's buildout of the first commercial-scale offshore wind project in the U.S.

Since then, Siemens Gamesa, the turbine manufacturer plagued by a billion-dollar quality control flop, has pulled out of that project. And Dominion's Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind farm is one of only a few to survive (so far) the rough seas facing the nascent industry.

Offshore wind's future, while at times feeling bleak, got me thinking about the evolving role of investor-owned utilities in the energy transition. To be sure, utilities aren't seen as bastions of innovation, and are often criticized for slow-walking the fight against climate change. But maybe no other entity is equipped to shoulder the risk of incubating the raft of emerging technologies we desperately need for decarbonization.

Blue joined Episode 69 of the Factor This! podcast to break down Dominion's own ambitious carbon reduction plan, offshore wind's turbulent waters, and why the utility is leaning in on long-duration battery tech.

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