Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy Podcast
Welcome to Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, a podcast dedicated to unveiling the stories, insights, and strategies of the most influential leaders in the renewable energy sector. Our mission is to offer a platform where the voices of innovators, pioneers, and visionaries in renewable energy are amplified, sharing their journey, challenges, and triumphs with a global audience.
Episodes
89 episodes
Ed McGinnis of Curio on Why Nuclear “Waste” Is America’s Greatest Energy Asset
Nuclear energy is having a long-overdue moment. Electricity demand is rising rapidly, advanced reactors are moving closer to deployment, and the United States is sitting on a massive stockpile of spent nuclear fuel with no scalable solution in ...
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Season 1
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Episode 89
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46:58
Kevin Galloway on Electra’s Bold Mission to Decarbonize a 2-Billion-Ton Industry
Steel is everywhere. It’s in our cities, vehicles, infrastructure, and daily lives. But few people realize it’s also responsible for roughly 10 percent of global CO₂ emissions. In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy
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Season 1
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Episode 88
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42:18
How Jeremy Teresinski Is Scaling Utility-Scale Solar Construction at Qcells
What does it take to scale utility-scale solar construction fast, safely, and at gigawatt scale?In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, Wes Ashworth sits down with Jeremy Teresinski, Vice President of...
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Season 1
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Episode 87
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46:25
Why Renewable Projects Struggle Without Community Buy-In and How to Fix It
What if the biggest reason renewable energy projects fail has nothing to do with technology or capital... and everything to do with trust?In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down w...
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Season 1
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Episode 86
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45:23
The Future of Home Value, Climate Risk, and Resilience with Climative CEO Winston Morton
Climate change is no longer a distant or abstract issue. It is rapidly becoming a financial reality embedded in home values, insurance premiums, mortgage risk, and long-term affordability.In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Ren...
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Season 1
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Episode 85
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47:00
Up and to the Right: Marty Rogers on Leadership, Storage, and the Future of Solar
The solar industry has never been simple, and few leaders understand its full arc better than Marty Rogers.In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, Wes Ashworth sits down with Marty Rogers, General Manager for ...
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Season 1
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Episode 84
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47:10
Portable Power and the Future of Grid Flexibility with SparkCharge's CFO David Piperno
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, Wes Ashworth sits down with David Piperno, CFO of SparkCharge, to explore how portable energy solutions are reshaping EV charging, fleet electrification, and grid stab...
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Season 1
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Episode 83
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47:40
Small Change, Big Impact: How Joe Adiletta and Volexion Are Redefining Battery Breakthroughs
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down with Joe Adiletta, CEO of Volexion and a veteran of the battery world, to explore what it really takes to commercialize deep tech innovation in on...
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Season 1
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Episode 82
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44:13
Winning in Global Solar with Mike Silvestrini: Inside the Markets Shaping Renewable Energy
What if the strongest opportunities in renewable energy aren’t in massive utility projects, but in the overlooked middle of the market where disciplined operators consistently outperform?In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Ren...
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Episode 81
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46:58
Can Horizontal Boreholes Solve Nuclear's Biggest Problem? Rod Baltzer Thinks So
What if the key to unlocking nuclear energy’s future has been buried all along?In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth dives into one of the most overlooked and misunderstood challen...
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Season 1
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Episode 80
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40:36
The Truth About Solar Panel Waste: Inside the Recycling Revolution with Dr. Janette Freeman
Most conversations about solar focus on growth, installation, and deployment. Far fewer address the reality on the other end of the lifecycle: what happens to millions of solar panels once they’re damaged, decommissioned, or reach the end of th...
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Season 1
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Episode 79
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47:22
Leading Through Uncertainty: Kimberlee Centera on Power, People, and Resilience
When policy shocks hit and the ground shifts beneath an entire industry, real leadership is revealed.In Episode 78 of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth welcomes back Kimberlee Centera, Founder an...
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Season 1
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Episode 78
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50:11
Building Energy, Building Trust: Steffanie Dohn on McCarthy’s Human Approach to Progress
Episode SummaryIn this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, Steffanie Dohn, Vice President of Government Affairs at McCarthy Building Companies, shares how one of America’s most trusted EPCs is redefining ...
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Season 1
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Episode 77
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45:54
Building The Bridge: How Emily Easley Connects Oil, Renewables, and the Future of Energy
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth welcomes Emily Easley, Founder and CEO of NOVUS Energy Advisors, for a powerful look at how oil, gas, renewables, real estate, and AI a...
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Season 1
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Episode 76
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48:09
The Swiss Army Knife of the Grid: Energy Storage’s Rise and Redefinition
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, Wes Ashworth sits down with Justin Rangooni, President and CEO of Energy Storage Canada. With a background in law, policy, and government relations, Justin has become ...
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Season 1
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Episode 75
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44:28
Building Solar Responsibly: Inside PCL’s People-First Growth with Andrew Moles
What does responsible growth really look like in one of the world’s most competitive industries?In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down with Andrew Moles, Vice Pre...
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Season 1
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Episode 74
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49:55
Building the Hydrogen Economy: Brian DeBruine on Breaking the Clean Energy Logjam
Why is hydrogen still missing from most clean energy conversations and what will finally unleash its full potential?In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, we sit down with Brian DeBruine, founder of ...
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Season 1
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Episode 73
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45:48
From Grid Stress to Resilience: Jae Choi on Redefining Energy Infrastructure
The energy transition is colliding with unprecedented demand from AI data centers, fleet electrification, and fast-moving policy shifts. But are developers and operators truly prepared to make projects both technically sound and financially via...
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Season 1
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Episode 72
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42:11
Jan Poetsch: Cracking the Code on Decarbonizing Industrial Heat
Industrial heat is one of the biggest blind spots in the energy transition, yet it represents nearly 40% of all industrial emissions. From oil sands and refineries to food processing, pulp and paper, and chemicals, the challenge of decarbonizin...
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Season 1
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Episode 71
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43:40
Breaking the Battery Bottleneck: ION Storage’s Path to Energy Freedom
Batteries are the hidden bottleneck in electrification and AI. While chips get the headlines, the energy powering our devices, vehicles, and infrastructure is what ultimately sets the pace of innovation.In this episode of Green Giant...
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Season 1
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Episode 70
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41:59
From the Roof to the Classroom: How Schools Are Sparking the Future of Solar
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, Wes Ashworth sits down with Meghan Milo, Director of Energy Solutions, Curriculum and Instruction at Madison Energy Infrastructure, to explore how solar energy ...
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Season 1
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Episode 69
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44:35
Brad Stutzman: Thriving on the Solar Coaster and Shaping Tomorrow’s Energy
The renewable energy industry has never been a smooth ride. Policy swings, financing hurdles, shifting market sentiment, what many call the “solar coaster.”Few leaders know this rollercoaster better than Brad Stutzman, CEO of O...
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Season 1
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Episode 68
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40:42
From Uncertainty to Optimism: REC Solar’s Scott Therien on the Next Era of Clean Energy
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, Wes Ashworth sits down with Scott Therien, Director of Strategic Partnerships at REC Solar, to explore what long-term success really looks like in commercial so...
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Season 1
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Episode 67
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47:17
How Vinnie Campo and Haven Energy Are Reinventing Residential Battery Storage
Home energy storage is often misunderstood, expensive, and out of reach for most, until now.In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, Wes Ashworth sits down with Vinnie Campo, Co-Founder and CEO of Haven Energ...
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Season 1
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Episode 66
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44:03
Unlocking Solar for Multifamily: Owen Barrett on Turning Roofs into Revenue
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down with Owen Barrett, clean tech entrepreneur, investor, and Founder & President of Shine to talk about the overlooked frontier in renewable ener...
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Season 1
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Episode 65
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41:50