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Factor This! Renewable Energy World
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Factor This! is a weekly podcast for the solar industry that provides in-depth and actionable content not available anywhere else. The podcast features solar energy leaders who actually move the needle, in hopes of making you smarter, your solar job easier, and moving the industry forward. Factor This! is produced by Renewable Energy World and Clarion Energy, and is hosted by John Engel. Have an idea for an episode or want to sponsor the show? Email john.engel@clarionevents.com for more information. Find show notes, transcripts, and resources at RenewableEnergyWorld.com. Subscribe today to renewable energy's newest podcast.
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This Week in Cleantech (4/26/24) — A new solar tariff fight begins
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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Join us every Friday for new episodes of This Week in Cleantech in the Factor This! podcast feed, and tune into new episodes of Factor This! every Monday.
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 (4/5/24) — The final battle over green hydrogen tax rules
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 in Cleantech (3/29/24) — Can the White House stop China's clean energy dominance?
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 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 in Cleantech (4/22/24) — Wind power has hit a rut. Could a huge plane change its course?
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 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 in Cleantech (3/15/24) — The debate over rooftop solar
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 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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Building a DG unicorn with Nexamp CEO Zaid Ashai
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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Customer Reviews
Truly Insightful
I have worked in solar for many year. Sole continues to expand at a crazy pace and it is hard to keep up with the relevant developments. This podcast has helped me stay up to date and surveys as a pivotal jump off point for my own research. Keep up the great work! It is appreciated!
Makes keeping up with cleantech easy and digestible
I listen every week to get my right-sized amount of cleantech news, as the landscape can sometimes be a bit daunting to keep track of on my own. The guys have a great conversation flow and complement each other well in their approach to different issues. Highly recommend to anyone interested in the cleantech/renewables space. Looking forward to future episodes!
Every single episode brings value
I have never listened to an episode of the Factor This! podcast that I did not find incredible valuable, insightful, informative and rich. John Engel consistently catches the next big thing before it hits. These shows are full of content and opportunities that generate great ideas for our team!