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March 22, 2022

Mark Liffmann, CEO of Omnidian | Solar Asset Management with a Perfor…

Mark Liffman is the Cofounder and CEO of Omnidian, the leading provider of performance assurance for distributed energy assets in the US. Mark spent nearly five years as Senior Business Development Manager at SunPower and four years as VP of Sales, Marketing and Business Development at Clean Power …

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March 15, 2022

Marc Palmer, CEO of New Resource Solutions | Financing Solar in the C…

Schools, municipalities, nonprofits and small for-profit companies that want to go solar typically don’t have the resources to do so on their own. They need investors in clean energy projects to make it work. Yet local EPCs t...

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March 12, 2022

Simon Moores, CEO, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence | Clean Power Hour …

The Clean Power Hour is brought to you by the Clean Power Consulting Group All content can be found at: www.CleanPower.Group/podcast Simon Moores is the CEO of London-based Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, the world’s leading ...

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March 11, 2022

Clean Energy News LIVE - Tim Montague | Clean Power Hour LIVE Mar 3, …

Clean Power Hour LIVE with Tim Montague | March 3, 2022 Check out these events: April 5-7 Oakland, CA - Solar Plaza: SAMNA Solar Asset Management North America Jun 20-22 Minneapolis, MN - Midwest Solar Expo Simon Moores is co...

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March 8, 2022

Thomas Folker, CEO of Leap Energy | The One-Stop Shop for Grid Servic…

Thomas Folker describes Leap as the Stripe for energy. The same way that Stripe provides the infrastructure for online payment processing, Leap allows anyone with energy resources (battery or EV companies, for example) to con...

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March 1, 2022

Matt Campbell of Terabase Energy on Building the Platform for Terawat…

Less than 1% of the solar that’s going to be built has been built. And in the wake of climate change, it’s imperative that we build solar plants faster and make the process cheaper. But what will it take to achieve terawatt-s...

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Feb. 24, 2022

LIVE from RE+ Northeast | Solar & Storage News | Clean Power Hour Feb…

Solar & Storage News LIVE from Boston at RE+ Northeast Reducing the cost of solar - John Weaver gives us some perspective as the owner of Whaling City Solar a residential solar installer in MA and RI. How does Australia and G...

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Feb. 22, 2022

Aaron Berndt of Google Nest on Speeding Adoption of Smart Thermostats…

Smart thermostats help us achieve a more flexible and resilient grid. And yet, only 10% to 20% of US households use a Nest or similar device to automate energy savings. What can we do to speed the adoption of smart thermostat...

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Feb. 21, 2022

Clean Energy News | Clean Power Hour LIVE Feb 17, 2022

Illinois clean energy boom is back 10-20 GW electrolyzer coming to California? World’s largest wind turbine blade looks like a skate park John bought a Hyundai Ionic 5 - yes! Check out all of our content at www.CleanPowerHour...

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Feb. 16, 2022

Clean Power Hour LIVE | US Military Going Carbon Neutral | Feb. 10, 2…

US military starts 24-7 clean electricity procurement First real big Flow battery utility discussion Import tariffs extended…cmon joe? SpaceX rocket fully stacked P V Mag reports that the US Military is doubling down on carbo...

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Feb. 16, 2022

Clean Power Hour LIVE | Electrification of Everything is Truly Disrup…

The Energy Transition is Going to Require a Staggering Growth in Electrification and Enabling Technologies https://www.powermag.com/the-energy-transition-will-require-staggering-growth-in-electrification-and-enabling-technolo...

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Feb. 8, 2022

Live from Starbase: Clean Energy News with Weaver & Montague Ep.72

Tesla’s Q4 numbers are among the top stories in clean energy this week, so it’s only appropriate that this recording coincide with Tim's pilgrimage to SpaceX. So, what’s it like to spend time at Giga Texas, the Tesla manufact...

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Feb. 1, 2022

Martin Pochtaruk of Heliene Solar on Speeding the Energy Transition E…

Why would a solar panel manufacturing company put time and energy into innovating for niche markets? What are the benefits of developing products for very specific applications like greenhouses, satellites or power-generating...

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Jan. 25, 2022

Energy Transition News Ep.70

While the energy transition has begun, we still have a long way to go. In fact, our CO2 footprint here in the US increased by 6% in 2021 and global CO2 levels continue to rise. So, what are we doing to manage the impacts of c...

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Jan. 18, 2022

James Geshwiler on Solar for Non-Owner Occupied Facilities | Solar as…

There is a huge opportunity in rooftop solar that isn't currently being developed - non-owner occupied facilities which represent 90% of the commercial real estate. When tenants don't own their own roof they struggle to install rooftop solar because solar becomes part of the building that they don'…

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Jan. 12, 2022

Matt Lensink & Lisa Katz on Cleaning Up Thermal Power Ep.68

We don't spend a lot of time talking about thermal energy on the Clean Power Hour, but it’s a thing! And a lot of industrial and institutional processes require high-grade thermal power. We need it to heat hospitals and unive...

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Jan. 4, 2022

Land Stewardship in the Solar Industry | Rhett Kerby, KerTec | #67

#67 Successful vegetation restoration and natural landscaping of solar farms is a vital part of the solar industry. Solar farms mean changes in the land and those changes can be good from an ecological perspective - but this ...

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Dec. 28, 2021

CEJA - Illinois Clean Energy Legislation 2021 with Mark Pruitt of the…

#66: Today on the Clean Power Hour, it's a new day in Illinois! Our new energy legislation, the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act of 2021, triples the amount of resources coming into the solar wind and battery storage industries...

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Dec. 21, 2021

Americans want Solar in 2022 I Clean Power News

#65: Welcome to the Clean Power Hour Holiday special! We cover a TON of big clean energy news in today's episode. - Solar could triple by 2023 to 60 GW per year! - Voters want America-first clean energy and climate solutions ...

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Dec. 14, 2021

Hydrogen is The Fuel of The Future! with Joseph Alfred, Ally Power In…

#64 Joe Alfred is the founder and CEO of Ally Power Inc. This hydrogen startup is based in Washington DC. Ally is developing a boiler system that produces hydrogen from aluminum and sodium hydroxide. Hydrogen is in the cleant...

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Dec. 7, 2021

Energy Dome, Claudio Spadacini & CO2 Battery - Long Duration Storage

63: Today on the Clean Power Hour: Energy Dome! We kick off this episode with an interview with the founder and CEO of Energy Dome, Claudio Spadacini. They are bringing long duration (10-24 hr) energy storage to life with the...

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Nov. 30, 2021

Bill Nussey - Freeing Energy, how local renewable energy is changing …

Tech entrepreneur Bill Nussey joins the Clean Power Hour! Bill has been traveling the globe interviewing the best and brightest minds (like Amory Lovins, the founder of Rocky Mountain Institute) on the topics of solar PV and ...

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Nov. 23, 2021

Infrastructure Bill and Renewables

#61: Build Back Better! There’s real money flowing into renewables What crops grow best under solar farms? Agrivoltaics research at the University of Illinois gets us pumped! The largest solar and storage project in the US is...

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