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Season 1

April 12, 2022

Barklie Estes, President of Nova Solar| A Culture of Quality in Resid…

Get a 15% discount to attend Midwest Solar Expo with discount code: CPH15. www.MidwestSolarExpo.com/ , the premier B2B solar and clean energy event in the region. Solar is a want, not a need. For that reason, solar contractor...

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April 5, 2022

Bruce Stewart, CEO of Perch Energy | Bringing Community Solar to the …

Get a 15% discount to attend Midwest Solar Expo with discount code: CPH15. www.MidwestSolarExpo.com/ , the premier B2B solar and clean energy event in the region. Many consumers would like to choose renewable energy but eithe...

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March 29, 2022

Veronika Wright, EV Battery Expert | The Drive to Electric Ep.79

Transportation is responsible for 30% of our global carbon footprint. And it's 2/3 more efficient to drive electric vehicles than to burn gasoline. But the US still lags far behind China and the EU when it comes to EV adoptio...

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March 29, 2022

Jack's Solar Garden w/ Byron Kominek | Clean Power Hour LIVE March 24…

Jack’s Solar Garden is the largest agrivoltaics research site for vegetable production thus far in the United States! Alongside research partners, Sprout City Farms is trailblazing larger scale crop cultivation under solar p...

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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 …

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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 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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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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Sept. 16, 2021

WRO on Solar Silicon | Restrictions on Chinese Tech | Clean Power Ho…

Confused about the WRO, Withhold and Release Order on solar silicon products made by Hoshine in Xinjiang Province in China? We have an expert on materials tracing, Paul Wormser, Vice President of Technology for Clean Energy A...

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Aug. 27, 2021

US Moves to Reduce Emissions by 45% | Corporates Going Solar | Roboti…

Clean Power Hour E57 Aug 27, 2021 with Tim Montague and John Weaver Corporates are going hard after renewable energy but hourly energy tracking is necessary Robotic Electric Ships are taking on cargo shipping Used Solar Panel...

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Aug. 20, 2021

A Terawatt by 2035 | Clean Power Hour E56

Biden releases White House plan including 40% of electricity coming from solar power by 2035 - that’s a TW of capacity https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/08/17/fact-sheet-bipartisan-infrastructu...

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Aug. 13, 2021

CubicPV - Direct Wafer, Tandem, Perovskite Solar Technology | Frank v…

Frank van Mierlo, CEO of CubicPV is our guest today on the Clean Power Hour (E55). CubicPV is the new company formed by the merger of 1366 Technologies (direct wafer tech) with Hunt Perovskite Technologies. Welcome to the nex...

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Aug. 9, 2021

Clean Power Hour Ep.54 | Solar vs. Nukes - who wins? | Resi Flow Batt…

Residential flow battery ♫♪♪coming to America♫♪♪ SuperHeavy getting put together, beautiful! Growing potatoes and broccoli indoors $30 billion - nuclear or solar? $30 billion - nuclear or solar? Who wins? https://pv-magazine-...

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July 31, 2021

Tesla VPP | Solar Powered Beer | US Storage Market Growth | Clean Pow…

Tesla VPP; Solar beer; Renewables #2 in the USA; US Energy storage volume; Tesla sells out stationary storage thru 2023; World’s largest agrivoltaic project; and Montague goes to the dark side. Toyota is quietly pushing Congr...

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