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Reducing Solar Soft Costs with Jan Rippingale, CEO of Blu Banyan
Reducing Solar Soft Costs through Software Solutions | full interview What exactly are solar soft costs? Solar still isn’t a no-brainer. It remains a major investment that’s not affordable to most families, business owners, schools, municipalities and others. What’s...
How Capitalism Can Be a Force for Good with Ty Montague
Capitalism: How can it be a force for good around the world? Ty Montague worked in the advertising business for many years, helping companies tell their stories through advertising. Eventually, he became disturbed by what he saw. “They were telling one story and doing...
Dr. David Loomis, Economics of Clean Energy: Pathto100
Economics of Clean Energy: Path to 100 | video interview Wind and solar developers and installers are currently working in a challenging environment. Dr. David Loomis, who provided the analysis for the Path to 100 legislation, one of the clean energy bills guiding...
Jobs, the Environment, Saving Money with Rewiring America | Sam Calisch, Ph.D | Solar Podcast Interview
“The main goal is to reframe the (climate change) conversation around policy – from being about pain and sacrifice to being about massive opportunity,” he explains, focusing on electrification as a “no regrets pathway forward.” Working with Rewiring America co-founders Saul Griffith and Alex Laskey, Sam adds to the analytical framework they’re using for data-driven visions of opportunities for electrification.
Commercial Solar 101 with Kristen Fornes of Engie Distributed Solar
Commercial Rooftop Solar 101 with Kristen Fornes of Engie Distributed Solar | view the interview here “We see huge opportunity for solar and storage in the U S . . . after a very crazy 2020” and ending with the extension of the ITC, Kristen Fornes of Engie Distributed...
Cybersecurity and Communication Protocols in Solar – Tom Tansy, Sunspec Alliance
Cybersecurity and Communication Protocols in Solar with Tom Tansy, Executive Director of SunSpec Alliance | view the full interview here | check out all the Solar Podcast content here. by Ruth Fein Revell March 22, 2021 Recently, on the tail of the Texas grid...
NREL HOPP – Hybrid Optimization and Performance Platform
NREL Hybrid Platform – New Tool for Utility Scale Optimization and Performance Aaron Barker and Parangat Bhaskar with host Tim Montague See the complete interview here by Ruth Fein Revell – March 15, 2021 Hybrid Power Plants: New Tool for Utility Scale Design and...
Decarbonizing Solar – Ultra-Low Carbon Solar Alliance with Michael Parr
Michael Parr is spearheading an important new solar industry group, the Ultra-Low Carbon Solar Alliance which aims to develop rigorous standards and labels for low-carbon solar equipment, especially solar panels. The key take away: not all solar modules are created equal and you, solar developers and EPCs, should take note. Low carbon solar panels have half the embedded carbon than high carbon, high coal electricity counterparts.
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Five CleanTech Trends to Watch in 2021 with Tim Montague and Jake Rozmaryn of Antenna Group
2021 is going to be a great year and a harbinger of many good things to mark the 2nd decade of the 21st century. The Biden Administration is investing in clean energy, battery storage for virtual power plants, the electrification of transportation, and green hydrogen. Many young companies are going public via SPAC and this gives extra oomph to the clean energy transition.