Best Week In Cleantech Podcasts (2024)

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This Week in Cleantech (7/26/2024) - Can solar survive another supply glut? 17:57

1h ago17:57

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Tell us what you think of the show! 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 Financial Times' Brett Christophers, who reported on China's exponential growth in the renewables industry. This Week in Cleantech — July 26, 2024 This w…

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Going inside utilities to scale DERs 52:10

14m ago52:10

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Tell us what you think of the show! The energy industry often pits utilities and clean energy advocates as enemies duking it out from opposite corners of the ring. As the narrative goes, utilities drag innovation in favor of the status quo. They're lobbying, some say, has tanked the value of distributed energy resources, leaving the residential sol…

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Upgrading the world’s biggest machine: The Grid Series 34:06

5d ago34:06

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Even before we turn on a light switch or plug an appliance into an electric outlet, the atoms that power our daily life have traveled a long journey across the grid to reach our homes. And to meet the demands of a net zero future, that grid will need an upgrade. BloombergNEF analysis estimates that the world will need to nearly double its grid netw…

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Leaders In Cleantech #147 Joost Kruytzer – Big Circle Ventures 41:05

4h ago41:05

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What’s it all about? Building cleantech start-ups, at scale. It can be confusing, the world of Incubators, accelerators and venture builders, also known as start-up studios. Who does what, how and why? In this episode we clarify some of those things, but discuss so much more about the why and how of new cleantech venture builder Big Circle Ventures…

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Can a utility lead the energy transition? Inside the rebirth of PG&E 52:33

3h ago52:33

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Tell us what you think of the show! Five years ago, PG&E's reputation was shattered. California's largest utility had filed for bankruptcy after admitted missteps led to catastrophic wildfires. The climate crisis had wreaked havoc in the state most committed to fighting it. But the urgency of the energy transition required a rebirth of PG&E, especi…

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This Week in Cleantech (7/19/2024) - Storms batter the world's power grids 18:30

1h ago18:30

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Tell us what you think of the show! 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 writer Katie Brigham, who reported on rising interest in sodium-ion batteries as an alternative to lithium-ion. This Week in Cleantech — July 19,…

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The climate activist trying to change banks from the inside 28:19

11d ago28:19

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Lucie Pinson is a climate activist focused on the banks that fund fossil fuel projects. But she doesn’t march, chant, picket corporate headquarters, or glue herself to the road. Instead, she and her team at the Paris-based nonprofit Reclaim Finance get to know Corporate Social Responsibility officers, trawl through company statements and portfolios…

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Stacey Abrams on how kitchen-table decisions can cut emissions 28:47

17d ago28:47

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At the Bloomberg Green Festival, Akshat Rathi sits down with voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams and Ari Matusiak, who leads the nonprofit Rewiring America. Together, Abrams and Matuisiak are trying help middle and low-income families access the tax breaks that can help them affordably electrify their homes. They discussed why household emissions …

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Leaders In Cleantech #146 Malin Carlstrom – Climentum Capital 39:51

4d ago39:51

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What’s it all about? Investing in Hardtech! Yes, it’s true, some VC’s do invest in hardtech/deeptech, knowing the specific challenges of supporting companies of this nature to scale. This week I speak with Malin Carlstrom of Danish VC Climentum Capital about scaling deeptech, the importance of team, the usefulness (and otherwise) of advisors and NE…

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An oil lobbyist gets the Shakespearean treatment in ‘Kyoto’ 26:05

20d ago26:05

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In fractured times, what does it take to reach agreement? That’s the question writers Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson set out to explore in a new play about the drama of climate negotiations. Kyoto, now running at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Swan Theater in Stratford-upon-Avon, tells the story of the 1997 Kyoto Summit as seen through the eyes of D…

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There are now 800 carbon removal startups. How many is too many? 31:55

27d ago31:55

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Tackling climate change now requires not just reducing planet-warming emissions to zero, but also finding a way to draw down existing carbon dioxide from the air. Over the past few years, tech companies have taken the lead to seed hundreds of startups that want to sell carbon removal credits and help companies meet climate goals. But the failure of…

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Hype aside, virtual power plants are breaking through 40:38

18d ago40:38

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Tell us what you think of the show! Virtual power plants were always doomed to fall into clean tech's notorious hype cycle. There are plenty of reasons for that, but start with the name. 'Virtual power plant' means everything and nothing all at once. Then there's the origin story—one rooted in the far-less-sexy, and decades-old concept of demand re…

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This Week in Cleantech (6/28/2024) - AI could strain the grid, or make it a lot smarter 27:27

21d ago27:27

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Tell us what you think of the show! 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 Semafor climate and energy editor Tim McDonnell, who reported on AI's impact on the grid and how the technology could be used to ease the strain. This We…

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Leaders In Cleantech #145 Keith Bradbury – Ember 45:17

18d ago45:17

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What’s it all about? Clean, efficient, reliable, electric public transport. After traveling by Bus and Coach across five continents, Keith Bradbury and Co-Founder Pierce Glennie made the switch from Fintech to Cleantech, with a solution to the cost, pollution and unreliability and hassle of public transport. Ember was born, you can hear the story f…

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Why Bill Gates is investing big in nuclear power 25:32

1M ago25:32

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Earlier this month, tech billionaire Bill Gates broke ground on a new nuclear plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming– a historic coal town. Gates tells Zero why he hopes the plant, which uses sodium for cooling, rather than water, will be the first of many in the country– no matter who wins this year’s election. “The idea of the US being more energy secure and…

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This Week in Cleantech (6/21/24) — What would a Donald Trump victory mean for historic clean energy incentives? 19:56

28d ago19:56

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Tell us what you think of the show! 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 Newsweek editor Jeff Young, who reported on President Biden's effort to link his climate goals to good-paying jobs. This Week in Cleantech — June 21, 202…

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Making sense of “compound” climate impacts in a time of global weirding 20:40

1M ago20:40

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We are living through the hottest year on record. That’s not news, but growing climate impacts make bigger and bigger news. At 1.3C of warming beyond pre-industrial levels, people are reckoning with a planetary system that’s out of whack. It’s not like the scientists didn’t see worsening impacts coming, but many of them have been surprised by the f…

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This Week in Cleantech (6/14/24) — Renewable energy projects keep getting bigger 19:34

1M ago19:34

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Tell us what you think of the show! 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 Michael Thomas, author of the "Distilled" newsletter, who reported on the growing size of clean energy projects in the U.S. This Week in Cleantech — June…

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The 21st century will be shaped by fire 30:59

2M ago30:59

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The 2016 fire that encircled the oil-producing town of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, forced more than 80,000 people to evacuate and left billions of dollars in damage in its wake. It was a disaster of record-breaking proportions, but also an inevitable byproduct of mankind’s obsession with burning fossil fuels. In this episode, John Vaillant, a…

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Leaders In Cleantech #144 Joachim Rupp – Detra Solar 37:39

1M ago37:39

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What’s it all about? Solar, and moving from corporate life to a start up. I first met my guest today, Joachim Rupp at a start-up within a corporate, building Viessmann’s Photovoltaic business, before that he’d been in some big corporate roles, more recently we helped him secure the CEO role at a Lithuanian solar scale-up, Detra Solar. We talk solar…

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A new solar tariff fight is here. It may be even worse than the last 51:51

2M ago51:51

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Tell us what you think of the show! Christian Roselund has a strategy for when a new solar tariff petition drops. Turn off your phone. Then get to reading. Had he failed to follow these rules in April, Roselund, a senior policy analyst at Clean Energy Associates, would have gotten an ear full from developers fearful of yet another tariff fight. U.S…

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Big Take Asia: Will the world's biggest nuclear power plant get a restart? 16:32

2M ago16:32

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All of Japan's 54 nuclear reactors were shut down after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. As the country's energy needs soar, debate is heating up over whether to bring the world’s largest nuclear plant back online. In this bonus from The Big Take Asia, host K. Oanh Ha speaks to reporter Shoko Oda about her visit to the Kashiwazaki Kariwa plant and …

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This Week in Cleantech (6/7/24) — Michigan fights off NIMBY push against clean energy 17:48

2M ago17:48

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Tell us what you think of the show! 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 The Guardian's Dharna Norr, who reported on an effort by Vermont leaders to force fossil fuel companies to pay for their emissions impacts. This Week in …

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Is Tesla on the road to irrelevance? 27:31

2M ago27:31

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Over the past 18 months, Tesla has missed its sales goals, seen its share price fall and waded through a series of dramatic decisions from Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, who cut car prices, fired much of the Supercharger team and announced nebulous plans to release a robotaxi. All of that looks like a pivot away from the original mission of mak…

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This Week in Cleantech (5/31/24) — How Texas topped California for utility-scale solar 17:21

2M ago17:21

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Tell us what you think of the show! 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 Stephen Robert Miller, who wrote for Yale E360 about an effort to convert existing oil wells for long-duration storage of solar energy. This Week in Clea…

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Searching for climate solutions amid the AI hype 30:29

2M ago30:29

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Depending on who you ask, AI is either going to save the world or end it. The technology’s capacity for data-crunching and problem-saving can help predict weather events, making it easier to optimize power grids, prepare for natural disasters, and maximize crop output. But artificial intelligence is also energy intensive – and easy to apply to ethi…

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Microsoft wanted to be carbon negative. Then it went big on AI 23:53

2M ago23:53

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Microsoft’s recent push to capitalize on artificial intelligence has made it the world’s most valuable company. But according to new figures, that ambition is coming at the expense of its climate goals. In 2020, the company pledged to be carbon-negative by the end of the decade. Instead, its emissions rose 30% between 2020 and 2023. Microsoft Presi…

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Leaders In Cleantech #143 Dr. Ian Campbell – Breathe Battery Technologies 45:22

2M ago45:22

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What’s it all about? Batteries. More specifically, software enabled batteries helping to make Electric vehicles, consumer electronics, and wearables, more efficient, providing better customer experiences. I speak to another start-up spun out of Imperial College London, with a novel and proven set of products and technologies moving forward the tran…

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What FERC did, and didn't, do to jumpstart transmission 49:56

2M ago49:56

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Tell us what you think of the show! The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has unveiled landmark new rules in attempt to jumpstart the beleaguered transmission system in the U.S. Many are already calling it the most impactful action by the agency in decades, providing a path to meet the needs of the energy transition. Taken together, Orders 1920 …

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This Week in Cleantech (5/17/24) — Biden slaps new tariffs on Chinese imports 16:30

2M ago16:30

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Tell us what you think of the show! 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 Oliver Milman, an environment reporter for The Guardian, who covered a new report that casts doubt on sustainable aviation fuel prospects. This Week in C…

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Why the UK’s Conservatives have given up on climate 35:39

2M ago35:39

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After 14 years as a member of Parliament for the UK’s Conservative Party, Chris Skidmore quit the government in January — an act of protest over Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s decision to allow new oil and gas licenses. Skidmore says the party has lost its way when it comes to climate issues, costing the UK lives, jobs and opportunities for economic …

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This Week in Cleantech (5/10/24) — The giant battery boom is here 15:21

3M ago15:21

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Tell us what you think of the show! 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 in Cleantech — May 10, 2024 This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is Lara Hamsher, Director of Stakeholder Relations, Social Impact and Sustainability for AES Clean Energy!…

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Europe’s answer to the green backlash 40:11

3M ago40:11

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Five years ago, the Green Party celebrated its best-ever results in European elections, ushering in a new era of legislative progress But Covid-19, inflation, supply chain woes and Russia’s war in Ukraine stalled its ambitions. Now, in the face of lagging poll numbers, Dutch Member of European Parliament Bas Eickhout is trying to convince voters th…

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This Week in Cleantech (5/3/24) — The EPA is cracking down on power plant emissions. Will it stick? 15:50

3M ago15:50

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Tell us what you think of the show! 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 Washington Post climate reporter Maxine Joselow, who reported on a new ruling by the EPA to curb power plant emissions. This Week in Cleantech — May 3, 2…

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This bank is turning Africa into a climate investment opportunity 35:51

3M ago35:51

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Africa currently loses between $7 billion and $15 billion a year because of climate change. If that trend continues, the sum could reach $50 billion by 2030. But African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina sees a way forward. He describes the financial instruments the bank is using to encourage investors to fund green development projects a…

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