What the Grid Really Needs
Grid nerds have spent the last few months whipped into a frenzy over Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s hastily-written plan to prop up aging coal plants in the name of grid resiliency.And then, last week,...
17 Tammi 201856min
Is Trump Saving Coal?
When President Trump took office, U.S. coal was in a state of decline. Between 2007 and 2016, coal production and consumption each fell by more than a third, and mining jobs fell from 125,000 to 75,00...
12 Tammi 201852min
Watt It Takes: The Origin Story of Greentech Media
We spend most of our time talking about other companies. For our first podcast of the year, we're turning the tables and reflecting on GTM.In this edition of Watt It Takes, Powerhouse CEO Emily Kirsch...
2 Tammi 201857min
Rebuilding Puerto Rico With Solar and Batteries
Three months after Hurricane Maria, there are still large swaths of Puerto Rico that don’t have power. It took two months to get half the island’s residents power again -- and hundreds of thousands of...
22 Joulu 201759min
Energy Storage Has Arrived
Energy storage has arrived. This year brought numerous record-breaking battery projects, dozens of acquisitions and partnerships, and over a dozen utility integrated resource plans that factor storage...
14 Joulu 20171h 18min
The Conservative and Progressive View on the Future of Electricity Markets
Something feels different. In the last two years, there’s been a material shift in the way renewable energy and other distributed resources are discussed.For so long, believers of wind, solar, batteri...
5 Joulu 20171h 14min
Tesla's Giant Battery: Pros and Cons
Tesla built the world's biggest lithium-ion battery ahead of schedule. It's an important milestone for the technology, and Tesla itself. But is it coming at a cost to smaller players in the industry?T...
1 Joulu 201755min
Dan Shugar, the King Midas of Solar
Dan Shugar lives, breathes and bleeds solar. "If you cut my wrist, pure silicon comes out," he exclaimed in an interview with Powerhouse CEO Emily Kirsch, as part of the Watt It Takes interview series...
22 Marras 20171h
