
Solar's Tough Year
Last year was a tough one for many U.S. solar companies. For the first time, America's solar market saw a decline in growth and solar employment.What gives? In this podcast, we're going to walk throug...
21 Mar 201847min

Google and Microsoft Are Shaping Energy Markets
Since 2015, large corporations have signed deals for more than 7 gigawatts of renewable energy. As activity picks up, these companies are grappling with increasingly complex deals. They're no longer j...
13 Mar 20181h 4min

A Blueprint for the Transactive Grid
Ryan Hanley is convinced that the distributed electric grid will create vastly more economic, security and societal value than today's centralized system.Over the course of his career as a civil engin...
6 Mar 20181h 10min

Don't Like the Solar Buying Process? Start Your Own Company
In 2009, Sara Ross and her husband bought a dilapidated farmhouse in Massachusetts, intending to turn it into a net-zero home.Solar was an important part of the plan. And then came the price tag: $81,...
2 Mar 20181h 2min

Can Solar Become the World's Dominant Source of Energy?
Nothing can stop solar's growth trajectory -- except maybe solar itself.This week, we have a deep discussion on the future of solar photovoltaics. Solar is exploding around the world, but have we grap...
19 Feb 201852min

Cleantech's Top Venture Capitalist, Nancy Pfund
Nancy Pfund is perhaps the most recognizable venture capitalist in the clean energy space.Before she raised multi-hundred-million-dollar funds at her firm DBL Partners and made early investments in th...
9 Feb 201853min

Death to Energy Tribalism
The Breakthrough Institute was founded on the idea that traditional environmentalists were wrong about how to protect the planet.Back in 2004, the co-founders called for ending the "politics of limits...
8 Feb 20181h 3min

Our Blockchain Explainer Segment: 'Consensus'
Blockchain is coming to the energy industry in a big way.We're at the beginning of a fierce hype cycle, when new startups are emerging weekly to tout their Initial Coin Offerings and tokenization plat...
31 Jan 201855min





















