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. The downside of solar energy is that it cannot be generated at night. But John King dreams of solar with an on-off switch. And he’s developed concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) technology that facilitates the massive geological storage of thermal energy. Thermal energy that can be brought to the surface and used to generate power—...
Jun 21, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 91
Support the show Connect with Tim Clean Power Hour Clean Power Hour on YouTube Tim on Twitter Tim on LinkedIn Email tim@cleanpowerhour.com Review Clean Power Hour on Apple Podcasts The Clean Power Hour is produced by the Clean Power Consulting Group and created by Tim Montague. Contact us by email: CleanPowerHour@gmail.com Corporate sponsors who share our mission to speed the energy transition are invited to check out https://www.cleanpowerhour.com/support/ The Clean Power Hour is brought to you...
Jun 17, 2022•1 hr
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. The cost of energy is on the rise here in the US and around the world. What’s behind the drastic increase in costs? Why are some markets more expensive than others? And how do rising energy rates create an opportunity for renewables? Michael Decaluwe is Senior Vice President at Nania Energy , an energy advisement company that helps org...
Jun 14, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 90
Support the show Connect with Tim Clean Power Hour Clean Power Hour on YouTube Tim on Twitter Tim on LinkedIn Email tim@cleanpowerhour.com Review Clean Power Hour on Apple Podcasts The Clean Power Hour is produced by the Clean Power Consulting Group and created by Tim Montague. Contact us by email: CleanPowerHour@gmail.com Corporate sponsors who share our mission to speed the energy transition are invited to check out https://www.cleanpowerhour.com/support/ The Clean Power Hour is brought to you...
Jun 10, 2022•59 min
Production of high-quality lithium presents a complex problem. Sourcing lithium is difficult and making high-purity lithium is costly. Lithium is sourced from recycling of lithium-ion batteries or extracting it from a brine solution previously introduced into hard rock. The extracted material is called lithium chloride or lithium sulfate, and processing it into the final product - lithium hydroxide or lithium carbonate for battery production - is where Mangrove Lithium comes in. Saad Dara is an ...
Jun 07, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 89
One barrel of oil equals the manual labor energy of one human for five years. This fact explains why humans are strapped to fossil fuels: entire economies and lifestyles are based on the easy availability of fossil fuels. Humans don’t yet know how to live off of the Earth’s “energy budget” – fueled by the sun. We’re emitting more CO2 than at any time before. What is the barrier to slowing this down? Politics, and the difficulty humans have with change. But change is afoot and hope is alive. Davi...
May 31, 2022•51 min•Season 1Ep. 88
Support the show Connect with Tim Clean Power Hour Clean Power Hour on YouTube Tim on Twitter Tim on LinkedIn Email tim@cleanpowerhour.com Review Clean Power Hour on Apple Podcasts The Clean Power Hour is produced by the Clean Power Consulting Group and created by Tim Montague. Contact us by email: CleanPowerHour@gmail.com Corporate sponsors who share our mission to speed the energy transition are invited to check out https://www.cleanpowerhour.com/support/ The Clean Power Hour is brought to you...
May 30, 2022•58 min
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. These guys know solar. These guys know financing. Put that together and Sol-REIT, LLC (Sol-REIT) is a one stop shop for solar investors and developers to access capital and maximize returns with more control over each stage of the project. Sol-REIT offers financing of construction loans for small to mid-sized solar project developers un...
May 24, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 87
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 developers are well aware of the energy it takes to win the uphill, sometimes prolonged battle of project approval. Is education the answer? And which strategy works the best? Community engagement via telephone land line is a thing of the past; Dynamic Online Sampling on social media is the method of today. Tyler Duvelius is Dire...
May 17, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 86
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. As innovation in solar chugs along and consumer perception climbs and falls, one thing is true. New terminology – with accompanying acronyms – appears almost daily right now in solar industry. From “solar economics” to “virtual power plants (VPP) ” to “frequency regulation” and “vehicle to grid (V2G),” these terms are the future of sol...
May 10, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 85
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. What happens when a home solar install company lacks a smooth interface between the business operations, their staff and the homeowner? A missed opportunity for more happy customers, referrals and mass adoption of solar. When customers receive just the right amount of intel from their solar system in one polished platform, user experie...
May 03, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 84
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. The first Tesla Model S came to be with an initial half-billion-dollar loan from the Department of Energy. SpaceX was saved by a loan from NASA. The might of the federal government paired with the indomitable will of an entrepreneur equals a bridge to bankability. A successful model exists for scaling up decarbonization, and a tenaciou...
Apr 26, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 83
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. To speed the clean energy transition, we need innovative businesses in the renewable energy space to scale quickly. And perhaps the best way for entrepreneurs and executives in clean tech to accelerate their growth is to join a mastermind, leveraging the knowledge, experience and network of the group to go further faster. Cliff Ravensc...
Apr 19, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 82
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 contractors must find a way to differentiate themselves in the marketplace, delivering excellent customer service and making each install as efficient as possible. So, what can a residential solar company do to promote a culture of quality and ownership among its employees? Barklie Es...
Apr 12, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 81
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 either can't afford it or don't know how. But what if you didn't need a solar panel on your own rooftop to access solar power? What if you could share a solar farm with others in the community to get affordable power when you need it? Bruce Stewart is President and CEO of Perch E...
Apr 05, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 80
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 adoption. So, what do prosumers and energy professionals need to know about furthering the electrification of transportation--in the US and beyond? Dr. Veronika Wright is the EV battery expert behind Electrified Veronika , a consulting business that supports auto and battery manufa...
Mar 29, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 79
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 panels, in an innovative farming practice called agrivoltaics. Research partners include: Colorado State University University of Arizona National Renewable Energy Laboratory Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center Speeding the energy transition with the latest solar, wind, and e...
Mar 29, 2022•47 min0
Installing solar energy systems in our homes and businesses is a good first step. But how do we keep those solar farms up and running? Is there a solar asset management service that can monitor your system, remotely diagnose problems and send a technician when necessary? Better yet, is there a service that offers a performance guarantee? 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 fiv...
Mar 22, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 78
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 tend to shy away from selling third-party-owned solar PPA projects to their customers and focus solely on cash deals. So, how do we facilitate a working relationship between local EPC solar installers and the investors who want to finance these kinds of C&I projects in th...
Mar 15, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 77
The Clean Power Hour is brought to you by the Clean Power Consulting Group All content can be found at: www.CleanPower.Group/podcast Simon Moores is the CEO of London-based Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, the world’s leading Price Reporting Agency (PRA), data and intel provider for the lithium ion battery to electric vehicle supply chain. He has has been specializing in the supply chain for lithium ion batteries since 2006 with an expert focus on lithium. He regularly speaks to international pre...
Mar 12, 2022•54 min
Clean Power Hour LIVE with Tim Montague | March 3, 2022 Check out these events: April 5-7 Oakland, CA - Solar Plaza: SAMNA Solar Asset Management North America Jun 20-22 Minneapolis, MN - Midwest Solar Expo Simon Moores is coming on the Clean Power Hour LIVE show next week for our LIVE on Thursdays. Watch that interview here . Elon Musk is right. We should go to Mars and spend a small percentage (~1%) of our GDP on establishing an outpost and then full-blown colony on Mars. The big rock that wil...
Mar 11, 2022•32 min
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 connect to the grid and trade energy as if they were a power plant. In other words, Leap is a one-stop shop for grid services. Thomas is the Cofounder and CEO of Leap Energy, a virtual power plant that connects EV, solar storage, battery and smart thermostat companies to the gr...
Mar 08, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 76
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 achieve terawatt-scale solar power? Matt Campbell is the Cofounder and CEO of Terabase Energy , a technology solutions company on a mission to reduce costs and accelerate deployment by digitizing the solar power plant. Prior to Terabase, Matt spent 15 years at SunPower, and his experience spa...
Mar 01, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 75
Solar & Storage News LIVE from Boston at RE+ Northeast Reducing the cost of solar - John Weaver gives us some perspective as the owner of Whaling City Solar a residential solar installer in MA and RI. How does Australia and Germany achieve dollar a watt solar pricing? Standardization and streamlining of the permitting and installation. Check out SolarApp if you are an installer or AHJ for streamlining solar installation in the US. What’s the purpose of attending these clean industry events? ...
Feb 24, 2022•36 min0
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 thermostats? How can companies like Google partner with utilities, inspiring residential customers to take action on energy efficiency? Aaron Berndt is the Head of Industry Partnerships at Google, where he has served on the energy efficiency team for six years. Prior to Google, Aaron ...
Feb 22, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 74
Illinois clean energy boom is back 10-20 GW electrolyzer coming to California? World’s largest wind turbine blade looks like a skate park John bought a Hyundai Ionic 5 - yes! Check out all of our content at www.CleanPowerHour.com Subscribe to our youtube channel: https://bit.ly/cph-sub Illinois Clean Energy Boom is back on https://electrek.co/2022/02/15/egeb-illinois-to-shut-all-fossil-fuel-plants-by-2045-and-invest-580m-a-year-in-renewables/ Southern California Gas Company is submitting an appl...
Feb 21, 2022•1 hr 3 min0
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 carbon-free energy https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/02/10/the-u-s-army-commits-to-using-100-clean-electricity-by-2030/ Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III: “We face all kinds of threats in our line of work, but few of them truly deserve to be called existential. The climate ...
Feb 16, 2022•1 hr 16 min0
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-technologies/ Long duration energy storage procurement - more than 4 hours, up to 8, won by - surprise - lithium ion versus other sources https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/long-duration-energy-storage/lithium-ion-batteries-beat-novel-long-duration-tech-in-california-contest PA po...
Feb 16, 2022•1 hr 8 min0
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 manufacturing facility near Austin? Or the rocket production facility and spaceport near Brownsville? On this episode of Clean Power Hour, Tim and John come to you live from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, to discuss the latest in clean energy news. They explain the significance of P...
Feb 08, 2022•47 min•Season 1Ep. 72
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 building facades? Martin Pochtaruk is the President and CEO of Heliene, a customer-first provider of North American-made solar panels serving the utility-scale, commercial and residential markets. Martin has 30-plus years of experience managing manufacturing businesses in b...
Feb 01, 2022•46 min•Season 1Ep. 71
