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Stories, analysis, and big ideas on the shift to clean, local energy.
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Energy is following the path of computing
Centralized giants, disrupted by small, cheap, networked technology. Telephones, computers — and now electricity: the same story is…
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Edison, Insull, and Westinghouse: the war that built the grid
How a feud between Thomas Edison, his protege Sam Insull, and rival George Westinghouse created the electric utility…
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How Niagara Falls led to the first airplane
The world’s first large power plant at Niagara Falls solved a problem that, a few years later, helped…
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Greg Robinson, host of the World Changing Podcast, interviews Bill about his journey into clean energy
In this remarkably candid and personal discussion, Bill shares several stories publicly for the first time.
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How the History of Computers Predicts the Future of Energy: Bill Shares Research from Freeing Energy at the Computer Museum of America
Freeing Energy dives deeply into the lessons from computer history and their application to energy.
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Podcast 99: Tom Jensen of FREYR Battery – From Giga Arctic to Giga Americas, the most capital and operationally efficient battery plant in Europe is headed for the US State of Georgia
FREYR may not be a household name in the US but their CEO is delivering on his vision…
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Forbes Magazine interviews Bill Nussey about the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and how local energy is reshaping the century-old grid
Forbes Magazine explores the role of innovation in the century-old electric power industry.
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Forbes’ Futures in Focus podcast host Michael Gale interviews Bill Nussey about the Inflation Reduction Act and the unstoppable economics of local energy
Michael Gale interviews Bill Nussey about “Breaking the Gordian Knot of energy thinking by 2035”
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Podcast 98: John Berger and Michael Grasso: Sunnova wants to build a ground breaking local energy powered neighborhood and that is rattling cages. Will regulators let them?
John Berger and Michael Grasso of Sunnova share their vision for solar+battery neighborhoods and why California’s state regulators…
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#HeroesofFreeingEnergy: Bryan Hannegan
Growing up in India, I experienced the shortage of electricity very personally. We did not have access to…
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Nicole Jansen, host of the Leaders of Transformation podcast talks to Bill: How can you tap into the global energy market and help empower billions of people?
Nicole Jansen is a rockstar podcast host who talks with Bill to tackle–head on–the biggest myths in clean…
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Podcast 097: Donnel Baird – His boyhood Brooklyn apartment was heated with an oven. Now he is pursuing a bold, gutsy vision of how entire cities can retrofit buildings and save on energy costs.
Listen in as Donnel Baird gives us a peek into a journey of why he started BlocPower, what…