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Podcast #019: Mike Dudgeon: An insider’s guide to navigating the state politics of clean energy policy
The Freeing Energy hosts interview Mike Dudgeon, an engineer, the co-founder of a successful tech company, and a…
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Podcast #018: Bill Nussey and Sam Easterby: Separating fact from fiction about renewable energy.
The solar market is experiencing explosive growth. Freeing Energy Hosts Sam Easterby and Bill Nussey talk about the…
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Will waste from retiring solar panels overrun our landfills?
As solar continues to increase its share of global energy production, people are starting to wonder what we’ll…
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July Clean Energy Headlines
Among the top news and analysis in July: * After months of debate, Ohio nuclear bailout bill becomes…
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Podcast #017: Anya Schoolman and Solar United Neighbors: Can we change the future of energy at the community level?
Freeing Energy Podcast Host Sam Easterby talks with Anya Schoolman, the founder and Executive Director of Solar United…
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A simple and affordable plan to address the intermittency of solar and wind
A future powered by clean energy requires batteries to balance the intermittency of solar and wind. Experts say…
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Podcast #016: Paul Gibbs & Paul Grana – Folsom Labs: Can software help accelerate adoption of Solar Power?
Folsom Lab founders Paul Gibbs and Paul Grana talk with Host Bill Nussey about how their easy to…
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100,000 coal jobs have disappeared since 1980. Where did they go?
Were coal jobs the victims of a political war on coal or the result of over-zealous regulation? The…
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The earth gets more solar energy in one hour than the entire world uses in a year
Earth’s continents receive 23,000 terawatt hours of solar energy each year, compared to the 18.5 terawatt hours used…
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June Clean Energy Headlines
The biggest clean energy news and analysis from June 2019 * Solar has a new way to duck…
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Podcast #015: Marc Perez: Can we capture more sunshine and save big on energy storage?
Host Bill Nussey talks with Marc Perez of Clean Power Research about their groundbreaking research for creating a…
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There are more US jobs in solar than all fossil fuels put together
With all the attention on coal employment, you might think that coal has the biggest share of energy…