Category: Business Models
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The best local energy advocacy organizations in 2021
Which solar and local energy advocacy groups are making the biggest difference? Check out our list.
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Making ethanol from corn is the least efficient use of farmland
Corn is the #1 crop grown on US farms. Most of it is used to make gasoline-additive ethanol.…
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Podcast 038: John Powers – Can software supercharge financial returns for commercial solar projects?
Host Bill Nussey interviews Extensible Energy’s CEO John Powers about how software can coordinate solar and HVAC to…
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Podcast #037: Laura Sartore – What happens when we ditch panels and let our roofs, walls, and windows make affordable solar directly?
Bill Nussey talked with Ecoprogetti CEO Laura Sartore about the revolution in affordable and beautiful building integrated photovoltaics…
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Podcast #036: Joshua Rhodes – How will massive new data sets and some rational thinking shape the future of clean local energy?
When we think about a cleaner grid, we immediately think of solar and wind. But Joshua Rhodes explains…
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Will rooftop solar drive up the cost of electricity, particularly for low income households?
Will your neighbor’s solar panels make your electric bill higher? We take a look at the research, data,…
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Will the growth of solar power crowd out farmland?
As solar power continues its rapid growth, will its large land requirements crowd out land otherwise needed for…
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How electric vehicles will drive over the electric monopolies, part 2
Electric vehicles will unleash a new set of competitive forces that will reshape the century-old electric monopoly business…
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Podcast #020: Alan Russo: Can artificial intelligence turbocharge local energy?
Bill Nussey talks with Alan Russo of STEM, a leading clean energy company in storage, microgrids and, most…
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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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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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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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Podcast #008 – Susan Kennedy: The future of energy will be distributed, digitized, and much, much smarter
Host Bill Nussey talks to Susan Kennedy, the CEO of visionary energy-tech company AMS, about how the grid…
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Podcast #007 – February Clean Energy Headlines including the Green New Deal
Hosts Sam Easterby and Bill Nussey discuss the biggest clean energy headlines of February 2019 including a deep…
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Podcast #006 – Greg Robinson: Making It Easy to Get Clean Energy 24/7
Host Bill Nussey talks to Greg Robinson, the CEO and co-founder of Drift. Greg’s company has built the…
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How solar and batteries will unlock the electric monopolies and create a clean energy renaissance
The shift from fossil fuels to clean energy may prove to be the largest and most disruptive energy…
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Bill Nussey interviewed on Suncast podcast
My recent podcast interview with Suncast’s Nico Johnson covered a wide range of topics including the history of…
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What are the biggest trends threatening to disrupt the power industry?
Nussey moderated a panel at the Center for Distributed Energy’s Leaders Symposium called Disruptions in the Energy Industry.
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What is the best way to make electricity?
Coal, nuclear, wind, solar, or natural gas? What criteria should we use when comparing various types of electricity…
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How Edison’s protege made the power industry into a regulated monopoly (Part 3 of 3)
This is the third and final part in my series exploring the events that shaped the electric industry…