Category: Investing & Funding
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Podcast 089: Sophie Purdom and Kim Zou – An insider’s peek into the eye-opening report on 2022 climate tech venture investing.
These rising stars in the climate tech venture capital space share their personal stories and the results of…
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Podcast 084: Jigar Shah: The US Department of Energy is breaking down barriers to Local Energy and the story goes way beyond science and technology.
How the DOE is going beyond science and engineering to help companies understand the emerging business models, financial…
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Podcast 083: Ben Polito: How a 60-year-old industrial company is transforming itself into a leader in the clean, local energy market.
Polito shares how Generac is shifting from fossil fuel based systems to a home energy storage platform that…
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Podcast 082: Amory Lovins – Local energy was born 20 years ago with the book Small is Profitable. Where will it go from here?
Lovins takes us back to the birth of local energy with the book “Small is Profitable,” and tells…
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Podcast 081: Bryan Hannegan: Can the electric utility industry reinvent itself? One small utility in Colorado is proving it can.
Bryan shares how Holy Cross is making local energy a central part of its strategy and reimagining its…
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Podcast 080: Gabriela Herculano: What’s behind the first-ever publicly traded fund (SHFT) for local energy?
Join host Bill Nussey and iClima’s Gabriela Herculano as they discuss the story behind the first-ever publicly traded…
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Podcast 079: Erwin Spolders: Learn how renting solar power in a box is revolutionizing energy access for businesses across Africa.
Host Bill Nussey talks with Erwin Spolders, CEO and Founder of Redavia Solar Power. Redavia, based in Germany,…
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Podcast 078: Danny Kennedy – An inside look at the amazing California clean tech ecosystem that’s reshaping how startups are built.
Danny Kennedy and the state of California have helped launch hundreds of energy tech companies around the world.…
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Bill Nussey discusses his new book on Norton Rose Fulbright podcast, Currents
Bill Nussey joined Currents host, Todd Alexander, to discuss Bill’s new book and “… the shift to cleaner,…
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Podcast 073: Bill and Melinda Nussey: Write a book about clean energy? Some thought he was nuts but she said let’s go for it!
Bryan Hassin, Co-Founder and CEO of the “rocket ship” accelerator Third Derivative, discusses how the company is using…
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Podcast 072: Bryan Hassin – An inside look at a radical new approach to building climate tech companies
Bryan Hassin, Co-Founder and CEO of the “rocket ship” accelerator Third Derivative, discusses how the company is using…
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Podcast 061: Garrett Nilsen – The Department of Energy may be the best way to fund energy tech startups that no one knows about
Bill Nussey interviews Garrett Nilsen, Deputy Director of the Solar Industry Technologies Office in the US Department of…
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Podcast #011 – Jeff Chamberlain: Are batteries the final puzzle piece for a clean energy grid?
Host Bill Nussey interviews Dr. Jeff Chamberlain, the CEO of venture capital firm Volta, about the exciting path…
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Creating the definitive list of cleantech investment firms
The Freeing Energy team is putting together the definitive list of venture capital and private equity firms investing…
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Four questions investors should ask before funding cleantech startups (Part 4)
After the 2011 collapse of cleantech investing, the industry is starting to show signs of life once again.…
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A blueprint for cleantech investing (Part 3)
Cleantech is one of the biggest and most exciting technology industries today. But, despite the buzz, it remains…
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How will we fund the transition to a clean energy future? (Part 2)
Even conservative estimates forecast that transitioning to clean energy will require trillions of dollars of investments. Where will…
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How venture investors lost $10 billion in the cleantech collapse of 2011 (Part 1)
Clean energy is one of the largest business opportunities in history. But, in 2011, the US venture capital…
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Help wanted: the clean energy industry could really use the skills of tech executives
I was recently invited to speak a group of Georgia-based technology executives. I’ve included some excerpts from the…
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How did CEO Chandu Visweswariah take Utopus Insights from clean energy startup to $100M acquisition in 12 months?
On February 2, 2018, US$12 billion wind turbine giant, Vestas, acquired New York startup, Utopus Insights, for $100M…