Heroes

Freeing Energy Heroes

The people building the local energy future — the innovators, founders, and advocates — sharing their vision in their own words.

December 1, 2022

#HeroesofFreeingEnergy: Bryan Hannegan

Growing up in India, I experienced the shortage of electricity very personally. We did not have access to…
June 16, 2022

#HeroesofFreeingEnergy: Vikram Aggarwal

Growing up in India, I experienced the shortage of electricity very personally. We did not have access to…
June 13, 2022

#HeroesofFreeingEnergy: Gabriela Herculano

“I close my eyes and I can almost see – I can see the world in 2030 being…
June 13, 2022

#HeroesofFreeingEnergy: Luis Reyes

“What gets me most excited is that we’re finally going to deliver a product that anyone in the…
April 12, 2022

#HeroesofFreeingEnergy: Jorge Elizondo

“I started a small wind turbine company in Mexico. And then in 2010, we discovered that solar panels…
March 17, 2022

#HeroesofFreeingEnergy: Chris Riley

“I grew up in a small town in central Utah that is very much a rural coal mining…
March 17, 2022

#HeroesofFreeingEnergy: Anya Schoolman

“It really started out innocently. Walter and Diego saw ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ and they came back saying, ‘We…
March 13, 2022

#HeroesofFreeingEnergy: Michael Liebreich

“I started New Energy Finance not as a do-gooder or as an environmentalist. I wanted to make some…
March 13, 2022

#HeroesofFreeingEnergy: Wendy Philleo

“Our theory of change is that Americans need to know that there are solutions out there. We are…
March 4, 2022

#HeroesofFreeingEnergy: John Farrell

“We think that energy democracy means figuring out how to create the rules of a system so that…
February 3, 2022

#HeroesofFreeingEnergy: Becca Jones-Albertus

“I remember a home in Tibet where the walls were black with soot from the flame they burned…
January 30, 2022

#HeroesofFreeingEnergy: Deepak Divan

“I used to go and spend summers with my grandparents in a small little village in Maharashtra [India]…