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Factor This! is a weekly podcast for the solar industry that provides in-depth and actionable content not available anywhere else. The podcast features solar energy leaders who actually move the needle, in hopes of making you smarter, your solar job easier, and moving the industry forward. Factor This! is produced by Renewable Energy World and Clarion Energy, and is hosted by John Engel. Have an idea for an episode or want to sponsor the show? Email john.engel@clarionevents.com for more information. Find show notes, transcripts, and resources at RenewableEnergyWorld.com. Subscribe today to renewable energy's newest podcast.
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This Week in Cleantech (4/26/24) — A new solar tariff fight begins
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Apr 26, 2024 |
This Week in Cleantech (4/5/24) — The final battle over green hydrogen tax rules
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Apr 05, 2024 |
This Week in Cleantech (3/29/24) — Can the White House stop China's clean energy dominance?
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Mar 29, 2024 |
This Week in Cleantech (4/22/24) — Wind power has hit a rut. Could a huge plane change its course?
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Mar 22, 2024 |
This Week in Cleantech (3/15/24) — The debate over rooftop solar
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Mar 15, 2024 |
Building a DG unicorn with Nexamp CEO Zaid Ashai
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Mar 11, 2024 |
This Week in Cleantech (3/8/24) — America's power crunch
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Mar 08, 2024 |
This Week in Cleantech (3/2/2024) — LIVE from DISTRIBUTECH International
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Mar 02, 2024 |
This Week in Cleantech (2/23/24) — Can Biden win on climate?
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Feb 23, 2024 |
Clean energy needs a new bellwether. Who should it be?
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Feb 19, 2024 |
This Week in Cleantech (2/16/24) — Virtual power plants still working out the kinks
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Feb 16, 2024 |
This Week in Cleantech (2/9/24) — The NIMBY stat that clean energy can't ignore
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Feb 09, 2024 |
This Week in Cleantech (2/2/24) — Should we worry about rooftop solar?
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Feb 02, 2024 |
Community solar keeps growing. Here's what we still have to figure out
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Jan 29, 2024 |
This Week in Cleantech (1/26/24) — Biden's climate pitch to young voters
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Jan 26, 2024 |
Speed and scale: Thinking big with small-scale DERs
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Jan 22, 2024 |
This Week in Cleantech (1/19/24) — Texas grid survives, thwarting NIMBYs, and companies turn to 'greenhushing'
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Jan 19, 2024 |
We need a lot more transmission. Here's why it isn't getting built
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Jan 15, 2024 |
This Week in Cleantech (1/12/24) — How utilities get their way, renewables impact home values, and China's clean energy dominance
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Jan 12, 2024 |
A conversation with solar's oracle, Jenny Chase
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Jan 01, 2024 |
This Week in Cleantech (12/22/23) — Tesla's charging dominance, oil's big year, and Ohio bribery tapes
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Dec 22, 2023 |
Battery bubble or boom? It’s complicated
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Dec 18, 2023 |
This Week in Cleantech (12/15) — COP28, transmission win, and Tesla recall
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Dec 15, 2023 |
This Week in Cleantech (12/8/23) — Hydrogen rules leak, solar job losses, battery prices plummet
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Dec 08, 2023 |
Dominion CEO Bob Blue on offshore wind, batteries, and the utility's role in the energy transition
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Dec 04, 2023 |
This Week in Cleantech (12/1/23) — 'Solar bros,' lithium jackpot, and a geothermal breakthrough
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Dec 01, 2023 |
Battery powerhouse Powin's new CEO eyes public markets
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Nov 27, 2023 |
Renewables are cleaning the grid. They're also messing it up
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Nov 20, 2023 |
This Week in Cleantech (11/17/23) — Nuclear setback, U.S.-China climate talks, EV dealer hesitations
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Nov 17, 2023 |
How solar survived: SEIA's outgoing chair on COVID, Auxin, and the path forward
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Nov 13, 2023 |
This Week in Cleantech (11/10/23) — 'Motown' for EVs, wind turbine tech, and public power's setback
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Nov 10, 2023 |
AI in clean energy: This company wants you to be able to talk with your projects
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Nov 06, 2023 |
This Week in Cleantech (11/3/23) — Historic grid investments, offshore wind's rough seas, and how clean are hydrogen hubs?
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Nov 03, 2023 |
A 'new normal' for clean energy capital markets
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Oct 23, 2023 |
This Week in Cleantech (10/20/23) — Hydrogen hubs, AZ's solar slash, and a record battery deal
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Oct 20, 2023 |
100 years ago, industrials built the electric grid. Now they're leaving it
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Oct 16, 2023 |
This Week in Cleantech (10/13/23) — Battery giveaway, capturing carbon, Cali climate laws
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Oct 13, 2023 |
The tax equity rule with ‘dire’ consequences for clean energy
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Oct 09, 2023 |
This Week in Cleantech (10/6/23) — Green hydrogen unicorn, renewables popularity, and clean stocks collapse
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Oct 06, 2023 |
Digesting RE+: IRA pain, financial turmoil, and unmissable optimism
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Sep 25, 2023 |
This Week in Cleantech (9/22/23) — EV forced labor ties, battery recycling, and carbon tariffs
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Sep 22, 2023 |
This Week in Cleantech (9/15/23) — RE+, lithium discovery, and battery fires
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Sep 15, 2023 |
Green hydrogen is 'under attack,' Plug Power boss says
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Sep 11, 2023 |
This Week in Cleantech (9/8/23) — Texas' battery betrayal, the billionaires behind climate denial, and Biden's EV boost
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Sep 08, 2023 |
Interconnection and permitting get their moment. Is it enough?
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Sep 04, 2023 |
This Week in Cleantech (9/1/23) — Gulf offshore wind dud, Google’s solar AI, and Las Vegas Sphere goes green
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Sep 01, 2023 |
How Utah—yes, Utah—found itself at the cutting edge of the energy transition
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Aug 28, 2023 |
This Week in Cleantech (8/25/23) — Solar tariffs, grid tech, and wind-powered cargo ships
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Aug 25, 2023 |
Perovskites: Solar power revolutionary or cleantech fad?
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Aug 21, 2023 |
This Week in Cleantech (8/11/23) — IRA anniversary, NIMBYs target offshore wind, and carbon removal cash
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Aug 11, 2023 |
Can the Northeast fix its interconnection slog?
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Aug 07, 2023 |
This Week in Cleantech (8/4/23) — New interconnection rules, a nuclear milestone, and concrete batteries
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Aug 04, 2023 |
Inside scaling a national residential solar company
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Jul 31, 2023 |
This Week in Cleantech (7/28/23) — Solar manufacturing, IRA rollout, and clean energy in Coal Country
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Jul 28, 2023 |
Form Energy's 100-hour battery is almost here
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Jul 24, 2023 |
This Week in Cleantech (7/21/23) — Geothermal 2.0, offshore wind, and 'Bidenomics'
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Jul 21, 2023 |
Will the U.S. get green hydrogen right? One decision has big climate implications
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Jul 17, 2023 |
Fintech arrives to streamline clean energy project finance
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Jul 03, 2023 |
Underperformance. Extreme weather. Labor shortages. Solar's bright outlook faces big risks
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Jun 26, 2023 |
Battery storage is booming. Now what do we do with it?
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Jun 19, 2023 |
Solar's biggest risk? Too few works to deliver the massive project pipeline
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May 22, 2023 |
He started solar's preeminent advocacy group. Now, Adam Browning is all in on EVs
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May 15, 2023 |
Auxin Solar tariff petition: What's next for solar's dark cloud
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May 08, 2023 |
A rosy future for agrivoltaics (without the thorns)
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May 01, 2023 |
The long-duration energy storage dilemma
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Apr 24, 2023 |
Why this gas-heavy utility is going (really) big on solar
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Apr 17, 2023 |
Sunnova's John Berger is hell-bent on upending the status quo
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Apr 10, 2023 |
Green hydrogen, recycling, and next-gen batteries: Checking in on ‘Cleantech 2.0’
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Apr 03, 2023 |
Dan Shugar is just getting started
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Mar 27, 2023 |
A fresh start for concentrated solar power?
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Mar 20, 2023 |
Introducing Suncast: Democratizing the clean energy revolution
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Mar 16, 2023 |
Data: The energy transition’s next big thing
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Mar 13, 2023 |
Solar's legal risks are changing. Here's what to watch out for
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Mar 06, 2023 |
Clean energy's long road to diversity
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Feb 27, 2023 |
New players in solar manufacturing are rushing to meet US demand. Are they up to snuff?
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Feb 20, 2023 |
Talking energy storage with Yann Brandt
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Feb 13, 2023 |
The grid is fragile. Is distributed energy the answer?
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Feb 06, 2023 |
Community solar: Can California get it right this time?
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Jan 30, 2023 |
In North Carolina, a lesson on the pitfalls of the energy transition
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Jan 23, 2023 |
Toledo Solar founder Aaron Bates on the 'untruths' of American solar manufacturing
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Jan 16, 2023 |
Why 2023 is about to be the biggest year yet for C&I clean energy with PowerFlex CEO Raphael Declercq
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Jan 09, 2023 |
Will solar energy’s challenges finally ease in ’23? Market analyst Paula Mints weighs in
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Dec 19, 2022 |
Europe wants its own Inflation Reduction Act moment
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Dec 12, 2022 |
Climate tech takes on clean energy's biggest headaches
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Nov 28, 2022 |
California NEM 3.0: Unpacking rooftop solar’s fate
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Nov 21, 2022 |
Women in renewables: 3 female execs share their stories and recruitment strategies
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Nov 14, 2022 |
Texas grid braces for winter. What’s changed since Uri?
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Nov 07, 2022 |
Interconnection woes make strange bedfellows
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Oct 31, 2022 |
A bright future for brownfield solar development
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Oct 24, 2022 |
The climate law will have an impact on PPAs. What’s in store for 2023?
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Oct 17, 2022 |
Introducing the Texas Power Podcast
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Oct 13, 2022 |
Clean energy is popular but NIMBYism remains potent. What gives?
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Oct 10, 2022 |
LIVE from RE+: The race is on to meet demand with made-in-America solar modules
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Oct 03, 2022 |
Celebrating clean energy risk takers
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Sep 26, 2022 |
Solar’s report card is coming. And a reckoning could follow
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Sep 19, 2022 |
FERC Commissioner Allison Clements on record heat, resiliency, and smart grids
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Sep 12, 2022 |
Beware of the clean energy gold rush with Leyline Renewable Capital CEO Erik Lensch
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Sep 05, 2022 |
Rethinking solar development from the ground up with Terabase CEO Matt Campbell
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Aug 29, 2022 |
Going beyond the PPA with Clearloop CEO Laura Zapata
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Aug 22, 2022 |
Green hydrogen: What’s next for the energy transition’s secret weapon?
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Aug 19, 2022 |
Taking on solar's recycling imperative with SOLARCYCLE CEO Suvi Sharma
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Aug 15, 2022 |
What's going on in clean energy capital markets? Pine Gate Renewables CEO Ben Catt
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Aug 08, 2022 |
Breaking down FERC's interconnection reform plan with AEE managing director Jeff Dennis
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Aug 01, 2022 |
Bonus Episode: Manchin makes a deal
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Jul 28, 2022 |
Betting big on 'Made in America' solar with Nextracker CEO Dan Shugar
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Jul 18, 2022 |
Rooftop solar's biggest fight is back on with Vote Solar executive director Sachu Constantine
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Jul 01, 2022 |
Special Edition: Shaping the grid of the future with GE Digital's Jim Walsh
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Jun 27, 2022 |
A lifeline from President Biden
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Jun 20, 2022 |
Supply chain sacrifice
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Jun 06, 2022 |
Solar's political risk
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May 23, 2022 |
Who is Auxin Solar? Exclusive interview with Auxin Solar CEO Mamun Rashid
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May 09, 2022 |
Introducing Factor This!
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Apr 21, 2022 |