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The Clean Power Hour podcast is speeding the clean energy transition. Tim Montague and John Weaver highlight clean energy innovations shaping the next generation of renewable energy sources. We discuss the latest solar PV, battery storage, wind, water, wave, and other low-carbon technologies. We answer the question: How can we decarbonize the economy? We promote the economic opportunity of electrifying everything – transportation, energy, industry, and the built environment. Let’s speed up the clean energy transition together. Join the movement – www.CleanPowerHour.com

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Martin Pochtaruk of Heliene Solar on Speeding the Energy Transition Ep.71 Feb 01, 2022

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Why would a solar panel manufacturing company put time and energy into innovating for niche markets? What are the benefits of developing products for very specific applications like greenhouses, satellites or power-generating building facades?

Martin Pochtaruk is the President and CEO of Heliene, a customer-first provider of North American-made solar panels serving the utility-scale, commercial and residential markets. Martin has 30-plus years of experience managing manufacturing businesses in both Europe and the Americas, and since its founding in 2010, Heliene has been recognized as one of Bloomberg’s New Energy Finance Tier 1 Bankable PV Manufacturers—the only North American manufacturer to hold this title.

On this episode of Clean Power Hour, Martin joins Tim and John to discuss some of Heliene’s innovations in niche markets, including the greenhouse integrated photovoltaic panels and the solar modules used to power the SpaceX Starlink Satellite Project. Martin explains why more than 80% of solar products are imported from China and offers insight on the current efforts to bring solar manufacturing back to the US. Listen in for insight on the advantages of working with a local supplier like Heliene and learn how Martin thinks about innovating for niche markets with the potential to grow.

Key Takeaways

What inspired Martin to build a solar panel manufacturing company

How Heliene’s greenhouse integrated photovoltaic (GiPV) modules work

The results of Niagra College’s trial for Heliene’s GiPV solar panels

Heliene’s pilot project to develop a new product that augments usable light

Why more than 80% of solar products are imported from China

Martin's insight on the legislation to incentivize the reshoring of solar manufacturing

The pros and cons of import tariffs and how they impact Heliene

The need for legislation to prevent forced labor in the manufacturing of solar panels

Heliene’s work on the SpaceX Starlink Satellite Project

How much of Heliene’s business is utility/residential vs. niche markets

How Heliene is making power-generating glass building facades

The benefit of working with Heliene

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‘Heliene to Expand Its Module Manufacturing Capacity’ in PV Magazine

‘All I Want for Christmas is a Solar-Powered Greenhouse’ in PV Magazine

Meyer Burger on Clean Power Hour EP044

UbiQD

H.B. Fuller

‘Parametic Open Source Cold-Frame Agrivoltaic Systems’ in Inventions

Build Back Better

The Section 301 Safeguard

SpaceX Starlink Satellite Project

Onyx Solar

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Energy Transition News Ep.70 Jan 25, 2022

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While the energy transition has begun, we still have a long way to go. In fact, our CO2 footprint here in the US increased by 6% in 2021 and global CO2 levels continue to rise. So, what are we doing to manage the impacts of climate change? And what’s happening in the world of solar, wind and storage to accelerate the crucial transition to clean power?

On this episode of Clean Power Hour, Tim and John sit down to discuss the top headlines in energy transition news, beginning with the feasibility of the Bloomberg story on doubling the world’s polysilicon capacity in 2022. They go on to cover solar tracker manufacturer Array’s acquisition of STI Norland and Golman Sachs’ $250M investment in compressed air storage projects.

Tim and John consider the scope of the Northern European Enclosure Dam and walk us through the EIA projections around the breakdown of electric generating capacity in the US in 2022. Listen in for insight on the highest efficiency solar modules available to consumers and find out what makes solar and wind power complementary sources of renewable energy.

Key Takeaways

The feasibility of doubling the world’s polysilicon capacity in 2022

How Florida Power and Light is mulching solar panel packaging to save $130K per site

How Array’s acquisition of STI Norland makes it the largest solar tracker manufacturer in the world

Goldman Sachs’ $250M investment in Hydrostar to advance compressed air storage

The pros and cons of underwater battery storage technology

How the Northern European Enclosure Dam is designed to save Europe from sea level rise

The highest efficiency solar modules available to consumers

How an Indian real estate firm was running a rooftop solar incentive scheme

The EIA’s projections that solar will account for half of new US electric generating capacity in 2022

What makes solar and wind complementary sources of power

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'China’s Solar Giants Have a Fix for Their Broken Supply Chain’ in Bloomberg

‘Millions Saved with Onsite Mulching of Solar Trash’ in PV Magazine

‘Goldman Sachs Invests $250M in Hydrostar to Advance Long-Duration Energy Storage Projects’ in PV Magazine

‘Utility Scale Ocean Battery, a Bedfellow for Floating PV’ in PV Magazine

Northern European Enclosure Dam on Wikipedia

‘Monthly Taiyang News Update on Commercially Available High Efficiency Solar Panels’ in Taiyang News

Elon Musk on the Lex Friedman Podcast EP252

‘How Chennai Realtors Are Flouting Building Rules by Hiring Rooftop Solar Panels’ in Citizen Matters

‘Coal Will Account for 85% of US Electric Generating Capacity Requirements in 2022’ from the US Energy Information Association

Chart of Wind and Solar Generation in Europe

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DOE Clean Energy Corps, Clean Power Consulting Group, Grid Expansion | Clean Power Quick Take Jan 21, 2022

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1. Tim Montague has launched the CLEAN Power Consulting Group to help cleantech and clean energy companies accelerate their growth | Launch announcement | 2. The DOE is building a $62 billion Clean Energy Corps | 3. The Infrastructure Bill is funding grid expansion to ease the clean energy transition | 4. Recent show highlights | Check out all of our content at www.CleanPowerHour.com
Today on the Clean Power Hour we bring you a new segment called clean power quick takes:
CLEAN Power Consulting Group launches
Your host Tim Montague is launching the CLEAN Power Consulting Group. It is a unique, structured and flexible approach to helping growth companies realize their full potential that Tim Montague developed over twenty years and two hundred million in sales of working with technology companies that are part of the answer to a future that is safer, healthier and more sustainable. Read more | Book a mtg with Tim | CLEAN stands for Capacity assessment, Leverage, Expansion, Action planning, and Next steps. We call it the CLEAN Power Market Expansion Method.
Clean Energy Corps - $62 B initiative by US DOE
With the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Clean Energy Corps
is charged with investing more than $62 billion to deliver a more equitable clean energy future for the American people by: Investing in American manufacturing; Creating good paying jobs; Expanding access to energy efficiency and clean energy for families, communities, and businesses; Delivering reliable, clean, and affordable power to more Americans; And building the technologies of tomorrow through clean energy research, development, and demonstrations.

Building a Better Grid
As part of the Infrastructure Bill of 2021 the DOE is launching an initiative to invest $20 billion in what they call ‘building a better grid.’ There's a bottleneck for wind and solar projects across the US where there isn’t capacity on the grid and so these projects are stuck in limbo. This initiative is to support the build out of long-distance high voltage transmission facilities to help us reach Biden's goal 100% clean electricity by 2035.

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James Geshwiler on Rooftop Solar for Commercial Facilities Ep.69 Jan 18, 2022

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90% of real estate in America is owned by a third party. And this is a big part of what makes rooftop solar so challenging in the commercial and industrial space. How do you convince a property owner to install rooftop solar when it’s the tenant who pays the utility bill? How do you develop systems that work at scale and can expand as regulations change?

James Geshwiler is the Cofounder and Chief Strategy and Investment Officer of Catalyze, a private equity backed energy transition company focused exclusively on rooftop solar for commercial and industrial facilities. Catalyze works with commercial real estate groups, large-scale owner operators and regional renewable energy developers to build and operate solar storage and EV charging systems at scale. James and his team are on a mission to accelerate the large-scale transition to clean energy by making it easy and profitable.

On this episode of Clean Power Hour, James joins Tim and John to explain how Catalyze is overcoming the challenges of rooftop solar for C&I by serving as a long-term, independent energy services provider for its client-partners. James discusses the Catalyze partnership with Microgrid Labs, describing how the two companies are preparing for the coming shift to electric vehicles. Listen in to understand how Catalyze leverages the REenergyze software to future-proof its solar infrastructure and learn how James sells rooftop solar to property owners who don’t care about sustainability.

Key Takeaways

What makes rooftop solar for commercial and industrial facilities so challenging

Catalyze’s work as an energy transition company focused on solar storage and EV charging for C&I

How James’ team serves commercial real estate groups, regional renewable energy developers and large-scale owner-operators

Catalyze’s evolution from tech-focused software company to long-term owner-operator and energy services provider

How operating at scale gives Catalyze a price advantage

The advantage Catalyze has in being able to expand as regulations change

How James thinks about future-proofing to deal with demand curves

How Catalyze leverages its REenergyze platform to create energy profiles for commercial buildings

Catalyze’s partnership with Microgrid Labs to manage electricity charging and fleet scheduling

How Catalyze sells rooftop solar to an owner who doesn’t care about sustainability

How Catalyze offers lead gen as part of its partnership with local developers

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Matt Lensink & Lisa Katz on Cleaning Up Thermal Power Ep.68 Jan 12, 2022

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We don't spend a lot of time talking about thermal energy on the Clean Power Hour, but it’s a thing! And a lot of industrial and institutional processes require high-grade thermal power. We need it to heat hospitals and university campuses, for example, or to power food and beverage manufacturing plants. So, what can we do to accelerate the decarbonization of thermal energy?

Matt Lensink and Lisa Katz are the CEO and Director of Business Development & Marketing, respectively, at CEM Engineering, a thermal power consulting firm specializing in cogeneration and energy management solutions. CEM is committed to cleaning up thermal power throughout North America, helping clients implement the best technology-based solutions to achieve their energy cost savings and CO2 reduction targets. Matt and Lisa also serve as hosts of the popular Energy Radio Podcast.

On this episode of Clean Power Hour, Matt and Lisa join Tim to explain why it’s crucial to clean up thermal power and how CEM is evolving into the renewable energy space. They describe how carbon tax increases are driving positive change and discuss their new partnership with Absolicon to advance solar-thermal energy applications. Listen in for Matt and Lisa’s insight around the hydrogen-based technology projects being considered in Canada right now and learn about the different energy technologies we’re using to decarbonize thermal power.

Key Takeaways

CEM’s commitment to cleaning up thermal power and why it’s important

Why CEM is evolving into the renewable energy space

The increasing interest in biogas, biomass and RNG energy technologies

How Canada’s carbon tax increase to $170 per tonne by 2030 is driving positive change

The electric heat pumps and boilers, solar-thermal and hydrogen-based technologies being used to decarbonize thermal power

CEM’s new partnership with Absolicon to produce advanced solar collectors

Why CEM is involved in so many different energy sectors

Matt & Lisa’s insight on the hydrogen projects being considered in Canada

The feasibility of using existing natural gas infrastructure for hydrogen power

What energy technologies food and beverage manufacturers will use moving forward

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Energy News & Energy Roundtable

Canada’s Carbon Tax

Carbon Pricing in the US

IPPSA Annual Conference

Absolicon

Phoenix Solar Thermal

TECO’s RNG Project

Urbana’s Commercial Electrolyzer

Ally Power, Inc. on Clean Power Hour EP064

Hydrogen Rainbow

Air Products Collaboration with Baker Hughes

Edmonton Region Hydrogen HUB

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Land Stewardship in the Solar Industry | Rhett Kerby, KerTec | #67 Jan 03, 2022

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#67 Successful vegetation restoration and natural landscaping of solar farms is a vital part of the solar industry. Solar farms mean changes in the land and those changes can be good from an ecological perspective - but this requires expert planning, engineering and execution of soil preparation and conservation and proper seed lists and vegetation establishment and maintenance plans/execution.

Today on the Clean Power Hour we bring you Rhett Kerby, co-founder of KerTec and expert soil scientist based in west Texas and working across the Great Plains and Midwest of the US. We discuss the steps involved in properly planning, designing, engineering, and executing smart soil and vegetation restoration plans as they relate to the solar industry.

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CEJA - Illinois Clean Energy Legislation 2021 with Mark Pruitt of the Power Bureau Dec 28, 2021

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#66: Today on the Clean Power Hour, it's a new day in Illinois! Our new energy legislation, the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act of 2021, triples the amount of resources coming into the solar wind and battery storage industries in Illinois. We are now gunning for 40% clean grid, by 2035.
My guest today is Mark Pruitt, principal of the Power Bureau and and original director of the Illinois Power Agency.

Highlights

New RPS is 40% by 2030, and 50% by 2040

Triple the incentives for solar, wind and battery storage - 9 GW of clean power

Omnibus bill including six major initiatives including renewables, job training, coal to solar, initiatives for schools, nuclear rates and more

Equitable Jobs… training for a new workforce, workers in transition from coal to solar, and solar contractor support

Prairie State Energy Campus - 1200 MW coal plant, a mine mouth coal plant near Carbondale IL

Coal to solar including a fleet of Vistra coal plants being converted to solar plus battery storage

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Americans want Solar in 2022 I Clean Power News Dec 21, 2021

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#65: Welcome to the Clean Power Hour Holiday special!
We cover a TON of big clean energy news in today's episode.
- Solar could triple by 2023 to 60 GW per year!
- Voters want America-first clean energy and climate solutions - conservative poll shows
- Build Back Better funding includes the largest level of clean energy R&D in history
- Small modular nuclear is good for Mars colonization…solar is good for Earth
- Installation and cleaning robots - solar clean-O
- Solar panel pricing has peaked hopefully
- Retrofitting diesel school buses with EV drive trains (see Ally Power hydrogen episode 64)
-Erthos flat solar racking and BCI has a new racking product that you’ll want to see
-Rounding out the show…John and Tim give a glimpse into why they got into solar and the energy transition (John visited China - boom!). HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!
Three vastly divergent solar deployment projections by John Weaver
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/12/06/three-vastly-divergent-solar-deployment-projections/
IEA predicts flat growth, S&P Global predicts we triple by 2023 to 60 GW/yr of installed solar which is where we need to be headed.
Conservative Energy Network Poll Shows Voters Want America-First Clean Energy and Climate Solutions. From a conservative poll - “91% of respondents support America increasing its domestic supply chain to ensure components important to clean energy development are made in America.”
https://files.ctctusercontent.com/cd6385aa501/2e02760e-c7c2-4baa-a343-03f397aca1af.pdf?rdr=true
Build Back Better/Infrastructure funding includes the largest level of clean energy R&D in history of US, even accounting for inflation back to the later 1970s under President Carter
https://twitter.com/CostaSamaras/status/1468760391505297415
Solar panel cleaning robots for a commercial roof, and of key importance - check out the neat platform to get the unit on the roof:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kim-verduyckt_zonnepanelen-zonnepanelenreinigen-zonneenergie-activity-6874075559362662400-yWbO/
A robot to install utility scale solar panels - we truly will need this to avoid climate chaos
https://twitter.com/SolarInMASS/status/1468570367614767105
Panel supply chain pricing officially falling more broadly, after wafers fell for two weeks first - this is the spot market of course
https://twitter.com/PvInfolink/status/1468546378574200837
Retrofitting school buses with EV drive trains and batteries
First - 10,000 units coming
Second- here is the kit for the retrofit
SEA-Drive ® Power-Systems – SEA... the Future
Real pictures of a solar panel system - by Erthos - installed flat on the ground:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6873622803191603200/
BCI Engineering doing their own racking system - lays flat to install then tilts up to whatever angle you engineer.
https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2021/11/a-contract-manufacturer-goes-first-party-after-years-of-producing-solar-racking-for-others/
Two pictures from the John’s trip to China in the 1980’s:
Wind turbines - https://photos.app.goo.gl/YSsN4xK8L3qTzRBd7
Solar panel on a Yurt = https://photos.app.goo.gl/YSsN4xK8L3qTzRBd7

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Hydrogen is The Fuel of The Future! with Joseph Alfred, Ally Power Inc. Dec 14, 2021

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#64 Joe Alfred is the founder and CEO of Ally Power Inc. This hydrogen startup is based in Washington DC. Ally is developing a boiler system that produces hydrogen from aluminum and sodium hydroxide.
Hydrogen is in the cleantech news most every day now. Lots of big industrial companies including oil majors are getting into the H2 economy because they understand that there is no future for fossil fuels and there will be stranded assets.
Today on the Clean Power Hour, we're joined by Joe Alfred
This chemical reaction also produces heat (exothermic) which can be used in parallel to produce steam and drive a steam turbine to produce electricity. The outputs are hydrogen gas which you store as compressed gas or a solid-state metal hydride, and electricity from the steam turbine. Ally is going to market with a two-pronged approach. First, they are developing a network of hydrogen fueling stations for long-haul trucking, and second, they are retrofitting diesel trucks with a hydrogen fuel cell power plant converting traditional ICE trucks to EVs that run on ‘clean’ hydrogen. Either way the hydrogen fuel cell EV looks to have a promising future in long-haul trucking (not so much for consumer vehicles, which we explain). Now, I’ll be the first to admit, that this seems rather complicated and I’d rather see someone taking pure water (H20) and using an electrolyzer to make hydrogen gas and oxygen from which you can do all the same things with the hydrogen. But according to Alfred, there is an excess supply of sodium hydroxide and scrap aluminum. So Ally is going after the circular economy and taking these feedstocks and greening long-haul trucking and transportation.
Joe Alfred on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-alfred-b48421a5/
Ally Power Inc. website: https://allypowerinc.com/
reference: https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/71796.pdf
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Energy Dome, Claudio Spadacini & CO2 Battery - Long Duration Storage Dec 07, 2021

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63: Today on the Clean Power Hour: Energy Dome! We kick off this episode with an interview with the founder and CEO of Energy Dome, Claudio Spadacini.
They are bringing long duration (10-24 hr) energy storage to life with the close of $11 million round of venture backing. The business has reached it's financial goals and are making huge changes to the way we treat solar power.
Wer're bringing you the latest in energy transition news: Solar is growing 40% year over a year!? Build Back Better; Stand Alone ITC for energy storage; extension of the solar ITC for 30 years; interconnection fee woes?; Fossil fuels are shrinking on the grid - the United States has built no net new fossil fuels since 2004; building wind power with refurbished turbines; Lookout for upcoming episodes: Ally Power - the hydrogen economy with Joe Alfred; IL Solar and Storage booming once again with Mark Pruitt, founding director of the IPA (IL Power Agency);
Dome Energy, founder and CEO Claudio Spadacini
https://energydome.com | animation of the technology
https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/30/energy-dome/
You take C02, store it in a large dome (think football stadium-sized) at atmospheric pressure. To charge the battery you use electricity (from wind, solar or other grid power) to compress the CO2 to a liquid in storage tanks. Then when you need power from the system you discharge the C02 into a turbine which produces electricity. It uses all off-the-shelf technologies. LCOS is competitive with other technologies and perhaps half that of Lithium Ion for a long duration. They are building a 2.5 MW (12 MWh) pilot facility (on a former power plant brownfield) in Italy that will come online in Q1 2022. And they have a contract for a 100 MWh project. The system scales in blocks of 25 MW (up to 200 MWh).
Project of the week from Commercial Solar Guy - 4.95 MWac/6.8 MWdc - single-axis tracker upstate New York, here’s our interconnection costs. Not bad for community solar. https://twitter.com/SolarInMASS/status/1458182171949244430
Since late 2004, no “net new” fossil fuels have been built in the United States. Additionally, we’ve seen clean electricity increase from 31% to greater than 41% from 2011 through 2020.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/12/02/a-cleaner-grid-arrives-as-renewables-replace-fossil-fuels/
Alaska Wind Farm has acquired the four refurbished Vestas V80 2MW wind turbines from Business In Wind. The turbines’ tower components are being transported from Belgium, where they have been operational for 10 years, to the Dorset site.
https://renews.biz/74075/dorset-wind-farm-secures-refurbished-turbines/
Exxon buys a bunch of ocean plots in the Gulf of Mexico, some suspect for a major carbon capture and sequestration play - be skeptical!
https://twitter.com/luke_EIG/status/1460988693561364483
Solar cell manufacturing in China is up 50% from last year - over the last 12 months, production volume is 227 GW. China ramping cell production is a good thing. We have a grid to green and an energy transition to fuel.
https://twitter.com/laurimyllyvirta/status/1466028127101104136
Battery packs of an electric bus - Bluebird buses are in the EV bus business; looking at some battery packs https://twitter.com/EVBlueBird/status/1456622553171042309
Battery pricing down again in 2021 so far, expected to increase a bit next year though, before resuming downward trajectory per BNEF (here is an article - but this tweet from BNEF head is better: https://twitter.com/JamesTFrith/status/1465644442732441604

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