The Freeing Energy Podcast
Feb 1, 2022
Michael Barnard: Nuclear, solar, wind, hydrogen, batteries? This expert predicts the winners and the losers.
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Join in as host Bill Nussey catches up with the global energy thought leader, strategist, business advisor, and founder of The Future Is Electric, Michael Barnard. Barnard shares his positive, pragmatic, and colorful views on a range of clean energy technologies and which ones he would place his bets on in the global race to a clean and affordable energy future.
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Feb 7, 2023
Tom Jensen/FREYR Battery: From Giga Arctic to Giga Americas - the most capital and operationally efficient battery plant in Europe is headed for the US State of Georgia.
Listen in as Host Bill Nussey talks with Tom Jensen, CEO and Cofounder of the publicly traded, Luxembourg and Norway based FREYR Battery. FREYR is emerging as a leader in clean, high density battery cell manufacturing. Jensen shares insights into the driving forces that have shaped FREYR to date, the importance of upstream and downstream partnerships, and why the company is committing some $2.6 Billion to the facility envisioned for Coweta County in Georgia. And, since FREYR’s Giga Arctic will be powered by 100% renewable energy, you will want to know what the plans are for powering Giga Americas in Georgia.
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FREYR Battery
FREYR Battery Announces Plans for U.S. Gigafactory in Georgia | Business Wire
Qcells to More than Double Production in Georgia, Create 2,500 New Jobs
Every Politician Wants Green Jobs in This Bitter US Battleground
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Dec 9, 2022
John Berger and Michael Grasso: Sunnova wants to build a ground breaking local energy powered neighborhood and that is rattling cages. Will regulators let them?
One of the world’s largest installers of solar + storage energy systems has a groundbreaking and industry changing proposal to build a neighborhood that runs on local energy. Their proposal is currently in front of the California Public Utility Commission, but naysayers are trying to squelch the conversation. Join host Bill Nussey as he talks with Sunnova’s CEO, John Berger and CMO, Michael Grasso. They share the background on what the clean tech leader is proposing and why; how it will benefit consumers; and what critics are saying and doing to sideline the effort.
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www.sunnova.com
Utility Dive Article:
Major utilities oppose Sunnova’s ‘micro-utility’ microgrid proposal at California PUC | Utility Dive
California Burning by Katherine Blunt: 9780593330654 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
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Oct 30, 2022
Donnel Baird/BlocPower: His boyhood Brooklyn apartment was heated with an oven. Now he is pursuing a bold, gutsy vision of how entire cities can retrofit buildings and save on energy costs.
In this episode we learn that one man didn't know exactly what to do at first, but he knew the “where,” the “when,” and the “why,” of the problem he saw. And, that was enough to begin shaping an incredibly bold vision for building a potential unicorn in the clean tech space while simultaneously helping millions of low income Americans.
Join us as host Bill Nussey talks with the CEO and founder of Brooklyn based BlocPower, Donnel Baird. Listen in as this visionary leader gives us a peek into a journey of why he started BlocPower, what drove his evolving vision, and how he is scaling his business to retrofit old, fossil-fuel powered heating with smart new heat pumps and solar panels. Learn about how digital twins, structured finance, and an inspired leadership team is changing the cost of energy for lower income urban communities all across America.
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