Clean Power Hour

🔥Stay up to date with the latest in solar, wind, and energy storage news with Tim Montague and John Weaver (Commercial Solar Guy)! 🤩 We break down the tools, technologies, and trends that are speeding the energy transition. Tune in LIVE on Thursdays at 12 noon EST/ 9 AM Pacific/ 11 Central/ 10 Mountain and give us a rating and review on Apple or Spotify. 📝 Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel too! If you have any questions or feedback, reach out to us at [email protected] or visit our website www.cleanpowerhour.com.🔌 🔋 💡

This week John Weaver and I discuss,
1. How Much Land Would it Require to Get Most of Our Electricity from Wind and Solar?
2. Solar developers getting involved in solar panel factories
3. Clean Energy production distribution in 2022
4. Distributed ownership for distributed manufacturing - Germans seeking to own a solar panel manufacturing factory
5. Ford gets an order - USPS to purchase 9,000 electric vehicles and install 14,000 charging stations
6. World first! Charging a Chevy Bolt EV on a Tesla Supercharger using Magic Dock 
7. CATL starts a battery price war - lithium pricing has been falling recently, way off the peak
8. California seeking 85 GW of generation resources by 2035

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The podcast is available on YouTube and audio platforms like Spotify, Apple, Google, and Amazon. We bring you interviews with cleantech entrepreneurs, investors, manufacturers, and energy professionals weekly. 
What technologies are trending? 
Why are we excited about agrivoltaics or dual-use solar? 
What are the challenges and opportunities for renewable energy, electrification of transportation, and decarbonizing the economy? 

Listen, like, comment, and share! Get all our content at www.CleanPowerHour.com and reach out to Tim Montague @tgmontague on Twitter or Gmail. 

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The podcast is available on YouTube and audio platforms like Spotify, Apple, Google, and Amazon. We bring you interviews with cleantech entrepreneurs, investors, manufacturers, and energy professionals weekly. 
What technologies are trending? 
Why are we excited about agrivoltaics or dual-use solar? 
What are the challenges and opportunities for renewable energy, electrification of transportation, and decarbonizing the economy? 

Listen, like, comment, and share! Get all our content at www.CleanPowerHour.com and reach out to Tim Montague @tgmontague on Twitter or Gmail.

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The Clean Power Hour is brought to you by CPS America, maker of North America’s number one 3-phase string inverter, with over 6GW shipped in the US. With a focus on commercial and utility-scale solar and energy storage, the company partners with customers to provide unparalleled performance and service. The CPS America product lineup includes 3-phase string inverters from 25kW to 275kW, exceptional data communication and controls, and energy storage solutions designed for seamless integration with CPS America systems.  Learn more at www.chintpowersystems.com

Welcome to the Clean Power Hour! On today’s show, we are joined by fellow energy podcaster Michael Wood III, a Duke University Student and host of the Energy-Terminal podcast. The Energy-Terminal podcast is a media platform with a mission to build the next generation of energy leaders and to catalyze youth involvement in energy. 

Michael Wood III launched his podcast in January of 2022 and in December 2022 he won Duke’s Clean Energy Prize for his efforts to build the next generation of leaders to advance the energy transition. The Energy Terminal podcast, which has published over 20 episodes to date, features Duke students’ conversations with energy experts who reflect on their career pathways and share advice. The students also publish a weekly newsletter, weekly reading lists, regular social media posts on hot energy topics, and blog posts with students’ insights on the energy transition.

Michael Wood III is a senior engineering student at Duke University studying Mechanical Engineering with certificates in Energy and Innovation & Entrepreneurship. He has previously worked for two energy startups in Texas and interned with bp’s Innovation & Engineering group in the Summer of 2022. 

Today Michael joins Tim Montague to talk about why and how he got interested in energy, and how to convince people to make the energy transition faster. We discuss how young people think about climate change and the energy transition, the Energy Terminal podcast performance, guests' and audience reactions to the content, and much more. 

Key Takeaways

1. Why and how Michael got interested in Energy?
2. Ways people can be convinced to make the energy transition faster.
3. What are the thoughts of young people about Climate Change and the energy transition?
4. The Energy Terminal podcast, guests, audience reaction to the content, and what the future holds for the show 
5. How Michael convinces people about the energy transition?
6. What the Emerging Leaders Program is and who is eligible to apply
7. The challenges young people face when trying to join the clean energy industry 

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The Clean Power Hour is brought to you by CPS America, maker of North America’s number one 3-phase string inverter, with over 6GW shipped in the US. With a focus on commercial and utility-scale solar and energy storage, the company partners with customers to provide unparalleled performance and service. The CPS America product lineup includes 3-phase string inverters from 25kW to 275kW, exceptional data communication and controls, and energy storage solutions designed for seamless integration with CPS America systems.  Learn more at www.chintpowersystems.com

🔥Stay up to date with the latest in solar, wind, and energy storage news with Tim Montague and John Weaver (Commercial Solar Guy)! 🤩 We break down the tools, technologies, and trends that are speeding the energy transition. Tune in LIVE on Thursdays at 12 noon EST/ 9 AM Pacific/ 11 Central/ 10 Mountain and give us a rating and review on Apple or Spotify.

Today on the Clean Power Hour Live with co-hosts Tim Montague and John Weaver we bring you vital news about the solar and wind industries, electrification of transportation (the tipping point is nigh!) and John tells us about his vacation to Costa Rica, and his experience at RE+ Northeast (Feb 2023 in Boston). Don’t miss the event calendar below including 10 major solar and storage conferences - three major events in Chicago this year alone! Also CA, TX, FL, Vegas, Philly, and Atlanta. Boom!

Here are the upcoming solar and storage shows you don’t want to miss: 

All RE+ Events: https://re-plus.events/ 

Feb 2023 - RE+ Northeast (Boston)

March 13-15, 2023 - Solar Farm Summit - North America’s Agrivoltaics Expo (Chicago, IL)

March 28-29, 2023 - RE+ Northern California (CA)

April 5-6 2023 - RE+ Texas (TX)

May 1-3, 2023 - Midwest Solar Expo 2023 (Chicago, IL)

May 17-18, 2023 - RE+ Southeast

June 26-2, 2023 - RE+ Mid-Atlantic (Philadelphia, PA)

Sept 11-14, 2023 - RE+ (SPI) Las Vegas, NV

Oct 18-19, 2023 - RE+ Florida

Nov 14-15, 2023 - RE+ Midwest, Chicago IL

This week John Weaver and I discuss,
1. An activist group spreading misinformation to stop solar projects in rural America.
2. A solar power “peaking facility” that starts construction - “137 MW of solar, coupled with 150 MW/600 MWh of battery energy storage”
3. New wind and solar energy that is cheaper than 99 percent of coal power plants
4. EVs hit 18 percent in CA -  The Gregor Letter
5. Total EV sales break $1T total - almost 50% of that was in 2022
6. World’s largest used EV battery power facility in California 

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The Clean Power Hour is brought to you by CPS America, maker of North America’s number one 3-phase string inverter, with over 6GW shipped in the US. With a focus on commercial and utility-scale solar and energy storage, the company partners with customers to provide unparalleled performance and service. The CPS America product lineup includes 3-phase string inverters from 25kW to 275kW, exceptional data communication and controls, and energy storage solutions designed for seamless integration with CPS America systems.  Learn more at www.chintpowersystems.com

Welcome to the Clean Power Hour! On today’s show, we are joined by Tom Jensen, CEO Freyr Battery, a company offering a clean Nordic solution to the rapidly growing global demand for high-density and cost-competitive battery cells for stationary energy storage (ESS), electric mobility, and marine applications. 

Mr. Jensen has been in the sustainability space for over 15 years working on scaling disruptive technology with a core focus on renewable energy. He currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of FREYR. But prior to and concurrently with FREYR, Mr. Jensen served as the Co-Founder and Partner of EDGE Global LLC and most recently as Partner and Senior Advisor at SYSTEMIQ Ltd. 

In 2017, a friend introduced the idea of establishing Gigafactories of battery cell manufacturing in Norway and that is how he started the journey to where he is now. Today Mr. Jensen joins Tim Montague to talk about his journey to clean and cost-competitive battery production, Freyr’s business model, their collaboration with 24M, who their target customers are, and much more. 

Key Takeaways

1. Mr. Jensen’s journey in the solar industry
2. Freyr’s journey to producing clean and cost-competitive battery
3. Freyr’s business model
4. Freyr’s collaboration with 24M technologies 
5. Their plans to build a gigafactory in Georgia in the southeastern US.

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The Clean Power Hour is brought to you by CPS America, maker of North America’s number one 3-phase string inverter, with over 6GW shipped in the US. With a focus on commercial and utility-scale solar and energy storage, the company partners with customers to provide unparalleled performance and service. The CPS America product lineup includes 3-phase string inverters from 25kW to 275kW, exceptional data communication and controls, and energy storage solutions designed for seamless integration with CPS America systems.  Learn more at www.chintpowersystems.com

Welcome to the Clean Power Hour! On today’s show, we are joined by Joe Tassone Jr. founder of onCORE Origination, a leading renewable energy origination team dedicated to identifying and procuring strategic locations for various types of renewable energy and battery storage projects. 

Joe Tassone has over 20 years of experience directly developing more than 5,000 projects across the telecom and renewable energy industries. Prior to starting onCORE, he was the CEO of HPCW LLC, a highly specialized wireless and infrastructure consulting firm and in 2019 he co-founded ABOVEgrid.

Today he joins Tim Montague on the Clean Power Hour to discuss how the solar industry is maturing and things developers can do to be more successful. It's good for everyone involved when developers become more methodical and sophisticated about stakeholder relations. Joe highlights his vast experience in real estate and solar, how electrification of transportation and batteries are changing the grid, and handling NIMBYism. 

Key Takeaways

1. How Joe got into Solar and Real Estate
2. The difference between his two companies, onCORE and ABOVEgrid
3. His thoughts on the solar maturation
4. Thoughts on NIMBYism and opportunities for developers.
5. What makes onCORE unique from the competition

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The Clean Power Hour is brought to you by CPS America, maker of North America’s number one 3-phase string inverter, with over 6GW shipped in the US. With a focus on commercial and utility-scale solar and energy storage, the company partners with customers to provide unparalleled performance and service. The CPS America product lineup includes 3-phase string inverters from 25kW to 275kW, exceptional data communication and controls, and energy storage solutions designed for seamless integration with CPS America systems.  Learn more at www.chintpowersystems.com

Julia Pyper of GoodLeap joins me as guest co-host Wed Feb. 8, 2023, Noon Pacific (1 Mountain, 2 Central, 3 Eastern) for a Residential Solar Update and Clean Energy News Roundup. We ask: What does the #InflationReductionAct mean for American households? What does NEM3 mean for CA solar? What can America expect from the residential solar market in 2023 and beyond?!

🔥Stay up to date with the latest in solar, wind, and energy storage news with Tim Montague and guest co-host Julia Pyper🤩 We break down the tools, technologies, and trends that are speeding the energy transition. Listen to all of our content at www.CleanPowerHour.com; give us a rating and review on Apple or Spotify. 📝 Don't forget to subscribe to our Youtube channel too! If you have any questions or feedback, reach out to us at [email protected] or visit our website www.cleanpowerhour.com.🔌 🔋 💡

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The Clean Power Hour is brought to you by CPS America, maker of North America’s number one 3-phase string inverter, with over 6GW shipped in the US. With a focus on commercial and utility-scale solar and energy storage, the company partners with customers to provide unparalleled performance and service. The CPS America product lineup includes 3-phase string inverters from 25kW to 275kW, exceptional data communication and controls, and energy storage solutions designed for seamless integration with CPS America systems.  Learn more at www.chintpowersystems.com

Welcome to the Clean Power Hour! On today’s show, Tim Montague will be reading an article by our special guest Peter Montague. Peter Montague is an author, historian, activist, journalist, and expert on environmental health. He is the author of two books: Mercury and No World Without End and has written over 1, 000 articles on the subject of climate change, environmental health, and democracy. 

On today’s show we read the article, Old White Men Are Sacrificing the Future of Young People. It tells how the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) contains a poison pill that incentivizes oil companies to pump hard to get oil using enhanced oil recovery with CO2. Tune in to hear this insightful article from an environmental health expert and an activist who cares deeply about the future of our planet and the young people who will shape it.

Peter Montague on Medium

Peter Montague Article

Fifty Years of Lies and Deception by Big Oil Document 

Committee on Oversight and Reform, Dec. 9, 2022.

Inside Climate News, 2015.

“Advocating inaction: a historical analysis of the Global Climate Coalition.”

Committee on Oversight and Reform, Dec. 9, 2022 investigation report. 

Committee on Oversight and Reform, Dec. 9, 2022, Committee Releases

House Natural Resources Committee Staff Hearing Report

The Petroleum Papers;

The Climate Deception Dossiers;

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The Clean Power Hour is brought to you by CPS America, maker of North America’s number one 3-phase string inverter, with over 6GW shipped in the US. With a focus on commercial and utility-scale solar and energy storage, the company partners with customers to provide unparalleled performance and service. The CPS America product lineup includes 3-phase string inverters from 25kW to 275kW, exceptional data communication and controls, and energy storage solutions designed for seamless integration with CPS America systems.  Learn more at www.chintpowersystems.com

🔥Stay up to date with the latest in solar, wind, and energy storage news with Tim Montague and John Weaver (Commercial Solar Guy)! 🤩 We break down the tools, technologies, and trends that are speeding the energy transition. 

Tune in LIVE on Thursdays at 12 noon EST/ 9 AM Pacific/ 11 Central/ 10 Mountain and give us a rating and review on Apple or Spotify. 📝 Don't forget to subscribe to our Youtube channel too! If you have any questions or feedback, reach out to us at [email protected] or visit our website www.cleanpowerhour.com.🔌 🔋 💡

On the weekly clean power news and views, we bring you the latest cleantech and clean energy news,  thought leaders, and innovators. Today we host Scott Moskowitz from QCells. He will be telling us what Qcells are up to and much more.

This week John Weaver and I discuss,
1. Illinois Enacts New Law to Standardize Local Permitting for Renewable Energy Facilities
2. Illinois Power Agency launches Energy Workforce Equity Portal 
3. Chinese manufacturers have been forbidden to use their large silicon, black silicon, and cast-mono silicon technologies overseas.
4. Upon completion of the expansion projects, the total surface footprint of Tesla’s Giga Texas is expected to increase to roughly 5.6 million square feet.
5. Energy transition investment exceeded $1 trillion for the first time in 2022, as global spending on clean-energy tech grew 31%
6. Major fall off in fossils going to EU from RU.

Announcement;
Chint Power Systems Terawatt are now sponsoring the Clean Power Hour podcast and will be having an innovation day on March 14, 2023, in Dallas where we will be in person.

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The Clean Power Hour is brought to you by CPS America, maker of North America’s number one 3-phase string inverter, with over 6GW shipped in the US. With a focus on commercial and utility-scale solar and energy storage, the company partners with customers to provide unparalleled performance and service. The CPS America product lineup includes 3-phase string inverters from 25kW to 275kW, exceptional data communication and controls, and energy storage solutions designed for seamless integration with CPS America systems.  Learn more at www.chintpowersystems.com

Welcome to the Clean Power Hour. Today we are joined by Adam Rauwerdink, SVP Business Development at Boston Metal. Boston Metal is using innovative technology to decarbonize steel manufacture, with their technology on track to reach commercialization by 2026.

Adam has spent the last decade leading global business development for new technologies in the energy industry. Prior to Boston Metal, he was VP of Business Development at SustainX where he led first market partnerships in Korea and Japan, and raised over $20M in equity from GE, Rockport, Polaris, and others. He also led sales at Vionx Energy, a vanadium flow battery company, where he developed multi-MW projects in partnership with Siemens and Starwood Energy.

Today Adam joins Tim Montague to discuss Boston Metal’s innovative technology for decarbonizing steel manufacturing, and how they measure the cost of steel manufacture, the resources and industry incentives necessary to bring green steel to market, and the impact it will have on the global steel industry. Additionally, Adam discusses the importance of sustainability initiatives for companies in the energy and manufacturing sectors and how Boston Metal’s technology is poised to have a major impact on the global economy. Tune in to learn more!

Key  Takeaways.

1. How To convert iron oxide into iron?
2. Boston Metal's technology for decarbonizing steel manufacturing and why is the runway so long?
3. How to measure the cost of manufacturing steel?
4. How does Adam see the Energy landscape? 
5. What the response is from manufacturers to Boston Metal’s technology
6. The State of Energy in the US

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The Clean Power Hour is brought to you by CPS America, maker of North America’s number one 3-phase string inverter, with over 6GW shipped in the US. With a focus on commercial and utility-scale solar and energy storage, the company partners with customers to provide unparalleled performance and service. The CPS America product lineup includes 3-phase string inverters from 25kW to 275kW, exceptional data communication and controls, and energy storage solutions designed for seamless integration with CPS America systems.  Learn more at www.chintpowersystems.com

Welcome to the Clean Power Hour. On today’s show, we are joined by Paul Charles, CEO of American Battery Factory. American Battery Factory is developing a network of ‘safe’ lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cell giga-factories in the United States to fuel stationary storage and EV batteries. They are building their flagship gigafactory in Tucson, AZ. ABF’s goal is developing a domestic battery manufacturing ecosystem that is key to making energy independence and renewable energy a reality for the United States. 

Paul Charles is an international serial entrepreneur, inventor of globally commercialized technology and an experienced senior executive focused on technology and energy. Charles has structured multiple companies, investment entities and funds and co-created an energy company dealing with PEMEX and CFE. In addition, he founded one of the first portable computing peripheral companies based in Silicon Valley, Arizona and Switzerland while he developed, patented and brought to market the first universal docking station for portable computers and created the first external bay replication products and commercialized them with IBM globally.

Today, Paul joins Tim Montague to discuss some of the key differences between Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries and its competition, the supply chain for these batteries, the difference between a large monolithic factory and a decentralized manufacturing location and much more. Tune in today to The Clean Power Hour!

Key Takeaways

1. Paul’s background and how he got involved with American Battery Factory.
2. What are some of the key differences between Lithium ion phosphate batteries and its competition?
3. What’s the supply chain like for the American Battery Factory batteries?
4. What’s the difference between a large monolithic factory and a decentralized manufacturing location?
5. How many gigawatt hours of production American Battery Factory has the potential of reaching in the next five years?
6. What is the demand for lithium iron phosphate batteries in North America?

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The Clean Power Hour is brought to you by CPS America, maker of North America’s number one 3-phase string inverter, with over 6GW shipped in the US. With a focus on commercial and utility-scale solar and energy storage, the company partners with customers to provide unparalleled performance and service. The CPS America product lineup includes 3-phase string inverters from 25kW to 275kW, exceptional data communication and controls, and energy storage solutions designed for seamless integration with CPS America systems.  Learn more at www.chintpowersystems.com