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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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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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Ally Power, Inc. on Clean Power Hour EP064

Hydrogen Rainbow

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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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#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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#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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#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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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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#62: Tech entrepreneur, Bill Nussey joins the Clean Power Hour! Bill has been traveling the globe interviewing the best and brightest minds (like Amory Lovins, the founder of Rocky Mountain Institute) on the topics of solar PV and battery storage. He’s compiled these interviews and learnings into a wonderful book. And many of the interviews are found on his podcast, Freeing Energy. Bill is also a solar PV entrepreneur and the CEO of Solar Inventions which is developing next generation solar technology. We discuss “What is a smart grid?” and how innovation in technology makes local energy possible and disruption of the traditional grid likely and inevitable. Listen, learn and share this podcast with your friends! 

Take aways: 

The Smart Grid is here to stay

Solar and battery storage are the bees knees

Local energy gives power to the people

Bill Nussey - founder of Freeing Energy and CEO of Solar Inventions

https://www.freeingenergy.com/

www.freeingenergybook.com 

https://www.solarinventions.com/ 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billnussey/ 

Podcast: https://www.freeingenergy.com/podcasts/ 

More on Bill

Bill Nussey is a career tech CEO with three successful exits, including an IPO. He

has also been an investor with venture capital firm, Greylock. After IBM acquired

his company, he became IBM’s VP Corporate Strategy, helping lead the

company’s overall strategy. As a CEO, his companies have raised more than $400

million, created thousands of jobs and several billion in shareholder value. Most

recently, he co-founded Solar Inventions, which recently won almost $1 million

in prizes from the first-ever US Department of Energy startup competition for a

breakthrough in solar cell architecture. He also hosts a popular podcast and

website that laid the foundation for the book. He received a degree in electrical

engineering from North Carolina State University and an MBA from Harvard

Business School.

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#61: Build Back Better! There’s real money flowing into renewables

What crops grow best under solar farms? Agrivoltaics research at the University of Illinois gets us pumped!

The largest solar and storage project in the US is growing up in Cali.

The Commercial Solar Guy gives us some sweet rooftop solar from Mass.

 

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Here are today’s stories: 

Infrastructure Bill signed, now we’re waiting on Reconciliation Bill/Build Back Better (post-show note, the BBB bill is now signed by the house and headed to the Senate! Woo hoo!).

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-passes-555-billion-infrastructure-bill-sends-legislation-biden-s-n1280527

Daggett and Edwards Sanborn solar plus storage projects coming online and under construction. Some of the world's largest S+S

https://www.energy-storage.news/batteries-at-worlds-largest-solar-plus-storage-project-supplying-california-community-energy-group/

Project of the Week: 186 kWdc rooftop New Bedford, MA, built by Commercial Solar Guy 

https://twitter.com/SolarInMASS/status/1458536782342000643

Hanwha to invest in REC Silicon to restart U.S. polysilicon production for solar

https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2021/11/hanwha-to-invest-in-rec-silicon-to-restart-u-s-polysilicon-production-for-solar/

50-year solar? Here’s how the numbers may work: The DCF from a solar project’s electricity generation increases by 46% when shifting the project from today’s standard 25-year lifetime to a 50-year time scale.

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/11/04/50-year-solar-heres-how-the-numbers-may-work/ 

Which crops pair well with solar? Illinois study aims to find out - state researching a few existing solar+food articles, they’re goal is to quantify what can be done in three weather zones with test projects

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/11/05/what-crops-pair-well-with-solar-illinois-study-aims-to-find-out/

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#60 Are Gravity Batteries the next big thing? How will Illinois' clean energy legislation impact the market?

It's all here on this week's news round up on the Clean Power Hour.

1. Reconsilience package seems like it might be signed finally, here’s a list of key high level costs. Includes a 30% solar tax credit, direct pay. 

https://twitter.com/ella_nilsen/status/1453710329846849543

1. Energy Vault gets an order - Energy Vault signed a $520 million deal to supply 1.6 GWh of energy storage to DG Fuels to produce renewable hydrogen and a variety of fuels. The 500 MW project makes energy pencils out at $325/kWh which is a premium but remember gravity works 24/7. 

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/10/27/gravity-based-energy-storage-tower-developer-notches-a-customer-order/

1. Project of the week: BIPV solar called DRAGON SCALES by 

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/10/26/watch-dragon-scale-solar-tiles-installed-on-google-buildings-in-silicon-valley/

The installation of a 14 MW wind turbine - one of the first in the world - weighs 500 tons and that is considered light

https://twitter.com/SiemensGamesa/status/1452918289093566464

Rivian fire at the Normal Illinois factory, plus - Rivian is only building 1 truck per day currently

https://electrek.co/2021/10/27/rivian-small-battery-fire-electric-pickup-truck-factory/

Cool (sorta) video of wind rotor and blades falling into the ocean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF5w2eWcKjI

Vox interview with Elon Musk

https://www.vox.com/2018/11/2/18053424/elon-musk-tesla-spacex-boring-company-self-driving-cars-saudi-twitter-kara-swisher-decode-podcast 

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