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As the Senior Vice President of Products & Services and Pricing Solutions at Duke Energy, Meghan Dewey oversees a portfolio that generates over $1.5 billion in annual revenue. But for her, the true metric of success isn't about spreadsheets or numbers but is instead about empowering the people on both sides of a utility bill.

Meghan sits at the intersection of massive corporate scale and human-centric innovation. From the Emerging Technology Office and customer prototype labs to large-scale transportation electrification, her team is essentially designing a blueprint for how utilities can operate in the short and long term. She’s the engine behind how Duke Energy scales high-value solutions while also prioritizing customer experience in a way that resonates.

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This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey.

This week's episode features special guest Ivan Penn from The New York Times, who wrote about surging optimism for nuclear power in the U.S.

This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is Mariangela Hungria, a Brazilian agronomist and microbiologist who won the 2025 World Food Prize for her work on microbes that feed plants nitrogen, allowing farmers to cut fertilizer costs and pollution. 

This Week in Cleantech — January 9, 2026 

1. Trump administration halts offshore wind projects from Virginia to New England, in major blow to clean power — POLITICO
2. The 4 Things Standing Between the U.S. and Venezuela’s Oil — Heatmap News
3. The Positive Climate News You May Have Missed This Year — Bloomberg
4. China’s BYD overtakes Tesla as world’s top EV seller for first time — CNBC
5. Optimism About Nuclear Energy Is Rising Again. Will It Last? — New York Times

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This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey.

This week's episode features special guest Dana Clare Redden from our “Cleantecher of the Year” committee, who announced our “Cleantechers of the Year.”

This Week in Cleantech — December 19, 2025 

1. Electricity Is Now Holding Back Growth Across the Global Economy — Bloomberg
2. Ford pulls the plug on the all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck – NPR
3. There’s a New Color for Hydrogen: Orange – Heatmap News
4. Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado – USA Today
5. How the planet fared in 2025 — the good, the bad, and the ugly — Grist

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Transforming the grid to meet skyrocketing energy demand isn't just about switching generation sources but is instead about fundamentally redesigning the entire energy market. It's going to require unlocking the true potential of every Distributed Energy Resources (DER) that we have, and integrating them seamlessly into a complex, resilient system. 

That’s easy to say but exceptionally complicated to do logistically and in a way that makes sense for a given market, which is why we wanted to talk with someone who isn’t just supporting this transformation, but is also actively working with utilities to better understand what’s happening at the grid edge to make informed decisions. Jo-Jo Hubbard is the Co-founder and CEO of Electron, which helps network utilities and grid operators adopt and scale flexibility markets to manage grid congestion, improve connection rates, and lower bills. Among other things, we discuss:

• Why utilities need to shift from a static view of the distribution grid to a real-time, dynamic model
• How smart coordination of DERs creates a resilient and efficient grid
• What it means to make DER orchestration simpler and more compelling to utilities
• How tiny efficiencies can lead to billions in savings at scale.
• The single biggest lesson learned that utilities need to have top of mind when designing their own DER aggregation and dispatch programs

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This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey.

This week's episode features special guest Jael Holzman from Heatmap News, who wrote about several senators who came out against the SPEED Act, a bill that would change the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA.

This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is Ryan Johnson, the CEO of Culdesac Tempe, a rental development outside of Phoenix. He modeled a blueprint for living in a walkable place, so residents don’t need to use cars. Johnson said quote, “It’s one of the best things we can do for climate, health, happiness, low cost of living, and even low cost of government.” Congratulations, to Ryan!

This Week in Cleantech — December 12, 2025 

1. Federal judge throws out Trump order blocking development of wind energy – AP News
2. How a Nuclear-Fossil Fuel Alliance Is Winning the Fight for Energy Dominance — Bloomberg
3. Driving Xiaomi's Electric Car: Are we Cooked? — Marques Brownlee
4. Will the Self-Driving Cars of the Future Lower Emissions? — The New York Times
5. Exclusive: Key Senate Democrats Oppose Permitting Bill — Heatmap News

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This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey.

This week's episode features special guest Justin Worland at TIME Magazine, who wrote about the fires that hit Los Angeles in January 2025, and how to prevent similar disasters in the future. 

This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is Josh Silverman, the CEO of Windfall Bio, which figured out how to create microbes that consume leaking methane from cow manure lagoons as their food source. His team’s system tackles one of agriculture’s toughest climate challenges with a low-cost, farm-ready solution. Congratulations, Josh!

This Week in Cleantech — December 5, 2025

1. Climate urgency means bypassing COP is necessary, says COP30 boss — The Financial Times
2. Data center boom drives internal fight at largest US grid operator — Semafor
3. India’s Desert State Reignites Coal-Fired Power Debate — Bloomberg
4. Kentucky officials will appeal decision they say is unfair to Kentucky Power ratepayers – Kentucky Lantern
5. Amid the Ashes — TIME

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This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate in 15 minutes or less featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey.

This week's episode features special guest Amy Harder from Axios, who wrote about an oil industry lobbying group spending big to advertise during Paramount’s second season of “Landman."

This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is Glenna Gannon, an assistant professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Glenna led research for an agrivoltaics project in Alaska, helping grow potatoes, kale and spinach underneath the panels. Congratulations, Glenna!

This Week in Cleantech — November 21, 2025 

1. Hydropower Is Getting Less Reliable as the World Needs More Energy — The New York Times
2. Why the Time Has Finally Come for Geothermal Energy – The New Yorker
3. US loans Constellation $1 billion for Three Mile Island reactor reboot — Reuters
4. World Is Off Course on Pledge to Rein in Emissions of Heat-Trapping Methane — Bloomberg
5. "Landman" TV show reflects oil industry's renewed swagger — Axios

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In this episode of the Factor This podcast, Content Director Jeremiah Karpowicz interviews Henrik Mannesson, General Manager of Energy Infrastructure at Texas Instruments (TI). The two explore how TI's analog and embedded processing chips are driving a shift in energy and expectations in both the short and long term as well as:

• the need for deeper utility collaboration
• innovation at market inflection points
• semiconductors as a short-term grid solution that open up long term opportunities

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This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate in 15 minutes or less featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey. 

This week's episode features special guest Rachel Frazin from The Hill, who wrote about Democrats' plans to continue to focus on rising electricity prices in hopes that it's a winning strategy. 

This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is Tyler Norris, Head of Market Innovation at Google. Tyler wrote an op-ed in The New York Times about how we can manage rising electricity demand without driving up costs for households. His main point is that load growth presents an opportunity to offset upward pressure on electricity rates, if we plan the system to make fuller use of the infrastructure we’ve already paid for. Congratulations, Tyler!

This Week in Cleantech — November 14, 2025 

1. China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics — The Economist
2. 10 Years After the Paris Climate Agreement, Here's Where We Are — The New York Times
3. New U.S. nuclear power boom begins with old, still-unsolved problem: What to do with radioactive waste — CNBC
4. Data Centers and Natural Gas Are Bending the Climate Transition Curve, IEA Says – Heatmap News
5. Democrats see electricity prices as a winning issue for 2026 – Rachel Frazin

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Ready or not, electric vehicle adoption is happening in America. It feels like we’ve reached an inflection point- especially as range increases, EVs are simply proving to be a better mousetrap- and now there’s a race coast-to-coast to bulk up the charging infrastructure needed to enable the scaling of fleets and longhaul trucking. 

That’s no easy thing to figure out- developers must work closely with utilities to bring these power-sucking sites online without overworking the local grid. And since everyone needs power YESTERDAY, there’s a timeliness component to this too- and we all know time means money.

The Electric Power Research Institute, better known as EPRI, is taking on the challenge of connecting the dots and facilitating a planning process for the deployment of EV charging projects.

On this episode, Factor This Content Director Paul Gerke is joined by EPRI director of transportation Britta Gross to discuss GridFAST, a central, secure portal designed to improve communication between stakeholders, bringing them together early on to ensure everyone gets what they want, when they want it- or as close to it as possible.

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