By Florian Fontaine-Papion
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Mike Englhard is the Chief Development Officer at Terawatt Infrastructure, a pioneering startup dedicated to designing, developing, and operating high-powered charging sites for commercial electric vehicles across the US.
Terawatt has been a trailblazer in the EV infrastructure market since 2021 as it started to strategically acquire prime charging sites, at a time where few heavy-duty electric trucks were on the road. With over $1 billion raised and growing momentum behind commercial vehicle electrification, Terawatt is now rapidly expanding: 15 charging sites in development in the US and dozens more in the pipeline.
In this episode, we delve deep into what it takes to develop large-scale clean energy infrastructure and how to accelerate these multi-million dollar projects. Tune in to hear about:
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Ian Rust is the founder and CEO of Revoy, a startup enabling heavy-duty truck electrification at no upfront cost. Revoy's one-of-a-kind electric trailer, which fits between the tractor and trailer of any diesel truck, can reduce fuel use by 90%—all at no upfront cost and in under 2 minutes.
With over 25% of US transportation emissions coming from 3 million semi-trucks, Revoy offers a critical solution to decarbonize the 3 million diesel semi-trucks on the road today.
In this episode, we explore the trucking industry and Revoy's unique technology. Tune in to hear about:
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Nicolas Banchet is the co-founder of Zeplug, a startup installing Electric Vehicles (EV) charging stations. What sets Zeplug apart? Their positioning and innovative business model:
This approach has fueled Zeplug's rapid expansion across Europe, now serving over 16,000 buildings and offering access to 1 million parking spaces.
But that's not all.
Nicolas also founded another thriving startup at the same time: ChargeGuru. Operating in the EV charging space as well, ChargeGuru provides end-to-end installation services for individual and commercial customers.
In this episode, we talk with Nicolas about:
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Nicolas Guinebretière is the co-founder of Vestack, a startup reinventing the construction industry with low-carbon materials and offsite manufacturing. By using timber frames manufactured away from the construction site, Vestack can be cost-competitive with traditional cement-based buildings while cutting the building's carbon footprint by up to 3. This is a game changer in an industry representing 25% of global emissions.
Launched in 2018, Vestack has already delivered over 15 buildings and is rapidly scaling up with another 30 projects under construction. In this episode, we talk with Nicolas about:
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Evan Hynes is the CEO and co-founder of ClimateBase, the leading job platform for climate. Launched in 2020, ClimateBase has scaled incredibly fast with over 250,000 monthly users, over 100,000 subscribers to its climate newsletter, and more than 7,000 participants to the ClimateTech week it recently organized in San Francisco.
And all of this growth with only 7 full-time employees and ~$300K in angel investor funding.
In this episode, we talk with Evan about:
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Raphael Declercq is the CEO of PowerFlex, a 300 people strong company based in San Diego, California with the mission to help businesses transition to distributed renewables and electrified transportation.
Launched as a subsidiary of EDF - the French energy giant operating over 30+ nuclear power plants - PowerFlex has quickly become the 2nd largest installer of rooftop solar for commercial buildings and the 4th largest EV installer in the US.
With $100M raised last year, PowerFlex aims to accelerate the transition of commercial customers to clean energy and to continue to invest in its unique technology integrating on-site solar generation with intelligent EV charging.
In this episode, we talk with Raphael about:
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Olivier Reinaud is Co-Founder & Managing Director at NetZero, a startup bringing carbon removal at scale in the tropics with biochar.
Launched in 2021 with a diverse founding team, including the climatologist Jean Jouzel (IPCC vice chair), NetZero has rapidly demonstrated its technology in Cameroon and Brazil and has been selected in the prestigious Musk Foundation’s X Prize for Carbon Removal.
With $12M raised recently to scale up operations, Net Zero aims to remove 2 million tons of CO2 with biochar by 2030 with a mutually beneficial partnership between all biochar stakeholders:
In this episode, we talk with Olivier about:
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Sebastian Berning is the co-founder & CEO of Instagrid, a startup aiming to replace combustion generators used for mobile power supply by clean portable batteries.
These generators are used every time power supply is needed without an easy access to the grid: in food carts to cook, on construction sites to run jackhammers, at festivals for lighting & sound, and in countless other applications.
While not getting much attention from regulators to date, these generators do pose massive health and climate problem by releasing huge quantities of air particulates, typically in dense urban areas, and producing significant CO2 emissions (1h run time of a generator is equivalent to driving 250km with a car)
In this episode, we talk with Sebastian about:
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Alexis Normand is the Co-founder & CEO of Greenly, a carbon accounting and management platform enabling companies to measure and reduce their emissions
Carbon accounting has grown from a niche practice only a few years ago to a widely adopted business practice with 18,700 public companies now disclosing their emissions
By measuring their emissions, companies can then define climate targets with ~2,200 companies having set a net zero science-based target to date, a number that has grown exponentially over the last years
Yet, much remains to be done with 17,000 public companies still failing to disclose their emissions and - while science-based target set a high bar for climate ambition - greenwashing and dubious climate claims remain rampant in the corporate world
Launched less than 4 years ago in Paris, Greenly aims to democratize carbon measurement to enable companies of all size to measure their impact and take climate action. Greenly has already convinced 1,000 customers across Europe and the US, from one-person shops to large companies such as banking giant BNP Paribas.
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Alexia Akbay is the founder & CEO of Symbrosia, a startup producing a seaweed feed supplement for ruminants that can reduce their methane emissions by 90%
Ruminent livestock (cows, beef, sheep, goat) are responsible for ~14% of total greenhouse gas emissions (~7Gt of CO2-eq). Enteric fermentation, which is part of the ruminant's digestive process, drives ~40% of these livestock emissions as methane - a highly potent gas with intense short-term warming effects
With global livestock numbers on the rise in spite of the emergence of meat substitutes and milk alternatives, practical solutions like Symbrosia are needed by food brands and farmers farmers to reduce the climate impact of their activities
In this episode, we talk with Alexia about:
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