Why would a solar panel manufacturing company put time and energy into innovating for niche markets? What are the benefits of developing products for very specific applications like greenhouses, satellites or power-generating building facades? Martin Pochtaruk is the President and CEO of Heliene, a customer-first provider of North American-made solar panels serving the utility-scale, commercial…

While the energy transition has begun, we still have a long way to go. In fact, our CO2 footprint here in the US increased by 6% in 2021 and global CO2 levels continue to rise. So, what are we doing to manage the impacts of climate change? And what’s happening in the world of solar,…

Subscribe to our Youtube channel: https://bit.ly/cph-sub1. Tim Montague has launched the CLEAN Power Consulting Group to help cleantech and clean energy companies accelerate their growth | Launch announcement | 2. The DOE is building a $62 billion Clean Energy Corps | 3. The Infrastructure Bill is funding grid expansion to ease the clean energy transition…

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…

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…

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…

#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…

#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…

#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…

#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…