Podcast #009 – Bill Nussey: The clean energy renaissance and what it means for all of us
Host Sam Easterby interviews Freeing Energy founder Bill Nussey on the biggest trends and historical patterns propelling us towards a clean energy future.
Creating the definitive list of cleantech investment firms
The Freeing Energy team is putting together the definitive list of venture capital and private equity firms investing in clean energy technologies. We need your help.
March Clean Energy Headlines
Record-breaking March headlines:
* battery prices plummetted 35% in 2018 along with record deployments
* biggest virtual power plant
* lowest price solar deal in US?
Four steps to take your house off-grid
Taking your house or business entirely off-grid and powering it with clean energy isn’t easy today but these four steps are 100% achievable with current technology. And, before we know it, going off-grid will be as easy as installing a new air conditioner.
Podcast #008 – Susan Kennedy: The future of energy will be distributed, digitized, and much, much smarter
Host Bill Nussey talks to Susan Kennedy, the CEO of visionary energy-tech company AMS, about how the grid is evolving to be distributed, digitized and much smarter.
Podcast #007 – February Clean Energy Headlines including the Green New Deal
Hosts Sam Easterby and Bill Nussey discuss the biggest clean energy headlines of February 2019 including a deep dive on the Green New Deal, the world’s largest battery, and some questionable fossil fuel lobbying.
Podcast #006 – Greg Robinson: Making It Easy to Get Clean Energy 24/7
Host Bill Nussey talks to Greg Robinson, the CEO and co-founder of Drift. Greg’s company has built the first real-time green energy-trading platform, and it’s the only digital tool that can fuel the electrical grid with 100% renewable energy, 100% of the time.
Why does the cost of renewable energy continue to get cheaper?
The price of solar cells has dropped 300-fold over the last four decades. What is driving this incredible decline and what does it predict for the years to come? Can solar really become the least expensive source of electricity in the long run?
February Clean Energy Headlines
February headlines: the Green New Deal, corrupt coal lobbies, the biggest solar battery ever built, and the culprit behind California’s devastating Camp Fire wildfire, and much more!
Podcast #005 – Amar Inamdar: One man’s journey to end energy poverty
Bill Nussey talks with Amar Inamdar of Kenya-based KawiSafi Ventures about using a venture capital investment model to bring affordable, clean energy solutions to the 600 million Africans without any electricity.
How solar and batteries will unlock the electric monopolies and create a clean energy renaissance
The shift from fossil fuels to clean energy may prove to be the largest and most disruptive energy transition in history. Solar and batteries will unlock the century-old electric monopolies, unleashing a new era of innovation, entrepreneurship and customer choice.
Podcast #004 – Mary Anne Hitt: Grassroots effort closes coal plants
Host Bill Nussey talks with Mary Anne Hitt, Director of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign, about their inspiring success at helping close almost half the coal plants in the US over the last decade
The Green New Deal – climate salvation or too blue to be true?
Washington, DC has rediscovered the climate. Democratic rising star, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is championing the New Green Deal. We take a look inside this climate manifesto to see what’s really there and whether it can be a blueprint for a clean energy future.
January Clean Energy Headlines
Clean energy headlines from January:
* Corporate clean energy purchases in 2018 shattered all previous records.
* Tesla Model 3 outsold every other luxury vehicle in 2018.
* Germany gets more energy from renewables than coal in 2018.
* US Government predicts clean energy will dominate grid buildouts in 2019.
Podcast #003 – Chris Riley: A Coal Miner’s Son Takes on a Giant Utility
Freeing Energy host Bill Nussey talks with Guzman Energy’s Chris Riley about growing up in a coal mining town and how it shaped his thinking as he took on a giant utility.
Four questions investors should ask before funding cleantech startups (Part 4)
After the 2011 collapse of cleantech investing, the industry is starting to show signs of life once again. Investors are slowly dusting off their checkbooks. This article has four core questions and five parts of the value chain that investors should consider as they fund new cleantech companies.
Podcast #002 – Luis Reyes: David Takes on Goliath in Local Energy
How did David stand up to Goliath? In this modern-day take, hear the story about how two local energy champions in Taos, New Mexico, took on a giant utility.
A blueprint for cleantech investing (Part 3)
Cleantech is one of the biggest and most exciting technology industries today. But, despite the buzz, it remains complex and opaque. This article breaks it down into bite-sized chunks and explains how the terms and segments fit together.
Podcast #001 – Bill Nussey: Tech CEO Turned Local Energy Leader
On the inaugural episode of The Freeing Energy Podcast, co-host Sam Easterby interviews founder Bill Nussey on the details of Bill’s personal journey in the world of local, decentralized energy – and where he sees that journey taking him.
2018 was an amazing year for clean energy
Looking back, 2018 was an amazing year for clean energy. Price and installation records were shattered across the globe. EVs took off. Grid scale batteries proved they worked at scale. Even the US solar tariffs were not enough to stop the clean energy juggernaut.