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Launched in 2022, the Factor This Podcast has featured many of the most influential leaders driving the energy transition. From solar and battery storage executives to utility CEOs, the Factor This Podcast brings unique insights and answers to the energy industry’s most pressing challenges. Go beyond high-level trends and mainstream talking points with actionable takeaways.    The Factor This Podcast grew in 2023 with the addition of This Week in Cleantech, a weekly roundup of the biggest stories in climate and clean energy in 15 minutes or less. With new episodes every Friday, Factor This content director Paul Gerke and Mike Casey, a cleantech commentator and president of Tigercomm, bring listeners the most important headlines of the week while featuring the leading journalists behind the stories. The all-new FactorThis.com is your best source for news, commentary, and analysis of renewable energy and the power grid. 

  1. 2 dage siden

    This Week in Cleantech (06/26/2026) - 16 GW without new build? Inside the plan to unlock huge VPP capacity

    Tell us what you think of the show! 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 Emily Pontecorvo from Heatmap News, who discusses a new partnership making more than 16 gigawatts of virtual power plant capacity. This week’s “Cleantechers of the Week” are Luigi Resta and Maile Resta. Their utility-scale developer, Energies out of Utah, featured one of their site crews going to work on a solar project just like earlier generations of his family did in coal mines. We want to congratulations them for showing how to make the case for clean energy to the country. Congratulations Luigi and Maile! This Week in Cleantech — June 26, 2026  US announces $17.5 billion in loans for nuclear power supply chain — ReutersSpanish households save €10 a month thanks to renewables expansion, report finds | Spain — The GuardianIf AI data centers are exploding nationwide, why are so few being built in California? – LA TimesWhy American data centers can't plug in — Works in ProgressSunrun, Tesla, and Renew Home Have 16 Gigawatts Up for Grabs — Heatmap NewsWant to make a suggestion for This Week in Cleantech? Nominate the stories that caught your eye each week by emailing  Paul.Gerke@clarionevents.com More episodes of Factor This Policycast

    20 min.

  2. 19. jun.

    This Week in Cleantech (06/19/2026) - What does global energy trade look like after US-Iran deal?

    Tell us what you think of the show! 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 Tim McDonnell from Semafor, who discusses the potential future of the Strait of Hormuz and energy markets if the US-Iran de-escalation deal holds.  This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is Andrew Redd, CEO of Endurance Energy, a Seattle-based seafloor geothermal energy developer, which just raised $54m in Series A funding. Redd is a former SpaceX engineer who is now drilling into spots at the bottom of the ocean where tectonic plates split apart and magma heats the water to over 700 degrees. Congratulations Andrew! This Week in Cleantech — June 19, 2026 Fast-tracked power plants fuel AI boom, with little public scrutiny — ReutersAnother day, another illegal billion-dollar bribe to raise your electricity prices — Electrek🌎 The IPO boom is back, baby! — Climate Tech VC NewsletterCan PJM's new 'fast track' process accelerate interconnection? – Factor ThisHormuz will never really be open again — SemaforMore episodes of Factor This Policycast

    25 min.
  3. How we benefit from transmission competition | Factor This Policycast

    18. jun.

    How we benefit from transmission competition | Factor This Policycast

    Tell us what you think of the show! Welcome to the premier edition of the Factor This Policycast, a brand-new podcast partnership with national industry association Advanced Energy United, tackling the legislation, rulemaking, and market design that matter to clean energy leaders. Hosted by Factor This content director and Emmy-Award winning journalist Paul Gerke, this series of discussions will feature voices from across the energy policy landscape and spotlight issues shaping the evolution of our electric grid. The first topic is one that you may have spotted in recent headlines: competitive transmission solicitation. It's no secret that large-scale, critical electrical infrastructure projects like high-voltage transmission lines cost a LOT to build and take some time to come online. About 15 years ago, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, mandated that utilities competitively bid out such projects, but that mandate isn't being enforced, for reasons we'll get into on the program. New data points to tremendous benefits from competitive transmission, though, including billions of dollars ultimately saved by ratepayers. Detractors argue the bidding process delays timelines and subjects projects to hidden costs, and a group of Midwest utilities has even asked FERC to halt bidding in MISO and SPP.  On this episode of the podcast, Factor This's Paul Gerke is joined by Caitlin Marquis, managing director at Advanced Energy United, and Paul Cicio, chair of the Electricity Transmission Competition Coalition (ETCC). Both are advocates for competitive transmission and share findings to support their case. They discuss that utility request to ban competition outright, talk about FERC's role in all of this, and explore the finer points complicating broader transmission build-out- at a time we really need it. New episodes of the Factor This Policycast go live at 6 am ET every other Thursday. More episodes of Factor This Policycast

    51 min.

  4. 15. jun.

    Unifying awareness, control, and settlements to solve grid instability

    Tell us what you think of the show! Talk about systems and solutions is everywhere across the utility sector, but the biggest challenges the grid is facing are more about coordination than hardware. As utilities, retail suppliers, and operators all compete to manage the same DERs like electric vehicles, solar infrastructure, and smart appliances, the biggest challenges are associated with alignment, timing and expectations on every side.  Michael Grasso, CEO and founder of GridRails, has a keen awareness of these challenges. His decades of experience in the industry has exposed him to teams and processes that have become paralyzed by fragmented tech silos and sluggish financial settlement cycles that take anywhere from 30 to 120 days to resolve. That's why his company is working to solve these challenges by introducing an agnostic, software-as-a-service (SaaS) orchestration layer that unifies these fragmented endpoints into a single platform, giving energy suppliers direct control over their network operations. We caught up with him to explore why his platform structures its solution around three core pillars, what it means for consumers to receive instant financial gratification in a digital wallet for adjusting their energy usage in the moment, the importance of shifting the utility paradigm from a penalty-based framework to a real-time incentive model, and much more. More episodes of Factor This Policycast

    28 min.

  5. 12. jun.

    This Week in Cleantech (06/12/2026) - Europe and Asia are feeling the pressure from Iran war energy crisis

    Tell us what you think of the show! 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 Akshat Rathi from Bloomberg, who discusses the energy crisis caused by the war in Iran, which is causing some governments to pursue structural shifts away from fossil fuels toward renewables. This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is Varun Sivaram, Founder & CEO of Emerald AI. Emerald AI uses AI to let data centers flex power consumption on command without losing compute performance. Congratulations, Varun! This Week in Cleantech — June 12, 2026  LS Power Said to Near Deal for EDF’s American Renewables Arm – BloombergBig US Solar and Battery Project Lines Up $3.5 Billion Financing –– BloombergG.M. Plans to Develop Energy Storage Batteries as E.V. Sales Flag — The New York TimesNew Qcells plant doubles current US capacity to make solar cells – Canary MediaIran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition – BloombergMore episodes of Factor This Policycast

    23 min.

  6. 5. jun.

    This Week in Cleantech (06/04/2026) - Why are some Democratic governors backing Trump's gas pipelines?

    Tell us what you think of the show! 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 Benjamin Storrow from E&E News, who discusses how some Democratic governors are more open to natural gas pipeline expansion as energy costs rise. This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is Kevin Doffing who runs a group of veterans involved in cleantech. He has 50 caliber shell casings he uses as lobby swag. Congratulations, Kevin! This Week in Cleantech — June 5, 2026  The Sorry State of Carbon Removal — Heatmap NewsSolar energy helps US farms stay afloat – but Republicans’ bill could change that — The GuardianAmerica’s Data-Center Build-Out Is Falling Way Behind Schedule — The Wall Street Journal7 states sue Trump administration over nearly $1 billion deal to halt offshore wind farm — ABC News‘Ready to cave’: How liberal governors warmed to Trump’s pipelines — E&E NewsMore episodes of Factor This Policycast

    19 min.

  7. 1. jun.

    Stalled federal funding is freeing up to aid homeowners eyeing energy efficiency

    Tell us what you think of the show! The U.S. Department of Energy is moving forward with releasing billions of dollars in rebate funding to states earmarked by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) for two home energy programs: Home Efficiency Rebates (HER/HOMES), which enables whole-home retrofits that cut overall energy use by at least 15%, and Home Electrification and Appliance Rebates (HEAR), providing point-of-sale coupons for high-efficiency electric appliances like heat pumps and electric stoves for low- and moderate-income households. On this episode of the Factor This podcast, host Paul Gerke is joined by Advanced Energy United policy principal Kate Shonk, who explains why the funding was stalled, where it's headed, and how it can really help people at a time when electricity prices are climbing almost everywhere, and affordability is on the menu for dinner table discussion. She dives into examples from a few of the roughly dozen states that are rolling out unique programs to take advantage of the efficiency rebates and shares what's working. Rebecca Puck Stair, a director for the State of New Mexico's Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Department, also joins the show and explores the real, tangible, human impact programs like HER and HEAR can have on communities in need. She details her state's efforts to optimize and consolidate programs to maximize the use of federal dollars and reveals a bit of the behind-the-scenes bureaucracy involved in translating policies from paper to practice. More episodes of Factor This Policycast

    53 min.

  8. 29. maj

    This Week in Cleantech (05/29/2026) - Local pushback against data centers hits a new high

    Tell us what you think of the show! 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 Robison Meyer from Heatmap News, who discussed how local opposition to data centers hit a new record in the first quarter of 2026. This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is Tom Sisto, CEO of XL Batteries. XL Batteries makes an organic flow battery that lasts for 250 hours. The technology runs on non-toxic, non-flammable electrolytes, meaning these batteries can be deployed in population-dense communities without the heavy permitting scrutiny that is required for similar-sized lithium-ion installations. Congratulations, Tom! This Week in Cleantech — May 29, 2026 Rep. Chip Roy loses runoff for Texas attorney general to a MAGA challenger – POLITICOU.S. Aims to Give Cold War Plutonium to Start-Ups for Nuclear Fuel – The New York TimesChina’s world-beating solar industry is in turmoil — The EconomistWind-Permit Stall Is Threatening $50 Billion in US Developments – BloombergExclusive: Local Opposition to Data Centers Explodes in 2026 – Heatmap NewsMore episodes of Factor This Policycast

    26 min.
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Launched in 2022, the Factor This Podcast has featured many of the most influential leaders driving the energy transition. From solar and battery storage executives to utility CEOs, the Factor This Podcast brings unique insights and answers to the energy industry’s most pressing challenges. Go beyond high-level trends and mainstream talking points with actionable takeaways.    The Factor This Podcast grew in 2023 with the addition of This Week in Cleantech, a weekly roundup of the biggest stories in climate and clean energy in 15 minutes or less. With new episodes every Friday, Factor This content director Paul Gerke and Mike Casey, a cleantech commentator and president of Tigercomm, bring listeners the most important headlines of the week while featuring the leading journalists behind the stories. The all-new FactorThis.com is your best source for news, commentary, and analysis of renewable energy and the power grid. 

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    Factor This
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    2022 - 2026
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