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Factor This
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.
Episodes
168 episodes
This Week in Cleantech (05/16/2025) - Is it time for a zeppelin resurgence?
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...
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Utilities, data centers, and grid flexibility: How does the customer benefit?
Utilities are doing all they can to accommodate large load customers like AI data centers, but some worry those efforts come at a cost to other customers. On this episode of the Factor This podcast, West Monroe Partner Sam Uyeno explains how th...
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This Week in Cleantech (05/09/2025) - Are Trump's cleantech cuts undermining his mineral plans?
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...
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This Week in Cleantech (05/02/2025) - Is the NRC stifling nuclear innovation?
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...
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This Week in Cleantech (04/25/2025) - Climate tech's shaky footing in 2025
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 MIT Tec...
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How utilities can 'shield' equipment from wildfire risk
Sponsored content.In the territories of many electric utilities, wildfires loom as an increasing threat, becoming larger and more frequent, necessitating proactive solutions.In this episode of the Factor This pod...
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This Week in Cleantech (04/18/2025) - Trump's clash with offshore wind escalates
This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate in 15 minutes or less featuring John Engel and Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey.This week’s episode f...
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This Week in Cleantech (04/11/2025) - How will Trump’s latest round of tariffs affect clean energy?
This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate in 15 minutes or less featuring John Engel and Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey.This week’s episode f...
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The digital grid is coming, and the energy transition may just depend on it
Sponsored Content.Decarbonizing the power sector attracts most of the energy transition’s attention. While replacing fossil fuel generation with solar, wind, and battery storage is a critical step to combating climate change, it...
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This Week in Cleantech (04/04/2025) - Geothermal wins Trump's favor
This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate in 15 minutes or less featuring John Engel and Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey.This week’s episode f...
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This Week in Cleantech (03/28/2025) - A new high for renewables
This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate in 15 minutes or less featuring John Engel and Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey.This week’s episode f...
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This Week in Cleantech (03/21/2025) - Getting 'forever chemicals' out of the chips race
This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less.This week’s episode features Aaron Clark from Bloomberg, who wrote about efforts to reduce "forever chemicals" ...
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This Week in Cleantech (03/14/2025) - Emergency powers to restart coal plants?
This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less.This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is
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This Week in Cleantech (03/07/2025) - Trump's tariffs make things complicated
This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less.This week’s episode features Lisa Martine Jenkins from Latitude Media, who wrote about how Trump's tariffs wil...
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This Week in Cleantech (02/28/2025) - How the solar power industry is rebranding to meet an ‘energy dominance’ edict
This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less.This week’s episode features Kate Yoder from Grist, who wrote about how the solar industry is rebranding itself...
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This Week in Cleantech (02/21/2025) - White House targets environmental permitting rules
This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less.This week’s episode features Jennifer McDermott from the Associated Press, who wrote about how enhanced geother...
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The software that could save the grid
Sponsored by OATIThe energy industry loves a shiny new object.Distributed energy resource management systems, or DERMS, land squarely in that bucket. The software’s ability to autonomously control and communicate with mi...
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This Week in Cleantech (02/14/2025) - Trump's 'unpredictability' shakes investors
This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less.This week’s episode features Tim McDonnell from Semmafor, who wrote about how Trump's return could freeze clean...
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This Week in Cleantech (02/07/2025) - Renewables permitting has been 'paralyzed' by Trump
This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less.This week’s episode features Matthew Zeitlin from Heatmap News, who wrote about how how huge lo...
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This Week in Cleantech (01/24/2025) - Trump's 'energy emergency'
This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less.This week’s episode features Alexander Kaufmann from HuffPost, who wrote about President Trump declaring ...
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This Week in Cleantech (01/17/2025) - Solar sales burnout
This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less.This week’s episode features Brendan Koerner from WIRED Magazine, who wrote about the lives of young men ...
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This Week in Cleantech (01/10/2025) - Climate trends to watch in 2025
This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less.This week’s episode features Rachel Frazin from The Hill, who wrote about how the Biden administration fi...
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This Week in Cleantech (12/20/2024) - The 'age of electrons'
This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less.This week’s episode features Dana Clare Redden, from our “Cleantecher of the Year” committee, who has pic...
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This Week in Cleantech (12/13/2024) - Trump's 'all of the above' energy approach
This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less.This week’s episode features Camila Domonoske from NPR, who wrote about how under a second Trump administ...
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This Week in Cleantech (12/06/2024) - A 'new climate era'
This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less.This week’s episode features Izzy Ross from Grist, who wrote about how Michigan's fast-tracking of renewa...
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