Factor This!
Factor This! is a weekly podcast for the solar industry that provides in-depth and actionable content not available anywhere else. The podcast features solar energy leaders who actually move the needle, in hopes of making you smarter, your solar job easier, and moving the industry forward. Factor This! is produced by Renewable Energy World and Clarion Energy, and is hosted by John Engel. Have an idea for an episode or want to sponsor the show? Email john.engel@clarionevents.com for more information. Find show notes, transcripts, and resources at RenewableEnergyWorld.com. Subscribe today to renewable energy's newest podcast.
Episodes
146 episodes
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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18:56
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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This Week in Cleantech (11/22/2024) - Will the U.S. ever compete on lithium?
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 Amanda Chu from the Financial Times, who wrote about how Albemarle, the larg...
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16:09
This Week in Cleantech (11/15/2024) - How will climate tech adapt under 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 Katie Brigham from Heatmap, who wrote about how climate tech companies are u...
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15:18
This Week in Cleantech (11/08/2024) - How will clean energy fare under a second Trump term?
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 Tim McDonnell from Semafor, who wrote about how many in cleantech believe th...
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20:57
This Week in Cleantech (11/01/2024) - Who benefits the most from the IRA?
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 Shannon Osaka from The Washington Post, who wrote about how districts that f...
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17:30
This Week in Cleantech (10/18/2024) - Big Tech revives nuclear (and coal, too)
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 Washington Post reporter Evan Halper, who covered how a coal power ...
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Season 1
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18:45
This Week in Cleantech (10/11/2024) - A flooded solar supply chain
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 Maddie Stone from Grist, who wrote about how Hurricane Helene cause...
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16:44
Greetings from Asheville. We need your help.
Hello, Factor This! listeners. This is John Engel, editor-in-chief of Renewable Energy World and POWERGRID International. As many of you know, I live in Asheville, which was devastated from Tropica...
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Season 1
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Episode 117
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27:12
This Week in Cleantech (9/30/2024) - Interest rates and climate change
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 Catherine Boudrea, a Business Insider reporter who wrote about Con...
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16:56
This Week in Cleantech - Live from RE+ 2024
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 Ivan Penn from the New York Times, who wrote about how one of the c...
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This Week in Cleantech (9/6/24) — Cleantech hits a rough patch
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 Tim De Chant from TechCrunch, who wrote about a possible path to re...
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Season 1
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Episode 117
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16:08
Can we collaborate? Utilities and developers work to mend fences
The energy transition was always going to produce some form of tension. That isn't altogether negative— friction keeps a speeding train on the tracks, after all. In the energy industry, it's electric utilities and clean energy developers who mo...
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Season 1
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Episode 116
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28:50
This Week in Cleantech (8/30/24) — Does clean energy need a Marshall Plan?
his 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 Dan Gearino from Inside Climate News, who wrote about how progress i...
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Season 1
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Episode 116
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18:12
This Week in Cleantech (8/23/24) — The human side of virtual power plants
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 CNET senior editor Jon Reed, who visited an energy-efficient home i...
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Season 1
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Episode 115
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22:19
This Week in Cleantech (8/16/24) — What are the friendliest states for solar?
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 Business Insider reporter Catherine Boudreau, who wrote about Con E...
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Season 1
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Episode 114
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15:25
This Week in Cleantech (8/09/2024) - Turning air conditions into batteries
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 MIT Technology Review reporter Casey Crowhart, who covered how new ...
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Season 1
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Episode 113
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15:29
This Week in Cleantech (8/02/2024) - Permitting bill pits clean energy industry against climate activists
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 Jael Holzman, a senior reporter at Heatmap, who reported on how the...
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Season 1
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Episode 112
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17:41
Going inside utilities to scale DERs
The energy industry often pits utilities and clean energy advocates as enemies duking it out from opposite corners of the ring.As the narrative goes, utilities drag innovation in favor of the status quo. They're lobbying, some say, has ...
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Season 1
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Episode 111
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50:40
This Week in Cleantech (7/26/2024) - Can solar survive another supply glut?
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 Financial Times' Brett Christophers, who reported on China's expon...
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Season 1
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Episode 110
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17:16
Can a utility lead the energy transition? Inside the rebirth of PG&E
Five years ago, PG&E's reputation was shattered. California's largest utility had filed for bankruptcy after admitted missteps led to catastrophic wildfires. The climate crisis had wreaked havoc in the state most committed to fighting it. <...
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Season 1
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Episode 109
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51:03
This Week in Cleantech (7/19/2024) - Storms batter the world's power grids
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 Heatmap writer Katie Brigham, who reported on rising interest in so...
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Season 1
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Episode 109
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17:49
Hype aside, virtual power plants are breaking through
Virtual power plants were always doomed to fall into clean tech's notorious hype cycle. There are plenty of reasons for that, but start with the name. 'Virtual power plant' means everything and nothing all at once. Then there's the orig...
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Season 1
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Episode 108
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39:08
This Week in Cleantech (6/28/2024) - AI could strain the grid, or make it a lot smarter
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 Semafor climate and energy editor Tim McDonnell, who reported on AI...
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Season 1
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Episode 108
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