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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 editor-in-chief John Engel 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
155 episodes
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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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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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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15:54
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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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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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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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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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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27:49
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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17:32
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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16:44
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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29:26
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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18:49
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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