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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…
Episodes
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This Week in Cleantech (03/21/2025) - Getting 'forever chemicals' out of the chips race
Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or…
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This Week in Cleantech (03/14/2025) - Emergency powers to restart coal plants?
Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or…
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This Week in Cleantech (03/07/2025) - Trump's tariffs make things complicated
Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or…
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This Week in Cleantech (02/28/2025) - How the solar power industry is rebranding to meet an ‘energy dominance’ edict
Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or…
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This Week in Cleantech (02/21/2025) - White House targets environmental permitting rules
Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or…
Factor ThisThe software that could save the grid
Tell us what you think of the show! Sponsored by OATI The energy industry loves a shiny new object. Distributed energy resource management systems, or DERMS…
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This Week in Cleantech (02/14/2025) - Trump's 'unpredictability' shakes investors
Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or…
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This Week in Cleantech (02/07/2025) - Renewables permitting has been 'paralyzed' by Trump
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This Week in Cleantech (01/24/2025) - Trump's 'energy emergency'
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This Week in Cleantech (01/17/2025) - Solar sales burnout
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This Week in Cleantech (01/10/2025) - Climate trends to watch in 2025
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Factor ThisThis Week in Cleantech (12/20/2024) - The 'age of electrons'
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This Week in Cleantech (12/13/2024) - Trump's 'all of the above' energy approach
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This Week in Cleantech (12/06/2024) - A 'new climate era'
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This Week in Cleantech (11/22/2024) - Will the U.S. ever compete on lithium?
Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes…
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This Week in Cleantech (11/15/2024) - How will climate tech adapt under Trump?
Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes…
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This Week in Cleantech (11/08/2024) - How will clean energy fare under a second Trump term?
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This Week in Cleantech (11/01/2024) - Who benefits the most from the IRA?
Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes…
Factor ThisThis Week in Cleantech (10/18/2024) - Big Tech revives nuclear (and coal, too)
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This Week in Cleantech (10/11/2024) - A flooded solar supply chain
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Greetings from Asheville. We need your help.
Tell us what you think of the show! Hello, Factor This! listeners. This is John Engel, editor-in-chief of Renewable Energy World and POWERGRID International…
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This Week in Cleantech (9/30/2024) - Interest rates and climate change
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This Week in Cleantech - Live from RE+ 2024
Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes…
Factor ThisThis Week in Cleantech (9/6/24) — Cleantech hits a rough patch
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Can we collaborate? Utilities and developers work to mend fences
Tell us what you think of the show! The energy transition was always going to produce some form of tension. That isn't altogether negative— friction keeps a…
Factor ThisThis Week in Cleantech (8/30/24) — Does clean energy need a Marshall Plan?
Tell us what you think of the show! his Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes…
Factor ThisThis Week in Cleantech (8/23/24) — The human side of virtual power plants
Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes…
Factor ThisThis Week in Cleantech (8/16/24) — What are the friendliest states for solar?
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Factor ThisThis Week in Cleantech (8/09/2024) - Turning air conditions into batteries
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Factor ThisThis Week in Cleantech (8/02/2024) - Permitting bill pits clean energy industry against climate activists
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Going inside utilities to scale DERs
Tell us what you think of the show! The energy industry often pits utilities and clean energy advocates as enemies duking it out from opposite corners of the…
Factor ThisThis Week in Cleantech (7/26/2024) - Can solar survive another supply glut?
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Can a utility lead the energy transition? Inside the rebirth of PG&E
Tell us what you think of the show! Five years ago, PG&E's reputation was shattered. California's largest utility had filed for bankruptcy after admitted…
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This Week in Cleantech (7/19/2024) - Storms batter the world's power grids
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Hype aside, virtual power plants are breaking through
Tell us what you think of the show! Virtual power plants were always doomed to fall into clean tech's notorious hype cycle. There are plenty of reasons for…
Factor ThisThis Week in Cleantech (6/28/2024) - AI could strain the grid, or make it a lot smarter
Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes…
Factor ThisThis Week in Cleantech (6/21/24) — What would a Donald Trump victory mean for historic clean energy incentives?
Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes…
Factor ThisThis Week in Cleantech (6/14/24) — Renewable energy projects keep getting bigger
Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes…
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A new solar tariff fight is here. It may be even worse than the last
Tell us what you think of the show! Christian Roselund has a strategy for when a new solar tariff petition drops. Turn off your phone. Then get to reading. Had…
Factor ThisThis Week in Cleantech (6/7/24) — Michigan fights off NIMBY push against clean energy
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Factor ThisThis Week in Cleantech (5/31/24) — How Texas topped California for utility-scale solar
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What FERC did, and didn't, do to jumpstart transmission
Tell us what you think of the show! The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has unveiled landmark new rules in attempt to jumpstart the beleaguered…
Factor ThisThis Week in Cleantech (5/17/24) — Biden slaps new tariffs on Chinese imports
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Factor ThisThis Week in Cleantech (5/10/24) — The giant battery boom is here
Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes…
Factor ThisThis Week in Cleantech (5/3/24) — The EPA is cracking down on power plant emissions. Will it stick?
Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes…
Factor ThisThis Week in Cleantech (4/26/24) — A new solar tariff fight begins
Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes…
Factor ThisThis Week in Cleantech (4/5/24) — The final battle over green hydrogen tax rules
Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes…
Factor ThisThis Week in Cleantech (3/29/24) — Can the White House stop China's clean energy dominance?
Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes…
Factor ThisThis Week in Cleantech (4/22/24) — Wind power has hit a rut. Could a huge plane change its course?
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Factor ThisThis Week in Cleantech (3/15/24) — The debate over rooftop solar
Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes…
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Building a DG unicorn with Nexamp CEO Zaid Ashai
Tell us what you think of the show! Distributed generation doesn't quite grab the headlines like utility-scale. A megawatt here, a few megawatts there pales in…
Factor ThisThis Week in Cleantech (3/8/24) — America's power crunch
Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes…
Factor ThisThis Week in Cleantech (3/2/2024) — LIVE from DISTRIBUTECH International
Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes…
Factor ThisThis Week in Cleantech (2/23/24) — Can Biden win on climate?
Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes…
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Clean energy needs a new bellwether. Who should it be?
Tell us what you think of the show! Most CEOs are deliberate and careful, often neutering commentary of any hint of controversy. Sheldon Kimber is not like…
Factor ThisThis Week in Cleantech (2/16/24) — Virtual power plants still working out the kinks
Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes…
Factor ThisThis Week in Cleantech (2/9/24) — The NIMBY stat that clean energy can't ignore
Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes…
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This Week in Cleantech (2/2/24) — Should we worry about rooftop solar?
Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes…
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Community solar keeps growing. Here's what we still have to figure out
Tell us what you think of the show! By all accounts, community solar looks like an unstoppable force. One of the hottest clean energy sectors continues to…
Factor ThisThis Week in Cleantech (1/26/24) — Biden's climate pitch to young voters
Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes…