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The ZENERGY Podcast: Energy Leadership, Finance, and Technology

The Zenergy Podcast interviews global energy leaders, featuring guests such as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy David Turk, former National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy, former EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, and founders of leading financial firms like DBL Partners and Spring Lane Capital. Past guests also include founders of major energy and automotive companies. These conversations share industry developments, highlight clean tech investment opportunities, and provide guidance for young

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01:10:16

Jon Glass | Senior Technology-to-Market Advisor, DOE...

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2024/11/28

Welcome to The Zenergy Podcast. Today, host Karan Takhar sits down with Jon Glass, Senior Technology-to-Market Advisor at the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy or ARPA-E. They discuss his role at ARPA-E and how the opportunity to work there came about as well as what inspired him to do this kind of work. Jon shares an overview of ARPA-E’s process, how companies or academics can get involved, and how much weight ARPA-E puts on which early-stage companies have the

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00:53:11

Rob Day | Co-Founder of Spring Lane Capital

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2024/11/21

Welcome to The Zenergy Podcast! Today, Karan interviews Rob Day, Co-Founder of Spring Lane Capital. Rob and Karan discuss how Rob and his partner founded Spring Lane Capital, what the process was like raising the first fund, and how the company bridges investment gaps in the market. They start of with a lighthearted lightning round of questions then continue with the origin story of Spring Lane Capital and lead into a breakdown of the types of financing rounds entrepreneurs go through. They also

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00:49:52

Amanda Leland | Executive Director, Environmental...

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2024/11/14

Welcome to The Zenergy Podcast. Today, Karan speaks with Amanda Leland, Executive Director at the Environmental Defense Fund. They talk about her work at the EDF, including what inspires her to stay at the organization for as long as she has, and they discuss the advice she’d give herself at various increments throughout her career journey. They discuss the launching of MethaneSAT, the genesis of the project, and the exciting data it will soon provide. Amanda gives insight on how the EDF is

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00:56:17

Dimitry Gershenson | CEO & Co-Founder, Enduring Planet

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2024/11/07

Welcome to The Zenergy podcast! On today’s episode, Karan Takhar speaks with Dimitry Gershenson, CEO & Co-Founder of Enduring Planet. They discuss Dimitry's time living in Kenya and India and how that shaped his perspective on how to approach climate solutions. Dimitry then walks us through the founding of Enduring Planet and the gap in the market they are filling using their unique funding model. Karan and Dimitry discuss Enduring Planet's idea of lending against grants, the average ticket size

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00:37:04

Yasmeen Shaheen-McConnell | Senior Advisor for the...

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2024/10/31

On today's episode, Karan Takhar sits down with Yasmeen Shaheen-McConnell, Senior Advisor for the American Climate Corps, AmeriCorps. Yasmeen shares the origin story of the American Climate Corps and how she got involved. They speak about how the Corps recruits its members, how its structured, who can apply, and how an organization wishing to partner with the ACC can do so. Yasmeen then shares how she has been inspired during her time there and how she sees the ACC evolving in the next 5 to 10

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00:57:44

Nancy Pfund | Founder & Managing Partner, DBL Partners

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2024/10/24

As a pioneer in impact investing, Nancy has demonstrated the potential of venture capital to drive social change and environmental improvements. She is an active voice in the field, frequently writing and speaking on impact investing topics. Nancy serves on the boards of several companies, including Zola Electric, Bellwether Coffee, and Farmers Business Network, and has previously worked with Tesla Motors, SolarCity, and Pandora before their public offerings. Before founding DBL, she was a Managing

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00:30:48

Adam James | Partner, Energy Impact Partners

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2024/10/17

Adam James is a Partner at Energy Impact Partners, where he leads the firm’s Customer Experience team and the Impact and Sustainability team. Adam joined EIP from Tesla where he worked on global business operations. Prior to Tesla, he was the Deputy Director at SolarCity, supporting global market expansion including business development, M&A, and utility partnerships. Adam previously held roles with GTM Research and at the Center for American Progress. Adam is also a Board Member at the Clean

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00:45:48

Dr. Jonathan Foley, Ph.D. | Executive Director,...

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2024/10/10

Climate change is driven by emissions from various human activities such as burning fossil fuels, manufacturing cement and steel, plowing soils, and clearing forests. These actions release carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gasses into the atmosphere, which trap heat and contribute to global warming. Methane, particularly from cattle, rice fields, landfills, and fossil fuel operations, is a potent greenhouse gas that accelerates climate change. In addition to human activities,

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00:27:44

Dr. Michael Mann | Climate Scientist and Bestselling...

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2024/10/03

Dr. Michael E. Mann is a Presidential Distinguished Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he directs the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media. He holds degrees in Physics, Applied Math, and Geology & Geophysics from UC Berkeley and Yale. His work focuses on Earth's climate system, particularly human-caused climate change, and he has played a significant role in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) efforts.Throughout his career, Dr. Mann has

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00:32:46

Laura Mondragon | Director for Climate Resilience,...

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2024/09/26

The Montgomery County Green Bank is a publicly chartered 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation dedicated to accelerating energy efficiency, renewable energy, and clean energy investment in Montgomery County, MD. They partner with the private sector to provide more affordable and flexible financing options for County residents and businesses for clean energy and climate-resilient projects. These projects save energy, lower greenhouse gas emissions, create healthy living and working environments, foster a

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00:36:05

Chair Frederick H. Hoover and Commissioner Kumar P....

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2024/09/19

The mission of the Maryland Public Service Commission is to ensure safe, reliable, and economic public utility and transportation service to the citizens of Maryland. Today’s guests are Chair Frederick Hoover and Commissioner Kumar Barve.Frederick H. Hoover was appointed Chair of the Maryland Public Service Commission by Governor Wes Moore for a five-year term beginning on July 1, 2023. He most recently served as Assistant People’s Counsel in the Maryland Office of People’s Counsel, representing

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00:36:42

John Adler | Chief ESG Officer

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2024/09/12

The New York City Comptroller’s office works to promote the financial health, integrity, and effectiveness of New York City government, in order to strengthen trust, secure a thriving future for all New Yorkers, and build a more just, equitable, and resilient city. Led by an independently-elected citywide official, the Comptroller’s office provides checks and balances needed to hold City government accountable for budgeting wisely, investing responsibly, operating efficiently, acting fairly, living

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00:34:12

Amir Chireh Mehr | Senior Investment Director,...

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2024/09/07

Elemental Excelerator is a nonprofit investor focused on scaling climate technologies with deep community impact. They bring more than a decade of experience across the climate sector, with an active and maturing portfolio of more than 150+ companies. Elemental fills two gaps fundamental to addressing climate change: funding projects for climate technologies in communities, and embedding equity and access into climate solutions. They invest in transformative technologies to create a system change

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00:31:37

Tristan Bel | Platform Director, URBAN-X

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2024/08/29

The URBAN-X platform provides tailor-made programming, connections and resources to early-stage founders. Founders in their portfolio tackle some of the toughest challenges that cities face today as they confront a new climate reality.As mechanical engineer, Tristan Bel first designed packaging machines, medical equipment, and consumer goods, and then managed products and operations for a non-profit organization. He moved to New York City in 2010 to focus on innovation and early-stage

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00:40:57

Dr. Julie Pullen | Founding Partner and Chief...

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2024/08/22

To stave off the worst effects of the climate crisis we must leverage our greatest ally, the ocean. To do so with the speed needed to meet this moment, we need to build companies—with repeatable, scalable business models—that can achieve global impact. This is our collective challenge, and our great opportunity.Dr. Julie Pullen is an oceanographer and meteorologist focused on climate resilience, earth system prediction, AI, and climate tech. She is currently a founding partner and Chief Scientist

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00:31:03

Kaitlin Butler | Vice President for Business...

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2024/08/15

NY Green Bank is a New York State-sponsored investment fund dedicated to filling financing gaps in clean energy and sustainable infrastructure markets. Their investments contribute to greenhouse gas emissions reductions, energy efficiency, clean energy generation, and the mobilization of private capital in key market sectors. NY Green Bank uses public capital to mobilize private investment into underserved green sectors, filling market gaps and advancing public climate targets, with the goal of

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00:30:16

Quincy Edmund Lee | Founder & CEO at Electric Era

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2024/08/09

Transitioning the global car refill supply chain to electric will take decades of focused and intense work to solve the fundamental engineering challenges required to generate, store, transmit, and distribute electricity for a global fleet of electric cars. The mission is to decarbonize and electrify transportation by powering all of EV charging.Quincy Lee, Co-Founder and CEO of Electric Era, started his professional career as a mechanical engineer at SpaceX. Applying the skills he learned for

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00:35:16

Eoin Ó hÓgáin | Partner and Chief Investment Officer,...

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2024/08/02

What does it take to scale sustainable technologies from promising ideas to world-changing solutions? That's the challenge at the heart of today's discussion on sustainable energy and climate innovation. Today, we're thrilled to have Eoin Ó hÓgáin, Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Power Sustainable, joining us.With over 20 years of experience in the energy and climate sector, Eoin brings a wealth of knowledge from his roles at Morgan Stanley, McKinsey & Company, and now Power

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00:31:29

Cristina Shoffner | Senior Manager, US Policy and...

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2024/07/26

Getting to zero by 2050 might be the most difficult challenge humanity has ever taken on. That’s because nearly everything we do in our daily lives contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, from how we plug in to how we grow things, make things, get around, and stay cool and warm.Breakthrough Energy is committed to supporting new technologies that change the way we live, eat, work, travel, and make things so we can avoid the most devastating impacts of climate change. Cristina Shoffner manages

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00:29:29

Jared Yarnell-Schane | Director of Innovation,...

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2024/07/19

Biomimicry is a practice that learns from and mimics the strategies found in nature to solve human design challenges in a regenerative way. The Biomimicry Institute empowers people to create nature-inspired solutions for a healthy planet. Their goal today is for biomimicry to become a natural part of the design process, to create a new generation of innovators who support all life on this planet.Jared brings his entrepreneurial background and startup coaching experience to the Biomimicry Institute,

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