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Watt It Takes

Our monthly podcast tells the stories of founders who are building our clean energy abundant future—their upbringings, their risks, their failures, and their breakthroughs that are transforming our world. Subscribe on Spotify or Apple to stay up to date with the latest episodes.

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01:04:35

Nest Co-Founder Matt Rogers

Watt It Takes ·

2021/04/06

In this episode: Emily’s conversation with Matt Rogers, the co-founder of Nest.Nest is best known for its elegant learning thermostat, the first major breakout hit in the smart home space. Google later acquired the company for $3.2 billion. Matt is a former Apple engineer who applied design principles from the iPod and the iPad to smart thermostats — jolting an industry badly in need of change.This conversation was recorded live at Powerhouse’s headquarters in 2019. We’re brought to you by Google

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00:51:11

Solstice CEO Steph Speirs

Watt It Takes ·

2021/04/06

In this episode: Emily’s conversation with Steph Speirs, the CEO of Solstice.Solstice is a community-solar company with a mission to bring clean electricity to underserved communities.Steph Speirs grew up as one of three kids, a first generation immigrant, in Hawaii. She knows what poverty can feel like, or how a poor credit score can sink a human being.Steph wanted to use her seat at the table to make room for others. Solstice’s motto is “Solar for every American.”This conversation was recorded in

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01:17:21

Executive Producer Stephen Lacey

Watt It Takes ·

2021/04/06

In this episode: Emily’s conversation with Stephen Lacey, the founder of Post Script Audio.Stephen has been the creative force behind many of the top podcasts about climate change and clean energy. And, he also happens to be our executive producer. He’s been making podcasts about the energy transition since 2006. This was the dawn of on-demand audio and the modern clean energy industry—and he had a front-row seat to both.The conversation was recorded in front of a live, remote audience in December

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00:48:38

EVgo CEO Cathy Zoi

Watt It Takes ·

2021/04/06

In this episode: Emily’s conversation with Cathy Zoi, the CEO of EVgo — one of the country’s largest electric vehicle charging networks.Cathy has seen it all. She’s studied and worked in oil, gas and clean energy since the Reagan Era. Now at the helm of EVgo, she’s convinced the future of mobility is coming fast. Cathy was on the team that developed the original Energy Star rating when she worked at the Environmental Protection Agency. She was chief of staff in the White House Office on

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00:56:52

Bloomberg New Energy Finance Founder Michael Liebreich

Watt It Takes ·

2021/04/06

In this episode: Emily’s conversation with Michael Liebreich, the founder of Bloomberg New Energy Finance.Michael had been many things, from entry-level analyst to Olympic skier to a crestfallen dot-com entrepreneur. And then in the mid-2000s, he found his home in the clean energy economy.Unemployed, he used a team of interns to begin compiling data on clean energy investment. And that turned into a 140-employee business that Bloomberg LP purchased in 2009. This conversation was recorded in front of

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00:52:38

Opower Co-Founder Dan Yates

Watt It Takes ·

2021/04/06

In this episode: Emily’s conversation with Dan Yates, the co-founder and former CEO of Opower. Opower was based on a simple premise: send paper mailers to utility customers comparing their electricity use to their neighbors. And if people saw they were doing poorly, they’d make changes. It worked.Over time, Opower inked deals with the world’s biggest power companies and started processing vast amounts of smart meter data -- making it arguably the biggest energy efficiency success story in business

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00:53:17

Natel Energy Co-Founder Gia Schneider

Watt It Takes ·

2021/04/06

In this episode: Emily’s conversation with Gia Schneider, the co-founder and CEO of Natel Energy.Natel is commercializing a turbine for low-head hydro applications—at locations like old dams, irrigation canals and run-of-river projects. And it’s designed to protect wildlife and drastically cut the ecological impact of hydropower. Gia has a long history in energy. She worked at Constellation Energy and in Accenture’s utility practice. She started the energy and carbon trading desks at Credit Suisse

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01:07:27

Otherlab Founder Saul Griffith

Watt It Takes ·

2021/04/06

In this episode: Emily’s conversation with Saul Griffith, the founder and chief scientist at Otherlab. Otherlab is an R&D incubator and accelerator that helps pair startups in robotics and renewable energy with government labs and corporate investors. It has partnered with NASA, the Navy, the Department of Energy, Google, Facebook, GE and Ford to help build and fund projects in energy, automation, and robotics in service of 100% decarbonization.Saul has a PhD in materials science and information

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01:07:19

Blueprint Power Co-Founder Robyn Beavers

Watt It Takes ·

2021/04/06

In this episode: Emily’s conversation with Robyn Beavers, the co-founder and CEO of Blueprint Power.Blueprint works with real estate companies to turn their buildings into power plants. It has a piece of software that helps building owners optimize their use of co-generation, fuel cells, solar or batteries.Robin has a long history in the tech, real estate, and the energy world. This conversation was recorded in January 2020 in front of a live audience at Powerhouse’s headquarters in Oakland, CAThis

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01:06:53

Imprint Energy Co-Founder Dr. Christine Ho

Watt It Takes ·

2021/04/06

In this episode: Emily’s conversation with Dr. Christine Ho, the co-founder and CEO of Imprint Energy.Imprint is the company created to commercialize Christine’s invention: a tiny, zinc-based solid-state battery that can be screen printed. It’s being integrated into sensors and other tiny devices, helping power the internet-of-things.Today, Imprint is licensing its technology to multiple manufacturers, and it’s printed hundreds of thousands of batteries.This conversation was recorded in 2020 at

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00:56:26

Opus 12 Co-Founder Dr. Etosha Cave

Watt It Takes ·

2021/04/06

In this episode: Emily’s conversation with Dr. Etosha Cave, the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Opus 12.Opus 12 is a team of engineers, electrochemists and materials scientists working on a technology that converts carbon dioxide into usable products. If the tech works at commercial scale, it would be a vital solution for slashing CO2 from industrial sources. The company has brought in about $20 million in funding. This conversation was recorded in 2019 in front of a live audience at

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01:01:31

Form Energy Co-Founder Mateo Jaramillo

Watt It Takes ·

2021/04/06

In this episode: Emily’s conversation with Mateo Jaramillo, the co-founder and CEO of Form Energy.Form is working on a new kind of long-duration battery that could change the power sector. In the early 2000s, Mateo deployed some of the first battery systems in New York for demand response — seeing the grid services potential well before anyone else did. He went on to start the storage unit at Tesla, launching and building the Powerwall business. This conversation was recorded in 2019 in front of a

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01:04:45

Zola Electric Co-Founder Xavier Helgesen

Watt It Takes ·

2021/04/06

In this episode: Emily’s conversation with Xavier Helgesen, the co-founder and former CEO of Zola Electric. Zola is a provider of solar and storage systems in Africa. Since its founding in 2012 as Off-Grid Electric, the company has served over a million people with clean power in five countries.Over the years, Zola has evolved from a small, scrappy startup that offered basic energy packages into a hardware software company that installs sleek, scalable power systems that rival the grid in

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01:07:09

StreetLight Data Founder Laura Schewel

Watt It Takes ·

2021/04/06

In this episode: Emily’s conversation with Laura Schewel, the founder and CEO of StreetLight Data.While at UC Berkeley, Laura got interested giving EV owners more information about how they were driving their cars. She ended up uncovering a data gold mine in the process. Laura built a company that now processes over 100 billion data points and provides transportation and urban planners with a granular view of how roads, bike lanes and sidewalks are being used.This conversation was recorded in 2019

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00:59:22

Sila Nanotechnologies Co-Founder Gene Berdichevsky

Watt It Takes ·

2021/04/06

In this episode: Emily’s conversation with Gene Berdichevsky, the co-founder and CEO of Sila Nanotechnologies. Sila is developing a new lithium-ion battery chemistry that uses silicon in place of graphite, leading to an improvement in battery density by 20 percent. Gene was the seventh employee at Tesla, where he developed the Roadster’s battery. For the last nine years, his team at Sila has been working on a drop-in replacement for today’s lithium-ion batteries. This conversation was recorded in

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00:33:27

Dandelion Co-Founder Kathy Hannun

Watt It Takes ·

2021/04/06

In this episode: Emily’s conversation with Kathy Hannun, the co-founder and president of Dandelion.Dandelion is a company reinventing home geothermal systems. The company uses a proprietary drilling technique, simple product design, and financing to cut the cost of ground-source heating and cooling.For seven years, Kathy was on a team at Alphabet X — formerly Google X — evaluating technology moonshots. That’s where she stumbled upon the opportunity in home geothermal.This conversation was recorded

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00:49:39

Solar Technology Veteran Terry Jester

Watt It Takes ·

2021/04/06

In this episode: Emily’s conversation with Terry Jester, a solar technology veteran.Terry has seen it all in her four-decade career in solar and electronics. As both an engineer and an executive, she’s learned that timing is everything in the energy business. Terry started her solar career in the late 1970s. She’s since held operations and engineering positions at Shell, Siemens, SunPower, and Solaria — witnessing the initial evolution and eventual explosion of solar firsthand. This conversation was

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01:17:12

Former NRG CEO David Crane

Watt It Takes ·

2021/04/06

In this episode: Emily’s conversation with David Crane, the former CEO of NRG.Today, David is a clean energy investor. Back in 2015, he was CEO of NRG, one of the biggest power producers in America. And he was fired by his board for his ambitious plan to make the company a renewable energy titan.This conversation was recorded in 2019 in front of a live audience at Powerhouse’s headquarters in Oakland, CA. Powerhouse partners with leading corporations and investors to help them lead the next century

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00:58:00

Wunder Capital Co-Founder Bryan Birsic

Watt It Takes ·

2021/04/06

In this episode: Emily’s conversation with Bryan Birsic, the co-founder and former CEO of Wunder Capital.Since its launch in 2014, Wunder has exploded onto the solar scene. It quickly became the top financier in commercial solar—which is a big deal, because commercial solar is extremely hard to finance. But Wunder cracked the code.This conversation was recorded in 2018 in front of a live audience at Powerhouse’s headquarters in Oakland, CA. Powerhouse partners with leading corporations and investors

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00:46:52

Solar Impulse Co-Pilot Bertrand Piccard

Watt It Takes ·

2021/04/06

In this episode: Emily’s conversation with Bertrand Piccard, the co-pilot of Solar Impulse, the first solar-electric plane to circumnavigate the globe.Bertrand is a Swiss aviator who spent 15 years of his life obsessed with flying a solar airplane across the world. He didn’t just see it as a novel technical feat—he wanted to prove the extraordinary capabilities of renewable energy.This conversation was recorded in 2018 at Powerhouse’s headquarters in Oakland, CA. Powerhouse partners with leading

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