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Connecting the Energy Transition One Conversation at a Time.

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Ep. 66 -Pieter Waller - Chargetrip

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2023/04/06

The Air BnB of EV Charging… If that’s not an audacious enough goal, then Pieter Waller wouldn’t be here on the latest episode of The Power Connect. We caught up with the Dutch Entrepreneur and Founder of Chargetrip, a range prediction and EV routing platform that has dominated Europe’s EV scene and is poised to do the same here in the United States. Waller, who ran a consulting firm and had started several tech and online businesses prior to Chargetrip, was at the EV Charging Summit and Expo last

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Ep. 65 - EV Charging Summit - Daniel Segal - Simon...

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2023/03/28

With some of the most iconic shopping centers under its belt, Simon Property Group has staked its claim as one of the premier shopping destinations in the United States thanks to ‘billions of dollars’ spent upgrading and enhancing the shopping experience in recent years. For Daniel Segal, VP Of Business Development at Simon Property Group, that now includes adding EV Charging to that mix and across their expansive real estate holdings. Segal details some of the players they’ve teamed up with

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Ep. 64 - EV Charging Summit - Merill Morse

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2023/03/27

She’s been working on this conference aka Summit for nearly a year and the culmination of her work is almost here as Merill Morse joins the program to talk behind the scenes of this year’s EV Charging Summit and Expo. This is the second installment of the event but it’s the first time in person and Morse and her team have done an incredible job putting together the most important EV Charging event of the year together - and it’s in Las Vegas. More details why they chose Vegas, why the event is so

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Ep. 63 - EV Charging Summit - Josh Aviv - SparkCharge

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2023/03/24

Bigger than the Beatles? Depends on your metrics. Josh Aviv can say for one night he was bigger than arguably the greatest band of all time as the Founder and CEO of mobile EV charging startup Sparkcharge pitched his company on the powerhouse show ‘Shark Tank’ and outdrew a Beatles documentary that ran that same night. But let’s not bury the lede as Aviv, a Syracuse graduate who started Sparkcharge in his dorm room, now boasts more than 60 employees and is one of the fastest-growing mobile charging

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Ep. 62 - EV Charging Summit - Andreas Lips -Shell...

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2023/03/23

The goals are ambitious but it’s not surprising coming from one of the largest and most iconic energy companies in the world. Shell Recharge Solutions, a subsidiary of Shell, is poised to add nearly half-a-million EV Chargers globally in the next 2 years — and the man behind it says that’s just the start. Andreas Lips, CEO of Shell Recharge Solutions, will be on the Keynote Panel on Thursday, March 30th at the EV Charging Summit in Vegas. As part of our Speaker Series with EVCS, Lips gives listeners

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Ep. 61 - EV Charging Summit - John Doran -Plugin...

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2023/03/21

No Risk, No Reward. That axiom remains true in business and life but for John Doran, the risk was especially great considering he was walking away from a stable teaching career, tenure, benefits and a six-figure salary - with two kids. The Native New Yorker and Owner of Plugin Station Online (PISO) not only took the leap, but now runs one of the most successful EV Charging Station installation companies in the Northeast and will share his knowledge at this year’s EV Charging Summit. Doran talks

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Ep. 60 - EV Charging Summit -Joachim Lohse - Ampcontrol

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2023/03/14

Thanks to a nudge from his big brother, Joachim Lohse and his team at Ampcontrol are changing the way fleets are electrifying. The German-born Lohse shares his exceptional story that will resonate with current and wannabe entrepreneurs on how Ampcontrol came to be - and will be on display at this year’s EV Charging Summit and Expo in Las Vegas Mar. 29-31. Lohse gets into how Ampcontrol manages EV Charging loads and more for fleets, the evolution of the company and how different it is now versus when

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Ep. 59 - EV Charging Summit - Charlotte Fagan -...

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2023/03/02

We continue our EV Charging Summit and Expo Series and welcome Charlotte Fagan from National Grid. A dynamic speaker with an impressive - and global - background in sustainability, Charlotte details:How National Grid is thinking both near and long term when it comes to EV Charging InfrastructureThe importance of Transmission and Distribution and its impactThe difference between East Coast and West Coast Sustainability attitudes and policiesWhat the rest of the country can learn from Vegas - and no -

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Ep. 58 - Jack Doueck - EMC 19 Preview

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2023/02/27

The Bruce Springsteen of the Energy Biz makes his way to The Power Connect podcast to talk all things Energy Marketing Conference and the state of the energy markets as we welcome the incomparable Jack Doueck to the program. A 20+ year veteran of energy and entrepreneur who runs and invests in businesses across the energy landscape, Jack details how this current power market compares to the most volatile he’s ever seen, the state of renewables and their place in the power market and why the theme

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Ep. 57 - EV Charging Summit - Irina Filippova -...

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2023/02/21

The Power Connect is back and we’re taking you to the EV Charging Summit and Expo where Fred Davis will host, MC and interview as part of the three-day affair in Las Vegas from March 29-31. As a lead up to the Summit - we’re sitting down with different speakers from the event who have established themselves as key voices and operators in the EV Charging sector. We start with Irina Filippova, Chief Operating Officer from Electrada. Irina gives us a quick glimpse at the state of Fleet EV Charging, the

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Ep. 56 - Phoebe Yu & Kat Dey - Ettitude

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2022/12/13

The Bedding and Sleepwear industry will never be the same. Climate Tech and sustainability is invading the textile space as well and entrepreneurs Phoebe Yu and Kat Dey have teamed up with a clean take on bamboo fabric that’s both good for the environment and remarkably comfortable with their Eco-friendly with an attitude bedding and sleepwear company - Ettitude. The two paired up nearly five years ago as Yu was looking for a US partner and met marketing guru and veteran startup founder Dey. The

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Ep. 55 - Brad Wills - Schneider Electric

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2022/12/07

It’s the biggest company you’ve heard of but didn’t know they exactly how important they are — 30-year Schneider Veteran Brad Wills stopped by The Power Connect to break down the next great conquest for the Electric Giant. Wills, Schneider’s Director for Strategic Customers and Programs, talks about how the traditional B2B company is taking its expertise in that market and venturing into the B2C market and is primed to ‘explode.’ Working with the Top 100 Builders in the United States, Wills

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Ep. 54 - Kevin Kushman - Electrada

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2022/12/02

While money was already flowing into the clean tech and renewable spaces even before the Government dumped another $394 Billy in tax breaks and new money — the stage is being set for who survives, who won’t make the cut and perhaps most importantly - who will stand out and lead in their sector. Well, if you’re taking bets - put some action on Electrada and their CEO Kevin Kushman. A 25-year veteran of the data, analytics and clean tech and DER space, Kushman is leading a savvy group of energy

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Ep. 53 - Harald Overholm - Alight Energy

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2022/11/25

While nicknames are the norm in Sports Radio - energy podcasting doesn’t quite lend itself to coining the movers and shakers in the energy space - but we did that with our guest today - the Godfather of the PPA in Europe - Dr. Harald Overholm - the found and CEO of Alight Energy. The leader in PPAs in Europe, Overholm tells us how he’s always been destined to make moves in clean energy, why the United States has the best entrepreneurs in the world, whether or not Alight will ever venture into the US

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Ep. 52 - Buck Martinez - Student ACES

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2022/11/23

There’s a reason former athletes often go on to great business careers thanks to years of training and mental preparation. Buck Martinez is no exception as the former college baseball player carved out a 35-year career as an executive with Florida Power & Light and helped usher in an era of renewables for the utility giant before they were widely accepted as they are now. Martinez dishes on what made the change at FPL so dramatic, how bringing in non-energy professionals helped change the

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Ep. 51 - Neal Dikeman - ETV - Pt. II

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2022/11/17

We continue on with all things Neal Dikeman in the second part of our conversation with the long-time entrepreneur, CleanTech veteran and political upstart. You can catch Part One here. We may not see the political upstart aspect anytime soon, we’ll let Neal tell you about that, but in today’s episode he dives into the origins of CleanTech, why Silicon Valley and Houston need to communicate more and how the two very different ecosystems complement each other well. Neal gives us insight into what he

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Ep. 50 - Neal Dikeman - ETV - Pt. I

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2022/11/07

We celebrate the half century mark of the podcast with one of the best minds and pioneers of the Clean Tech space - the incomparable Mr. Neal Dikeman. One the most colorful characters in the energy space, Neal, a proud Texas A&M Aggie (haven’t met one that isn’t yet in fairness), shares how he couldn’t get a job out of college to how he found his way to Silicon Valley and now uses a lot of the same principles and processes today as he’s one part of the Clean Tech Venture Capital Firm - Energy

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Ep. 49 - Jaime Andres Diez - Texas RRC Candidate

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2022/11/06

Jaime Andres Diez is fighting an uphill battle but it wouldn’t be the first time he’s come from nowhere to posing a legitimate political challenge, albeit this time on a much larger stage. The 26-year-old Libertarian candidate for the Texas Railroad Commission seat is battling against Republican incumbent Wayne Christian and upstart Democratic candidate Luke Warford. Diez is not necessarily a political neophyte, having taken second in a school board race in his native Brownsville. However the stakes

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Ep. 48 - John Belizaire - Soluna

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2022/11/03

A Jack-of-All trades on a mission for mastery - John Belizaire has a knack for starting businesses in some of the most difficult and cut-throat industries in American business - and thriving. The native New Yorker has been a serial entrepreneur in the insurance and finance spaces and then at the behest of a mentor and investor colleague, took his knack for solving problems to the energy space and is now running one of the fastest-growing companies in energy - Soluna. Determined to show the world

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Ep. 47 - Andrejka Bernatova - ESGEN

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2022/10/31

There’s no guess work with Andrejka Bernatova. This brilliant energy mind has deliberately carved out her path since she was a child when she fundraised $6k dollars to fulfill her dream of coming to the United States from her native Czechoslovakia. Not only did she make it, but she’s crisscrossed the globe since, worked for some of the most prestigious institutions - and attended - in the world and now sits on several boards in both the clean tech and oil and gas industries. She’s currently running

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