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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

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18:21

This Week in Cleantech (03/13/2026) - Can this new...

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2026/03/13

Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey. This week's episode features special guest Chuck McCutcheon from Axios, who wrote about a new coalition of companies, including tech giants like Google and Tesla, which is aiming to make better use of underutilized capacity on the U.S. power grid This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is S...

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36:09

From reactive to predictive: Reimagining wildfire...

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2026/03/09

Tell us what you think of the show! The energy landscape has entered a volatile era of climate disruption. Regions once considered safe now face the devastating reality of escalating wildfires and extreme weather. In this episode, we sit down with Don McPhail, VP of Market Development at eSmart Systems, to discuss why traditional, asset-focused mitigation is no longer enough for utilities across the United States. We explore the critical shift to community-first resilience models, where prot...

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20:20

This Week in Cleantech (03/06/2026) - Is the MAGA...

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2026/03/06

Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey. This week's episode features special guest Evan Halper from the Washington Post, who wrote about some MAGA figures who are warming to solar despite Donald Trump’s longstanding criticism of it. This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is David Jankowsky, CEO of Francis Energy. Francis Energy ...

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23:43

This Week in Cleantech (02/27/2026) - Clean energy...

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2026/02/27

Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey. This week's episode features special guest Elizabeth Weise from USA Today, who wrote about how clean energy bans are "skyrocketing" under the second Trump administration. This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is Gonzalo Castro de la Mata, Executive Director at Earthna, who recently publis...

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26:36

How utilities are transitioning from short-term...

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2026/02/23

Tell us what you think of the show! With global energy demand at an all-time high, battery storage is evolving from a flexible filler into a critical grid resource. Success in this new era depends less on the hardware itself and more on the digital intelligence used to run it. By leveraging a digital layer to optimize the economics of battery assets, utilities are now rethinking BESS as a high-value, GW-scale engine for reliability and market participation. To understand what this means on a...

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19:24

This Week in Cleantech (02/20/2026) - Putting retired...

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2026/02/23

Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey. This week's episode features special guest Arcelia Martin from Inside Climate News, who wrote about how Texas is using hundreds of retired, repurposed EV batteries as grid-connected energy storage. This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is David Kirkpatrick, Managing Director at SJF ...

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14:49

This Week in Cleantech (02/13/2026) - Trump removes...

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2026/02/13

Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey. This week's episode features special guest Matthew Daly from The Associated Press, who wrote about how the EPA has rescinded the 2009 “endangerment finding,” the scientific and legal basis under the Clean Air Act that allowed the federal government to regulate greenhouse gas emissions to ...

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32:27

Prioritizing affordability while modernizing the...

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2026/02/09

Tell us what you think of the show! As energy demand reaches historic levels, the utility industry needs to build a 21st-century grid while also keeping monthly bills affordable for the average family. What does it mean to do so on a practical level? To find out, we connected with Exelon EVP and COO Mike Innocenzo. Drawing on a career that began as a field engineer, he explains why affordability has become the starting point for every conversation at Exelon. He shares how the company navigat...

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13:56

This Week in Cleantech (02/06/2026) - Can this safer...

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2026/02/06

Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey. This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is Monika Gerhart, executive director at Gulf States Renewable Energy Industries Association, who is championing clean energy benefits and opportunities in a region well known for its fossil fuel legacy. Monika orchestrated an event last week where va...

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23:48

This Week in Cleantech (01/30/2026) - How much can...

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2026/01/30

Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey. This week's episode features special guest Jon Chesto from The Boston Globe, who wrote about new questions about how dependable Canadian hydropower will be during severe winter storms. This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is Andrew Beebe, Managing Director at Obvious Ventures. This week,...

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39:42

PG&E defines a new utility model for data centers,...

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2026/01/26

Tell us what you think of the show! The scale of energy demand in Northern California has reached a historic inflection point. With a 10 GW pipeline of data center demand—enough load to power more than 7.5 million homes—utility planners at Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) are navigating a high-stakes race against time, infrastructure limits, and the laws of physics. To better understand how PG&E is turning these challenges into opportunities, we connected with two people who are doing...

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20:37

This Week in Cleantech (01/23/2026) - What's a life...

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2026/01/23

Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey. This week's episode features special guest Maxine Joselow from the New York Times, who wrote about the EPA's decision to stop assigning a dollar value to lives saved in cost-benefit analyses for major air pollution rules. This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is funeral director Eric Cham...

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17:36

This Week in Cleantech (01/16/2026) - Can American...

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2026/01/16

Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey. This week's episode features special guest Nico Rivero from the Washington Post, who wrote about how the rapid growth of grid-scale batteries in the U.S. is likely to pause in 2026. This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is Darian Nagle-Gamm, Iowa City’s transportation director, who is als...

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39:55

Meghan Dewey helps define a human-centric utility at...

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2026/01/12

Tell us what you think of the show! As the Senior Vice President of Products & Services and Pricing Solutions at Duke Energy, Meghan Dewey oversees a portfolio that generates over $1.5 billion in annual revenue. But for her, the true metric of success isn't about spreadsheets or numbers but is instead about empowering the people on both sides of a utility bill. Meghan sits at the intersection of massive corporate scale and human-centric innovation. From the Emerging Technology Office and...

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23:20

This Week in Cleantech (01/09/2026) - Time for a...

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2026/01/09

Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey. This week's episode features special guest Ivan Penn from The New York Times, who wrote about surging optimism for nuclear power in the U.S. This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is Mariangela Hungria, a Brazilian agronomist and microbiologist who won the 2025 World Food Prize for her wor...

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25:37

This Week in Cleantech (12/19/2025) - Cleantech 2025:...

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2025/12/19

Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey. This week's episode features special guest Dana Clare Redden from our “Cleantecher of the Year” committee, who announced our “Cleantechers of the Year.” This Week in Cleantech — December 19, 2025 Electricity Is Now Holding Back Growth Across the Global Economy — BloombergFord pulls ...

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29:41

How are DER flexibility markets transforming the grid...

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2025/12/15

Tell us what you think of the show! Transforming the grid to meet skyrocketing energy demand isn't just about switching generation sources but is instead about fundamentally redesigning the entire energy market. It's going to require unlocking the true potential of every Distributed Energy Resources (DER) that we have, and integrating them seamlessly into a complex, resilient system. That’s easy to say but exceptionally complicated to do logistically and in a way that makes sense for a...

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19:55

This Week in Cleantech (12/12/2025) - Can these...

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2025/12/12

Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey. This week's episode features special guest Jael Holzman from Heatmap News, who wrote about several senators who came out against the SPEED Act, a bill that would change the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA. This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is Ryan Johnson, the CEO of Culdes...

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22:42

This Week in Cleantech (12/05/2025) - 'Amid the...

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2025/12/05

Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey. This week's episode features special guest Justin Worland at TIME Magazine, who wrote about the fires that hit Los Angeles in January 2025, and how to prevent similar disasters in the future. This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is Josh Silverman, the CEO of Windfall Bio, which fig...

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23:29

This Week in Cleantech (11/21/2025) - Oil industry...

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2025/11/21

Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate in 15 minutes or less featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey. This week's episode features special guest Amy Harder from Axios, who wrote about an oil industry lobbying group spending big to advertise during Paramount’s second season of “Landman." This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is Glenna Gannon, an assistant professor at...

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