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This Week in Cleantech (08/07/2026) - With speed to power in mind, data centers are eyeing fuel cells

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 Heather Clancy from Trellis, who discusses why some data center companies see fuel cells as an attractive option for onsite power. This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is is Aytaç Yilmaz, Co-founder & CEO of Ore Energy. The Amsterdam-based startup just closed a $43 million Series A for its iron-air batteries, which store renewable power for up to 100 hours by rusting and unrusting iron electrodes, no lithium or cobalt required. Ore's also just signed the largest long-duration storage deal in continental Europe, a 1 gigawatt-hour agreement with Dutch utility Budget Thuis. Congratulations, Aytaç! This Week in Cleantech — August 7, 2026 Solar to Soon Pass Coal as China’s Top Power Capacity Source — Bloomberg How Solar Donors Helped Take Down a Trump-Backed Republican –– Politico The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed –– Bloomberg This Is What the New Rush to Mine America Looks Like –– TIME Magazine Why data center companies Equinix and Oracle are buying fuel cells – Trellis Energy policy on your mind? Check out all episodes of the Factor This Policycast

Redefining the utility playbook with PG&E’s Sumeet Singh

Tell us what you think of the show! In an era defined by compounding wildfire risks, rapid digitalization, and unprecedented demand growth, utilities need to redefine their playbook. Sumeet Singh, CEO of Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) and EVP for Energy Delivery, is doing exactly that for one of the country’s largest energy enterprises while both improving local communities and setting an operational benchmark for the wider industry. In this episode of the Factor This podcast, Singh details how utility leaders can balance cultural shifts with the economic imperative to maximize underutilized grid capacity and lower customer rates. He breaks down how PG&E processes billions of pieces of data to help predict wildfire risks in advance, and how AI-enabled camera networks can shave critical minutes off emergency response times. From deploying machine learning to accelerating customer interconnections, Singh details how data amplifies frontline expertise rather than replacing it. Grounded in a philosophy of selfless service and value-based safety ownership, this conversation provides a blueprint for combining innovative technology with engineering discipline to cultivate a community trust that is foundational to the grid of the future. Energy policy on your mind? Check out all episodes of the Factor This Policycast

This Week in Cleantech (07/31/2026) - Is beer brewing getting greener?

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 Clara Hudson from the Wall Street Journal, who breaks down Heineken's plan to use a renewable-powered heat battery to release steam for its beer brewing in Portugal. This week’s “Cleantechers of the Week” are Tim Shepherd and Sylvain Marseille from Pelton Shepherd Industries, which makes Nutri Ice – ice packs that you can use to feed plants. It is the only truly compostable gel pack and offers the same performance as a regular gel pack. Congratulations Tim and Sylvain! This Week in Cleantech — July 31, 2026 Cracks appear in the vision of off-grid AI data centers — Axios Trump administration admits grants for clean energy were canceled based on politics – The Associated Press BP nears deal to sell solar business Lightsource to Kuwait-backed group – Financial Times Trump admin bans ‘new’ foreign-made inverters. What does that mean? — Canary Media Heineken Is Trying a Heat Battery to Generate Steam for Its Brewing — The Wall Street Journal Energy policy on your mind? Check out all episodes of the Factor This Policycast

Relieving grid congestion with advanced transmission technologies | Factor This Policycast

Tell us what you think of the show! The U.S. transmission grid needs a facelift and a little reconstructive surgery. Efforts are underway to construct new long-distance high-voltage lines, but construction takes time, prompting states to explore additional ways to quickly meet growing electricity demand. The low-hanging fruit? Getting more out of the system we've already got. Readily available, affordable, and quick-to-deploy advanced transmission technologies (ATTs), including grid-enhancing technologies (GETs) and advanced conductors, are proven tools for quickly increasing the capabilities and capacities of transmission lines and could complement transmission build-out while saving consumers money and bolstering grid reliability. By one estimate, GETs could have saved consumers $8.3 billion in 2022 alone, had they been more widely used. Yet these technologies remain largely untapped in America today, in part due to outdated electricity business models and state public policy. But modern problems (like the aforementioned load growth) require modern solutions, and there's been a recent uptick in support for ATTs across the country, with bipartisan interest in policies that ensure ATTs are being considered, including at the federal level. On this edition of the Factor This Policycast, presented in partnership with Advanced Energy United, host Paul Gerke is joined by Theodore Paradise, chief policy & grid strategy officer at CTC Global, Brian Berry, chief product officer at Heimdall Power, and Leah Rubin Shen, managing director at Advanced Energy United, to explore everything ATTs, including: Real-life use cases and problems ATTs can solve How lawmakers are crafting legislation to ensure utilities consider ATTs Updates on efforts in states considering bills encouraging their adoption Policy and implementation barriers to deployment What FERC can do to help Energy policy on your mind? Check out all episodes of the Factor This Policycast

This Week in Cleantech (07/24/2026) - As EV sales flatten, automakers make the case for backup power

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 Alexa St. John from The Associated Press, who discusses how automakers are increasingly turning their EVs and hybrids into home backup power sources as EV sales growth slows. This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is Cora Stryker, co-founder of Bright Saver. The nonprofit just started selling zero-markup, plug-in balcony solar kits, starting at about $300, with shipping to 47 states kicking off in August. Cora said that nonprofits are often willing to stomach financial losses in the near term, because its mission is to get solar into the hands of more people, so they can lower their energy bills and carbon pollution. Congratulations, Cora! This Week in Cleantech — July 24, 2026 Data Center Troubles Stoke Industry’s Fear of Coming Distress — Bloomberg Why States Are Making It Harder to Save Money With Solar Panels — The New York Times The Key to Solar and Wind Power Is Battery Storage, and China Is Dominating — The Wall Street Journal State legislatures are getting better at clean-energy permitting policy — Canary Media Need backup power? Automakers want you to look no further than their vehicles in your driveway — Associated Press Want to make a suggestion for This Week in Cleantech? Nominate the stories that caught your eye each week by emailing Paul.Gerke@clarionevents.com Energy policy on your mind? Check out all episodes of the Factor This Policycast

This Week in Cleantech (07/17/2026) - In Texas, solar and sheep go hand in hand

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 Lana Ferguson from the Dallas Morning News, who discusses the booming agrivoltaics industry in Texas. This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is Joey Fiore, CEO of PowerLabs. His company builds the Roav, a portable solar generator that unfolds into a tracking solar array that looks like a metal trailer you’d pull behind a car. It is cleaner, cheaper and easier to use than a standard diesel generator. Congratulations Joey! This Week in Cleantech — July 17, 2026 New York becomes first US state to impose data center moratorium — Data Center Dynamics The American E.V. Has Been Crushed. Will It Take the U.S. Auto Industry With It? — The New York Times US power companies scramble to secure equipment as surging data center demand strains supplies — Reuters Global Investment in Fusion Companies Surges 69% to $4.5 Billion — Bloomberg Solar sheep: Texas ranchers, farmers' new opportunity on solar sites – Dallas Morning News Want to make a suggestion for This Week in Cleantech? Nominate the stories that caught your eye each week by emailing Paul.Gerke@clarionevents.com Energy policy on your mind? Check out all episodes of the Factor This Policycast

Beyond the Big Beautiful Bill: Building and financing clean energy after a critical tax credit deadline | Factor This Policycast

Tell us what you think of the show! July 4, 2026, marked one year since the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) was signed into law and a critical safe harbor deadline for clean energy developers in the United States. The legislation, which sunsets federal tax credit eligibility for some technologies such as wind and solar photovoltaics, spurred stakeholders to scramble to maximize legacy incentives before Independence Day. Now that the fireworks have passed, what happens next? This episode of the Factor This Policycast, presented in partnership with Advanced Energy United, discusses how clean energy projects are being constructed and financed in the second half of 2026 and beyond. It will address the challenges of a post-tax-credit world, share the incentives still available, and explore how policy reforms at the state and federal levels could accelerate deployment. Could federal clean energy credits someday return? Featuring guests: Dylan Reed, Managing Director at Advanced Energy United, former GDO at DOE Walter L. McLeod, Partner, Managing Director of Monarch Strategic Ventures at Monarch Private Capital Bryan Didier, Partner, Managing Director, Energy at Monarch Private Capital Energy policy on your mind? Check out all episodes of the Factor This Policycast

This Week in Cleantech (07/10/2026) - As IRA subsidies wind down, clean energy PPA prices 'soar'

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 Martha Muir from The Financial Times, who discusses how the cost of clean energy power purchase agreements is set to rise 40 to 120 percent as Inflation Reduction Act subsidies wind down. This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is Dr. Bill Ho, CEO of GRST, whose company makes a PFAS-free, water-soluble battery binder. Conventional binder relies on "forever chemicals" and toxic solvents to process. GRST's version dissolves in water, making recycling to high-purity black mass simpler and cheaper. Congratulations, Bill! This Week in Cleantech — July 10, 2026 In the woods of Maine, searching for an answer to a ticking climate bomb – The Boston Globe One-third of India's new renewable energy capacity faces curtailment – PV Magazine Why Europe Still Struggles to Scale Its Homegrown Climate Tech – Heatmap News Europe's next climate adaptation boom isn't solar panels — it's asphalt – Reuters US clean power prices set to soar as AI demand coincides with subsidy cuts – Financial Times Want to make a suggestion for This Week in Cleantech? Nominate the stories that caught your eye each week by emailing Paul.Gerke@clarionevents.com Energy policy on your mind? Check out all episodes of the Factor This Policycast

Fixing generator interconnection | Factor This Policycast

Tell us what you think of the show! Generator interconnection, the process by which power plants like large solar arrays, wind farms, and utility-scale batteries connect to the electrical grid, continues to be one of the biggest barriers to project development. Despite gradual improvement in some parts of the United States since the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) passed Order No. 2023 three years ago, messy, complicated, and sometimes outdated policies are still preventing electrons from reaching end customers at a time of skyrocketing electricity demand. Grid operators have made meaningful strides in reducing interconnection queue backlogs and improving planning processes, but significant challenges remain, as detailed in a new progress report from Grid Strategies and The Brattle Group, on behalf of Advanced Energy United, that evaluates how grid operators are progressing since an initial 2024 assessment. On this episode of the Factor This Policycast, presented in partnership with Advanced Energy United and recorded live-to-tape at the 2026 Infocast Transmission & Interconnection Summit, Caitlin Marquis, managing director at Advanced Energy United, and Rob Gramlich, president of Grid Strategies, outline how each major regional transmission organization (RTO) and independent system operator (ISO) is approaching generator interconnection reform, criss-crossing the country and touching on progress in PJM, ERCOT, SPP, MISO, CAISO, ISO-NE, and NYISO. Marquis and Gramlich also share policy suggestions and discuss the recent show-cause orders issued by FERC to each of the six regional grid operators within its jurisdiction, directing them to either justify or reform the rules governing how large energy users, such as data centers, connect to the electric grid. More episodes of Factor This Policycast Energy policy on your mind? Check out all episodes of the Factor This Policycast

This Week in Cleantech (06/26/2026) - 16 GW without new build? Inside the plan to unlock huge VPP capacity

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 Emily Pontecorvo from Heatmap News, who discusses a new partnership making more than 16 gigawatts of virtual power plant capacity. This week’s “Cleantechers of the Week” are Luigi Resta and Maile Resta. Their utility-scale developer, Energies out of Utah, featured one of their site crews going to work on a solar project just like earlier generations of his family did in coal mines. We want to congratulations them for showing how to make the case for clean energy to the country. Congratulations Luigi and Maile! This Week in Cleantech — June 26, 2026 US announces $17.5 billion in loans for nuclear power supply chain — Reuters Spanish households save €10 a month thanks to renewables expansion, report finds | Spain — The Guardian If AI data centers are exploding nationwide, why are so few being built in California? – LA Times Why American data centers can't plug in — Works in Progress Sunrun, Tesla, and Renew Home Have 16 Gigawatts Up for Grabs — Heatmap News Want to make a suggestion for This Week in Cleantech? Nominate the stories that caught your eye each week by emailing Paul.Gerke@clarionevents.com Energy policy on your mind? Check out all episodes of the Factor This Policycast

This Week in Cleantech (06/19/2026) - What does global energy trade look like after US-Iran deal?

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 Tim McDonnell from Semafor, who discusses the potential future of the Strait of Hormuz and energy markets if the US-Iran de-escalation deal holds. This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is Andrew Redd, CEO of Endurance Energy, a Seattle-based seafloor geothermal energy developer, which just raised $54m in Series A funding. Redd is a former SpaceX engineer who is now drilling into spots at the bottom of the ocean where tectonic plates split apart and magma heats the water to over 700 degrees. Congratulations Andrew! This Week in Cleantech — June 19, 2026 Fast-tracked power plants fuel AI boom, with little public scrutiny — Reuters Another day, another illegal billion-dollar bribe to raise your electricity prices — Electrek 🌎 The IPO boom is back, baby! — Climate Tech VC Newsletter Can PJM's new 'fast track' process accelerate interconnection? – Factor This Hormuz will never really be open again — Semafor Energy policy on your mind? Check out all episodes of the Factor This Policycast

How we benefit from transmission competition | Factor This Policycast

Tell us what you think of the show! Welcome to the premier edition of the Factor This Policycast, a brand-new podcast partnership with national industry association Advanced Energy United, tackling the legislation, rulemaking, and market design that matter to clean energy leaders. Hosted by Factor This content director and Emmy-Award winning journalist Paul Gerke, this series of discussions will feature voices from across the energy policy landscape and spotlight issues shaping the evolution of our electric grid. The first topic is one that you may have spotted in recent headlines: competitive transmission solicitation. It's no secret that large-scale, critical electrical infrastructure projects like high-voltage transmission lines cost a LOT to build and take some time to come online. About 15 years ago, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, mandated that utilities competitively bid out such projects, but that mandate isn't being enforced, for reasons we'll get into on the program. New data points to tremendous benefits from competitive transmission, though, including billions of dollars ultimately saved by ratepayers. Detractors argue the bidding process delays timelines and subjects projects to hidden costs, and a group of Midwest utilities has even asked FERC to halt bidding in MISO and SPP. On this episode of the podcast, Factor This's Paul Gerke is joined by Caitlin Marquis, managing director at Advanced Energy United, and Paul Cicio, chair of the Electricity Transmission Competition Coalition (ETCC). Both are advocates for competitive transmission and share findings to support their case. They discuss that utility request to ban competition outright, talk about FERC's role in all of this, and explore the finer points complicating broader transmission build-out- at a time we really need it. New episodes of the Factor This Policycast go live at 6 am ET every other Thursday. Energy policy on your mind? Check out all episodes of the Factor This Policycast

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Unifying awareness, control, and settlements to solve grid instability

Tell us what you think of the show! Talk about systems and solutions is everywhere across the utility sector, but the biggest challenges the grid is facing are more about coordination than hardware. As utilities, retail suppliers, and operators all compete to manage the same DERs like electric vehicles, solar infrastructure, and smart appliances, the biggest challenges are associated with alignment, timing and expectations on every side. Michael Grasso, CEO and founder of GridRails, has a keen awareness of these challenges. His decades of experience in the industry has exposed him to teams and processes that have become paralyzed by fragmented tech silos and sluggish financial settlement cycles that take anywhere from 30 to 120 days to resolve. That's why his company is working to solve these challenges by introducing an agnostic, software-as-a-service (SaaS) orchestration layer that unifies these fragmented endpoints into a single platform, giving energy suppliers direct control over their network operations. We caught up with him to explore why his platform structures its solution around three core pillars, what it means for consumers to receive instant financial gratification in a digital wallet for adjusting their energy usage in the moment, the importance of shifting the utility paradigm from a penalty-based framework to a real-time incentive model, and much more. Energy policy on your mind? Check out all episodes of the Factor This Policycast

This Week in Cleantech (06/12/2026) - Europe and Asia are feeling the pressure from Iran war energy crisis

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 Akshat Rathi from Bloomberg, who discusses the energy crisis caused by the war in Iran, which is causing some governments to pursue structural shifts away from fossil fuels toward renewables. This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is Varun Sivaram, Founder & CEO of Emerald AI. Emerald AI uses AI to let data centers flex power consumption on command without losing compute performance. Congratulations, Varun! This Week in Cleantech — June 12, 2026 LS Power Said to Near Deal for EDF’s American Renewables Arm – Bloomberg Big US Solar and Battery Project Lines Up $3.5 Billion Financing –– Bloomberg G.M. Plans to Develop Energy Storage Batteries as E.V. Sales Flag — The New York Times New Qcells plant doubles current US capacity to make solar cells – Canary Media Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition – Bloomberg Energy policy on your mind? Check out all episodes of the Factor This Policycast

This Week in Cleantech (06/04/2026) - Why are some Democratic governors backing Trump's gas pipelines?

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 Benjamin Storrow from E&E News, who discusses how some Democratic governors are more open to natural gas pipeline expansion as energy costs rise. This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is Kevin Doffing who runs a group of veterans involved in cleantech. He has 50 caliber shell casings he uses as lobby swag. Congratulations, Kevin! This Week in Cleantech — June 5, 2026 The Sorry State of Carbon Removal — Heatmap News Solar energy helps US farms stay afloat – but Republicans’ bill could change that — The Guardian America’s Data-Center Build-Out Is Falling Way Behind Schedule — The Wall Street Journal 7 states sue Trump administration over nearly $1 billion deal to halt offshore wind farm — ABC News ‘Ready to cave’: How liberal governors warmed to Trump’s pipelines — E&E News Energy policy on your mind? Check out all episodes of the Factor This Policycast

Stalled federal funding is freeing up to aid homeowners eyeing energy efficiency

Tell us what you think of the show! The U.S. Department of Energy is moving forward with releasing billions of dollars in rebate funding to states earmarked by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) for two home energy programs: Home Efficiency Rebates (HER/HOMES), which enables whole-home retrofits that cut overall energy use by at least 15%, and Home Electrification and Appliance Rebates (HEAR), providing point-of-sale coupons for high-efficiency electric appliances like heat pumps and electric stoves for low- and moderate-income households. On this episode of the Factor This podcast, host Paul Gerke is joined by Advanced Energy United policy principal Kate Shonk, who explains why the funding was stalled, where it's headed, and how it can really help people at a time when electricity prices are climbing almost everywhere, and affordability is on the menu for dinner table discussion. She dives into examples from a few of the roughly dozen states that are rolling out unique programs to take advantage of the efficiency rebates and shares what's working. Rebecca Puck Stair, a director for the State of New Mexico's Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Department, also joins the show and explores the real, tangible, human impact programs like HER and HEAR can have on communities in need. She details her state's efforts to optimize and consolidate programs to maximize the use of federal dollars and reveals a bit of the behind-the-scenes bureaucracy involved in translating policies from paper to practice. Energy policy on your mind? Check out all episodes of the Factor This Policycast

This Week in Cleantech (05/29/2026) - Local pushback against data centers hits a new high

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 Robison Meyer from Heatmap News, who discussed how local opposition to data centers hit a new record in the first quarter of 2026. This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is Tom Sisto, CEO of XL Batteries. XL Batteries makes an organic flow battery that lasts for 250 hours. The technology runs on non-toxic, non-flammable electrolytes, meaning these batteries can be deployed in population-dense communities without the heavy permitting scrutiny that is required for similar-sized lithium-ion installations. Congratulations, Tom! This Week in Cleantech — May 29, 2026 Rep. Chip Roy loses runoff for Texas attorney general to a MAGA challenger – POLITICO U.S. Aims to Give Cold War Plutonium to Start-Ups for Nuclear Fuel – The New York Times China’s world-beating solar industry is in turmoil — The Economist Wind-Permit Stall Is Threatening $50 Billion in US Developments – Bloomberg Exclusive: Local Opposition to Data Centers Explodes in 2026 – Heatmap News Energy policy on your mind? Check out all episodes of the Factor This Policycast

This Week in Cleantech (05/26/2026) - Iran conflict makes clean energy look more secure

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 Akshat Rathi from Bloomberg News, who discussed how the Iran conflict is boosting the security benefits of clean energy. This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is a tribute to a life and career that left an indelible mark on the clean energy community. Jake Clark spent his career at Encore Renewable Energy, most recently pivoting from Vice President of Project Development to stand up the company's Community Engagement program. Those who knew him describe him as one of those rare people who made the whole field better through both his work and who he was. The clean energy community is smaller without him. We honor his memory and the standard he set for all of us. This Week in Cleantech — May 26, 2026 China’s $3 Billion US Clean Tech Exit Is an Investment Warning — Bloomberg 'Paying their fair share': EV drivers could see new fees in proposed bill – USA Today A new mega-utility is at ground zero for AI. Here’s what could happen. — E&E News The World Can’t Get Enough U.S. Energy, Keeping Prices High for Americans — The Wall Street Journal Zero: Iran War Boosts Clean Energy’s Security Benefits — Bloomberg Energy policy on your mind? Check out all episodes of the Factor This Policycast

This Week in Cleantech (05/15/2026) - xAI grows data center gas fleet despite legal scrutiny

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 Molly Taft from WIRED, who discusses Elon Musk's AI company xAI's decision to add 19 natural gas turbines to its Colossus 2 data center in Southaven, Mississippi. This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is fourth grader Christian Mango. At 10 years old, Christian researched electric vehicles, cited facts, and wrote to his U.S. congresswoman Virginia Foxx proposing a $5,000 federal EV tax rebate. When she responded by reprimanding Christian as foolish and his teachers as propagandists, Christian made national news for writing the letter. Congratulations Christian! This Week in Cleantech — May 15, 2026 Solar trade group taps former GOP governor as new chief — POLITICO Organic flow battery company CMBlu closes €50 million Series C — Energy Storage News Fervo IPO ushers geothermal energy into mainstream — Axios EDPR upbeat on US renewables market, sees profitable growth and new opportunities — Reuters xAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit — WIRED Energy policy on your mind? Check out all episodes of the Factor This Policycast

This Week in Cleantech (05/08/2026) - Can Ford revive its struggling EV program?

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 Andrew Moseman from Heatmap News, who discusses Ford's efforts to rebuild its struggling EV program from the ground up. This week’s “Cleantecher of the Week” is Brad Rouse, the volunteer Executive Director of Energy Savers Network. This small non-profit provides free weatherization and appliance upgrades to income-qualified families. Brad co-founded ESN in 2016 and has helped reduce the power bills for over 1500 families in western North Carolina. Congratulations Brad! This Week in Cleantech — May 8, 2026 Untapped lithium on East Coast could replace US imports, USGS finds — E&E News Brussels bars Chinese-made ‘brains’ of solar panels from EU funding — Euractiv The balcony solar boom is coming to the US — MIT Tech Review Thieves Are Stealing Chile’s Solar Panels and Cashing In on the Black Market — Bloomberg Inside Ford’s Secret EV Skunkworks — Heatmap News Energy policy on your mind? Check out all episodes of the Factor This Policycast