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Welcome to our weekly Renewable Energy Briefing! Stay informed on the latest industry trends. Join us for a comprehensive analysis that combines expert commentary with up-to-the-minute news, offering you a strategic overview of the renewable energy market. Don't miss out on the crucial details that can impact your investment decisions. Tune in weekly for your essential dose of Renewable Energy insights! Episode #26 Briefing Highlights: Benoy was at a great new conference, the Mid-Atlantic Solar and Storage Conference. -The main topics were IRA, tariffs, how credit transferability may work in the future, impacts of the 2024 PJM capacity auction, SREC values in NJ being lowered, potential removal of grandfather provisions in California net metering program. $12 billion sale of generation assets from LS Power to NRG was completed bringing NRG's total capacity to 25GW Quanta was awarded a $1.5 billion contract to provide EPC services for Invenergy's Grainbelt Expressway transmission project. If you have any questions or comments, you can email us at info@reneuenergy.com.

Allen Hall covers the appointment of Catrin Jung as Vattenfall's new head of wind division, the Netherlands reaching 20% renewable energy in 2024, Quebec's $1.1 billion funding for a major wind project, and France commissioning its first floating wind farm. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Good news from the offshore wind industry today. Vattenfall has named a new leader for its wind business division. Catrin Jung will take over as Head of Business Area Wind starting July first. Jung currently leads the company's offshore wind operations. She replaces Helene Bistrom, who is leaving the company. Jung joined Vattenfall in two thousand two. She has managed some of the company's largest investments in recent years. The wind division handles both offshore and onshore wind projects. It also manages large solar and battery projects. Jung says staying focused on fossil freedom is more important than ever in these uncertain times. The Netherlands reached a major renewable energy milestone last year. Renewable energy made up nearly twenty percent of the country's total energy use in twenty twenty four. That's up from seventeen point four percent in twenty twenty three. Statistics Netherlands released the preliminary data. The increase comes mainly from new offshore wind turbines and more biodiesel use in transportation. The overall renewable energy consumption reached three hundred fifty eight petajoules. That's a fifteen percent increase from twenty twenty three. Biomass remained the largest renewable source. Wind came second, followed by solar power. Renewables were mostly used for electricity at sixty percent. Heat and cooling accounted for twenty eight percent. Transport fuels made up twelve percent. The share of renewables has more than doubled compared to five years ago. A major wind energy project in Quebec has secured its funding. Invenergy and a consortium of 209 municipalities and territories in Eastern Quebec announced the closing of one point one billion dollars Canadian in financing. The money will fund the PPAW 1 Wind Energy Centre. The work will create three hundred fifty jobs during construction. Construction will happen throughout twenty twenty five and twenty twentysix. Commercial operation is expected in late twenty twenty six. Once operational, the project will add three hundred fifty megawatts to the local grid. France has achieved a renewable energy first. EDF Renewables has fully commissioned the country's first floating wind farm. The Provence Grand Large wind farm has a power capacity of twenty five megawatts. The farm features three floating wind turbines installed seventeen kilometers off the France's Mediterranean coast This is the first floating wind farm in France and across the entire Mediterranean basin. The project uses unique anchoring technology. Siemens Gamesa built the turbines. They're installed on floats with tight anchor lines. The technology was inspired by systems used to stabilize oil platforms. SBM Offshore and IFP Energies Nouvelles developed this technology. It's suitable for deep sea areas and provides excellent float stability. Bernard Fontana, Chairman and CEO of EDF, says the project helps diversify renewable energy sources. He calls it an important project for France's energy sovereignty. The experience will help with construction of EDF's second floating wind farm, Mediterranee Grand Large. EDF was awarded that contract in December twenty twenty four.

The Energy Gang are at The American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) Finance Forum in New York City, which brings together industry leaders, investors, and bankers to discuss the hottest issues in clean energy. Host Ed Crooks and regular guest Amy Myers Jaffe talk to ACORE Chief Executive and President Ray Long about the uncertainty hanging over the industry following the debate in Congress over repealing energy tax credits. He talks about the reasons why a Republican president and Congress should preserve tax breaks for low carbon technologies to advance their energy dominance agenda. Ed and Amy also talk to Meghan Schultz, EVP and Chief Financial Officer of Invenergy, the largest independent power producer in the US, and to Ted Brandt, CEO and Founder of Marathon Capital. They explain the impact that uncertainty over tax credits has already had on their businesses. They discuss what rising demand from data centers means for electricity prices. And they explore the potential implications if subsidies for low carbon energy are scrapped.Finally, Ed and Amy reflect on what the proposed legislation could mean for energy competition between the US and China.This is the first of three special episodes from the ACORE Finance Forum. We'll be back tomorrow with further coverage of all the essential conversations at the event.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this week's MBA Admissions podcast we began by discussing the recent events and activities that Clear Admit has been involved in, including our MBA Fair in Boston, and online admissions events series that wrapped up last week. More than 600 attendees participated in our most recent virtual event, which included admissions representatives from UPenn / Wharton, Stanford, Texas / McCombs, Columbia and Yale SOM. Graham noted two articles that have been recently published on Clear Admit. The first focuses on the different teaching methods that are used in top MBA programs. The second focuses on financial aid issues relevant to U.S.-based candidates, including FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid). Graham then highlighted two Real Numbers articles that focus on Consumer-Packaged Goods (CPG) and Health Care placements. Graham highlighted five Real Humans alumni spotlights, alums from Yale SOM working at Amazon, IMD working at Disney, Cornell / Johnson working at Invenergy, UPenn / Wharton working at Aepnus Technology, and Chicago / Booth working at American Express. For this week, for the candidate profile review portion of the show, Alex selected two ApplyWire entries and one DecisionWire entry: This week's first MBA admissions candidate has a 695 GMAT and 3.8 GPA. They are seeking a top MBA with goals to pivot to the entertainment industry. This week's second MBA candidate has not yet taken the GMAT, but everything else about their profile looks very strong. Their long-term goal is to develop a chain of dental practices. The final MBA candidate is deciding between Northwestern / Kellogg, with a significant scholarship, and Harvard. They want to work in venture capital or private equity. This episode was recorded in Paris, France and Cornwall, England. It was produced and engineered by the fabulous Dennis Crowley in Philadelphia, USA. Thanks to all of you who've been joining us and please remember to rate and review this show wherever you listen!

Chicago's Robert Prevost made history as Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born pope. Here's a rundown of how the city's brands and residents reacted in the following days.Plus: Crain's politics reporter Justin Laurence talks with host Amy Guth about the latest chapter in the Lincoln Yards project saga. And, Michael Polsky's Invenergy awards $1.7 billion as part of largest U.S. power line project, McDermott Will & Emery in merger talks with New York law firm and why Chicago street festivals are struggling.     

Huge momentum in the hydrogen industry! In this episode of The Hydrogen Podcast, I unpack three major developments redefining the global hydrogen landscape:

Dylan Green is thrilled to be partnering with WRISE to amplify the voices of underrepresented leaders in cleantech! Catherine spoke with WRISE's Executive Director, Doseke Akporiaye, at the Leadership Forum in D.C. about our new partnership & WRISE's latest initiatives to advance women, BIPOC & those with marginalized identities in our industry, including:• Expanding their conference capacity by 50% • A new program for executive women • A mentorship program that will connect 300 individuals with mentors• Partnerships with cleantech companies to support with recruitment & retentionThank you to those who joined us on the Green Light podcast at the Forum, including Sandhya Ganapthy, Abby Hopper, Shalanda Baker, Kerry Duggan, Jean-Nelson Houpert, Esther Kamau, & Liane Randolph. Shoutout also to WRISE's corporate sponsors: Google, RWE, MCE, Invenergy, Qcells, Orsted, Atlantic Shores, SOLV, EDF, Oneneergy, Onward Energy, DNV, EDP, Copia, Primergy, Lightsource, SB Energy, Clearway Energy, Levelten Energy, & so many more!If you're a clean energy employer & need help scaling your workforce efficiently with top tier staff, contact Catherine McLean, CEO & Founder of Dylan Green, directly on LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3odzxQr. If you're looking for your next role in clean energy, take a look at our industry-leading clients' latest job openings: bit.ly/dg_jobs. 

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Allen Hall, Rosemary Barnes, Philip Totaro, and Joel Saxum discuss the evolution of wind turbine blade inspections, from external drones to internal rovers. They debate the potential of AI in predicting damage progression and managing repair priorities, with Rosemary emphasizing the complexity of crack propagation in composites. Joel highlights Top 7's innovative drone technology for detecting lightning protection system faults in blades, as featured in PES Wind magazine. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: On the mean streets of Lowville, New York, Phil that's your neck of the woods. The local Kraft Heinz plant has reclaimed the Guinness World Record for the largest cheesecake. Tipping the scales at a whopping 15, 008 pounds. Yes, that's right. That's seven and a half tons of creamy goodness. Joel Saxum: I absolutely love cheesecake. My brother loves cheesecake so much that's what he had at his wedding. He had a smorgasbord of different kinds of cheesecake that you could pick from. Allen Hall: They broke the record, almost double the record that was held from a team from Russia. So here we go. Now we're back into the 1980s. Olympic hockey Philip Totaro: exit no that's great that's good that's a good thing we should be world domination in cheesecake size Allen Hall: and Philip Totaro: wait. Allen Hall: Yeah why did we get an invite joel i don't understand we should've been top of the list to come to lowville. Philip Totaro: That's yeah that's what i'm saying like did they pass it out to everybody in town like how do you eat a cheesecake seven tons of cheesecake. Allen Hall: They donated to local food bank is what they did after everybody had a slice or two or three. But 15, 000 pounds of cheesecake. What's that in metric tons, Phil? Come on. I need a sense of this for the Europeans in our audience. 6. 8 metric tons. That's a lot of metric tons, but this, these are the things you got to keep your eyes open for, right? So if they're going for a world record. And anything food related, they need to be calling the Uptime Podcast and at least give us a heads up so we can plan our travel accordingly, because this cheesecake thing seems like we missed out. I'm Alan Hall and here are this week's top news stories. In our first story, Vestas has secured its largest onshore wind project to date in Japan. The company has received a 134 megawatt order from Invenergy. for the Inaniwa Wind Energy Center. The order includes 32 V117 4. 2 megawatt wind turbines and a 20 year service agreement. Deliveries are expected to begin in the first half of 2027 with commissioning planned for Q1 2028. Moving to Spain, Windar has started preparatory work to construct a new monopile factory. The facility will have the capacity to manufacture monopiles up to 12. 5 meters in diameter, 3, 500 tons, and 130 meters in length. With an annual capacity of 100 to 120 monopiles, the factory aims to supply wind farms in the North Sea, the Baltic Sea, as well as the East Coast of the United States. In a significant development for the Mediterranean region, nine Southern European Union member countries have pledged to turn the area into a renewable energy hub. Officials from Cyprus, Slovenia, Malta, Croatia, Greece, Italy, France, Portugal, and Spain are focusing on harnessing offshore wind and solar energy. They aim to set up a joint renewable energies project across borders and ...

Meeting the rapid growth in electric demand posed by AI and data centers, manufacturing, electrification, and other factors requires a significant buildout of electric power resources on a tight timeline. Solving for decarbonization and reliability adds to the challenge – requiring not just existing generation resources, but new technologies and innovative approaches. For competitive power suppliers, the challenge is also an opportunity. Independent power producers are at the forefront of both providing existing dispatchable generation and connecting critical new resources to the grid – including battery storage, carbon capture and storage, hydrogen, more efficient gas generation, and more. We hear from Competitive Power Ventures, Invenergy, and Vistra Corp. on the solutions they're currently providing and what they're eyeing for the future.  This is the third episode in a four-part series from Energy Solutions, exploring the challenge and opportunity presented by rising power demand, policy and market design considerations, and ways to meet the moment. Liked this episode? Share it on X @EPSANews or LinkedIn at Electric Power Supply Association. Want more competitive power updates? Sign up for our monthly Power Moves newsletter.

Acciona has identified around 6 GW of its global capacity for potential sale. Invenergy has partnered with Patria Investments to acquire a portfolio of wind power complexes in Brazil. Arclight Capital Partners has launched SkyVest Renewables, a new renewables initiative which has already acquired a 160 MW wind farm in Texas. Repsol is in talks to acquire the remaining 60% stake in Hecate Energy. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: I'm Allen Hall, president of Weather Guard Lightning Tech. And I'm here with the founder and CEO of Intel Store, Phil Totaro, and the chief commercial officer of Weather Guard, Joel Saxum. And this is your News Flash. News Flash is brought to you by our friends at IntelStor. If you want market intelligence that generates revenue, then book a demonstration of IntelStor at IntelStor.com. Arclight Capital Partners has launched SkyVest Renewables, a new initiative focused on operating and optimizing renewable energy assets. With an initial 500 million capital commitment, SkyVest has already acquired a 160 megawatt farm facility. And Texas, the company aims to target operating utility grade wind and solar assets in North America, implementing best practices to generate near term cashflow and mitigate risks. Phil, there should be a lot more companies entering this marketplace. It can be a big revenue generator. Philip Totaro: Well, and this follows on the trend that we've been talking about for months, which is, I mean, for those that don't know, ArcLight already has ArcLight Capital Partners, the, the kind of umbrella and parent of, of this infrastructure company. They already have some ownership of assets wind and solar throughout the U. S. It's a smaller portfolio, but they were kind of dipping their toe in the water, and now You know, standing up a new project development and asset management company with SkyVest is is fantastic to see. And I think, with the capital commitment they've got with 500 million, that's a good place to start. But in reality, there's probably a lot more coming and you should expect that that Arclight's going to be doing a lot to help them raise funds. and deploy that capital following on that, that trend of infrastructure companies doing, doing that throughout the globe. Joel Saxum: I know I talk about oil and gas and lessons learned and like things that can be taken from that sector, but in the oil and gas world, you'll see that people buy and sell oil fields left and right. There'll be group, large asset grabs or, or even a single well or something like this, but a lot of times it's a field. And we're starting to see that more and more in the wind industry, because what people will do in the oil industry is buy that field, optimize it, they'll do a little CO2 injection, or they'll do work over, bring in work over rigs, clean up the wells, get them working better, and then they'll dump it, sell it to someone else that wants to operate it. So we're seeing some more capital come into the space now where they're buying up wind farms, our ArcLight Capital, bought that 160 megawatt wind farm in Texas. And they'll optimize it, right? They'll put a little bit of money in it. They'll put some, do some best practices stuff and they'll get that thing running better. Whether it's through just best practices or whether it's through new sensor technologies or new LEP upgrades or lightning protection upgrades or wh...

Crain's retail reporter Ally Marotti joins host Amy Guth to discuss what went wrong with the upscale Chicago grocer Dom's Kitchen & Market.Plus: Mag Mile landlords get the OK to tax themselves — but not without a delay; Boeing to plead guilty to fraud for violating deal over crashes; Invenergy expands HQ again on Wacker Drive; Illinois ends fiscal year with extra cash on hand; and Discover settles class actions tied to credit card misclassifications.

Siemens Energy has announced plans to hire 10,000 new employees over the next six years as part of a $1.3 billion investment to boost its grid technologies business. GE Vernova has received approximately $30 million in funding from the Norwegian state agency Enova to build a prototype 15.5 MW offshore wind turbine. Invenergy and Patria Investimentos have jointly acquired a 600-megawatt wind power portfolio in Brazil. The U.S. Department of the Interior has announced an offshore wind energy lease sale in the Central Atlantic, scheduled for August 14, 2024. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: I'm Allen Hall, president of Weather Guard Lightning Tech, and I'm here with the founder and CEO of IntelStor, Phil Totaro, and the chief commercial officer of Weather Guard, Joel Saxum. And this is your newsflash newsflash is brought to you by our friends at IntelStor. If you want market intelligence that generates revenue, then book a demonstration of IntelStor at intelstor.com. Siemens energy has announced plans to hire 10, 000 new employees over the next six years as part of a 1. 3 billion investment to boost its grid technologies business. The company aims to capitalize on growing demand for electricity and grid equipment. The new hires will be spread across Europe. The US, India, and other parts of Asia and Latin America. Siemens Energy's grid technologies unit has seen orders more than double in recent years from 7. 6 billion in 2021 to 16. 3 billion in 2023. Okay, Phil. There's a lot happening on the electricity grid market besides on the renewable wind turbine solar panel side. Looks like Siemens Energy is taking advantage of that. Philip Totaro: Their thermal business is still going pretty strong. Obviously the wind business is not so strong. But this is what we call in the industry kind of a classical pivot. Which is to say if you can't sell your wind turbines, then let's figure out how to do something else in the meantime. While the wind division gets its act together. So this is something that's actually going to help facilitate future sales by ensuring that they've got more grid related technology deployed. And since there's so much grid modernization necessary around the world and just new greenfield build out of. Needed transmission, particularly to help facilitate wind. I think this eventually is, is gonna, play right into the hands of their power generation business units. Joel Saxum: Yeah. As Siemens Energy looks to do a little bit of recovery in the wind sector from this past few years, I think. Think there's a pretty good strategic play here, right? If you're them and you're talking to some large grid operator or a utility, and it looks like they're going to, he's have some BOP money to spend and build a new wind farm. Well, why not package it all up? Let's sell them wind farm, let's sell them BOP, grid integration and grid technology kit as well. So these two things could play together. This is also on the heels of one of their biggest competitors, Schneider electric being, being named the most sustainable company in their sector in the world. Allen Hall: GE Vernova has received approximately 30 million in funding from the Norwegian state agency Innova to build a 15. 5 megawatt offshore wind turbine. The turbine will be installed on land at the Bergland based in Norway and tested for up to five years starting in 2025. After testing,

Welcome to another episode of the Trees & Lines podcast. Today we talk with Amy Newkirk, Vegetation Manger for Solar Generation at Invenergy. We discussed the value of people and people skills, the regulatory environment they operate under, and Amy's unique opportunity to look at new approaches in Veg Management. Have a listen, hope you enjoy!#arborist #podcast #episode #forester #forestry #sustainability #industry #solar #generation #transmission #trees #power #powerlines #utility #utilities Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Invenergy enters the Spanish offshore wind market with a planned 552 MW floating wind farm. Iberdrola considers selling US renewable assets to fund its Avangrid acquisition. Tata Power secures a major loan to finance clean energy projects in India, while National Grid divests US assets to focus on UK decarbonization. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: I'm Allen Hall, president of Weather Guard Lightning Tech, and I'm here with the founder and CEO of IntelStor, Phil Totaro, and the chief commercial officer of Weather Guard, Joel Saxum, and this is your NewsFlash. NewsFlash is brought to you by our friends at IntelStor. If you want market intelligence that generates revenue, then book a demonstration of IntelStor at intelstor.com. Invenergy has announced its entry into the spanish offshore wind market with the proposed oh boy floating wind farm the planned capacity 552 megawatt site Is will be the furthest site away from the shoreline of spain if approved it will power over 600 thousand Spanish households. Wow, Phil the construction of the offshore floating wind farm is estimated to take between eight and ten years with Invenergy prioritizing local hiring and procurement through the project's development. So this is a really neat project by Invenergy, Phil. Philip Totaro: Yeah, it's interesting too, because the Spanish are trying to get an offshore market going. There's, something like 40 plus gigawatts of projects that have been kind of tentatively proposed for different tenders that they're supposed to have in Spain, but they haven't actually gotten a framework in place for how any kind of You know, subsidies are going to work. And I think power offtake may also still be a bit of a challenge there as far as the infrastructure needed to be able to support this much capacity. But the fact that, I mean, this is, and we've talked before about the fact that Invenergy is not exactly a U. S. company. They're, it's Canadian majority owned company as far as their, their parent investor, but let's say they're, the first occasion where I can recall a North American based company anyway, is venturing off into the European offshore wind market. So this is pretty interesting and, and an exciting play for them. Joel Saxum: One of the nice things here is that, that northwest corner of Spain. Good deep water port as well. So, the area's gonna be primed and ready for it. There's some demand locally there. They're ready and willing to go here. 552 megawatts for a floating offshore wind farm. That's again, I think last week we talked about the largest one we've heard of. This is now the largest one I've heard of. And the facilities are there, ready to go. Keyside to put these things out. So, 8 to 10 years, I think we'll see a big floating wind farm there. Allen Hall: Spanish utility company Iberdrola is considering selling a 50 percent stake in a portfolio of U. S. renewable energy assets, which includes 400 megawatts of solar plants and 300 megawatts of onshore wind. For an estimated 1. 6 to 1. 8 billion us dollars. The company is working with the bank of America on the potential sale and plans to formally launch the process in July with the aim of completing the transaction by the end of the year. This move comes as part of a broader review of Iberdrola's strategy in the U S following its recent agreement to fully acquire its subsidiary of on grid for 2. 5,

US manufacturing is back! We were recently invited to a ceremony to celebrate the expansion of Nextracker's dedicated steel torque tube manufacturing lines at JM Steel's Leetsdale facility in Pittsburgh. This historic site, formerly Bethlehem Steel(the company that produced the landing craft for Normandy during World War II) now manufactures low-carbon steel tubes for solar trackers. Among the many dignitaries present at the event were 3 people on Nico's yet-to-be-interviewed bucket list, so he got the chance to get some genuine reaction commentary and excellent b-roll of the factory line up-and-running (see our Youtube video for that!)You'll hear from these 3 pioneering solar warriors in today's episode:Yuri Horowitz, CEO of Sol Systems, David Crane, DOE Undersecretary for Infrastructure, and Kelly Speakes-Backman, Executive VP, Public Affairs at Invenergy Each has an interesting perspective to offer on how the solar industry is reshoring manufacturing. Expect to learn:How the U.S. government plans to fast-track permitting and workforce trainingExactly how this clean green steel factory is aiming to triple its output.Ways companies like Invenergy plan to support domestic manufacturingUpdates on the DOE's commitment to awarding billions in infrastructure funds.It's beautiful to see manufacturing returning to U.S. soil. Hit play to learn why now is the time for solar companies to reshore manufacturing… And the incentives they'll earn for doing so.Learn about the 10 Uncommon Books That Influenced Leaders of the Energy Transition + GiveawayIf you want to connect with today's guest, you'll find links to his contact info in the show notes on the blog at https://mysuncast.com/suncast-episodes/.SunCast is proudly supported by Trina Solar.You can learn more about all the sponsors who help make this show free for you at www.mysuncast.com/sponsors.Remember, you can always find resources, learn more about today's guest and explore recommendations, book links, and more than 650 other founder stories and startup advice at www.mysuncast.com.Subscribe to Valence, our weekly LinkedIn Newsletter, and learn the elements of compelling storytelling: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/valence-content-that-connects-7145928995363049472/You can connect with me, Nico Johnson, on:Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/nicomeoLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickalus

Are you heading to Cleanpower in May? In this Green Light episode, you will learn what sets this show apart, including its EmpowHER Forum that is associated with WRISE, as well as about the significant growth of the trade association behind the conference. Catherine spoke with Rosanna Maietta, Chief Communications Officer & Senior Counselor to the CEO at the American Clean Power Association (ACP), about how ACP hired over 50 people last year alone & has reached over 800 member companies, including Invenergy, Orsted & Clearway Energy Group. Rosanna also talked about ACP's key policy priorities - from implementing the IRA to green hydrogen to permitting reform. Rosanna started her career working as a journalist in Italy for Bloomberg News & spoke about how she recently transitioned into clean energy from a hospitality trade association.  If you're a clean energy employer & need help scaling your workforce efficiently with top tier candidates, contact Catherine McLean, CEO & Founder of Dylan Green, directly on LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3odzxQr. If you're looking for your next role in clean energy, take a look at our industry-leading clients' latest job openings: bit.ly/dg_jobs. 

Joel gives an update from Wind Energy Europe in Bilbao. Developers like Invenergy are building renewable projects and transferring ownership to utilities after completion - what is the advantage? Are wind turbines creating microclimates which could positively impact crop yields? Plus, an article in PES Wind magazine highlights RTSYS's offshore wildlife protection system using AI to accurately detect sea life. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.comPES Wind - https://pes.eu.com/wind/ Philip Totaro: I was a toy tester for Fisher Price. When I was young, because they're in my hometown outside of Buffalo. And I helped the team in that invented the pocket rocker, which was the kids version of the Sony Walkman, which is very popular back in the eighties. Allen Hall: Wait a minute. Is this the one when it had a little microphone on it that you could record things with? Is this what I, I remember this. Don't I? That was really popular. That's good. That's actually a retro item that's coming back into favor. People are looking for those things. But so why you, Phil? Why were you chosen out of thousands of children? Philip Totaro: Companies headquartered in my hometown of East Aurora, New York. And my mother was taking a sabbatical from teaching when, I was very young. So I was like four or five years old. And was in the business of selling kids dolls and toys and stuff like that, although not necessarily directly affiliated with Fisher Price, but she must have just gotten to know somebody over there. And I want to believe that this wasn't just like a cheap daycare thing that she could just drop me off at Fisher Price and they would let me play with toys and she didn't have to deal with me. But So I, I got to play with, all kinds of the, they used to have a thing called Constructs I used to love that they, I got to play with all the cool Fisher Price toys before, anybody in the world ever got to see them but the Pocket Rocker was the one that, because of the popularity of the Sony Walkman back in the 80s, Fisher Price wanted to have the kids version of the Sony Walkman. And they, had me, I remember being like five year old sitting in this boardroom and it was enormous. It was like literally if you've seen like Putin's conference table, it was like that, that long with, with chairs and stuff. Joel Saxum: You funded your mother's retirement at the same time. You didn't know you were actually getting paid. She was taking your checks. Philip Totaro: I don't know of how much anybody got compensated for any of that. To be honest, free daycare. That's what it was. I hope we, yeah, I know. I hope it was more than just free daycare, but I haven't seen any royalties from any of that. Allen Hall: This is before, child safety came into favor on children's toys, where they took out all the small pieces and all the red items and all the lead that came out of toys. Yeah, that was the good old days. Is it just that one item, Phil? Philip Totaro: That's the one that was commercially popular. I'm sure I gave them product feedback on, cause we, they used to put you in these little rooms where they had, a double sided mirror, although you didn't know it was, you're a five year old, you don't know that it's a double sided mirror, but it's a little creepy cause you're sitting there just like playing with toys and people are watching you play with toys. And it's what is he doing now?

Allen and Joel sat down with Will Friedl, CEO of Prometheus Wind, and Kevin Doffing with the Veterans Advanced Energy Project, both veterans working in wind, to discuss how military skills transfer to the renewables industry and tips for veterans and companies to connect. Check out Prometheus Wind: https://www.linkedin.com/company/prometheus-wind/ Reach out to Kevin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevindoffing/ Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm your host, Allen Hall, and I'm here with my co host, Joel Saxun. We're in San Diego at ACP OMS, and it's a really big show, and we've run across a number of people that we recognize this week. And I thought we ought to sit down and talk to Everyone to get them on the podcast. So we have two guests today. We have Will Friedl who is CEO of Prometheus Wind is based in Colorado. And we also have Kevin Doffing. He's with the veterans advanced energy project, which is also part of the Atlantic council, global energy center. Got it. Got it. Got it. That was one take. So welcome to the podcast. Thanks. So we're here because we're talking veterans, and getting veterans into the wind industry, which is an initiative of American Clean Power, obviously. But we feel like we need to get more veterans involved. And Will, obviously, being an Air Force veteran out of the Air Force Academy, and now running his own successful wind business He's the case study. He is exactly the case study. We wanted to highlight this because we want to make sure that everybody that is a veteran knows that there's resources out there to get into WIND. And Kevin, do you want to talk about what's out there right now and the resources that are there and what your organization does? Kevin Doffing: Sure. So our organization, the Veterans Advanced Energy Project, falls under the Atlanta Council. Which is a nonpartisan think tank based out of DC. So if you're inside the loop of DC you know what that is. It's a, one of the most respected think tanks inside of DC producing a lot of really great thought leadership that influences policy and decision making. If you're not inside the beltway, which I am not, I'm from Texas. I had no idea what that meant. So I was like, this sounds cool. You have veterans. It sounds like renewables. I think I'm in your wheelhouse. So the program was really started to build up the leadership within the industry. It was started through a gentleman named Dan Mish, who was at the time at Argonne National Labs and moved over to Invenergy. So Invenergy has been a long time core sponsor of the program, has hosted multiple summits and we host an annual fellowship bringing these leaders together like Will, who's in our current cohort. And we have an annual summit. So it's all about building up the thought leadership around veterans in this space. Joel Saxum: And I think one of the things to touch on here, if you're not familiar, you don't have any family members, friends, or anything in the military is a big fraternity, right? So if you have people that Will, I'm sure you have tons of friends from the military and contacts. Will Friedl: Yeah, absolutely. It was one of the first things that I started out in this company, I came directly from the military into the CEO position for my company. And so I had zero contacts, zero knowledge, zero anything. And it's really hard to break in.

In this episode, Tim Montague interviews Marc Palmer, CEO and Co-Founder of Conductor Solar, a platform that aims to accelerate commercial and community solar deals by connecting solar developers and investors to streamline project financing.  Marc is a repeat guest on the show and one of the nicest people in solar. He cut his teeth on the solar industry working for Invenergy in Chicago - one of the US's largest wind and solar developers.NOTE that there is a Clean Power Hour LIVE event featuring Marc Palmer and Nick Perugini on Feb 21, 2024: C&I Solar PPAs - Best Practices and Success Stories | Register HereAs co-founder and CEO of Conductor Solar, Marc Palmer brings extensive experience in renewable energy project finance and development to the company. With over $1.5 billion raised for clean energy projects, Marc recognized the major roadblocks to funding and building commercial and community solar projects. He founded Conductor to develop software solutions to streamline solar financing and reduce soft costs, enabling more solar projects to move forward. Marc's background in structuring and executing complex energy deals gives him valuable insight into the solar industry's needs. As CEO, he sets the strategy and vision for Conductor Solar to make commercial and community solar more accessible and affordable.Conductor Solar is a platform to accelerate your commercial and community solar deals:- Dozens of professional investors with gigawatts of project experience and billions of dollars deployed- Multiple financing options for every deal- One source for streamlined project financing- Tools for analysis and deal acceleration- Software-enabled efficiency and consistency across project typesKey topics covered in this episode:- The challenges developers face in financing commercial and community solar projects, including finding the right financing products and trusted partners.- Using Conductor's platform to get estimated PPA rates to aid initial customer conversations and filter potential deals.- Key considerations for investors in evaluating project attractiveness.Social Media HandlesMarc PalmerConductor Solar Support the showConnect with Tim Clean Power Hour Clean Power Hour on YouTubeTim on TwitterTim on LinkedIn Email tim@cleanpowerhour.com Review Clean Power Hour on Apple PodcastsThe Clean Power Hour is produced by the Clean Power Consulting Group and created by Tim Montague. Contact us by email: CleanPowerHour@gmail.com Corporate sponsors who share our mission to speed the energy transition are invited to check out https://www.cleanpowerhour.com/support/The Clean Power Hour is brought to you by CPS America, maker of North America's number one 3-phase string inverter, with over 6GW shipped in the US. With a focus on commercial and utility-scale solar and energy storage, the company partners with customers to provide unparalleled performance and service. The CPS America product lineup includes 3-phase string inverters from 25kW to 275kW, exceptional data communication and controls, and energy storage solutions designed for seamless integration with CPS America systems. Learn more at www.chintpowersystems.com

Shashank Sane is the Executive Vice President for Transmission at Invenergy. Invenergy is North America's largest, privately held renewable power generation company. They have developed more than 200 power generation projects around the world and are responsible for more than 31 gigawatts of power on four continents, with the majority of that being renewable energy projects, including wind and solar. In his role as EVP of Transmission, Shashank is responsible for the company's efforts to create connectivity between solar and wind farms and end customers, and he's particularly focused on large-scale interstate transmission projects. Transmission is a topic that climate and energy experts will say is critically important. Our transmission infrastructure in the US has been built over more than a century. And yet, the Department of Energy recently estimated that the US needs to increase our transmission capacity by over 50% by the year 2035. That's a monumental jump. We're grateful to Shashank for volunteering to come on the pod and talk with us about transmission, how it works, why it's needed, and how projects get done.In this episode, we cover: [02:22]: Shashank's journey to Invenergy[04:46]: His early experience at the company, Invenergy Edge, and acquiring Grain Belt Express[08:11]: Shashank's experience at Lehman Brothers in 2008[10:05]: Overview of Invenergy's approach to developing projects[13:51]: Definition of "transmission" [22:21]: Why more transmission is needed to enable renewable growth[26:40]: Transmission issues in the U.S. and the need to improve grid resilience [35:04]: The lack of federal oversight of the national grid[37:02]: Modifying the Grain Belt Express project to better serve Missouri[46:49]: Other major transmission projects Invenergy is developing[48:24]: Working with community and landowners before routing transmission lines[52:23]: The need to recognize the value of inter-regional transmissionGet connected: Shashank Sane X / LinkedInCody Simms X / LinkedInMCJ Podcast / Collective / YouTube*You can also reach us via email at info@mcjcollective.com, where we encourage you to share your feedback on episodes and suggestions for future topics or guests.Episode recorded on Oct 16, 2023 (Published on Dec 4, 2023)

In this episode of the Energy News Beat Daily Standup, the hosts, Michael Tanner and Stuart Turley discuss various energy-related topics. They start with Invenergy's five gigawatt green Belt transmission project facing opposition at the Federal Regulatory Commission. The project aims to bring wind power from western Kansas to Illinois but faces challenges in negotiating fair rates. Next, they delve into the delays in the energy transition, particularly for micro-grid developers awaiting interconnections and clarity from the government. They also touch upon the 50th anniversary of the oil embargo in 1973, highlighting the impact of government intervention on energy crises. Lastly, they discuss Dutch Energy Minister Robert Jensen's admission that wind power initiatives are more costly than anticipated, mainly due to the high expenses associated with offshore wind farms. In the finance segment, they cover the S&P 500 and NASDAQ trends, along with notable movements in oil and gas prices. The major news is Chevron's $53 billion all-stock deal to acquire HESS Corporation, emphasizing its strategic focus on Guyana and Bakken assets. The hosts speculate on potential future mergers and acquisitions in the energy sector. They conclude with a playful exchange about the uncertainties of current geopolitical events.Highlights of the Podcast00:00 - Intro02:49 - Invenergy's 5-GW Grain Belt transmission project faces continued opposition at FERC05:30 - Delaying the Energy Transition: DER, Microgrid Developers Forced to Wait for Transformers, Interconnection, IRA Clarification07:47 - The Embargo at 50: Regulatory Causality vs. Anti-Oil Narrative09:55 - Dutch Energy Minister Admits That Wind Power Agenda Is Pricier Than Anticipated12:57 - Markets Update13:46 - Chevron to buy Hess Corp for $53 billion in all-stock deal17:54 - OutroFollow Stuart On LinkedIn and TwitterFollow Michael On LinkedIn and TwitterENB Top NewsENBEnergy DashboardENB PodcastENB Substack– Get in Contact With The Show –

The US's energy system is at a crossroads. As more and more renewable energy projects come online and demand for electricity keeps rising, many utilities and developers are being asked to build more transmission infrastructure to bring all this power to consumers. In this episode, we explore the challenges faced in developing new long-distance, high-voltage transmission lines, and the importance of transmission expansion in connecting renewable energy resources to the grid and achieving national decarbonization goals. Patrick Whitty, Senior Vice President of Transmission Public Affairs for Invenergy, a global developer, owner, and operator of energy infrastructure, sheds light on these obstacles. We also discuss policy solutions that can accelerate the buildout of transmission infrastructure, such as interregional power transfer requirements, transmission tax incentives, and streamlined permitting.Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.Contact us at contact@climatenow.comVisit our website for all of our content and sources for each episode.

Crain's manufacturing reporter John Pletz talks with host Amy Guth about the significance of the UAW strike hitting Ford's plant on the South Side. Plus: Kellogg's split is official, with snack business Kellanova now based in Chicago; United raises its own bet by ordering more planes from Boeing and Airbus; Invenergy inks massive HQ expansion on Wacker Drive; and video slot machines spur gambling revenue windfall for Illinois.

From lightning strikes zapping insurers to swirling debates over turbine setbacks, offshore wind PPAs blowing in the wind, and the path to 100% clean power - this week's news spans the gusty landscape of the wind industry. Rosemary, Joel, Phil and Allen cover incentives to get wind farms permitted faster in Sweden, the pushback on bigger setbacks in Iowa, a $1.5B renewables acquisition, why more expensive offshore wind will still have a role, and more. Plus, our featured Wind Farm of the Week: Luverne Wind Project in North Dakota! Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Uptime 179 Allen Hall: Well, Rosemary, we were in San Diego last week and we happened to stop in the Lego store and we were amazed at the number of Lego projects that are made for adults.  Rosemary Barnes: I'm not, I'm not surprised  Joel Saxum: I'm gonna be, I'm gonna tell you right now, I buy the race cars and build them myself, just like after dinner some nights. Phil Totaro: Kids of all ages. Allen Hall: They had a really cool Corvette and the Magic Kingdom castle and the Titanic, which, you know, thousands and thousands and thousands of pieces and it would take you probably weeks to do. I don't, I don't Rosemary you seem like a Lego expert though.  Rosemary Barnes: I did live close to Lego in Denmark, so I guess, you know, obviously absorbed. Some sort of expertise, but yeah. During the pandemic, my part, my partner and I discovered that you don't have to have kids to buy Lego. Yeah. You, you can as an adult, buy, buy a kit and not worry about your kid doing it wrong. You can just, just do it yourself and you could, you can give it to them afterwards.  Joel Saxum: There's a connection between Ørsted and Lego, like the ex CEO of Lego was at one point in time, the CEO of Ørsted, like the two, two CEOs ago or something like that. I don't remember exactly what it was.  Rosemary Barnes: Yeah, it doesn't surprise me. Allen Hall: That's gonna be a prime job, right? Like when you're looking for jobs in the newspaper in Denmark, when Lego pops up, that's gotta be one of your top choices, right?  Joel Saxum: Just build Legos all day  Allen Hall: since we're in the Scandinavian countries. Phil, why don't you kick off?  Phil Totaro: So this week we're talking about new incentives that the Swedish government is putting in place to build onshore wind farms. And lightning strikes are responsible for 70% of the catastrophic losses in the first half of this year.  Rosemary Barnes: Then we head over to Woodbury County in Iowa where they're debating the setbacks for wind turbines and them to be increasing and increasing and increasing the distance. And then over to Australia where we're talking about tariffs on products like steel and cement if they have carbon emissions associated with them to support green versions of those industries. Joel Saxum: And in the states here, Invenergy is purchasing aeps unregulated assets about 1.4 gigawatts for about 1.5 billion with a B dollars. And then jumping offshore in the us, go to the East Coast. Commonwealth Wind Is exiting their PPA and there's about a $50 million penalty on the table. And a couple of the Massachusetts state agencies can't quite agree which direction they want to go. And then Ottertail Power Company over on the border there of Minnesota and North Dakota. Luverne Wind Farm is our Wind Farm of the week.  Allen Hall: I'm Allen Hall. I'm here with my good friends, Joel Saxum, Phil Totaro and Rosemary Barnes, and this is the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast.

Turbine blades represent up to a third of the cost of a wind turbine but they do not yet benefit from the sophistication of sensor technology which exists in its other components, so are they the poor relation?The evidence is that, as blades get larger, issues such as leading edge erosion – and its cumulative effect on annual energy production – will get worse and other types of repairs more frequent.So what does the near future of blade inspections and maintenance look like, how big will they get and what is the effect on public opinion towards wind when turbine blades experience a catastrophic failure? Finally, Episode Nine explores whether owner-operators of wind farms and turbine manufacturers can resolve the current stalemate between the need for detailed information to run a wind farm at optimum efficiency on one hand and OEMs protecting commercial sensitivities in a highly competitive marketplace.Ahead of the return of the Blades USA forum in Texas next month, Ian Griggs, deputy editor of Windpower Monthly, spoke to two of the key speakers from the forthcoming conference: Carsten Westergaard, president of Westergaard Solutions, and Katelyn Reynolds, manager of operations and engineering at owner-operator Invenergy.To listen, simply click on the 'play' button in the graphic above, or follow and download Wind Power on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and other platforms.This episode was produced by Czarina Deen Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What you'll learn in this episode: What companies should consider when planning their corporate giving initiatives, and why Tyrone is passionate about anti-hunger causes How mentorship creates strong connections that last for years, especially for lawyers of color Why law firms don't necessarily need perfect diversity, but they do need to demonstrate a plan for growth and improvement What it's like to work in-house in the renewable energy space Why the best leaders see their reports as individuals with goals that go beyond their workplace  About Tyrone Thomas Tyrone Thomas is General Counsel at Doral Renewables. He has broad strategic and transactional experience within the renewable energy industry, having served as both Head of Legal at Plus Power, and Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Invenergy. Throughout his career, Tyrone has led diverse teams of professionals in connection with the development, construction, financing and/or divestiture of dozens of utility-scale energy facilities with a total value of over $7 billion. Mr. Thomas earned a BS in Urban Studies from Hunter College and a JD from the University of Illinois College of Law. Additional Resources: Tyrone's LinkedIn Conversationforsix.com Transcript: In the legal industry, every connection matters. This is especially true for lawyers of color and other underrepresented attorneys who know the feeling of being left out—and the feeling of finally being seen. Tyrone Thomas, General Counsel at Doral Renewables, credits his mentors with guiding him on his career path, and he does the same for young lawyers who reach out to him today. He joined the Law Firm Marketing Catalyst Podcast to talk about what qualities he looks for in the firms and attorneys he works with; how firms can demonstrate their commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion; and what makes a good leader. Read the episode transcript here. Sharon: Welcome to the Law Firm Marketing Catalyst Podcast. Today, my guest is Tyrone Thomas, General Counsel at Doral Energy. In addition, he's the company's anti-hunger advocate. He's speaking to us from the Chicago suburbs. Tyrone has been on the podcast twice before, but he was with a different energy company. Today he'll tell us all about his industry experience as well as his experience being a Black lawyer. Tyrone, welcome to the program. Tyrone: Thanks for having me, Sharon. Sharon: Glad that you're here. Give us a synopsis of your career path. Tyrone: Sure. I'll keep it post-law school. I worked in private practice for a few years. I was at DLA Piper in the Washington, D.C. office. I am still involved with DLA Piper from an alumni perspective, using them and adding advice when I can. I was with a firm called Hanson Bridgett, in San Francisco down in the financial district. Then I was with a small firm in the Chicagoland area called Gould & Ratner. In each of those spaces, my work primarily centered on development, whether commercial real estate development, development of GSA leasing properties primarily leased from the federal government, healthcare development, and everything in between. Then I moved over to a company called Invenergy that now is probably the number one, if the not the number two, private producer of renewable energy in North America. I moved over to them in 2014. Sharon: What is the name of the company? Tyrone: Invenergy. Sharon: Invenergy, all right. Tyrone: I spent about seven years there, eventually leaving as the number two on their legal team. I was the vice president and deputy counsel. I had a wealth of great experience there. I worked on a ton of really interesting projects that were cool from a practical perspective, but also great for the world in decarbonizing the environment. Tons of great employees. There were probably 400 people around the world when I started and almost 1,600 when I left. I went from having zero reports when I joined to about 27 when I left. I got to watch the company grow as I was growing in my career in that space. I then went to a really great standalone battery developer named Plus Power based out of San Francisco and Houston. It was a brief stint there because of Doral, where I currently am. It ultimately made sense to transition to Doral, where I'm general counsel and where I work with a number of folks who I worked with in prior years, including the CEO. We crossed paths in Invenergy for several years. It all just clicked, so that's where I am currently. I was head of legal at Plus Power, and here I'm general counsel/corporate secretary. I'm taking on more and more of a compliance role as well. Sharon: What is anti-hunger? That was on LinkedIn. Tyrone: When I present on LinkedIn, I try to present not necessarily where I'm working, per se, but the entirety of what I'm doing in the professional space. Primarily what I'm doing is working in the legal compliance function. I'm doing a lot of work around governance. I sit on some boards, and I'm looking at some for-profit boards right now to figure out the best fit for me. Then, I consider myself an anti-hunger advocate. I spend most of my time that's not on family or professional matters volunteering or donating to organizations that try to combat hunger and food insecurity. I have sat on associate boards and executive boards of various organizations. I've sat on the Executive Board of Directors of Beyond Hunger in the Oak Park/River Forest area here in Illinois, which honestly is probably one of the best-run and better-funded food pantries in the Midwest—I would say probably in the country. The funding is a testament to the community it's in, but it also gives them the ability to serve a lot of constituents and continually chase new opportunities to serve more or in a different way, because obviously just giving someone food is not a holistic solution. This is one of the few food pantries I know of in the country that has two dieticians on staff, for example. There are nutrition programs and things like that. I also run a small nonprofit called Conversation for Six, which is intended to lower the informational bar to entry for people who want to get more involved in the hunger space. The idea was germinated off of feedback I got from individuals whom I was trying to nudge to give more money or to center some of their corporate giving campaigns on hunger. A lot of folks told me they didn't understand it. They didn't understand what these programs are, what some of these terms are. It's not unique to the hunger space. A lot of nonprofits have to pick and choose who their audience is. They focus a lot on the audience that is preaching to the converted, because the converted are proven givers. They are going to give more and donate more. They're going to evangelize, but what sometimes gets left out is the entry-level folks. I fund the charity myself. The goal of Conversation for Six is not to raise a bunch of money; the goal is to educate. I hired some freelance writers beginning in the pandemic, and they wrote a bunch of articles on foundational concepts. What is SNAP? What is WIC? What are the summer school lunch programs? What's the idea of a food desert? Why is that term falling out of favor? It's all these foundational things that will help someone then go on and engage with more involved food scholarship. We also point people to those organizations. So, if you need help or you want to help, we point to organizations. There's a resource directory on the site that has organizations in all 50 states and some international organizations where people can either get help or give help, whether it be their time or their money. We're a nexus to get people to direct-access organizations. I spend a lot of time thinking about this. I spend a lot of time doing it. I'm currently in conversations about whether it makes sense for me to join some local government boards that are focused on hunger, whether I can add something of value there. It's a passion. It's something I carry with me separate and apart from any legal or compliance or governance-related work I do for pay. Sharon: Let me ask you this. If you walked into an office and engaged a recruiter or a marketer and they said, “Hey, here's a bunch of money. Go put it in hunger,” would that influence you? Tyrone: You mean if I was looking to take a job and they were also— Sharon: Or in marketing. Would it influence you in terms of having a better feeling— Tyrone: You mean in terms of whether their client would be influenced by this? I would say no, and I'll tell you why. In our space, corporate giving is table stakes. Everybody has corporate giving. Let me start off by saying that feels too much like a bribe to me, so I want to stay out of the gray area. Everyone has corporate giving. When I made the comment earlier about influencing where they center their corporate giving, that's a very real conversation. When I came out of law school, you still had to be in a suit every day, but you had a jeans Friday. They would pick a charity, and everybody would donate. Everyone would give $5 as their payment to wear their jeans, and it would go to a charity. A lot of the charities were not focused on what I considered some of the base problems that humans face. I wasn't the only one there. I am certain other folks would try to push for certain charities, like “Can we give money to these anti-homelessness charities?” That was in D.C. and San Francisco, both of which have aggressive homelessness problems. “How about charities working on hunger? How about ones working on reintegrating people into the workforce or supporting unwed teen mothers? Can we put money there?” If we're putting it somewhere anyway, and most of the people are giving the $5, $10, $15, that's your table stakes. A lot of the people who made a lot more money would give $50, $100, but nobody cared where it went. They knew it was going to a good cause, and this is not directed money with conditions. I want to direct it towards these things at the very lowest level of a hierarchy of needs. Candidly, if someone tells me they want to put a bunch of money in the hunger space, I would tell them you should do that. You don't need me to do that; you should do that, and I'll talk to you about it. I'll point you in the right direction. I'll tell you about organizations that are doing great work and that are poised to be able to take that money and use it.  There are some organizations that are struggling with certain types of resources, human capital resources, for example, and they can't adequately use a large donation. An organization that had a budget of $100,000 or $10,000 last year would not be able to spend $1 million in one calendar year if you just dropped it in their lap. They would probably spend six months with consultants on a strategic plan, which they should. I can direct all those things. I can speak to those things. I can tell you what I would do with a big pot of money that needed to be given away. It could go to a lot of different organizations based upon who they serve and how it would be effective. It wouldn't influence my decision to use a firm or not. It's something I'm talking to everybody about. Sharon, when we turn off the recording, I'll probably talk to you more about it later. I'm talking to everybody. With your corporate giving, you should fold in hunger because it's such a basic need. Without it, you can't really talk about these other types. Sharon: Should a marketer or a decision-maker try to match you with other people who are Black? Tyrone: It's interesting because it's not uncommon. The answer is no, but it's not an uncommon question because you will interact with people. There's a meme that goes around about President Barack Obama shaking people's hands, and the handshakes are different based upon the cultural identity of the person he's interacting with. He's going down a receiving line and everybody's getting a different handshake. I think sometimes what people see is there's a very small number of African Americans in the legal field, and there's a much smaller number of African Americans in the legal field in positions of power and leadership. Candidly, because there's such a small percentage, a lot of folks know each other or know of each other. It's not because the person is a statistic. We still see this, but we saw this 40, 50 years ago in terms of women in the workplace. The few people who were there made an effort to reach out to other women; they made an effort to reach out to other people of color and mentor them and ask, “How I can I help?” Back when I was coming out of law school and I had no business to steer anyone's way, and I had no particular connection with a lot of the folks I was reaching out to for informational interviews, a lot of folks didn't respond. I'm not going to knock them for that. But there were people who were doing very well and were very important, who were general counsel and CEO and managing partners, who were African American. They made a point to reach out to me, a 24-year-old, and say, “How can I help?” I'm not going to mention who, but I was at dinner with someone who has had a very prominent position and career, an African American probably in his 70s, a couple of weeks ago. It was a broader dinner, but he was there. We were at a table. We were talking, and he was a leader for someone who had been a mentor to me. I found out he had mentored that person 20 years before that person was a mentor to me. So, there is this small universe of folks who are trying to provide help that they themselves maybe didn't get. There's a high likelihood that if you put me in front of someone in the legal space, I might know them if they're African American because there are so few. But if I didn't, that wouldn't influence me. When we're talking about law firms, private legal providers, those of us who are interested in diversity and equity and inclusion—as I am—we're beyond that surface-level engagement. It's great if you have someone and they're the right person to put in front of me. That is great because you are showing me something, but beyond that, who's going to work on my matter? What are your broader numbers? Not just what are your numbers—I think, again, that's surface level—but where are you going, where have you been? If you're a firm of a thousand people and you have 12 African Americans, we want you to acknowledge that's not a good number. Two, I'd love to know where you were last year, the year before and the year before. Did you go from zero to 12? Did you bring in one group? Was it a slow burn? What's your plan going forward? How do you want to integrate folks into the business? What's your plan? There's recruiting, but what about advancement and retention? Who do you have in the partnership? Who do you have as income versus equity party? Who do you have on management committees? Who do you have leading offices? All of those questions are fundamental to understand what the firm does. I know firms that do a lot of great work in this space, but the people who do the work I need are all white men over 55. That's fine because I know the firm itself is doing a bunch of work. The fact that the people in the room with me, who I've become great friends with, are not representative of the firm's push for diversity isn't an issue, because the firm can come with their receipts and say, “Here's what I'm actually doing,” and it's enough. Sharon: I can't say I've been in this situation. It's been a long time, but it used to be that there was tokenism. I remember being in meetings where everybody was, like you said, over 50, except for maybe a woman. Tyrone: And they didn't get to participate in the meeting. Sharon: Right. No reason to be there, just to show their face. Let me ask you: did your ethnicity influence your decision to leave private practice and go behind the desk? Tyrone: A little. It wasn't the only reason, but it influenced it a little bit. The work we do as lawyers is incredibly important work, but it is work that oftentimes is very difficult to blend with any creativity the lawyer has. As the managers of the guardrails, it's not incentivized in our industry to take risk. We understand and we report on risk, but it's always incentivized not to take risks. Let me be clear: there are tons of people who do take risks, including people who are taking their firms to the next level. But on the individual contributor level, it's not incentivized. When I saw friends, colleagues, folks who were in the commercial space, they seemed to be able to incorporate their creativity in what they were doing. They seemed to enjoy what they were doing. I think the essence of what they're doing comes through more because they work for a longer period. Sometimes on a transaction, when I bring in outside counsel for project financing, it's 90 days from start to finish. I may have someone on my team working on that same project for three years. They know that project. It's 200 landowners on a wind farm in the middle of some beautiful county in Nebraska. We know everything about those landowners that they're willing to let you know. We remember the stories they told us about who owned the land before them and who owned the land before that person, typically in their family, and what their grandchildren are going off to college to do. You know them. You know this person doesn't like that person, so if we do a dinner to celebrate all the people who are part of the project, don't sit them next to each other. All those things add a little vibrancy, and they keep away the monotony with the work you're doing. When I got into private practice in-house, I was chasing a little bit of that, “Let me find more entertainment in why we're doing what we're doing.” I found it in this space, and I never looked back. I've been incredibly excited. That's not to say that's something I don't hear lawyers talking about in private practice, but it was something I saw less of in private practice. I saw so many people in the in-house world talking to me about the why. They really understand the business and the business concepts, which is also very attractive to me—and still is, being able to take the hat off sometimes. I joke about it. “I'm not here with the lawyer hat on. Nobody get freaked out. I'm just here." I was on a call this morning, “I'm just here to listen. I'm not here with the lawyer hat on. I'm going to be on mute. Don't mind me.” I'm doing that from a quasi-commercial standpoint as well, because my involvement in the matter is going to inform strategy. It's not about legal risk. It's going to inform executive strategy going forward. That flexibility is really interesting to me. It keeps my days interesting. It keeps me from wanting to hang it all up and go do something else. Sharon: That was going to be my question. Does the excitement keep you attracted to the industry? There's so much new stuff going on in energy today. Tyrone: It does. The excitement keeps me attracted. Candidly, it's also the people. When you're working on financing commercial office buildings, for example, there are a lot of interesting individuals. There's a lot of interesting information you learn about the building, its tenants, its neighborhood, its owner, its prior owner. But there's nothing like the partnerships—which is really what they are—we do with rural communities around the world in this industry. For my company, primarily in the U.S., there's nothing like those partnerships. There's nothing like truly doing what transactional law is supposed to be, which is where you're finding a space where both of us want something and we can get it, and no one walks away feeling like they've lost. We have folks who own land, and that's their primary asset in a lot of these rural communities. They join these rural communities in large part because this is where the needs are for additional generations.  For wind and solar specifically, it's where a lot of large, undeveloped land is—undeveloped in terms of buildings. Land exists where you can stitch together the type of footprint you need for project: five, 10, 12 thousand acres for a solar project; 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 80 thousand for a wind project. You're not using all that land, but you need buffers and a variety of other things. When you go into these areas, these are agrarian communities. These are folks who have a lot of land. It's their principal asset for a lot of folks. It has been in their family for several generations. They want to lease or grant an easement. They do not want to sell because they're thinking 30, 40 years down the road after that project has gone out of operation. That's still their land. It's going to stay in their families, and it can go to their kids or grandkids. They're thinking in that space. So, you come in. You understand this is their baby. This is a part of the family. It's a part of their heritage, and they have areas of it that, for one reason or another, they allow you to use for a certain price because it makes sense to them. They can't farm it, or they are farming it and they're just making ends meet on this crop. This crop is a loss leader. Or in some areas it's rocky and they can't use it, or they just don't have the resources or the inclination to put it to a certain use. They'd rather put it to a different use, and you come in and say, “Look, I'm going to build this thing. This is going to be good for your community in terms of energy and hopefully bring prices down. It's going to be good for the world and for our future generations,” which is what a lot of folks there are thinking about. “It's going to be value-creative to you, and you're not going to have to do any of those other things you typically had to do to achieve that value.” They think, “I would pay people. I would prep the land. I would buy seed. I would put it in. I would use all the herbicides and the pesticides. I would then have to pull it out. If I had a bad crop and I lost it, I've got the insurance. I can just make the money and then go focus on something else.” When we do that, you see that the human element is front and center. I have met so many landowners. I've heard so many interesting stories. I've eaten at people's kitchen tables. I have really gotten a feel for the human element of what we do. Similarly, I've seen operating facilities where we hire people from the local community—obviously, because they can drive to work—who are working at those facilities. At Invenergy, many of the people they hire happen to be veterans who could transfer a lot of the skills they got in the military. It's so interesting to see that ecosystem. It's not just an address. It's a part of a community. It's a piece of an infrastructure that now exists in that community. Sharon: Is it selling against somebody, or is it convincing them to go from the loss leader crop to letting you use the land? What are you trying to do, exactly? Tyrone: Sometimes there's what people call a land battle, which is when there are several different developers, maybe not all renewable, who are trying to get use of the same land. Sometimes you'll see these narratives in the paper about people taking farmland out of production. You're not really competing against the existing use. It's the same way that people who put up cash-for-houses signs on the side of the road are not really competing against homeowners who want to stay in their home. But you take the call because you're interested, the same way any of us do when a recruiter calls. Texas is a perfect example, but you see it throughout the Midwest and the east and everywhere else. In Texas, it's very obvious a lot of times. You'll see landowners who have hunting ranges on their land. They've got oil and gas activity. When they've got solar, they've got natural energy via thermal. They might have some battery storage. They've got people farming. They've got people ranching. They've got a dairy operation. This is their asset. They're making use out of this land. This is their right as the owners of that property, within reason, depending on zoning and laws: to make whatever use of it makes the most sense for them and future generations. That's really what it is. This person is farming soybeans because soybeans made sense. If all of a sudden, Levi's came in and said, “I want to put you in my rotation of cotton farmers,” that person would look at the numbers and say, “Oh, maybe this makes more sense. Maybe the soil could support it.” That's all we're doing. We're saying, “Look, we're looking to take up a certain amount of land in this area. We want to talk to you about what that looks like.” There are some people who say, “I want to keep farming my carrots, but what I'll let you do is run these underground cables along the edge of my property by the road to connect someone over here that wants panels.” That's what participation can look like. Maybe you're just a buffer between us and the road.  You're planting a crop which is a visual barrier to whatever's happening with the actual industrial facility. You're what they used to call in the industry a setback parcel. There's nothing happening on your land, but you're part of the project. You're getting some amount of money for being part of the project and agreeing not to develop anything else in that area. It really is just a conversation with the landowners who would like to participate and at what level. Then you start to zoom out and see the tableau. “O.K., we've got a lot of people that would like to participate at a level that allows us to place panels over here. There are people who don't over here, so maybe we can place them over here. Maybe there's a way we can run some cabling here because that's all these people want to do.” It's a continual negotiation and renegotiation with the community to ask what the community will tolerate. All of these people are neighboring landowners. They have to be, so you have the rights to get from where you're generating it to where you're interconnecting it and sending the energy into the grid. Sharon: So, it's not really selling as much as a negotiation. You must get calls from recruiters every day. Do you look at the diversity of the equation that comes into this before you even talk to anybody? Tyrone: Where I would work myself? Sharon: Yeah. Tyrone: I do, but—this going to sound odd, but I think of an organization where I sit, especially as I've gotten later into my career and I've been in more leadership experiences, and now being an executive of the company, I look at them differently than the organizations I'm hiring. Part of that is because I have some level of control over increasing diversity or the implementation of a diversity, equity, inclusion program. When I've led teams, they have often been the most diverse teams in the company. I've had a hand in that, and it's been very intentional. Not in terms of quota and picking individual people, but I've been very intentional in setting up the opportunities for that to occur from a recruiting perspective. It's making sure we're reaching out to a broad enough universe of people so you're not just tapping existing networks of people, because a lot of these friend groups tend to be very homogenous, and you need to spread that out. I've successfully gotten very diverse candidate classes for particular positions. We've been able to go through the process to find the right person. That person is a white man sometimes; it's a white woman sometimes; it's an Asian woman; it's an Asian man; it's a Black man or Black woman. It's a variety of different people, but I've been able to get to that point by implementing a lot of the tools I've picked up over the years listening to other people who spend all their time steeped in work around diversity, equity and inclusion. It obviously doesn't end there. We'll get the person in, but if I'm part of the organization, especially if I'm an executive or in a leadership role, I can come in and take a little more ownership over turning that ship. It's something I'm always going to be interested in. You're never going to put together a committee on diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging at a place where I work and not have me on that board. Similarly, you're not going to start a corporate giving or matching program and not have me in that room talking about hunger. For third parties, however, I have no control over what they do, so there I'm just looking for other people who are doing that work. Sharon: What if you had a lawyer in private practice who really wanted your business or wanted to get into the company? If they say, “Hey, you wouldn't believe the diversity and equity program we have here,” would that sway you compared to somebody else who might call and say, “Can I come talk to you?” Tyrone: That could sway me, but in the sense that I'm going to want to do more vetting. We talked about this in a prior discussion. There is a mechanism for choosing counsel. As with everyone, there's obviously an inherent bias. People we're already using are going to be first in line for potential new scopes unless there's a strategic reason not to. When you're at small companies, there's always that issue of we have too many eggs in one basket; we need to diversify our providers—this is consultants and attorneys as well—and we need to have two or three people, at a minimum, that do this type of work on our small bench. You don't want to get more than that. It becomes unwieldy. In that case, if I'm adding someone to the bench, I might strategically say, “I've got four more deals coming by. We've got someone we've been working with who's been really good to us. I'm going to give that person at least two of those deals. For the other one, I'm going to try to find someone else and be proactive about diversification.” In that case, I might start looking. Who else does this type of work, does it well, has the right people, has the right bedside manner, doesn't have conflicts? I've been doing this long enough. You know who the other side uses. You know who the banks use, so this person will be conflicted out of representing you directly. It could potentially be a direct conflict. In those circumstances, I have a list of folks who I know do good work around diversity, equity, inclusion at the firm, who do good, professional work, and who I happen to like as professionals. They're not all people of color, and I haven't worked with them yet. I haven't used them yet. For a long time now, I've had a list in my head of people who are—I don't want to say next in line, but are on a list. “O.K., I've got one of these types of opportunities. I need to find someone who's outside of the fold.” I made a call to someone who had shifted firms a couple of months ago for a potential opportunity that's coming up. I did it well in advance. This was a person I had worked with in the past, a really great lawyer, a partner leading a group at a very, very large firm. I reached out to him. It turns out he's leaving that firm for another big firm. I will use him in the next 12 months. I'm certain of that, probably a few times. But I've got that list. It's rolling around. People join that list, to your point, by reaching out and saying, “Hey, here's what we're doing that's great. Let me talk to you about it. There might not be an opportunity today.” Those are the good reach-outs. “There might not be an opportunity today but let me get to know you. Let me talk a little bit about what we do. Let me tell you who else we're working for and why we can be value-creative for your business.” For a lot of us, the last thing you want to do is absolutely need someone and not know where to go. So, there's always a list rolling around of great firms and great lawyers at those firms. I say to myself, “I'm going to figure out a way to use this person or to make a referral to someone who needs to use them,” because they're doing what I consider to be the right things. I'm all over these in-house things where people are looking for a lawyer who does this or that. I'm part of the ACC. I'm part of the National Association of Corporate Directors. I'm part of the LCLD alumni because I was a fellow there. Then there are friends. People will always reach out and say, “Hey, I need this. Does anyone know a lawyer that does X in this geographic location?” When I do, because I know that person's elevator pitch and they've been rolling around in my head, I'm like, “How can I help this person advance what they're doing because I like what they're doing?” I immediately will either use them myself, or I'll reach out and respond. I've referred countless people. I've been in the room with GCs of Fortune 100 companies who were like, “Hey, can I ask you question?” I've made that referral and people have been happy with that. I've similarly had people I don't know in some organization I belong to send an email saying, “I need someone that does this type of work in Alabama and Mississippi.” There's a firm down there called Butler Snow that does great work in energy and infrastructure and other things in Alabama and Mississippi. A perfect example. I had a question the other day, and I shot out a note about who would want to use this firm, who they should use, whom I've used and whom I like, and hopefully they reach out. That happens all the time. Sharon: Are you often in the position where you might look in a directory, or do you not pay attention to them? Do you look at directories or badges or Super Lawyers? Tyrone: I look at them every year. I look at Super Lawyers. I look at Chambers. I look at the Legal 100—is that it? Sharon: Yes, I think that is one. Tyrone: I look at other ones. I get all those magazines. I look at all of them because our profession is large. It's small compared to certain other professions, but there are thousands and thousands of lawyers. People are shifting practice groups, and people who were previously not as visible for one reason or another later become visible. So, I'm always looking at those things because, again, the table stakes is that you know what you're doing. You have the right expertise. You have the right bedside manner. You've got the right rates or ability to be flexible when it's called for. Sometimes it's not. Then are you the right person, are you doing the right things, do you fit with the ethos of the company? It's not just me as the procurer of legal services. Do you fit with the ethos of the company? There are people I like personally and I think could do the work, but they, for example, have done certain work that politically I cannot align with our company given what we do. You just can't do that. I'm not using one of these firms, but during the 2020 election, there were certain firms that were front and center on some fairly spurious legal challenges. I knew of folks at other companies who were discussing whether or not to cut ties with some of those firms. A lot of stuff happened in Pennsylvania. I'm from Philadelphia. I have a lot of friends in Philadelphia, and I know people at firms; I know people at companies that are headquartered there—our current company is headquartered there—or were doing work there who were using some of those firms. That was definitely a discussion. I'm not going to say everybody did it. I didn't follow up on it. I definitely know from news reports that a variety of folks did drop those firms. I know some people who left those firms. I can't mention them in particular, but I know one person who reached out because they wanted to leave that firm. I was able to put them in touch with someone who was looking for someone, and they were able to make a transition. This is an extreme example, but those types of things do happen. Those types of things happen across the vendor spectrum. Every once in a while, there are clients where there is a case conflict that just doesn't make any sense. There are people in this world who spend a lot of money lobbying to get rid of renewables or kill projects or get rid of incentives at the state level. I'm not necessarily going to work with lawyers who spend all their time representing those folks. It's an easy example. I had a lawyer once reach out to me about a conflict I didn't know about. She presented the conflict, which she thought was a nothing burger. It turned out she literally represented the folks who killed another project my old company had done in that same jurisdiction, but she's like, “The representation is over, so it shouldn't be an issue.” Obviously, we didn't use this partner or their firm, but those are the types of things that come up and will influence the hiring decision-making process. Sharon: I'm curious. It's an out-of-left-field question, but I was looking last night at the board of Doral—is it Doral Energy? Tyrone: Yes. Sharon: I was intrigued because you mentioned you had just come from Israel, and I saw that it was a heavily Israeli and Jewish company. I just wondered if they wanted somebody in the States. Do you feel like you're outside? Tyrone: That's a good question. As a Black man in America in the corporate space, I am almost never in a room where I'm a majority. That's just a baseline. So, with this company, I never felt like I was outside; I never felt other. The story of Doral Renewables is we're a U.S. company which started as a JV with an Israeli company of the same name that is now publicly traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. They do a bunch of work in the solar, hydrants and some other spaces in Israel and Europe. They really didn't have a footprint in the United States. Our company started as a joint venture with our CEO, Nick Cohen, who is not Israeli, but who I worked with. He and I worked together at Invenergy years ago. He's a serial entrepreneur, we'll call it. He's had several other companies in the energy space that were ultimately successful, and that was my siren song. Nick and I remained friends and stayed in contact, and ultimately it made sense for me to join this company. It's been a great partnership with the Doral Group in Israel. One of the other passive investors is Migdal Insurance, which is the largest insurance company in Israel. We have strong ties to the Israeli market. A number of board members are in Israel and are from these companies which are large investors and backers. We recently did a deal with Apollo, which you'll see in the press release. There's a board member from Apollo that's now part of our board, which is very exciting. The early backers of the company were largely out of Israel, so that's a strong representation you see on our board. They've been amazing partners in what we do because especially at the Doral Group level, they do what we do. That understanding is critical because you can have conversations without the need for in-depth explanation. Everyone's working with the same baseline information. We were actually in Israel to discuss business and to do some celebrations of the Apollo/Bank of America deal that was publicly announced. I went over to take part in that and to have some discussions. A lot of folks from Israel are here. Periodically we're there just making sure we're maintaining a relationship. Even though people are distributed all around the world, we're maintaining some level of face-to-face contact fairly regularly. Sharon: Do they ask you for referrals? If they might not know somebody in the Midwest, let's say, and they need an energy lawyer, would they ask you for a referral? Tyrone: Technically no because it's part of my role. I'm going to find the person and put them in the slot. But if someone else, for whatever reason, was trying to find a lawyer separate and apart from my scope, they would come to me, whether the Midwest or otherwise. The benefit of what I've been doing over the last several years is I know a lot of lawyers doing what needs to be done in and around the renewable energy space and the traditional energy space. Some of it has nothing to do with energy. Some of it is in the private finance space; some of it is in the trade and controversy space dealing with importation. I know a lot of lawyers doing this work. I have sat through a lot of pitches. I have a done a lot of deals with folks. Again, I have gone to the trade shows and gotten recommendations, met people, interacted with them, but over time, I've developed a good list of folks who I know do this work, notwithstanding conflicts and/or retirements, which have been hitting me lately and making me feel old. Some of my favorite people have retired with a clear successor, but notwithstanding retirements and conflicts, I could tell you who you should be using, who I would say is tier one, who I would say is tier two, and who I would avoid. I've worked with legal service providers who ultimately did not give good service or who broke certain rules, sometimes around soft conflicts, so I could give that information as well to someone who's looking for it. “Here's who I recommend. Here's who I know nothing about. Here's who I would not recommend,” without going into any detail, of course. I've got a wealth of that information, so people will tap me for that, especially because what we do is often done in remote areas of each state. I can tell you where to find a lawyer in southern Mississippi just like I can tell you where to find a lawyer in northern Saskatchewan. I can tell you who they are, what public deals I know they have done, how to use them and how not to, and where their expertise ends so you probably need to bring in a different firm. Those are the things I've had to learn over the years, so I share that pretty freely. Sharon: Do you mentor pretty freely? If I'm a new lawyer and I'm a person of color and I say, “Can I talk to you for 10 minutes or 15 minutes or a half-hour?” Tyrone: I'm almost always going to say yes. These days, that scheduled time might be several weeks out, but I'm almost always going to say yes. I always try to take the coffee. I always try to take the phone call. I don't oftentimes take the dinner or the drinks from people I don't know, but part of that is because I've got three little boys. I live in the suburbs. I'm not often in the city. I have a home office that I work in, so I'm not going to disrupt my daily family routine very often, but coffees, phone calls or meetings like that, I do those all the time. I'm happy to do them. I love when people refer folks, largely because it's something a lot of people don't have time to do or won't make the time to do. I still remember doing an ungodly number of reach-outs to people, which is the advice we got from our career office in law school, and the number of people who actually responded that I didn't know, that I didn't have any connection to. Almost none of them were people who did not have some prior experience with being left out or not necessarily getting the attention evenly. So, I'll try to do that until I can't do it anymore. I'll always take the phone call. I'll chat with folks. I've mentored some people in a more formal way, either way through the ACC Diversity Mentorship Program here in Chicago or through other mentorship programs at work or an internship program or things like that. There are other people who have just been put in touch with me, and we've kept an informal cadence. There's one guy right now who is at a firm. He worked for the government. I was the mentor for him informally, I think, several years ago. Now he's a midlevel associate at his firm. I was at an event and someone, the head of a group, said to me, “I'm having a hard time hiring lawyers in this practice area”—this person was a person of color—“I'm not finding anyone. I'm definitely not finding anyone of color,” and I said, “It's funny you should say that. I was just looking on LinkedIn the other day and saw an update by this person.” I gave the details, and they were like, “We should talk. We should absolutely talk.” Actually, I have the card of the person I was talking to sitting on my desk. I'm going to reach out to the lawyer first just to see if he will be interested in starting that conversation, but they happen. Those of us who do that mentorship—and I know you know this—we remember. We remember all these people. That's why the elevator pitch is so important because it's so memorable. I can't remember everything, but I remember that tiny, little piece that allows me to think of you when opportunities come up, and I can try to make connections as necessary. Sharon: So, you find them also on LinkedIn. Besides that lucky meeting, it sounds like LinkedIn has been pretty significant in what you've done. Tyrone: It's good to see things like this. In this case, I saw this person had an updated work anniversary or something like that on LinkedIn, so they were top of mind. I think LinkedIn is great for that. It's also great for people being able to get a snapshot of what you're doing professionally. I can't tell you the number of times I hear, “Do you know such and such?” and someone pulls up their phone and pulls up LinkedIn and they're like, “I don't think so,” and I'm like, “This person did this and this,” and they're like, “Oh yes, I think I do.” They're connected to you, or they're connected to someone else who's connected to you. You start to see that LinkedIn is very useful for the core function it was created for all those years ago. I find it still very useful in that space. Sharon: Having a written a lot of this stuff and believing some of it and not believing others, it says you are a proven people person, or something like that; you're a proven leader. Can you give us examples of what that might be? Tyrone: Sure. We don't have enough time to get into all the details, but you know I know that managing people, which is an obligation, is more administrative and is different from leading. Leadership in and of itself can be dotted-line leadership and straight-line leadership. Dotted-line leadership is what happens when there's a roomful of arguable equals, and someone walks in and stands up and just starts talking and leading the discussion and everyone else. That person is leading in that space. I've led teams that are cross-functional teams. You're working on a transaction and legal needs to tie it all together. You're bringing all the elements to the table, but you're there to tie it all together. You're there to run it through the mill of risk and to engage with the other side. I've done that a lot through my career. Then I've done more traditional, straight-line leadership as well, where I've led people. I've been in people leadership. I've had teams of one. At the largest it was 27 direct and indirect reports. In those contexts, I think about those people. I think through my own gaze, about where I've had good leaders and where I've had bad leaders. Largely the bad leaders center for me, because it's a good rubric of what not to do. A lot of time, they're bad in very acute ways, which is easy for you to identify and say, “Well, that thing should be on the no list.” I pride myself on being able to build teams and deal with interpersonal issues with those teams. Anyone who has ever worked for me has had a meeting I forced them to sit in where they talk about their career; where I tell them I don't care if you leave here, I care how you leave. I don't care that you leave. My expectation is that your career, unless you are literally at the end of your career—not that you're a certain age because you can work until you're 90 if you want—is that your career is probably going to extend beyond the four walls of this organization. What I want to understand is where you want to go in your career because I want to help you figure out what you need to do to get to that next step, what other skills you can learn here. How can we marry that with the scope I need from you here, so we're doing double duty and we're not putting you in a position where you have to choose, where you have the tyranny of the “or” here. You'll be able to “and.” Then whenever you're ready, I tell people, “If you come here and you do a good job, I'll be your reference. I'll write your recommendation.” I had someone the other day that used to work for me a few years ago reach out because he needed a recommendation for a new job he's going to, after the job he left working with me to do. I was happy to give it. I called up the folks and gave what I thought was a glowing recommendation because it was deserved. That's a part of it. I like that because it's true, and it also disarms a little bit. It gets people to be a little open. I like to be frank with folks. We are not a family; we are coworkers. We can use the term family, but I don't mistake my family for this. That doesn't mean we can't be jovial. It doesn't mean we can't be supportive of each other. It doesn't mean we can't all get along in a way that gets the work done very well and makes this a relatively enjoyable experience for people 75% of the time. When I do that, I find you get openness from the people you're leading, but you also get a willingness to follow. When you're in a position where you need to lead, either because you decided to or because the organization decided, it's critical to get people who are willing to follow. I think some of that comes from being human. I think some of that comes from explaining where they're following you. I'm not blindfolding you and taking the kids to Disney. I'm telling you why I'm trying to do something, what I'm trying to do to get there. Even if you don't think it's the right thing, you know I'm earnest in what I'm trying to do and what I'm trying to accomplish. So, you're going to dig in and participate and help me get there. That's something I've done now for several years, and it's something I didn't come up with on my own. I learned from bad leaders as much as from great leaders. The LCLD Fellowship Program is an amazing program with a ton of resources on leadership. I read constantly on the subject. I've taken courses on my own dime on leadership, a master class and other things to try to home in on certain areas. I think it's so important. It has such an outsized impact on people's day, a large part of your day, and the energy you take home. It's such a large part of your life in the working years. Sharon: It definitely is. Tyrone, thank you very much. I really appreciate your time. I greatly appreciate it. Tyrone: Thank you for having me.

This week we discuss new technology, jobs, and some interesting business developments. Aerones' latest modular robot is 5x faster than humans,repairing up to Level 3 LEE damage and halting progression of up to Level 5 erosion. Then we leap from Latvia to Kentucky, where Nucor's new factory is making Elcyon, "creating the first domestic supply chain of sustainable steel" in the US - and it's specifically for designed for the demands of offshore energy. Rosemary posits that the economics of recycled steel may outweigh the environmental benefits, but it's a win for the state and the industry.   New York could be the big winner in jobs, with BP and GE including new factories in their bid packages, while Invenergy signed a MOU with North America's Building Trades Union to sweeten its bid. Joel thinks he understands why Iberdrola is selling wind sites in the US, but says there may be more to it. The wind industry is not slowing down. Keep up with Uptime!  Visit Pardalote Consulting at https://www.pardaloteconsulting.com Wind Power Lab - https://windpowerlab.com Weather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.com Intelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Uptime 151 Allen Hall: So we came on the podcast today, Joel, Rosemary checked in and her first comment was about the sweater I'm wearing. It took like maybe five seconds before she's on top of me about my sweater.  Joel Saxum: It's beautiful, Allen. It's beautiful. It's a beautiful cardigan. It's not a sweater, it's a cardigan. It's fantastic. Allen Hall: It's a cardigan, right? There you go. And I'm here to the whaling territory of America. Right? This is sort of like's what the whalers used to wear. It's cold in Massachusetts. It's awful. And it's wets  Allen Hall: too. It's awful. Joel Saxum: If you're new to the podcast, what you'll understand from that comment is that Rosemary usually doesn't have a filter. She's gonna tell you how it is and what she feels, and that's why we love her. Joel Saxum: Yeah. So this, this is a really fun episode, because Rosemary is completely filterless this week. And we're gonna talk about Aerones over in Latvia. Talking about really going after a big marketplace. Joel Saxum: They're, they're going to be doing leading edge repairs with AkzoNobel has the sealant fixed to keep those leading edges clean and making power. And then we, then we shift gears over to New York State and there's a lot happening offshore in New York State with the New York State bid process. All the companies that are just offshore trying to make bids into the state, the state's only looking for two gigawatts, and there's a lot more power offshore than two gigawatts at the moment. Joel Saxum: So, A bunch of shuffling, including GE proposing to, to build two new facilities in New York State, a new blade facility with LM Wind Power, and then an a cell facility right next door. Lot of action  Joel Saxum: there. We're also gonna talk about ebra Jola. So for the technicians in the field that may be working on one and wind farm, and they come to work the next day and it's owned by someone else what we see is that with the availability of capital for, for their developments, that's going to become more commonplace and Iberdrola is making some big moves to shift around their capital base to, to put some more renewable energy in the ground. Joel Saxum: That's actually, that's what we're thinking, right? We don't work for iro, so we don't know. And then we're gonna get back to Rosemary talking losing her filt...

Three national climate policy stars kick off Season 3 to recap 2022 successes, predict what's in store for 2023 on the policy front, and outline how the Inflation Reduction Act will benefit states, households, and the climate. U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, U.S. Representative Kathy Castor of Florida, and Kelly Speakes-Backman of Invenergy share their insights on how we made major progress last year and why we can expect an action-packed year ahead!  Guest BiosU.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (New Mexico) has served in the Senate since 2012 and sits on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources, Appropriations, Intelligence, and Joint Economic Committees. Senator Heinrich is focused on creating the jobs of the future and confronting the climate crisis. He served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and four years as an Albuquerque City Council, serving as City Council President. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri. U.S. House of Representatives Kathy Castor (Florida) is Tampa Bay's voice in the U.S. Congress. She was elected in 2006 and represents Florida's 14th Congressional district, and is the first woman to represent Hillsborough and Pinellas counties in Congress. She serves as a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee and the Chair of the former Select Committee on the Climate Crisis. She previously served as a Hillsborough County Commissioner, Chair of the Hillsborough County Environmental Protection Commission, and President of the Florida Association of Women Lawyers. She holds degrees from Emory University and Florida State University College of Law. Kelly Speakes-Backman is the Executive Vice President of Public Affairs with   Invenergy, where she leads communications, government affairs, and marketing activities. She previously served as the Acting Assistant Secretary and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the Department of Energy, where she oversaw the planning and execution of the organization's $3.2B portfolio of activities in energy efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainable transportation. She also served as the first CEO of the Energy Storage Association and Commissioner of the Maryland Public Service Commission. Kelly was honored in 2019 by The Cleanie Awards as Woman of the Year.To Dig in Deeper, Check out these Must-Read Resources:White House Fact Sheet on the Inflation Reduction Act & White House Inflation Reduction Act GuidebookHouse Select Committee on the Climate Crisis Archive Website  Implementing the Inflation Reduction Act Report Series, Energy InnovationInfrastructure and Investment in Jobs Act Resources for Local Governments Energy Innovation Careers - We're Hiring!

Julie Kuntz is a “fifth-generation Iowa farm girl” who has become one of the most vocal opponents of wind-energy development in her home state. In this episode, Kuntz, a member of Concerned Residents of Worth and Winnebago Counties, Iowa, who lives in Grafton, talks about the lawsuit that Chicago-based Invenergy filed against Worth County, the company's “nefarious tactics,” the media's “horrid” coverage of the land-use conflicts around renewables, and why “an informed citizen is the wind industry's worst nightmare.” (Recorded with June 3, 2022).

REPAIR UP THERE is a short documentary film that follows a group of Wind Turbine Blade Repair Rope Access Technicians that travel around the world and by utilizing Rope access repair wind turbine blades. This short documentary follows one crew as they complete a fiberglass repair on a wind turbine for Invenergy on a wind farm in Snyder Texas. Conversation with director Michael Barry & producer John Adams on the making of the film. Film also showing on the WILDsound TV app. You can sign up for the 7 day free trial at www.wildsound.ca (available on your streaming services and APPS). There is a DAILY film festival to watch, plus a selection of award winning films on the platform. Then it's only $3.99 per month. Subscribe to the podcast: https://twitter.com/wildsoundpod https://www.instagram.com/wildsoundpod/ https://www.facebook.com/wildsoundpod

Late in February, the U.S. completed the most successful offshore wind lease auction in history.  The auction for rights to develop offshore wind in the New York Bight brought in a record $4.37 billion from the companies bidding for them. The New York Bight is an area of ocean off the coasts of New York […]

Das sind die ecozentrisch Wochenchampions in der 12. KW:In Spanien entsteht VWs zweite europäische BatteriefabrikBatteriezellen für E-Autos Made in Europe:Volkswagen errichtet seine zweite europäische Batteriezell-Fabrik in Spanien. Das Werk soll in Valencia an der spanischen Mittelmeerküste stehen. Es soll eine Produktionskapazität von 40 Gigawattstunden (GWh) im Jahr haben und über 3.000 Mitarbeiter beschäftigen. Dafür investiert der Konzern gemeinsam mit Partnern 7 Milliarden Euro, das ist die größte Industrie-Investition in Spanien.VW will insgesamt sechs große Fabriken in Europa bauen, die bis zum Ende des Jahrzehnts die Elektromobilität voranbringen sollen. https://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/industrie/elektromobilitaet-volkswagen-baut-zweite-europaeische-batteriezellfabrik-in-spanien/28190916.html100.000ster Smart Meter bei E.ONRekordmarke 100.000 geknackt:Das Energieunternehmen E.ON hat als erstes Unternehmen in Deutschland 100.000 Smart Meter verbaut. Das 100.000ste Gerät ist der Zähler in einer Grundschule in Thalmassing, welcher von der E.ON-Tochtergesellschaft Bayernwerk eingebaut wurde. E.ON ist in anderen europäischen Ländern sogar noch weiter: In Schweden hat man bereits eine Million, in Großbritannien bereits 4 Millionen Geräte installiert. Smart Meter sind intelligente Mess-Systeme, die für die Digitalisierung der Netzinfrastruktur unerlässlich sind.Damit tragen sie zur besseren Planbarkeit, zu mehr Effizienz und zur besseren Vernetzung bei. All das wird gebraucht, um die Energiewende möglich zu machen. https://www.umweltdialog.de/de/wirtschaft/digitalisierung/2022/Digitalisierung-E.ON-verbaut-100.000sten-Smart-Meter-in-Deutschland.phpInvenergy und GE Renewable Energy eröffnen größten US-WindparkViel Windenergie für die USA:Die Firma Invenergy hat, gemeinsam mit GE Reneable Energy mit dem kommerziellen Betrieb eines 998-Megawatt-Windenergiezentrums begonnen.Damit stellt das Projekt den größten, in einer einzigen Phase errichteten Windpark in Nordamerika dar. Der Windpark liegt im Norden von Oklahoma und befindet sich direkt neben zwei weiteren, etwas älteren Windparks. Gemeinsam bilden sie die North Central Energy Facilities. Sie bestehen gemeinsam aus über 531 Windturbinen von General Electric. Gemeinsam haben sie eine Gesamtleistung von 1.484 Megawatt und sind damit eine der größten Windenergie-Anlagen weltweit.https://www.environmentalleader.com/2022/03/north-americas-largest-wind-project-now-operational/Zusammenarbeit von Engie und TÜV Süd bei Wasserstoff und Power-to-XGemeinsam für Wasserstoff und Power to Gas: Das Energieunternehmen Engie und der TÜV Süd haben eine Kooperationsvereinbarung für ihre Aktivitäten in den Bereichen Wasserstoff und Power to Gas unterzeichnet. In allen Stufen der Wertschöpfungskette will man hier zusammenarbeiten. Bei Engie arbeiten mehr als 200 Spezial-Fachkräfte an Wasserstoff-Lösungen. Der TÜV Süd begleitet die gesamte Wertschöpfungskette zum Thema Wasserstoff als führendes Prüf- und Zertifizierungsunternehmen. Nun wollen beide Unternehmen interdisziplinäre Teams zusammenstellen. Damit sollen sowohl komplexe Projekte ganzheitlich betrachtet als auch individuelle Lösungen für verschiedenste Aufgabenstellungen gefunden werden. https://www.ee-news.ch/de/article/48279/engieund-tuv-sud-kooperieren-bei-wasserstoff-und-power-to-x?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feedSchuhhersteller Gabor Testsieger bei Focus Money NachhaltigkeitNachhaltige Schuhmarke ausgezeichnet:Der Schuhersteller Gabor wurde auch in diesem Jahr wieder bei Focus Money als Testsieger gekürt. Aus der aktuellen Studie der Publikation erhielt Gabor diese Auszeichnung für sein Engagement in Bezug auf Nachhaltigkeit. Dafür wurden etwa eine halbe Million Kundenstimmen zu 1.468 bewerteten Unternehmen ausgewertet. Das Unternehmen Gabor erhielt hier die Bewertung ‚sehr starkes Engagement‘ in diesem Bereich und zählt damit zu den Spitzenreitern und ist Testsieger in der Schuhbranche. Gabor erhält diese Auszeichnung bereits zum vierten Mal.https://de.fashionnetwork.com/news/gabor-erneut-fur-nachhaltigkeit-ausgezeichnet,969524.htmlNespresso ist wieder Partner des Greentech FestivalsNespresso-Kaffee wieder auf dem Greentech-Festival:Bereits im zweiten Jahr wird Nespresso wieder offizieller Partner der prominent besetzten Veranstaltung. Vom 22. bis 24. Juni 2022 treffen sich Teilnehmer zu den Themen Nachhaltigkeit, grüne Technologien und Innovation. Festival-Ort ist das Gelände des ehemaligen Flughafens Berlin-Tegel. Auch für Nespresso hat das Thema Nachhaltigkeit einen hohen Stellenwert: Von Fairtrade bis zu Aufforstungsmaßnahmen will man seiner Verantwortung gerecht werden. Dies will man auch auf dem Greentech Festival zeigen. https://www.umweltdialog.de/de/management/Messen-Konferenzen/2022/Nespresso-ist-erneut-Partner-des-GREENTECH-FESTIVALS.phpKovanda bietet Beton aus recycelten RohstoffenNachhaltiges Bauen mit umweltfreundlicherem Beton:Die Firma Kovanda aus Österreich hat eine neue Produktreihe für nachhaltigere Baustoffe entwickelt. Die Linie mit dem Namen ÖK+KO-Beton verwendet recycelte Rohstoffe, um weniger natürlich vorkommende Rohstoffe verwenden zu müssen und wertvolle Deponie-Flächen zu schonen. Damit wird auch im Baustoff-Bereich verstärkt auf Kreislaufwirtschaft gesetzt. Kovanda ist es gelungen, Materialien aus dem Hochbau und aus der umliegenden Gegend wiederzuverwenden und damit ein Produkt mit vielseitigen Anwendungsmöglichkeiten zu schaffen. Man will aber darüber hinaus die Produktpalette erweitern und auch den ÖK+KO-Beton für künftige Projekte wieder recyceln, um den Kreislauf vollständig zu schließen. https://www.oekonews.at/?mdoc_id=1171582Unsere allgemeinen Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie unter https://art19.com/privacy. Die Datenschutzrichtlinien für Kalifornien sind unter https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info abrufbar.

Schools, municipalities, nonprofits and small for-profit companies that want to go solar typically don't have the resources to do so on their own. They need investors in clean energy projects to make it work.Yet local EPCs tend to shy away from selling third-party-owned solar PPA projects to their customers and focus solely on cash deals.So, how do we facilitate a working relationship between local EPC solar installers and the investors who want to finance these kinds of C&I projects in the small utility space?Marc Palmer is the Cofounder and CEO of New Resource Solutions, a company developing software tools to reduce the soft costs associated with financing C&I solar projects in the US. Marc spent four years as Senior Manager of Finance at Invenergy before cofounding New Resource Solutions in 2017.On this episode of Clean Power Hour, Marc joins Tim to explain how his team empowers local EPCs to sell third-party-owned solar power purchase agreement projects to their customers.Marc discusses how it benefits local EPCs to sell PPAs and describes what makes the relationship between EPCs and investors such a challenge to navigate.Listen in to understand why public entities are the sweet spot in the PPA market right now and learn how New Resource Solutions is helping the industry scale faster with tools to finance small C&I solar projects more efficiently.Key Takeaways How the desire to work in a space he was passionate about led Marc to clean energyHow New Resource Solutions uses software to reduce the soft costs associated with financing C&I solar projects in the USHow Marc's team empowers local EPCs to sell third-party-owned PPA projects to their customersHow a typical customer saves 15% on power with a solar PPAHow it benefits local EPCs to sell solar power purchase agreementsWhy public entities (e.g.: schools, municipalities) serve as the majority of the solar PPA market at presentHow Marc overcomes the 10-year contract limits on wastewater treatment facilitiesWhat makes the relationship between local EPCs and investors such a challengeWhy the Massachusetts SMART and Illinois Adjustable Block solar programs have been so successfulHow Marc thinks about helping the solar industry scale faster How the Solar Finance Fund provides grants for C&I projects in Central Appalachia Connect with MarcNew Resource Solutions Conductor SolarEmail marc@conductor.solarConnect with Tim  Clean Power Hour  Clean Power Hour on YouTubeTim on TwitterTim on LinkedIn Email tgmontague@gmail.com Review Clean Power Hour on Apple PodcastsResourcesSMART Massachusetts Solar ProgramIllinois Adjustable Block Solar ProgramConductor SolarSunSpec AllianceCorporate sponsors who share our mission to speed the energy transition are invited to check out https://www.cleanpowerhour.com/support/ Twice a week we highlight the tools, technologies and innovators that are making the clean energy transition a reality - on Apple,

Episode Summary In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy speaks with Jordan Leventhal from Invenergy and John Moran from Lafayette Square.  They discuss REACTIVATE which is a new innovative solar platform which is a joint venture between Invenergy and Lafayette Square. By 2030, Reactivate seeks to develop three gigawatts (“GW”) of renewable energy capacity, save $50 million in energy costs for LMI households, sign 100 contracts with minority or women-owned contractors, and facilitate workforce training for 2,500 underserved workers.  They speak about many interesting topics like how REACTIVATE is solar 2.0, the many benefits of community solar project, and how to scale solar deployment and investment. Benoy Thanjan Benoy Thanjan is the Founder and CEO of Reneu Energy, as well as an advisor for several solar startup companies. Reneu Energy is a premier international solar energy consulting firm and developer, and the company focuses on developing commercial and industrial solar, as well as utility-scale solar plus storage projects. The company also sources financing for solar projects and hedges both energy and environmental commodities.  Benoy received his first experience in Finance as an intern at D.E. Shaw & Co., which is a global investment firm with 37 billion dollars in investment capital. Before founding Reneu Energy, he was the SREC Trader in the Project Finance Group for SolarCity, which merged with Tesla in 2016. He originated SREC trades with buyers and co-developed their SREC monetization and hedging strategy with the senior management of SolarCity, to move into the east coast markets. Benoy also worked at Vanguard Energy Partners, Ridgewood Renewable Power, and Deloitte & Touche. John Moran John Moran leads the community solar energy platform, Reactivate, in its efforts to make impact in underserved areas by acquiring, developing, financing, and operating renewable energy projects that support local communities. Prior to joining Lafayette Square as Co-Head of Community Solar, John was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs in the Renewable Power Group where he helped pioneer the group's Community Solar business. John has worked in the solar and renewables industry since 2006 and has worked on over a gigawatt of projects. Previously, John was a Project Manager at Spower where he was responsible for taking projects from inception, through permitting, construction and financing. Prior to Spower, John held positions at Suntech where he led utility scale sales on the east coast, and EDF where he established their east coast distributed generation business. Before entering the Renewables space in 2006 John was a High School Science Teacher and Coach at Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx. John started his career in Private Wealth Management at Morgan Stanley. John serves on the board of the Spinal Muscular Atrophy Research Team. Originally from New City, NY, John holds a BS from the University of Notre Dame. Jordan Leventhal Jordan Leventhal serves on the Investment Committee of Reactivate and as Manager of Growth and Innovation at Invenergy. In his role at Reactivate, Jordan advises on market and impact strategy and oversees key investment decisions. At Invenergy, Jordan leads the Growth and Innovation team where he engages in strategic planning and leads various growth initiatives across Invenergy's solar, wind, energy storage, and other technology platforms. Prior to his current role, Jordan led emerging technologies on the Invenergy Strategy team where he was instrumental in the launch of new Invenergy technology platforms including hydrogen, distributed energy, electric vehicle charging, offshore wind, and long-duration energy storage. Previously, Jordan worked at Deloitte Consulting in the Strategy and Operations practice where he led strategy, sustainability, and corporate restructuring projects for large electric utility and consumer goods companies. Jordan holds a BS in Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh.   Stay Connected: Benoy Thanjan Email: info@reneuenergy.com  LinkedIn: Benoy Thanjan Website: https://www.reneuenergy.com   John Moran Linkedin:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-moran-03a3b3a/ Website:  https://www.reactivate.com                     https://www.lafayettesquare.com   Jordan Leventhal Linkedin:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-leventhal-ba127b90/ Website:  https://www.reactivate.com                     https://invenergy.com   Additional Notes Lafayette Square and Invenergy Announce Launch of Renewable Energy Joint Venture.  The link to the press release is below. https://invenergy.com/news/lafayette-square-and-invenergy-announce-launch-of-renewable-energy-joint-venture Invenergy Announces Approximately $3 Billion Investment from Blackstone Infrastructure Partners to Accelerate Renewable Development Activities.  The link to the press release is below. https://invenergy.com/news/invenergy-announces-approximately-3-billion-investment-from-blackstone-infrastructure-partners-to-accelerate-renewable-development-activities Subscribe to our podcast + download each episode on iTunes,Podbean, youtube, and most of the major podcast platforms. 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REsurety delivers data-driven solutions for the clean energy economy and the tools to identify value and manage risks from clean energy investments. Lee Taylor is the Co-Founder and CEO of REsurety. Since founding REsurety in 2012 to commercialize research he conducted at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, Mr. Taylor has built a rapidly growing company, gained institutional financing, and attracted top-notch talent, advisors, and directors. Today, REsurety's products are not only award-winning, but are redefining the way clean energy buyers and sellers are thinking about and managing risk. Under Mr. Taylor's stewardship, REsurety has amassed contracts supporting more than 5,000 MW of renewable energy generation capacity and counts many of the U.S. — if not the world's — largest companies as customers and partners, including Microsoft, Invenergy, Capital Power, Southern Company, Nephila Climate, and Allianz. Mr. Taylor holds an MBA from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where he was named an Edward Tuck Scholar (awarded for academic achievement) and recipient of the Lt. Walter Jacobs Memorial Prize (awarded for intellectual leadership). He also holds Bachelor's degrees in Economics and Biology from the University of Virginia. ------- QUESTIONS THAT WE COVERED: Business What does your company do? What makes you unique versus the competition? How are you funding your growth — e.g., revenue, VC, CVC, government grants, M&A? What are 1-2 lessons you've learned along the way? Outside of your current business, what other 1-2 climate or sustainability sectors seem like promising areas in which to start a business? What might those solutions look like? Personal If you had to start over, what are 1-2 tips you'd give yourself in order to be faster, more effective, and higher impact? What are some habits and routines that keep you focused, healthy, and sane — e.g., meditations, exercise, productivity hacks? What recommendations do you have for our audience — books, podcasts, quotes, tools? What's the nicest thing anyone has ever done for you — outside of your own family? Closing Do you have any requests, announcements, or final advice for our listeners? ------- PODCAST HOST: The parent company of the Climate Torch podcast is Entrepreneurs for Impact. We are the only private mastermind community for investor-backed CEOs, founders, and investors fighting climate change. We're on a mission to help “scale up” climate leaders supercharge their impacts, share best practices, expand their networks, and reach their full potential. Our invite-only cohorts of 11 executives catalyze personal development and business growth via monthly meetings, annual retreats, a member-only Climate Investor Database, and 1:1 coaching and strategy calls. Today's highly curated Mastermind members represent over $4B in market cap or assets under management, and are influencing corporate priorities and infrastructure much bigger than that. Peer groups are led by Dr. Chris Wedding who brings $1B+ of investment experience, 50,000+ professional students taught, 25 years of meditation, an obsession with constant improvement, and far too many mistakes to keep to himself. Website: www.entrepreneursforimpact.com Membership benefits: https://bit.ly/3l12Gyg Sample Mastermind members: https://bit.ly/3ipSehS Request more information on membership: https://bit.ly/3mj48eM --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/entrepreneurs-for-impact/message

In our season one premiere of Built, we talked with Tyrone Thomas, Deputy General Counsel for one of the leaders in sustainable energy solutions. Tyrone's interest in real estate and land use started as a kid growing up in West Philly. Now, not only is Tyrone tasked with developing 20 to 50 thousand acres of contiguous rural land for renewable energy projects, but he also advocates for people of color in law providing career advice and guidance. *Since recording this episode, Tyrone has changed companies from Invenergy to Plus Power. For more information about this episode, visit Built.FNF.com.

Julia and Allie both worked in the renewable energy department at Invenergy. We review with them how Invenergy thinks about developing wind and renewable projects, considerations when developing, and thoughts on wind in the future. Show Notes: 02:14 Allie's background 02:51 Development cycle of a typical wind project at Invenergy 04:11 Challenges of making sure sites are construction-ready; interaction with landowners 07:21 Recent wind turbine technology changes; impacts on wind farm layouts 11:25 Public misconceptions about wind farms 12:39 Pushback from stakeholders and considerations for bird populations 16:56 Considerations for wind projects near homes & commercial buildings 20:45 Comparing working in renewables & natural gas industries 23:08 Working on projects from start to finish 24:50 Recent changes to factors significantly affecting their jobs 27:56 Inspiration for entering the energy industry 29:51 Thoughts on carbon capture sequestration 31:36 Advice for young professionals looking to enter the industry 33:22 Alarming industry trends; impacts of political uncertainty 36:28 Thoughts on offshore wind projects in the next decade 38:48 End Julia's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliakimmerly/ Allie's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alliemjames/

How well are wind farms protected from cyber attacks? Will ransomware and other attacks potential strike more and more wind energy companies, following the attempted extortion of Invenergy? And, we discuss transmission lines - the electrical engineering needed, AC vs DC power, interstate line projects, Texas and ERCOT's problems, and more. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Wind Farms At Cybersecurity Risk? Plus, a Deep Dive into Transmission Lines 0:00This episode is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. At Weather Guard, we make lightning protection easy. If your wind turbines are due for maintenance or repairs, install our StrikeTape retrofit LPS upgrade at the same time. A StrikeTape installation is the quick, easy solution that provides a dramatic, long lasting boost to the factory lightning protection system. Forward Thinking wind site owners install StrikeTape today to increase uptime tomorrow, learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. Welcome back. 0:38I'm Allen Hall. 0:39I'm Dan Blewett. And this is the uptime podcast where we talk about wind energy engineering, lightning protection and ways to keep your wind turbines running. All right, welcome back to the uptime podcast. This is Episode 66. And in today's episode, we're gonna talk a lot about transmission lines. Obviously, our co host, Allen Hall is an electrical expert, electrical engineer, lightning protection, all that stuff. So be prepared to get real nerdy with us today on electricity. And we're also going to talk a little bit about something that's going to be a big growing concern. It's becoming a growing concern in all industries, which is hacking ransomware struck invenergy does a big developer of wind sites and other renewable energy, they are subject to attack recently. So we'll chat a little bit about that. And then obviously, as we get more and more wind farms online, a growing problem is going to be how do we transmit that power to the grid? And where does it need to go? And do we have enough capacity in the transmission lines to get it there. So that's going to be a big topic for today. But before we get going, I want to remind you again, in the show notes of today's episode, whether you're on YouTube, iTunes, Spotify, you'll find a link to subscribe to uptime tech news, which is just our new weekly email sent every Thursday morning, that's going to let you know, hey, we got a new podcast. Here's what it's about. Here's our guest. Here's our topic. Here's a clip from another show. Here's some other great wind energy news, always on the tech side of things just right in your inbox. So if you're already a regular guest on the show, or a listener of the show, thank you. And we think you'll really like our to the point concise, not time waster very upfront email. So sign up for that in the show notes. So Alan, let's start today with invenergy. They were hacked, they discovered the the breach. And this wasn't a typical ransomware where they encrypted all their data, really, it seemed like it was just an extortion attempt on their billionaire founder. And of course, the guy was kind of just like, Hey, here's the middle finger, we're not paying you. And you're not going to extort me. But this is a scary thing. And I'm sure, you know, as our previous guest, Byron Martin from Teknologize, who's a cybersecurity expert and an IT expert, as they mentioned in our podcast, so definitely check out that episode with Byron Martin and Dan Morgan, if you haven't, this is going to become a bigger bigger thing like the colonial pipeline was hit. You know, government agencies are getting hit.

In today's podcast we cover four crucial cyber and technology topics, including: 1. REvil gains access to corporate data by compromising CEO's email 2. REvil compromises Nuclear consultant Sol Orien 3. G7 urges countries to take action against ransomware operators 4. Researchers link SITA breach to APT41 I'd love feedback, feel free to send your comments and feedback to  | cyberandtechwithmike@gmail.com

As a Black founder, Seyi Fabode, MBA '10, has experienced the challenge of investors taking him seriously.Fabode, an immigrant from Nigeria, recalls an investor calling him and his African-American partner in his first venture, Power2Switch, “boys.” It happened again 10 years later, after Fabode had founded the clean water company Varuna Tech.“I have two kids, I'm a grown man,” Fabode said. “And you can tell there's this, I'll say, discount and disregard and disrespect that is just embedded in some of these conversations that I can't imagine some of my White counterparts experience.”In this podcast episode, Fabode speaks about his entrepreneurship journey with Ellen Rudnick, a senior advisor on entrepreneurship at Chicago Booth and the first executive director of the Polsky Center.He took Power2Switch, an online marketplace to help people choose electricity suppliers, through the New Venture Challenge in 2009. And while it was not selected to advance to the finals, the experience was pivotal in helping to make the business a success, he said.The entrepreneurial peers Fabode met through the program continue to serve as mentors and investors. The early mistakes he made in his haste to assemble a team taught him the value of hiring slowly. And Michael Polsky himself, the namesake of the Polsky Center and CEO of Invenergy, served as chairman of his board.Power2Switch was acquired by Choose Energy in 2013, and five years later Fabode launched Varuna Tech, which uses sensors to measure water health in municipal water systems and alerts the proper authorities if something is wrong. The company is drawing interest as the world comes to grips with the dangers of water contamination.“I feel we've timed this right,” Fabode said.In his interview, Fabode discussed what makes a good hire, the need for more mental health support for entrepreneurs, and the challenges that continue to face minority and women founders.

Interview with Tyrone H. Thomas, Founder and Board Member of Conversation for Six Join us for a special conversation on food security and hunger with Tyrone H. Thomas, Founder and Board Member of Conversation for Six and Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Invenergy. Food Insecurity is a human rights epidemic affecting millions of people around the world. In addition to hunger, people living in Food Insecure households experience adverse physical conditions (i.e. poor nutrition, greater hospitalization rates, increased risk of obesity and diabetes), mental setbacks (i.e. higher instances of depression and anxiety), cognitive issues (i.e. trouble focusing, overall lower academic performance), and emotional effects (i.e. increased aggression, and other behavioral problems) at a greater rate than people living in Food Secure households. Listen to Tyrone share his unique insight on the issue from his prospective as an attorney and founder of the organization Conversation for Six.

With so much breaking energy news, co-hosts Kristin Gilkes (CFC) and Tom Content (CUB) first review recent headlines, including: the announced closure of the coal-fired Columbia Energy Center in Portage, WI; a new solar/storage proposal from WEC and MGE; diversity and equity reporting requirements at the PSCW; recent WI state budget and legislative news; and the devastating electric system failures in Texas. We are joined by a panel to discuss coal plant closures and the clean energy transition from the perspective of several different stakeholders, including Todd Stuart of the Wisconsin Industrial Energy Group, Scott Smith of Madison Gas and Electric, and Dan Litchfield of Invenergy. Panel begins at 21:00.

I spoke with Tyrone Thomas, a vice president and deputy general counsel at Invenergy and the founder of Conversation For Six, a non-profit organization focused on expanding ongoing discussions about food insecurity. We discussed best practices for balancing community-focused work and a legal practice, how COVID-19 has affected the hunger crisis, and the impact of the pandemic on the legal community's interest in starting charitable initiatives.

I spoke with Tyrone Thomas, a vice president and deputy general counsel at Invenergy and the founder of Conversation For Six, a non-profit organization focused on expanding ongoing discussions about food insecurity. We discussed best practices for balancing community-focused work and a legal practice, how COVID-19 has affected the hunger crisis, and the impact of the pandemic on the legal community’s interest in starting charitable initiatives.

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Saxon walks us through his career as an Origination Specialist, Invenergy's business model, and a slew of other great topics. We discuss: • Saxon's a self-made businessman from Illinois who wanted to make a career for himself in the energy space • He Worked for retail energy supplier called Nordic Energy Services scheduling electrical load and making gas nominations before transitioning to Invenergy • Invenergy owns and operates many of the plants they install and develop • Invenergy's bread and butter is wind - most installed capacity by >14,000 MW of installed capacity over the past 20 years in operation • Time required for a power project from idea inception to shovel ready • Utility Integrated Resource Plans • Transmission Infrastructure in the US (and how slowly development moves) • Invenergy's finance stack and strategy for financing projects • How Invenergy finds new projects • Saxon's transition from thermal fleets to a renewable project origination role • Recommended career path for someone looking to get into the renewable industry Saxon's LinkedIn profile can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saxon-mckinven-77095847/ Saxon's email: SMcKinven@invenergy.com Mark Hinaman's LinkedIn profile can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markhinaman/ Mark's email: mark.hinaman@ypenergy.org Jake Adamson's LinkedIn profile can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-adamson-ei-git-a3bba4103/ Jake's email: jadamson@ruleengineering.com Ellen Scott's LinkedIn profile can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellen-scott/ Ellen's email: elscott6@gmail.com

Did you know that veterans are 39% more likely to be promoted earlier & 160% more likely to have a graduate degree or higher than non-veterans? But yet one-third of veterans remain underemployed. Today's podcast guest is Dan Misch, Founder & Co-Director of the Veterans Advanced Energy Project (VAEP) & Senior Manager of Wind Asset Management at Invenergy LLC. Dan has made it his mission to ensure the 200,000+ military members who separate from the service every year can seamlessly transition into other purpose-driven industries like clean energy.Are you looking for your next role in climate tech? Join the largest growing network of cleantech professionals and be the first to know about when industry-leading cleantech companies post new job openings. From development to finance to marketing, check out our website: dylan-green.com/latest-jobs.Dylan Green | Clean Energy Recruitment AgencyUS Phone: +1 (917) 287-6826UK Phone: +44(0)7538921422Email: catherine@dylan-green.com

What you’ll learn in this episode: How a firm’s diversity and inclusion program influences in-house counsel’s decision to hire a firm. How a firm’s ability to demonstrate a robust D&I program has become more important in the last few years. What to look for in a D&I program. Advice to firms looking to attract and keep diverse individuals. About Tyrone Thomas, Jr.: Tyrone Thomas, Jr. is a seasoned legal and strategic business advisor. He is currently the Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Invenergy, LLC, a global leader in energy solutions, based in the Chicago office. Tyrone leverages his broad experience to provide effective counsel on a wide range of legal, business, administrative and risk management issues with a focus on complex commercial contracts, real estate, permitting, construction, procurement and litigation/ADR management. He has led diverse teams of professionals in numerous acquisitions, dispositions and project financings of utility-scale energy facilities; negotiated land rights for more than one million acres of real property globally; and managed the negotiation and faithful execution of key construction and procurement documents for dozens of utility-scale energy projects.   Prior to joining Invenergy, Tyrone was in private practice at DLA Piper, Hanson Bridgett LLP, and Gould & Ratner.   Tyrone is actively involved in Invenergy’s diversity and inclusion efforts and is a 2019 Fellow with the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD). He frequently speaks on the advancement of diverse candidates into leadership positions within the legal community. Additional resources: LinkedIn Twitter Transcript 

We discuss the logistical and personal challenges building renewable, gas, and storage projects around the world with VP-Communications Beth Conley. For pictures and additional info, visit http://www.energy-cast.com/88-invenergy.html

Rhode Island regulators have rejected a plan for a $1 billion fossil fuel plant in the woods of Burrillville. The Public’s Radio political analyst Scott MacKay says this decision should accelerate New England’s reliance on renewable sources to fill energy needs.

#158: Jonathan Pinzon, Carlos Abad & Jamie Dowswell If you’re familiar at all with the Mexico market, then you’ll have heard of the Mexico International Renewable Energy Congress, now know universally as Mirec. Like many of you, I’ll be headed to Mexico City next week to participate in what is essentially the SPI of Mexico, so thought it a good time to tell you both about the conference and a bit about why you might be interested in Mexico’s market at all. Today’s guests are Jamie Dowswell - Dir. of Programs for MIRECweek, Jonathan Pinzon - Dir. of Gov’t Affairs for Invenergy in Mexico, and Carlos Abad - Head of Latam Markets for Chint Power Systems. Gain access to all the show notes & resources from this episode here - Join the Tribe? Check out Episode 86, in which I explain how YOU can become a SunCast Tribe member and support the growth and stability of SunCast moving forward! www.mysuncast.com/member to join today! If you like what you see and hear, please SHARE it with this pre-filled tweet!

#158: Jonathan Pinzon, Carlos Abad & Jamie Dowswell If you’re familiar at all with the Mexico market, then you’ll have heard of the Mexico International Renewable Energy Congress, now know universally as Mirec. Like many of you, I’ll be headed to Mexico City next week to participate in what is essentially the SPI of Mexico, so thought it a good time to tell you both about the conference and a bit about why you might be interested in Mexico’s market at all. Today’s guests are Jamie Dowswell - Dir. of Programs for MIRECweek, Jonathan Pinzon - Dir. of Gov’t Affairs for Invenergy in Mexico, and Carlos Abad - Head of Latam Markets for Chint Power Systems. Gain access to all the show notes & resources from this episode here - Join the Tribe? Check out Episode 86, in which I explain how YOU can become a SunCast Tribe member and support the growth and stability of SunCast moving forward! www.mysuncast.com/member to join today! If you like what you see and hear, please SHARE it with this pre-filled tweet!

Tyrone Thomas, Jr. is a seasoned legal and strategic business advisor. He is currently Deputy General Counsel at Invenergy, LLC, a global leader in energy solutions, based in the Chicago office. Tyrone leverages his broad experience to provide effective counsel on a wide range of legal, business, administrative and risk management issues with a focus on complex commercial contracts, real estate, permitting, construction, procurement and litigation/ADR management. He has led diverse teams of professionals in numerous acquisitions, dispositions and project financings of utility-scale energy facilities; negotiated land rights for more than one million acres of real property globally; and managed the negotiation and faithful execution of key construction and procurement documents for dozens of utility-scale energy projects. Prior to joining Invenergy, Tyrone was in private practice at DLA Piper, Hanson Bridgett, and Gould & Ratner. Tyrone is actively involved in Invenergy’s diversity and inclusion efforts and is a 2019 Fellow with the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD). He frequently speaks on the advancement of diverse candidates into leadership positions within the legal community. What you’ll learn in this episode: How lawyers and law firms can most effectively market themselves to corporate companies like Invenergy. Why it’s critical to demonstrate your expertise on your website through published articles, white papers, speaking engagements and more. The importance of diversity and inclusion, and how it benefits law firms. What the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) is and how it promotes diverse representation within the legal community. Why being a member of LCLD and ranked by Chambers and Partners can be a valuable and powerful tool for law firms wanting to market themselves. Additional resources: Website: www.invenergyllc.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/tyrone-thomas-3653b24/ Twitter: @THTESQ Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Website: www.lcldnet.org

Caitlin Smith, Manager of Government and Regulatory Affairs at Invenergy, explains how the company is investing in Texas, building new sustainable energy projects, creating jobs, and collaborating with stakeholders to create growth.

How a Major Resort Owner Manages Its Power. MGM Resorts International took a bold step in 2016 when it ended its energy-buying relationship with NV Energy and instead chose to purchase electricity from private providers. The company's decision was driven by a desire to slash bills and boost renewables. Henry Shields, executive director of finance and analysis in the Corporate Sustainability division of MGM Resorts International, was a guest on The POWER Podcast. Shields will be a keynote presenter at the ELECTRIC POWER Conference and Exhibition, which will be held at The Mirage Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 23–26, 2019. On the podcast, Shields explained how the changes played out in practice. “Nevada's not a deregulated state in the purest sense,” Shields said. “However, there's been a law in Nevada on a very limited path for certain sophisticated commercial customers to do what we did.” “What we did was separate from the utility in terms of the actual procurement of electricity so that we were able to source our power from the wider market. We do remain actively—and will so in the future—very much a customer of NV Energy, but now for local lines and wires, and transmission service only,” Shields said. Concerning renewable energy, MGM Resorts International has really embraced solar power. Even before it broke away from NV Energy, MGM installed more than 26,000 photovoltaic (PV) panels on its Mandalay Bay Convention Center—about 28 acres of rooftop area. Furthermore, in April 2018, the company announced it was partnering with Chicago-based Invenergy, North America's largest independent renewable energy company, to construct a solar project about 25 miles north of Las Vegas. At full production, the 100-MW solar array is expected to provide up to 90% of the total daytime power needs for MGM Resorts' 13 Las Vegas Strip locations. Shields said the project would go a long way toward meeting the company's published goal of reducing its carbon intensity by 50% by 2030.

When UChicago alumnus Michael Polsky first ventured into the field of renewable energy in 2003 with his company Invenergy, he thought they had missed the boat. “When we got into renewables in earnest, I thought we were too late,” said Polsky, MBA’87, believing people were well ahead of him in building clean energy projects. Today, he said we’re barely in “the third inning” of the renewables game. The founder and CEO of Invenergy, one of the largest renewables company in North America, Polsky, believes it’s not a question of if but when the United States becomes completely energy independent of fossil fuels. It’s a seemingly unexpected turn for the former power plant engineer who arrived in the U.S. from the Soviet Ukraine in the 1970s and began his career designing power plants. On this episode of Big Brains, Polsky discusses his early days in the energy field, his current project to build one of the largest wind farms in the world, and why he believes in the power of innovation.    Subscribe to Big Brains on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Google Play, and learn more at news.uchicago.edu.

Funds Invenergy announced (just ahead of Trump’s Paris deal pullout) that it will launch a corporate venturing arm aimed at cleantech software companies. Chinese internet company 37 Interactive Entertainment has launched an investment fund together with VC firm Oriental Future Capital. Google is reportedly launching an AI-focused fund that will be led by engineers rather than professional investors. Salesforce breaks … Continue reading "05 June 2017 – Invenergy Launches Cleantech Corporate Venturing Arm and Much More"

Two years after Michael Polsky moved from Soviet Ukraine to the U.S. in 1976, America passed a law allowing independent developers to own power plants. He knew he needed to get in on the action. Polsky eventually became one of the most successful energy developers of all time -- building multiple successful businesses around cogeneration, natural gas and wind. Polsky is now the president and CEO of Invenergy, a company with nearly 14,000 megawatts of wind, solar, natural gas and energy storage projects operating or under construction in the U.S., Canada and Europe. He joins us this week to talk about what he foresaw before most others -- and what he sees as the future of energy. In the second half of the show, we'll discuss Donald Trump's energy speech in North Dakota last week. And we'll end with a quick look at the latest global investment figures for renewable energy.