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"Don't Ghost Your Host" - Improving Community Acceptance for Renewable Projects | Clean Power Hour with Tim Montague
Cleantechers, some of you might remember that last December, we released interesting numbers from bellwether Huron County, MI.
Groundbreaking polling methods were used to assess community attitudes toward renewables - and what it took to move them in a positive direction.
Since then, Tyler Duvelius, Robin Pressman and I have conducted an iterative road show to socialize the findings.
But when we talked with Tim Montague, we expanded the perspectives presented to include solar developer Jon Carson.
The results were some useful insights for renewable power developers. All of them face tougher community acceptance landscapes, one of the few ways that the costs of renewables are going up.
The keys to leadership with Chad Farrell - Scaling Clean Ep. 4
So far on our podcast, we’ve interviewed cleantech leaders that are in a later stage of their careers. We figured that wisdom comes from a combination of gray hair and track record.
Chad Farrell is different, and that’s a good thing. As the CEO of Encore Renewable Energy, Chad’s first company is his current company. Encore develops what it calls “community-scale” renewable energy projects, often on land reclaimed from past industrial uses. But Chad’s been driving Encore’s success for almost 15 years, which is plenty of time to gather a body of lessons learned we can pass to others in his position.
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If you listened to our 7th quarterly Cleantech Editors and Reporters Roundtable, you got what I think is one of the best overviews of cleantech available anywhere.
In part that’s because this was the best Roundtable we’d had to date. But it’s also because these convenings assemble journalists at the top of their game who track hundreds of companies in multiple sectors.
When their views come together, you get a confident picture of our professional landscape. You get a mosaic.
#cleantechers, if staying on top of sector developments is important to you professionally, it’s hard for me to identify a better view than what these Roundtables provide. (Yes, I’m partial.)
Thanks to our returning regulars:
- Darius Sniekus of Recharge
- Heather Clancy of GreenBiz
- Zach Shahan of CleanTechnica
- Tim Sylvia of pv magazine
- Iulia Gheorghiu of Utility Dive
And to our new panelists:
- Jeff St. John of Canary Media
- John Engel of Clarion Events (Renewable Energy World)
- Dan Gearino of InsideClimate News
There was a lot to cover – continued advancements in clean energy scaling, tariffs, ruthless dictators, global supply chain disruptions, and more progress in the Wild West of storage and transmission. This was a tough Roundtable to boil down to our standard, “B3Ps,” or Big 3 Points.
Here’s our take:
