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The Biz Bros PodcastA Trillion Dollar Startup Opportunity That Almost No One Sees Coming With Bill NusseyBill is a career tech CEO with multiple exits, including an IPO. He
worked at Greylock as a venture capitalist and, after selling his
marketing tech company Silverpop to IBM, he shifted roles to help lead
IBM’s global strategy for their CEO and SVPs.
He spent the last few years creating media ventures in climatetech.
He started with a TED talk which grew into the #1 ranked podcast on
renewable energy. His new book, Freeing Energy, is a practical guide
for disrupting and democratizing energy
2024-03-2619 min
The World Changing PodcastThe Global Impact of Local Energy with Bill NusseyBill had an impressive career as a tech entrepreneur and businessman before he turned his sights (back to) energy. He started his first company in highschool - a graphics software company when personal computers were still text based. He has started and sold several tech companies. He joined one startup as CEO, grew the company to nearly $100 million in revenue, and then sold it to IBM. He then served as an advisor to the C-suite on at IBM on strategy. But even before all of this success, his first love was electricity and the power grid. After g...2024-03-0156 min
Climate NowTwo views on the future of the US electricity gridThe United States’ aging electricity grid is a problem. Over 70% of the major transmission networks – which transfer electricity from power generation centers to endpoint users in homes and buildings, sometimes in other states – are at least 25 years old, and much of the grid was built in the 1960s and 1970s. As the number of renewable energy projects being built to meet clean energy goals increases, the problem of how to connect them to the grid is only growing larger, as transmission infrastructure projects can take decades to approve and build, and utilities navigate the energy storage landscape. The US...2023-09-2636 min
Influential VisionsThe Energy Crisis: Disrupting the Big Grid with Solar and BatteriesThe transition to clean energy is hindered by outdated infrastructure and political obstacles. Bill Nussey proposes a faster path to a sustainable future through "local energy" systems like solar rooftops and small battery systems. These disruptive, technology-driven solutions offer improved reliability, equity, and affordability while creating more jobs compared to large-scale projects.
The Energy Crisis: Freeing Energy
In This Conversation Bill Nussey and Nathaniel Schooler Discuss:
The Current Energy Crisis And How The Largest Industry In The World Is Not Embracing The Green Agenda Fast Enough
How Can You Save Money And Improve Reliability?
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The Freeing Energy PodcastTom Jensen/FREYR Battery: From Giga Arctic to Giga Americas - the most capital and operationally efficient battery plant in Europe is headed for the US State of Georgia.Listen in as Host Bill Nussey talks with Tom Jensen, CEO and Cofounder of the publicly traded, Luxembourg and Norway based FREYR Battery. FREYR is emerging as a leader in clean, high density battery cell manufacturing. Jensen shares insights into the driving forces that have shaped FREYR to date, the importance of upstream and downstream partnerships, and why the company is committing some $2.6 Billion to the facility envisioned for Coweta County in Georgia. And, since FREYR’s Giga Arctic will be powered by 100% renewable energy, you will want to know what the plans are for powering Giga Americas in Ge...2023-02-0745 min
Energy Central107. '2022 Year in Review Highlighting the Top Episodes, Guests, and Moments of the Year'The Energy Central Power Perspectives Podcast has come quite a long way since episode 1 was published in December 2019. Now three years and over 100 episodes in, and we continue to bring the leading voices of the energy and utility sector to our listeners who are working in the industry as well. As a way to celebrate the completion of another wildly successful year of podcasts and to recap the fun we had throughout 2022, this week we present our now traditional year-in-review episode
Listen in as podcast host Jason Price and producer Matt Chester are joined by Energy Central's VP, Audra Drazga...2022-12-2630 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastJohn Berger and Michael Grasso: Sunnova wants to build a ground breaking local energy powered neighborhood and that is rattling cages. Will regulators let them?One of the world’s largest installers of solar + storage energy systems has a groundbreaking and industry changing proposal to build a neighborhood that runs on local energy. Their proposal is currently in front of the California Public Utility Commission, but naysayers are trying to squelch the conversation. Join host Bill Nussey as he talks with Sunnova’s CEO, John Berger and CMO, Michael Grasso. They share the background on what the clean tech leader is proposing and why; how it will benefit consumers; and what critics are saying and doing to sideline the effort. Useful Links: ww...2022-12-0952 min
Leaders Of Transformation433: Disrupting the Global Energy Industry with Bill NusseyHow can you tap into the global energy market and help empower billions of people? Bill Nussey is a career tech CEO with three successful exits, including an IPO. He worked at Greylock as a venture capitalist and after selling his marketing tech company Silverpop to IBM in 2014, he was promoted to IBM’s VP of Corporate Strategy, helping the CEO and SVPs set the company’s overall strategy. As a CEO, his companies have raised more than $400 million, created thousands of jobs and billions in shareholder value. In 2016, he left IBM to create the Free...2022-11-0736 minLeaders Of Transformation433: Disrupting the Global Energy Industry with Bill NusseyHow can you tap into the global energy market and help empower billions of people? Bill Nussey is a career tech CEO with three successful exits, including an IPO. He worked at Greylock as a venture capitalist and after selling his marketing tech company Silverpop to IBM in 2014, he was promoted to IBM’s VP of Corporate Strategy, helping the CEO and SVPs set the company’s overall strategy. As a CEO, his companies have raised more than $400 million, created thousands of jobs and billions in shareholder value. In 2016, he left IBM to create the Free...2022-11-0736 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastDonnel Baird/BlocPower: His boyhood Brooklyn apartment was heated with an oven. Now he is pursuing a bold, gutsy vision of how entire cities can retrofit buildings and save on energy costs.In this episode we learn that one man didn't know exactly what to do at first, but he knew the “where,” the “when,” and the “why,” of the problem he saw. And, that was enough to begin shaping an incredibly bold vision for building a potential unicorn in the clean tech space while simultaneously helping millions of low income Americans. Join us as host Bill Nussey talks with the CEO and founder of Brooklyn based BlocPower, Donnel Baird. Listen in as this visionary leader gives us a peek into a journey of why he started BlocPower, what drove his e...2022-10-3048 min
Christopher Lochhead Follow Your Different™Solar Energy, Opportunities & Myths with Bill Nussey, Author of the no.1 Bestseller “Freeing Energy”Most of us are interested in what is happening in the electric energy revolution. So it is logical that people want to understand how this different future will impact ourselves, our families, our communities, our work, and our world. On this episode of Christopher Lochhead: Follow your Different, we talk to Bill Nussey to clear the air about renewable energy.
Bill Nussey is a best-selling author, and his book, Freeing Energy is a fact-based, clear-eyed look at how innovators are using what he calls a local approach to solar to develop whole new categories.
What you're about to discover is...2022-10-241h 29The Freeing Energy PodcastJacqueline Novogratz: Two decades of hard-edged hope coupled with off- grid solar changed the lives of hundreds of millions. What’s next?For over two decades, Acumen and its partners have dared to go where traditional investors feared to tread. Acumen’s pioneering vision and legendary hard work has brought life changing, off-grid electricity to hundreds of millions of people worldwide. And, along the way, their work has inspired and supported intrepid entrepreneurs and innovators in some of the toughest market environments on earth. Now, this clear-eyed, gritty bunch, filled with hard edged hope and armed with proven models and even more patient capital have set their sights on new goals. Listen in as Acumen founder and CEO, Jacqueline Novo...2022-10-1141 min
The Compassionate Capitalist™ Show with Karen RandsWhat is Bigger than a Unicorn? Unlocking the $Trillion Solar Opportunity with Bill NusseyBill Nussey joins Karen Rands on The Compassionate Capitalist Show to talk about the $Trillion 'startup' opportunity that no one is talking about - That is, other than a small group of innovators that see the potential of applying the best practices of innovation advancement that we saw advance the stabiliy, power, and miniturization of cell phone technology and mobile computing applied to sustainable energy, namely solar energy, no one has tackled this challenge on an industry wide perspective. Freeing Energy started as a concept and inspirational TED Talk, and is now a movement - mobilizing the talents a...2022-09-2737 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastMichelle Moore/Groundswell: Will America’s smaller, rural communities have to wait for the far reaching benefits of clean power?In her inspiring new book, Rural Renaissance, social entrepreneur, author and clean energy non-profit CEO Michelle Moore offers a vision of thriving rural communities where clean power is the spark that leads to greater investment, vitality, and equity. Additionally, Moore argues that we have everything we need in hand today to make this vision a reality. In this wide ranging discussion with Freeing Energy, Moore breaks down the key elements that will shape a rural renaissance. Learn how the work being done by Groundswell, the non-profit she leads, is helping to develop community power by connecting solar an...2022-09-2742 min
The Entrepreneur Way2053: Freeing Energy to Build Your Business with Bill Nussey Founder and Owner of Freeing EnergyBill Nussey is a career tech CEO with several exits, including a billion-dollar IPO. He is now launching several clean energy ventures, starting with Freeing Energy. This project started with a TED talk that grew into a top podcast, and is now a book, which hit Amazon’s #1 new release. “show up early. You could think about that for minutes and hours and realise what it really means… But show up early. And the second thing is… And it’s kind of building on it which is be prepared. There is opportunities in your life where you don’t see...2022-09-2750 min
The Prosperity Perspective93. Transforming a Successful Career Into a Quest to do Something that REALLY MattersBill Nussey shows how he made the transition from a successful software entrepreneur to a clean energy pioneer on this episode of The Prosperity Perspective.An original venture capitalist, Bill was well versed in growing big fast, with exit opportunities measured in growth rather than cash flow. While the race against his competitors was ongoing, Bill found the opportunity to sell his stock to eager investors. Despite others’ conviction to hold on to the company because it would continue to grow, Bill took the check and it “was one of the most powerful, freeing moments” of his life. ...2022-09-2225 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastAstrid Atkinson/Camus Energy: What do Capybaras and Google’s famous reliability have to do with managing a dynamic, zero carbon electric grid?Scalability, high availability, rapid detection and mitigation of failure…just some of the requirements of a highly performant infrastructure managing a massive distributed environment…like Google’s cloud services. Could the same principles and patterns apply to the requirements of managing a rapidly changing electric grid? And, what might that mean for different types of electric utilities in a future defined by decentralized resources like solar, batteries, demand response, and EV charging? Listen in as Camus Energy CEO and Co-founder, Astrid Atkinson, discusses these topics and shares how she and the Camus team are translating a decad...2022-09-1345 min
IMPACT PodcastIMPACT Podcast - Bill Nussey Are you worried about our global hunger for energy? Do you wonder if solar is a practical solution and will it develop quick enough for our exponential demands? In his new book, Freeing Energy our guest today excites you about our furture, We are so happy to talk with Career Tech CEO, Clean Energy Distruptor and Author - Bill Nussey ! If you like what we are doing please like, share and subscribe to IMPACT This episode is sponsored by: Hollyhock - dedicated to helping create a better future via education and personal sharing. www.hollyhock.ca BIO: Bill Nussey is a career tech...2022-09-0852 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastCatherine Von Burg: Can climate tech founders achieve success without compromising on their mission?When our guest and her partners launched their business a dozen years ago, she had a vision, a technology, and the determination to stick to the mission. If you have a startup in the clean tech space or just interested in really cool technology, listen in as Catherine Von Burg, CEO and Co-founder of SimpliPhi Power, shares the amazing story of how sticking to the mission resulted in a groundbreaking energy storage solution with SimpliPhi Power’s safe, non-toxic battery systems that are being used globally in 40 countries today. 2022-08-3051 min
Five & ThriveE13 | PressSports, Stord, PrizePicks, Neighborly Software, SingleOps, PCKL, MotivoIntroduction: Welcome to Five & Thrive: a weekly podcast highlighting the Southeast’s most interesting news, entrepreneurs, and information of the week, all under 5 minutes. My name is Jon Birdsong and I’m with Atlanta Ventures. Y’all we are going to need to shorten this intro from here on out as there is just so much commerce going on in Atlanta and the Southeast. Let’s get into it. Blog Post of the Week: The blog post of the week and I don’t know if all this press is a direct correlation with news fr...2022-08-2504 min
The HC Commodities PodcastFreeing Energy with Bill NusseyEnergy transition will be revolutionary. Fundamental to that statement is recognition that solar and batteries are technologies, not fuels. Their technological journeys have just begun - as have their consequences for societies, economics and for individuals. This is the biggest opportunity since the development of the combustion engine for the energy & commodities sector. But who will lead this next chapter in the global energy industry? Who is currently investing in what and what will the future look like? Our guest Bill Nussey, entrepreneur, tech CEO and host of the Freeing Energy Podcast. Bill is the author of Freeing Energy – How...2022-08-2454 min
Clean Power HourClean Energy Transition Experts - Podcaster's Roundtable | Special Edition!6 Powerful Cleantech Podcasters On Biden, Ukraine and the Energy TransitionToday we're sharing our fifth quarterly podcaster's roundtable, which offers a rich, one-hour discussion of energy trends, developments, challenges and opportunities. We’re joined by some impressive industry voices. These roundtables are organized and produced by my friends Mike Casey and Nico Johnson. Mike is the president and founder of Tigercomm, a cleantech public relations, marketing communications and public affairs firm, and host of ScalingClean, a podcast and blog that aim to advance the clean economy. Nico Johnson is the CEO of Suncast Media and ho...2022-07-261h 05
AWESome EarthKindThe Best Thing You Can Do is Power Your Life with Solar with Bill Nussey, Freeing EnergyQuantum Quotes: “Going solar saves a bunch of money. No matter what your politics and ideologies are - saving money is pretty universal.” - Bill Nussey We’ve become so used to having fuel-powered sources get us through our day that most people find it hard to embrace solar’s potential to change not only our life, but also the planet’s. For years, we’ve depended on fuels that require taking something out of the ground, refining and burning it, which, with all the waste, then inevitably led to the current state of life on Earth....2022-07-1845 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastGreg Wetstone: How does this powerful Washington, DC renewable energy group connect the dots between local energy and the US transmission grid?Listen in as host Bill Nussey talks with Greg Wetsone, the President and CEO of the Washington DC powerhouse, American Council on Renewable Energy, or as it is popularly known, ACORE. Together, Bill and Greg wade into the mind-boggling labyrinth of state and federal policies that are shaping, or in most cases, impeding our transition to renewable energy. If you want to understand how local energy, nuclear power, and giant transmission lines fit into ACOREs view of our renewable energy future, click play and hear what Bill and Greg have to say.2022-07-0538 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastJeff Cramer/CCSA: How community solar can make local energy accessible to everyone.What is community solar? How does it work? What are the benefits? Host Bill Nussey drills into the critical role community solar plays in a clean local energy future with Jeff Cramer, President and CEO of the Coalition for Community Solar Access, CCSA. Jeff dives into the nitty gritty of how it all works, who it serves and the business models that make it a reality. Plus, Jeff shares where community solar is growing across the United States, where it is being held back and why and the efforts CCSA teams are making to change thinking and policies about...2022-06-2152 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastArshad Mansoor: What is the grid’s biggest R&D team planning for the future and how does local energy fit?Host Bill Nussey catches up with Arshad Mansoor, President and CEO of the Electric Power Research Institute, the world's preeminent independent, non-profit energy research and development organization. Mansoor shares the vision his global organization has for a safe, clean, resilient energy future for people and communities worldwide and the critical role local energy plays in a rapidly emerging shared energy economy. Listen and learn what is driving this transition, the underlying technologies needed, and the policies that must evolve to achieve this bold vision.2022-05-2435 min
The Squeaky Clean Energy PodcastEpisode 69: Farm to Table for ElectronsOn episode 69, we talk with Bill Nussey, a serial entrepreneur, successful tech executive, and NC State alum. Bill is the CEO & Founder of Freeing Energy, along with the CEO & Co-Founder of Solar Inventions. In the conversation, Bill dives deep into the details of local solar and storage with host, Matt Abele, to discuss the opportunities that the technology presents for wide-scale disruption, while highlighting the benefits it brings to local communities.
Additional resources from today's episode:
Updates on NC’s Wind Energy Areas: https://bit.ly/3ymMLBs
NCUC Carbon Plan Docket: https://bit.ly/3P8Mgkb
NCSEA’s Clean Energy in t...2022-05-1242 min
Solar Maverick PodcastSMP 122: The author of the Freeing Energy Book Discusses How Local-Scale Solar and Batteries are Disrupting the Energy Industry!Episode Summary
In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy speaks with Bill Nussey about his new book Freeing Energy which is a must read if you are in the solar industry or interested in solar. The book focuses on how innovators are using local-scale solar and batteries to disrupt the global energy industry from the outside in. Freeing Energy is a deeply researched, actionable guide for anyone that cares about the future of energy—from startups, policymakers, investors, and utility leaders to the families and communities that want cleaner, cheaper energy today. Some of the intere...2022-03-2953 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastBryan Hannegan: Can the electric utility industry reinvent itself? One small utility in Colorado is proving it can.Listen in as host Bill Nussey talks with Bryan Hannegan, President and CEO of Holy Cross Energy, the Electric Membership Cooperative serving Western Colorado, including the famous ski resorts of Vail and Aspen. Holy Cross Energy is well on its way to achieving an aggressive goal of 100% clean energy by 2030. And, Bryan shares how Holy Cross is making local energy a central part of its strategy and dramatically reimagining its relationship with its customers.2022-03-2951 min
The Peel005 - Sitting Down with Bill NusseyWe talk with recovering tech CEO and author of "Freeing Energy," Bill Nussey.Host: Amber Whittle, PhD | Executive Director of Southface SarasotaGuest: Bill Nussey | Founder of the Freeing Energy Project2022-03-2250 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastGabriela Herculano: What’s behind the first ever publicly traded fund (SHFT) for local energy?Listen in and learn the story behind the very first Exchange-Traded Fund focused on local energy. Gabriela Herculano, CEO and Co-Founder of iClima Earth shares with host Bill Nussey how the fund evolved, the transparent model for the underlying index, and a simple way for everyday investors to bet on local energy, DERs, and as iClima refers to it, Smart Energy. 2022-03-1538 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastErwin Spolders: Learn how renting solar power in a box is revolutionizing energy access for businesses across Africa.Host Bill Nussey talks with Erwin Spolders, CEO and Founder of Redavia Solar Power. Redavia, based in Germany, Kenya, and Ghana, provides pre-configured, containerized solar power generation systems to small and medium sized businesses across Africa. Learn how this company’s innovations are leading to these cost-effective solutions and proving to be easy to ship, set-up, scale, and redeploy as needed for minimal upfront investment, all using time-tested rental contracts. Plus, learn how crowdsource funding is energizing Redavia’s future.2022-03-0149 min
DisrupTVDisrupTV Episode 268, Bill Nussey, Andy Laudato, Candice FaktorThis week on DisrupTV, we interviewed Bill Nussey, CEO & Founder of Freeing Energy, Andy Laudato, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of The Vitamin Shoppe and Candice Faktor, CEO/co-founder of Disco.
DisrupTV is a weekly Web series with hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar. The show airs live at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET every Friday. Brought to you by Constellation Executive Network: constellationr.com/CEN.2022-02-251h 03The Freeing Energy PodcastDanny Kennedy: An inside look at the amazing California clean tech ecosystem that’s reshaping how startups are built.Clean tech entrepreneurs, listen up! Host Bill Nussey talks with Danny Kennedy, a founder and CEO of New Energy Nexus. Kennedy shares his journey from activist to entrepreneur, and how his firm is using a dramatically different theory of change and a massively broad engagement model to pave a significantly faster on-ramp for climate tech startups in California and around the world. Plus, hear from the executives of two startups which have benefited from New Energy Nexus and one of it’s partnership programs, CalSeed. 2022-02-1538 min
CurrentsEp187: Freeing Energy with Bill NusseyBill Nussey, founder and CEO of the Freeing Energy Project, joins us to discuss the shift to cleaner, cheaper energy. We discuss his new book, Freeing Energy, why he thinks local energy can be cheaper than electricity from the "big grid" and what the advantages are, the roles that natural gas, hydrogen and nuclear energy will play in the shift to cleaner energy, policies that can accelerate use of local energy, and more.2022-02-0426 min
CurrentsEp187: Freeing Energy with Bill NusseyBill Nussey, founder and CEO of the Freeing Energy Project, joins us to discuss the shift to cleaner, cheaper energy. We discuss his new book, Freeing Energy, why he thinks local energy can be cheaper than electricity from the "big grid" and what the advantages are, the roles that natural gas, hydrogen and nuclear energy will play in the shift to cleaner energy, policies that can accelerate use of local energy, and more.2022-02-0426 min
Entrepreneurs for Impact (EFI): Climate Tech CEOs & VCsTED Speaker and Serial Tech CEO with a New Book — Bill Nussey, Founder of the Freeing Energy ProjectPODCAST GUEST BIO:
Bill Nussey is the founder of the Freeing Energy Project, whose mission is to accelerate the shift to cleaner, cheaper energy.
His new book is: Freeing Energy: How innovators are using local-scale solar and batteries to disrupt the global energy industry from the outside in.https://www.freeingenergy.com
Prior to Freeing Energy, Bill spent most of his career as a tech CEO. His first company, which he co-founded in high school, provided graphics software for early, text-based personal computers. His second company, Da Vinci Systems, was started out of...2021-12-0942 min
SunCast421: Freeing Energy, Bill Nussey's education on the Clean Energy Transition The transition to clean energy is moving far too slowly. Trapped by a century of fossil fuel investments and politicians that struggle to plan beyond the next election, the “Big Grid” that powers our modern world is outdated and in dire need of an upgrade. Bill Nussey is on a mission to understand how this transition will benefit us all, especially with regard to what he refers to as “Local Energy”. In his brilliant forthcoming book, “Freeing Energy”, Nussey explores the history and future of the Grid, why the coming infrastructure and investment wave is the biggest we’ve ever s...2021-12-032h 13Clean Power HourBill Nussey - Freeing Energy, how local renewable energy is changing the world#62: Tech entrepreneur, Bill Nussey joins the Clean Power Hour! Bill has been traveling the globe interviewing the best and brightest minds (like Amory Lovins, the founder of Rocky Mountain Institute) on the topics of solar PV and battery storage. He’s compiled these interviews and learnings into a wonderful book. And many of the interviews are found on his podcast, Freeing Energy. Bill is also a solar PV entrepreneur and the CEO of Solar Inventions which is developing next generation solar technology. We discuss “What is a smart grid?” and how innovation in technology makes local energy possible and disrup...2021-11-301h 02The Freeing Energy PodcastBryan Hassin: An inside look at a radical new approach to building climate tech companies.Host Bill Nussey talks with Bryan Hassin, Co-Founder and CEO of the “rocket ship” accelerator for climate tech innovation, Third Derivative (D3). This new startup accelerator was born from a collaboration of two pioneering firms, RMI (previously Rocky Mountain Institute) and New Energy Nexus. Hassin shares how D3 is bringing startups, investors, and corporations together with regulatory and policy experts in radical new ways to increase the speed to market and long term success for climate innovation.2021-11-3051 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastAndy Klump: What do stuck boats, melted rocks, and geopolitics have to do with US efforts to transition away from fossil fuels?In this episode host Bill Nussey talks with Andy Klump, founder and CEO of Shanghai-based Clean Energy Associates, the leading global solar and storage supply chain management and engineering services firm. Klump walks us through how and why the economics of solar are shifting in the short term and the impact an energy crisis in China as well as backlogs in global shipping are having on US solar and battery projects. Klump shares views on when this crisis might end and the critical need for a holistic clean energy manufacturing strategy in the US.2021-11-0934 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastMichael Liebreich: Is it time to go big or go home? Which renewable energy solutions should we pay attention to?In this first of a two part interview, host Bill Nussey talks with the founder, chairman and CEO of Liebreich Associates and founder of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Michael Liebreich. This world-renowned thinker, investor, philanthropist and much sought after advisor, weighs in on the renewable energy solutions we should all pay attention to and why.2021-08-3133 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastSteph Speirs: Not everyone can afford solar. Here’s what one visionary company is doing to change that.Host Bill Nussey catches up with Steph Speirs, CEO and Co-founder of community solar leader, Solstice, to learn how her team is using a game changing, door-opening mechanism to bring clean energy to people who cant get it. And, why re-defining the energy customer experience is critical to growth and a more inclusive energy future.2021-05-2539 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastSamir Ibrahim: The story behind an affordable solar-powered irrigation system that is changing the lives of smallholder farmers in Africa.Advocates, innovators and entrepreneurs, here is a discussion you don't want to miss. Listen in as Samir Ibrahim, CEO and Co-Founder of SunCulture, shares how his vision for the first affordable, widely available solar powered irrigation system in East Africa took shape, the impact that system is having on lives there and the business challenges he has faced along the way.2021-05-1142 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastAbigail Ross Hopper: What are the top policy priorities shaping the future of the solar industry?Innovators and entrepreneurs, listen up. Join in as Abby Hopper, President and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association takes us on an insider's tour of the policies the solar industry is advocating with the new administration, how those policies are shaped, and what a diverse solar industry needs to do to continue growing.2021-03-1633 min
Paparelli Podcast9. A Case-Study of a High-Impact Social EntrepreneurBill Nussey is CEO and Co-Founder of Solar Inventions. You know you want your life to count for helping millions, if not billions of people. This is Bill. He had a brilliant executive career, including as COO of a billion-dollar public company. But even that was not enough. It was a building block to ever-increasing higher impact companies. And now he has given it all up for clean and renewable energy. He knew nothing about it three years ago. But he knew if he could build something big in this market, it would impact the world. 2021-03-041h 52The Freeing Energy PodcastYann Brandt and Mike Casey: Is creating a surge in solar jobs easier than we think?Simplifying the permitting and inspections of residential PV system installation may be the perfect local opportunity for making a big change in the solar industry, but is the young industry up for the challenge? Solar industry leaders, Yann Brandt, CEO of SolarWakeup, and Mike Casey, President and founder of Tigercomm, share why one piece of the growth puzzle is squarely in the hands of local clean energy advocates, what tools they have to work with, and the simple actions they need to begin taking now to keep growth going. 2021-02-1644 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastMichael Chanin: Emory University is going solar and doing it in a surprising way. Strap on your walking shoes and listen in as Michael Chanin, founder and CEO of Cherry Street Energy, takes us on a walking tour of the beautiful Emory University Campus in Atlanta GA where one of the largest and coolest deployments of on-site solar power at a higher education institution in the Southeast is being developed. From seven stories up on a high rise parking deck with its sea of solar panels back down to ground level where electrical conduit becomes a work of art, Chanin shares details with podcast Host Bill Nussey about the vision, the leadership...2021-02-0237 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastAndrew Birch: Can Cutting Red Tape Lower the Cost of Residential Solar in the United States?Solar panels by themselves are just 10% of the cost of a residential solar system, yet US buyers are paying significantly more than homeowners in other parts of the world. Why is this? The answer is “soft costs” -- the design, permitting, and sales costs associated with system installation in the US. And, if this leading architect of the modern clean energy era has his way, we will see big cost savings in the near future. Listen in as Andrew “Birchy” Birch, co-founder and CEO of Open Solar, unfolds his solution to reducing some of the most unnecessary costs of going solar2021-01-1939 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastRyan Goodman: Are microgrids the future of reliable, clean energy?Hurricanes, wildfires, and even forced outages are highlighting the shortcomings of our century-old grid. At the same time, a growing majority of people are looking to accelerate the shift towards cleaner energy sources like solar and batteries. Microgrids sit at the center of these two huge trends and they are becoming increasingly available and affordable. FEP host Bill Nussey talks with Ryan Goodman, CEO and Co-Founder of microgrid leader Scale Microgrid Solutions. Listen in as Goodman explains how new technologies, designs, and financing solutions are reshaping the commercial and industrial electricity industry and turning our outdated grid into an e...2020-11-2433 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastVikram Aggarwal: Why are millions of people putting solar on their roofs?Rooftop solar growth is staggering. Why are so many going solar? Bill Nussey catches up with Vikram Aggarwal, Founder and CEO of EnergySage, the most popular web-based, solar marketplace and #1 source on solar information in the US for solar buyers. Vikram shares the personal story behind founding Energy Sage and the unique insights gained into the solar marketplace. Choosing the right equipment, financing, and installers are key areas to focus on. Considering solar or just interested? Listen in.2020-11-1043 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastMichael Sachse: Is part of the local renewable energy solution right under our feet?Heating and cooling the spaces we live in amounts to just over 50% of the energy consumed in the average home in the United States, according to the US Energy Information Agency. Add in water heaters and the percentage climbs to just over 60%. That’s a lot of energy and today that energy is supplied predominantly by electricity and natural gas. But, what if there was a local renewable resource for heating and cooling that was as clean as solar and right under our feet? Dandelion Energy CEO Michael Sachse shares how his company is making the renewable technologies of geoth...2020-10-1331 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastCharlie Gay: How Can the United States re-establish leadership in solar manufacturing?Once the leader in the technology and manufacturing of solar products, the US lost that lead to China. But, if one company’s vision is realized, the US can again lead in this critical industry. FEP catches up with Charlie Gay, solar industry legend and CEO of startup Violet Power. With a game changing approach that almost cuts the cost of generating solar energy in half, Violet Power is poised to re-establish world-class solar manufacturing leadership in the US where the technology was first born.2020-09-2939 minSolar Maverick PodcastSMP 82: Startup Focuses on Technology Innovations for Solar PanelsSMP 82: Startup Focuses on Technology Innovations for Solar Panels
Episode Summary
In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Bill Nussey and Dr. Ben Damiani discuss their startup Solar Inventions and how they are improving solar technology and scaling up and commercializing their inventions. They also speak about being the first winner of the American-Made Solar Prize Competition and how it has helped their company. Ben and Bill also discuss their predictions for the clean energy industry and their experiences as entrepreneurs.
Solar Inventions was created with a mission to accelerate the...2020-09-1550 min
Bill Kelly ShowPodcast - Twitter scam, Issue of encampments in Hamilton & A veteran sports media executive joins the team to help bid for the Commonwealth GamesSeveral verified users, and big name users of twitter such as former President Barack Obama and Bill Gates, suffered a hack yesterday. What exactly happened here?
Guest: Carmi Levy. Tech Analyst
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Hamilton continues to look at the issue of encampments on public property, but are they even going to do anything about it? Is it time something is done to help the people who are in these camps? What can we do here?
Guest: Nadine Watson, staff lawyer, Hamilton Community Legal Clinic
Guest: Lisa Nussey, Keeping Six – Hamilton Ha...2020-07-1649 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastJohn Powers: Can software supercharge financial returns for commercial solar projects?Listen in as John Powers, the CEO of California-based Extensible Energy, shares how software is helping commercial solar customers boost their ROI and reduce the most expensive parts of electricity bills, all at the same time. Learn how this innovative software approach is leapfrogging slow moving utilities by adding intelligence on the edge.2020-05-1232 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastLaura Sartore: What happens when we ditch panels and let our roofs, walls, and windows make affordable solar directly?There is a revolution in clean local energy coming fast and it’s a good bet that you’ll never even see it. Building Integrated Photovoltaics, or BIPV, ditches the notion of black rectangular panels and instead transforms your house or building into a solar power generator. Listen in as Laura Sartore, the CEO of Italian module equipment firm, Ecoprogetti, shares how her firm is blending engineering, aesthetics, and automation for BIPV. Her firm is revolutionizing local energy, not just by making solar power beautiful and affordable at the same time, but also making equipment that is desig...2020-04-2833 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastSunnova CEO John Berger: Will a rapidly evolving residential solar + battery story reshape energy markets?Host Bill Nussey catches up with John Berger, CEO of Sunnova Energy (NOVA), a leader in the residential Solar + Battery service provider market in the United States. John shares insights about how dramatic changes in distributed local energy are rapidly re- shaping energy markets and why the shift is so important. Listen too as John shares how the Sunnova model and focus positions the company to capitalize on that change.2019-12-0332 min
InevitableEp 51: Bill Nussey, CEO & Founder at the Freeing Energy ProjectToday’s guest is Bill Nussey, CEO & Founder at the Freeing Energy Project.Bill Nussey is the founder of the Freeing Energy Project, whose mission is to accelerate the shift to cleaner, cheaper energy. Prior to Freeing Energy, Bill spent most of his career as a tech CEO. His first company, which he co-founded in high school, provided graphics software for early, text-based personal computers. His second company, Da Vinci Systems, was started out of his college dorm room and grew to serve millions of users across 45 countries. Later, he spent several years as a venture capitalist wi...2019-11-041h 19The Freeing Energy PodcastJereme Kent: Can small-scale distributed wind allow companies to embrace clean energy and lower the electric bills at the same time?In this episode, Freeing Energy Podcast Host Sam Easterby talks with Jereme Kent, founder and CEO of Ohio based One Energy. Jereme shares his journey from the biggest utility scale wind projects in the United States to the complex world of behind the meter wind energy focused on industrial users and how new distributed energy models allow those users to save on one of their biggest expenses: energy. 2019-10-2237 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastPeter Heintzelman: Can electric membership cooperatives light the way for clean local energy in the utility industry?In this episode, host Bill Nussey talks with Peter Heintzelman, CEO of Cobb EMC, one of the largest electric membership cooperatives (EMC) in the United States. Peter helps us understand the historical importance of EMCs, how the membership driven model gives them more flexibility than larger shareholder owned utilities, and the early steps some pioneering EMCs are taking towards clean, local energy.2019-10-0842 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastEmily Morris: Can distributed hydropower provide clean local energy 24/7 without expensive dams?Host Bill Nussey talks with Emily Morris, the founder and CEO of Emrgy, about a radical new approach to hydropower that skips building expensive infrastructure like dams, provides a continuous source of clean local electricity and opens up new revenue streams for customers. It’s called distributed hydro and it’s here now.2019-09-2445 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastFinn Findley and Will Arnold – Quest Renewables: Can 1 Billion Parking Spots Help Power The US?In this podcast, Host Bill Nussey talks with Quest Renewables’ CEO Finn Findley and Senior Vice President of Sales, Will Arnold, about the enormous potential of solar canopies for land that is already paved and how the innovative designs and construction techniques from Quest Renewables are changing how we think about parking lots.2019-06-1832 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastJeff Chamberlain: Are batteries the final puzzle piece for a clean energy grid?In this episode of the Freeing Energy Podcast, Host Bill Nussey talks with a founder and CEO of Volta Energy Technologies, Jeff Chamberlain. Listen and learn how this renowned scientist is using a secret sauce to turn early stage disruptive technologies into commercial successes for energy storage and the new world of clean energy.2019-05-0738 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastSusan Kennedy: The future of energy will be distributed, digitized and much smarterThe grid, passive grids, microgrids, islanding, renewable resources, and reliability…. how we get and manage our electricity is complex. In this podcast, Susan Kennedy, the founder and CEO of energy-tech company AMS, takes us on a tour of this complex world and explains how the future of energy will be distributed, digitized, and much smarter than today.2019-03-2622 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastGreg Robinson: Learn how you can have clean renewable energy 24/7.The grid. It’s that giant thing that brings electricity into our homes. Well, right now the electrical grid is a 135 year old behemoth that is tightly controlled by Governments and giant utilities. But, that is changing and changing fast. Now, individuals and businesses have access to clean renewable energy 24/7. Listen and learn as Host Bill Nussey talks to Greg Robinson, the CEO and co-founder of Drift. Drift has built the first real-time green energy-trading platform, and it's the only digital tool that can fuel the electrical grid with 100% renewable energy, 100% of the time. 2019-03-1233 minThe Freeing Energy PodcastBill Nussey: Tech CEO Turned Local Energy LeaderWhy on earth would anyone leave a career as a proven, successful software CEO for the unknown world of clean, renewable energy? On the first episode of The Freeing Energy Podcast, founder Bill Nussey and co-host Sam Easterby dive into the details of Bill's personal journey in the world of local, decentralized energy - and where he sees that journey taking him.2019-01-0932 minSunCastBill Nussey is Freeing Energy, Moving from the Cloud to the Grid Welcome to Episode 125 of SunCast, Solar Warrior!Bill Nussey is a tinkerer & creator, and founded his first company in High School. He’s spent most of his career as a tech CEO, and has some incredible stories from his time at Greylock and as VP of Corp Strategy at IBM. But his storytelling also extends to writing, and his newest project, Freeing Energy, is one of the best new blogs I’ve had the pleasure to dive into.For resources from today's episode and more information on how you can support Suncast, head over...2018-11-1542 min