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How Battery Storage Is Changing the Grid | Alex Shoer, Managing Partner @ GridVest
Alex Shoer explains why the commercial and industrial battery storage market is structurally broken and what GridVest is doing to fix it.
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Michael Fakukakis built a gearless solar tracker that produces 60% more power than fixed panels, and the hardest part was never the physics.
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The Hidden Signals Driving CleanTech Sales | Eben Meyer, CEO @ CleanTech Growth Lab
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Martin Gross turned a lost oil-industry job in 2016 into GWT, which now uses algae to replace chemicals and bacteria in wastewater treatm...
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Scaling CleanTech with Eben Meyer, CEO @ CleanTech Growth Lab
Eben Meyer argues CAC is structurally higher in cleantech than any other B2B category, and explains exactly why.
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The Energy Transition with Emily Grubert, Associate Professor @ University of Notre Dame
Emily Grubert argues the energy transition is not actually happening because no one has committed to making it happen.
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Water as a Service with Juan Pablo Rivero, CEO & Founder @ Hydrous Management Group
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The Grove is Earth Onward's climate-tech interview podcast. Host Blake Newcomer talks with the founders, investors, and scientists building the energy transition, turning candid conversations into playbooks you can apply, from fundraising to regulation.