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every year anyone Stephen Lacey 60Jeff St. John 30Dr. Melissa Lott 24Lara Pierpoint 21Bernadette Del Chiaro 20Alexandria Herr 15Nico Pinkowski 11Julian Spector 11Mateo Jaramillo 6Sarah Jewett 5
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where California comes up
Burying trees to save forests?
- ▶ 4:43 Lara Pierpoint Okay, so quick wonky question that could probably only come from a Californian.
- ▶ 16:58 Grant Canary Um, and then we'd also go on to acquire Calforest, which has the majority of California's trees, both of which we own today, a hundred percent fully owned subsidiaries.
The ‘brutal reality’ of scaling low-carbon fertilizer
- ▶ 1:13 Lara Pierpoint But when they actually took their prototype to farmers in California's Central Valley, they got a hard lesson about product market fit.
- ▶ 4:01 Nico Pinkowski And then the team of, we all moved into an Airbnb in Fresno at one point, and then, uh, and then we got a big grant and some funding and opened our first office, and then now we have, uh, uh, two factories in different, uh, cities in…
- ▶ 9:25 unnamed speaker Farm managers are really busy people, and they just need to have a tank of fertilizer at the, you're in California at that irrigation pump, um, and they need to know how much, you know, N, P, and K is in that, and, uh, and then they're…
- ▶ 10:53 Nico Pinkowski Also, one main challenge is that if you look at California, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:12 Nico Pinkowski And so, uh, as part of that, you, you must incorporate, uh, your biomass, um, and so we did a hunt in California for what biomass we want to use, and we settled on, uh, almond waste, and, uh, we've tried both almond hulls and shells, um,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:10 Nico Pinkowski Um, we need a, we need a good price of power, and in most of California, that's hard to find, um, but we stumbled upon this, this, um, Delhi, um, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:11 unnamed speaker So we applied to a pretty ambitious sales tax exemption, and, uh, it's almost a million dollars worth of value, uh, because sales tax is so high in California.
Form Energy's manufacturing breakthrough
- ▶ 14:12 Mateo Jaramillo That was in California. 6 times in the scene
How Supercool Earth's microbes could ease the water crisis
- ▶ 0:29 Lara Pierpoint If you're a skier in California, this past winter was rough. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:09 Lara Pierpoint Yeah, I mean, I think this is a really timely topic, not least because April first, you know, here in California is the official measurement of the snowpack that occurs, and we just found out that we have the second lowest snowpack on…
- ▶ 24:26 Lara Pierpoint Okay, so tell us more about how you're getting into that world of field data generation, because obviously the winter actually really was over in California like a month ago.
Sage Geosystems' bet on underground energy storage
- ▶ 30:15 Cindy Taff Yeah, so for, for people that don't know much about Ormat, so Ormat is actually the largest conventional geothermal company in the world, so, um, they've got footprint globally, but they are experts in conventional geothermal, so if you…
Captura's high-stakes gamble
- ▶ 9:40 Steve Oldham They were supported by, I think, the city of LA and the state of California, and their objective is to improve, uh, understanding of the role of the ocean in our everyday lives, and to support companies that are doing things of benefit to…
- ▶ 14:39 Steve Oldham California has some of the most, ah, tough wastewater standards in the world.
This VC wants climate tech to play hardball in Washington
- ▶ 25:19 Shomik Dutta If you look at the kinds of minds the crypto industry attracted, Chris Lehane, who was a feared kind of ballot political strategist in California, led Airbnb for a while, led a bunch of crypto efforts.
- ▶ 33:52 Shomik Dutta So I have a new, um, operating partner who is the head of Axiom Advisors, which is the best government affairs and lobbying firm in the state of California. 2 times in the scene
Shortening the nuclear development cycle from decades to years
- ▶ 8:38 News Broadcaster The Tennessee Valley Authority, Google, and California-based
The rogue idea that saved a hydrogen startup
- ▶ 33:41 Zach Jones We're actually one in California, of all places, so it's exciting.
The tape that led to a fusion breakthrough
- ▶ 0:43 Lara Pierpoint But four years ago, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California made history.
- ▶ 6:55 Rick Needham One of the recent things that's happened, too, is for the first time in human history, you achieved net energy gain with a plant out in California, so we'll talk maybe more about that.
Building Fervo's geothermal giant
- ▶ 18:26 Sarah Jewett In June of twenty-twenty-one, the California Public Utilities Commission launched the midterm reliability ruling, which I think is one of the biggest pieces of policy that has impacted our business to date, and it required all California… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:30 Sarah Jewett And then the other layer that we put on top of that is they needed access into California because we anticipated that the majority of our offtakers would actually be in California for these projects. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:36 Sarah Jewett And Smithfield raised hogs in southwest Utah and then would transport them over the border into California for processing.
- ▶ 28:28 Lara Pierpoint Let's actually talk for a second about the offtake agreements that you ultimately signed for this project, because as you mentioned, there was a pretty robust demand signal coming from California, but a policy signal does not necessarily… 3 times in the scene
Terawatt Infrastructure’s billion-dollar strategy
- ▶ 2:39 Neha Palmer In California, we have built what I think is the best network of sites, and three of them will be live this year with the port of L.A.
- ▶ 6:49 Lara Pierpoint It marks the beginning of what Terawatt envisions as a network of charging stations all along the I-Ten corridor, all the way from California to Texas.
- ▶ 26:11 Lara Pierpoint Corridor in California, but maybe elsewhere too. 2 times in the scene
The scrappy beginning of Tesla’s energy business
- ▶ 5:08 Lara Pierpoint Net metering policies, which allow solar customers to sell excess electricity back to the grid at retail rates, were being overhauled in key markets like Hawaii and California. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:52 Drew Baglino You know, you can get up to places like California now where
Nextracker's blueprint for 100 gigawatts of solar trackers
- ▶ 17:34 Dan Shugar Uh, metrics that we weren't beholden to an overseas port that might have been shut down due to government-mandated COVID restrictions, or at one point, the largest port in the U.S. is at Long Beach, California.
How supply chain chaos sank Sunfolding
- ▶ 1:01 Lara Pierpoint The site was a 300 kilowatt solar installation at PV Evolution Labs in Davis, California.
Pioneering one of the first IRA tax credit transfers
- ▶ 0:45 Lara Pierpoint He and his team were in the small coastal town of Goleta, California, where they were celebrating the opening of the county's largest battery storage project. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:33 Chris Taylor Once the site's been cleared and it's ready to go, unfortunately for us, then we had the biblical deluge of 2023, um, on the California coast.
- ▶ 26:51 Chris Taylor Um, we're looking to expand beyond just California and Texas. 3 times in the scene
A complex path for building heat batteries
- ▶ 30:51 John O'Donnell Right now, we are building out the execution organization to deliver these projects in Texas, and Kentucky, and Denmark, and Germany, and Siberia, and Southeast Asia, and California, and growing that team, and also completing the…
Why concentrated solar couldn’t compete
- ▶ 4:46 John Woolard California passed some standards around solar, renewable portfolio standards, and minimums that the utilities were now expected to buy.
Frontier Forum: How rates will make or break the energy transition
- ▶ 29:19 Ahmad Farooqi So one of them was in the Northwest, the Pacific Northwest, and around the time of the California energy crisis, they decided, oh, yeah, let's offer, ah, time of use rates as the default to all customers who have a smart meter.
- ▶ 32:32 Scott Engstrom The price signal to, uh, time of use customers, this is one of the heat storms in California in August, September, I think, of twenty-twenty-two, but they measured 75 megawatts of load reduction. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:29 Stephen Lacey I know California has been considering this for a couple of years. 3 times in the scene
Our final episode: The top stories of 2024 so far
- ▶ 3:33 Stephen Lacey We'll tackle AI energy demand, grid constraints, geothermal, nuclear, America's green bank, and the demise of California's solar rooftop industry.
- ▶ 38:06 Stephen Lacey Uh, over California, where the solar industry has imploded, 10 times in the scene
Energy is now the ‘primary bottleneck’ for AI
- ▶ 8:46 Michelle Solomon Their plans also kind of arbitrarily cap the amount of battery storage that can be deployed, which, you know, when places like California and Texas are deploying five or more gigawatts a year, you can see that that's not really an…
The rise of heat batteries
- ▶ 38:08 John O'Donnell When people think about replacing a power plant with batteries, they're typically actually replacing with batteries and a peaker gas plant, and we see here in California more and more operation of peakers replacing more efficient combined…
Inside Apple’s failed car program
- ▶ 1:13 unnamed speaker Four years from now, the streets of California could have iPhones in people's pockets, watches on people's wrists, and cars on the road.
The achilles heel of AI in the power system: data
- ▶ 19:07 Titian Palazzi And as an example, in California, the smart meter data that the three big investor on utilities have actually should be shared with a variety of different players.
A view of the $1.8 trillion clean energy economy
- ▶ 37:34 Shalini Ramanathan So Shell announced that it's permanently closing six of its seven hydrogen refueling stations for passenger cars in California, and my forecast is that maybe this is, I hope, uh, the end of trying to make hydrogen-powered passenger cars… 3 times in the scene
Virtual power plants: the ‘sandwich’ for the grid
- ▶ 12:57 Jen Downing They're working with utilities like PG&E in California, Salt River Project to help
Pricing and tech trends shaping the global battery storage market
- ▶ 16:00 Yayoi Sekine It's a fairly, like, diversified market, so we see, like, a lot of different states doing different things, um, a lot of the utilities contracting different types of projects, um, and then on the utility scale fronts, in terms of which…
- ▶ 21:49 Yayoi Sekine We see a lot of grants in the case of the US, um, or like some kind of pilot program, um, which I guess is the case of some of the California projects, um, supported by the idea that, you know, companies and utilities think that long… 2 times in the scene
Venture investors riff on headwinds, hype, and wildcards of 2023
- ▶ 1:52 unnamed speaker The sudden collapse of California's Silicon Valley Bank has thrown sand into the gears of the tech industry.
The terawatt era of PV: ‘Solar will be the gas of today’
- ▶ 18:12 Stephen Lacey Um, grid constraints are a huge problem, uh, major interconnection backlogs, um, you have this major policy change in the top solar market in California that is gonna cause, um, residential installations to crash, and, um, there are of…
- ▶ 24:29 Michelle Davis But when you, you know, when you think about the sort of the scale of, of how VPPs could contribute, at least when you think about solar plus storage systems and VPPs, just the amount of batteries that are available in, in any given state,…
The storylines of the energy transition in 2023
- ▶ 16:16 Jeff St. John And the other chart that's very cool is from September, uh, showing how much energy storage that the state of California has added to its power grid. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:56 Jeff St. John Um, a lot of California utilities are doing the same thing, New York utilities.
- ▶ 30:53 Jeff St. John Distributed energy resources, and that's the California rooftop and distributed solar market. 9 times in the scene
Making sense of advanced nuclear’s stumbles
- ▶ 41:42 Lara Pierpoint I, um, I noted that this year, polling in my home state of California showed that 58% of Californians support keeping Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open, and that is very surprising. 2 times in the scene
How to triple renewables by 2030
- ▶ 7:51 Katherine Hamilton Resources for what they're doing, and there are things you can do to try to make up the, make up for those marketing design issues, say, from FERC on the state level, like through integrated resource plans and making sure that you have…
- ▶ 12:37 Katherine Hamilton When you don't have that, so what California is facing right now, and they're saying, all right, we're going to get 2000 megawatts of clean, firm baseload, really the only two resources that will fit that are geothermal and biomass,… 2 times in the scene
AI in the real world: Solar forecasting, EVs, and virtual power plants
- ▶ 20:43 Carlos Nouel Um, even in the places where we're really far ahead, like California and even Australia and other places, you know, penetration of DRs, whether it's EVs, solar, batteries, you know, heat pumps, you name it, it's still fairly low.
For Microsoft, AI is an ‘unlock’ for decarbonization
- ▶ 12:46 Hannah Green And now instead of those stakeholders waiting, you know, days or, or, you know, however long it takes, there's often a backlog because there's so much activity, especially in California and the regulatory space, they can get that…
- ▶ 19:04 Hannah Green Um, there are customers in PG&E territory, um, who are on the other side of a long feeder, um, that you might have heard they, sometimes in California, we have public safety power shutoffs or PSPS events in extreme weather conditions. 2 times in the scene
Inflation plagues clean energy. How bad is it?
- ▶ 26:45 Michael Boyle Free electricity market in the country and they're adding so much solar that they're about to or perhaps even have passed California in terms of utility scale solar deployment with no mandate whatsoever.
Can California pull off its clean energy ambitions?
- ▶ 1:23 Stephen Lacey That enthusiasm on the panel was also mixed with a little apprehension, because the subject was decarbonizing the largest subnational economy in the world, California. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:52 Stephen Lacey John's panel discussion now with some major players in California's clean energy industry. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:47 Jeff St. John Arthur, um, looking at where California is right now, and where the state needs to go, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:43 Bernadette Del Chiaro Jeff and everybody at Canary, you guys are a tremendous resource, um, not just for the clean tech industry, but for mainstream media throughout California, and even, you know, the, the, the energy nerd public at least, but you are a… 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:26 Josh Becker And, you know, the great news, as you said, like, there's lots of good news in California, and I'd say after a few years of really probably not doing a lot of super ambitious legislation, many people felt, Mayor Creasman from Environment… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:24 Bernadette Del Chiaro California needs a 180 gigawatts more of renewable energy in the next 10 to 15 years. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:06 Bernadette Del Chiaro It is the cheapest, most efficient way for us to generate electricity, and nobody that is engaged in that slash and burn of the California's rooftop solar market is being intellectually honest about the value of distributed generation. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:05 Jeff St. John Where and in what ways is California serving those needs?
- ▶ 38:09 Josh Becker You know, and that has, you know, that affects us here in California in various ways, too.
- ▶ 41:06 Bernadette Del Chiaro California, I know I'm just kind of full of critiques right now, but it does feel like it's one after another. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:03 Jeff St. John You know, circumstance one can imagine, and I don't know if utilities are necessarily the entities that should be, look to, to be responsible for innovation out there, but I might imagine that there are ways to incentivize California's… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:24 Arthur Bart Williams And I think that, um, uh, in contrast, well, I'll just mention Contra Costa County in particular, because we have, I guess, three refineries out of the nine in the, in the state, and it's had a lot of impact. 4 times in the scene
New frontiers of clean energy emerge
- ▶ 15:30 Jeff St. John Um, obviously, you know, electrifying transport cars, vans, buses, trucks, there's a really interesting test run going on of a bunch of freight hauls running on electric trucks happening in California and New York, and they're, they're…
- ▶ 47:49 Jeff St. John Well, I, I remember there was a presentation, uh, that Dora Nakafuji at, at, uh, Hawaiian Electric put out, uh, you know how California is the duck curve where all that rooftop solar, you know, brings down the net demand on the grid real… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:14 Jeff St. John Tesla Semi, um, out of, uh, depots in California, New York, and Vancouver, British Columbia, um, and they're getting some really interesting data out of them, including, uh, showings of being able to run 400 miles on a single charge, uh,…
America’s historic climate law, one year on
- ▶ 12:00 Julian Spector Uh, say California does.
- ▶ 23:42 Maria Gallucci So the, the first utility scale wind farms were developed in, in California in the 19 eighties, and then the, you know, the broader wind energy sector really took off in the nineties, uh, with the passage, uh, when Congress passed the…
A surprise benefit of rooftop solar in New England
- ▶ 18:01 Stephen Lacey So solar is producing, usually in the middle of the day, that overlaps well with air conditioning, but what you see is the days are continually hotter, often later in the day, and as solar production curtails, you see continued demand, and…
What’s the next big trend in clean energy?
- ▶ 16:47 Ramez Naam Arizona to California.
A groundbreaking battery nears industrial scale
- ▶ 0:12 Stephen Lacey Form has around 500 employees in California, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. 2 times in the scene
Will poor data hold back the potential of AI on the grid?
- ▶ 33:56 Titian Palazzi In California, basically, there's, most of the grid is run by three large utilities, SDG and E, 3 times in the scene
Degrees: The fastest electric vehicle fleet makeover in the West
- ▶ 6:07 Gilbert Bluefeather Rosas The other interesting thing about Stockton is it's near agricultural bases, and it's near, you know, one of the highest asthma rates in the state.
- ▶ 17:59 Yesh Pavlik Slenk Gilbert's point is, California might have more funding for electric school buses than less climate progressive states.
Live: Is advanced nuclear ready for liftoff?
- ▶ 37:17 Stephen Lacey And the trend towards smaller plants could open up new applications, like Oculus working on a 15 megawatt reactor, talking to customers upwards of, about applications upwards of 50 megawatts, and they could help offset the tens of…
The Big Switch: California’s climate czar on banning gas cars
- ▶ 1:45 unnamed speaker And it's all about how California created a ban on gas-powered cars by 20 35. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:42 unnamed speaker The state of California, you've heard of before, well, it passed a new rule banning the sale of all gas 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:10 Dr. Melissa Lott This landmark regulation in California didn't just happen overnight.
- ▶ 12:32 Mary Nichols The combustion of any kind of fuel that was gonna be, um, unacceptable if, if we were gonna be reaching the kind of, um, goals of, you know, that the science was telling us we needed to reach to, uh, you know, to keep the planet from… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:21 Dr. Melissa Lott In California, you know, we often see the state kind of moving as a first mover in a lot of these things. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:31 Dr. Melissa Lott I realized a moment ago, I'm like, we've been talking a lot about cars and personal mobility and all that, but California, I'm like, trucks, ports, like, we gotta talk about that stuff too. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:31 Dr. Melissa Lott And I'm thinking about your work with UN and other organizations about not just what's going to happen in California, but what's going to happen beyond California as a result of a rule like this. 2 times in the scene
Live: How AI could supercharge climate tech
- ▶ 41:47 Jesse Morris I live in California.
Live: The most ambitious city energy transition in America
- ▶ 11:44 Marty Adams California itself, I think, gosh, it was a, I want to say a year ago, April, um, they turn off 80,000 megawatt hours of solar because there's nowhere for the energy to go.
- ▶ 15:36 Marty Adams But the power bill's paid by the tenant, and so, you know, the person who may invest in the roof does not become the beneficiary of reduced energy costs, and so trying to get, uh, solar programs that would fit for rental, uh, you know, uh,… 2 times in the scene
A bank collapse threatens climate startups
- ▶ 1:08 unnamed speaker The sudden collapse of California's Silicon Valley Bank has thrown sand into the gears of the tech industry.
Are oil & gas majors abandoning clean energy?
- ▶ 39:08 Jigar Shah And Tesla doing that for California and getting paid two dollars a kilowatt hour. 3 times in the scene
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