Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy Podcast
Welcome to Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, a podcast dedicated to unveiling the stories, insights, and strategies of the most influential leaders in the renewable energy sector. Our mission is to offer a platform where the voices of innovators, pioneers, and visionaries in renewable energy are amplified, sharing their journey, challenges, and triumphs with a global audience.
Episodes
70 episodes
Breaking the Battery Bottleneck: ION Storage’s Path to Energy Freedom
Batteries are the hidden bottleneck in electrification and AI. While chips get the headlines, the energy powering our devices, vehicles, and infrastructure is what ultimately sets the pace of innovation.In this episode of Green Giant...
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Season 1
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Episode 70
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41:59
From the Roof to the Classroom: How Schools Are Sparking the Future of Solar
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, Wes Ashworth sits down with Meghan Milo, Director of Energy Solutions, Curriculum and Instruction at Madison Energy Infrastructure, to explore how solar energy ...
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Season 1
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Episode 69
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44:35
Brad Stutzman: Thriving on the Solar Coaster and Shaping Tomorrow’s Energy
The renewable energy industry has never been a smooth ride. Policy swings, financing hurdles, shifting market sentiment, what many call the “solar coaster.”Few leaders know this rollercoaster better than Brad Stutzman, CEO of O...
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Season 1
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Episode 68
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40:42
From Uncertainty to Optimism: REC Solar’s Scott Therien on the Next Era of Clean Energy
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, Wes Ashworth sits down with Scott Therien, Director of Strategic Partnerships at REC Solar, to explore what long-term success really looks like in commercial so...
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Season 1
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Episode 67
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47:17
How Vinnie Campo and Haven Energy Are Reinventing Residential Battery Storage
Home energy storage is often misunderstood, expensive, and out of reach for most, until now.In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, Wes Ashworth sits down with Vinnie Campo, Co-Founder and CEO of Haven Energ...
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Season 1
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Episode 66
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44:03
Unlocking Solar for Multifamily: Owen Barrett on Turning Roofs into Revenue
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down with Owen Barrett, clean tech entrepreneur, investor, and Founder & President of Shine to talk about the overlooked frontier in renewable ener...
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Season 1
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Episode 65
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41:50
Rethinking ESG with Jim Boyle: Saving the Enterprise in a World That Needs Saving
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down with Jim Boyle, CEO and founder of Sustainability Roundtable Inc. (SR Inc.), a Boston-based firm that has helped nearly 100 Fortune ...
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Season 1
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Episode 64
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47:21
AI, Policy & Power: How Nasreddine Guerfala Is Engineering the Future of Clean Energy
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down with Nasreddine Guerfala, Executive Vice President of Growth & DERs at Edgecom Energy and one of Canada’s 2025 Clean50 Emerging ...
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Season 1
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Episode 63
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43:03
From Rural Roots to Grid Reform: Shanelle Montana on Building Trust in Clean Energy
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down with Shanelle Montana, Chief Development Officer at Arevon. As one of the country's largest utility-scale renewable energy developers and operator...
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Season 1
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Episode 62
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47:18
Drones, Data, and Blind Spots: Daniel Mello Guimaraes on Solar’s Path to Real Intelligence
In Episode 61 of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down with Daniel Mello Guimaraes, SVP North America at Above, a pioneer in solar asset intelligence transforming how solar assets are built, monitored, a...
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Season 1
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Episode 61
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44:58
Rewiring the Retrofit: Grant Gunnison on Zero Homes’ Mission to Digitize Home Electrification
How do we electrify 60 million American homes without armies of contractors driving hours for in-home visits?This week on Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down with Grant Gunnison, founder and CEO...
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Season 1
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Episode 60
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46:45
Grid 3.0: How James Richmond’s e2 Companies Is Disrupting Power as We Know It
The electric grid we rely on was designed for a world that no longer exists. Aging infrastructure, surging demand from AI and electrification, and multi-year wait times for grid interconnection have collided to form a perfect storm. In this epi...
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Season 1
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Episode 59
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49:01
Why Electrification Needs an Apollo Program: Mats Larsson on Coordinating the Energy Transition
What if the biggest threat to the clean energy transition isn’t technology, but lack of coordination?In this powerful episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down with Mats Larsson, fou...
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Season 1
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Episode 58
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45:36
Rewiring Solar: Daniel Dus on Speed, Software & the Future of Clean Energy
What if the biggest bottleneck in clean energy wasn’t technology or financing, but how we develop and deliver projects?In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down with Daniel Dus
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Season 1
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Episode 57
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45:41
Inside SolarBank: Richard Lu on Scaling Profitable, Long-Term Clean Energy Projects
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth speaks with Dr. Richard Lu, President and CEO of SolarBank Corporation. SolarBank is a publicly traded clean energy company delivering solar, storage, and E...
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Season 1
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Episode 56
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45:22
Reframing the Future: EVs, Solar Strategy & Scaling Clean Energy with Jeff Sullivan
In this thought-provoking episode of Green Giants, host Wes Ashworth sits down with seasoned engineering and operations leader Jeff Sullivan, whose career spans some of the most pivotal moments in solar, battery storage, and ele...
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Season 1
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Episode 55
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42:42
How GOLDBECK SOLAR is Revolutionizing North America’s Solar Market with Constantin Lindenmeyer
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, we sit down with Constantin Lindenmeyer, CEO of GOLDBECK SOLAR North America. GOLDBECK SOLAR is reshaping how solar infrastructure is built across North America, combining a full-life...
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Season 1
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Episode 54
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43:38
Beyond Solar: Agrivoltaics, Land Stewardship & the Future with Matt Horvath
What if the future of solar energy doesn’t mean sacrificing farmland, but restoring it?In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, we sit down with Matt Horvath, General Manager at D-Com Electric and Co-F...
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Season 1
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Episode 53
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37:16
Decentralizing Solar: How Civic Renewables is Scaling Local Power Nationwide
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth talks with Lee Keshishian, Founder and CEO of Civic Renewables, a company transforming how residential solar is built, scaled, and supported in the United S...
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Season 1
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Episode 52
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45:51
Scaling 28 GW: Sohan Das on Building EVS Into a Renewable Engineering Powerhouse
In this powerhouse episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, we’re joined by Sohan Das, Vice President of Renewable Energy at EVS Inc., a firm that’s gone from traditional civil engineering roots to a national ...
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Season 1
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Episode 51
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42:02
Energy Expansion, Workforce Innovation, and KE’s Growth Surge with Aaron Pyfferoen
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down with Aaron Pyfferoen, Vice President of Strategy for Renewable Energy at Knobelsdorff Enterprises (KE). With over 20 years of experience and 12+ GWs of pro...
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Season 1
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Episode 50
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48:05
Fireproofing the Future: EticaAG’s Mission to Reinvent Battery Storage with Immersion Tech
In this episode, Wes Ashworth sits down with Matt Ward, President of EticaAG, for a deep dive into one of the most critical frontiers in clean tech today—battery safety. From the U.S. Navy’s nuclear engineering ranks to spearheadi...
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Season 1
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Episode 49
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41:13
From Oil & Gas to Solar: Steve Newby on Scaling Bravo and Building a Smarter Energy Future
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down with Steve Newby, CEO of Bravo Infrastructure Group — a leader who made a bold leap from oil and gas to solar and is now building...
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Season 1
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Episode 48
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44:00
Leading Through Change: FTC Solar CEO Yann Brandt on Innovation, Policy, and Solar’s Next Era
In this must-listen episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down with solar industry veteran Yann Brandt, President and CEO of FTC Solar. With nearly two decades of experience across ma...
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Season 1
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Episode 47
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44:40
Powering the Future: EV & Microgrid Infrastructure with Mortenson’s Brian Abeld
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down with Brian Abeld, Vice President and General Manager of EV and Microgrid Infrastructure at Mortenson—one of the most forward-thinkin...
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Season 1
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Episode 46
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42:56