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
102 episodes
Vinnie Campo of Haven Energy on the Future of Home Batteries
Electricity demand is accelerating from every direction: AI, data centers, transportation, home electrification, industrial load growth, and rising expectations for reliability. But building new grid infrastructure is getting harder, slower, an...
Sachu Constantine of Vote Solar: Clean Energy Won’t Win by Accident
Clean energy may be cheaper, cleaner, and more scalable than ever, but that does not mean the transition will happen fast enough, fairly enough, or automatically.In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host
Howard Wenger, Nextpower: Building the Utility-Scale Solar Integrated Platform
Episode 100 of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy marks a major milestone and captures a pivotal shift happening across the solar industry.In this episode, Wes Ashworth sits down with Howard Wenger, President...
Amrit Robbins of Axiom Cloud on the Most Overlooked Opportunity in Energy Today
Refrigeration is everywhere. Grocery stores. Warehouses. Cold storage. But almost no one is talking about its climate impact.In Episode 99, Wes Ashworth sits down with Amrit Robbins, CEO and Co-Founder of Axiom Cloud, to unpack a problem...
Aaron Gabelnick on Building Resilient Solar Infrastructure at ARRAY Technologies
What does it actually take to build solar infrastructure that performs for 30 years in the real world?In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, Wes Ashworth sits down with Aaron Gabelnick,...
Jason Few of FuelCell Energy on AI, Data Centers, and Power Demand
AI may be grabbing the headlines, but power is becoming the real constraint.In Episode 97 of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, Wes Ashworth sits down with Jason Few, President and CEO of FuelCell Energy, for a timely conversation...
B2U Storage Solutions’ Freeman Hall on Unlocking the Second Life of EV Batteries
What happens to electric vehicle batteries after they come off the road is quickly becoming one of the most important questions in energy.In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, Wes Ashworth sits down with F...
Hydrogen Without the Hype: Building Through Volatility with Salim Rahemtulla
In Episode 95 of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, Wes Ashworth sits down with Salim Rahemtulla, President and CEO of PowerTap Hydrogen Fueling Corp., for a grounded, real-world conversation on hydrogen, infrastructure, and wha...
The Hidden Complexity of Battery Storage with TWAICE’s Lennart Hinrichs
Battery energy storage is rapidly becoming one of the most critical pieces of modern energy infrastructure. But behind the clean white containers sitting quietly on grid sites lies one of the most complex operational challenges in the energy in...
Chris Williamson of Polaron Solar on AI, Batteries, and the Future of Energy
The renewable energy industry is entering a new phase. Solar alone is no longer the story.In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down with Chris Williamson, Director of Business ...
Energy Equity in Action: Doug Coward on How SELF Is Rebuilding Communities
The clean energy transition is creating one of the greatest economic opportunities of our time. But unlocking its full potential requires expanding access to the financial tools that make participation possible.In this powerful episode o...
Build Big Things: Canada’s Playbook for Energy Superpower Status
Canada has the resources. It has the talent. It has global demand knocking at the door.So why does so much potential stall before projects reach final investment decision (FID)?In Episode 91 of Green Giants: Titans of Renewabl...
Ben Gerber of CleanCounts: Building the Invisible Infrastructure Powering Clean Energy Markets
Clean energy doesn’t scale on ambition alone. It scales on trust, data, and systems most people never see.In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down with Ben Gerber, President a...
Ed McGinnis of Curio on Why Nuclear “Waste” Is America’s Greatest Energy Asset
Nuclear energy is having a long-overdue moment. Electricity demand is rising rapidly, advanced reactors are moving closer to deployment, and the United States is sitting on a massive stockpile of spent nuclear fuel with no scalable solution in ...
Kevin Galloway on Electra’s Bold Mission to Decarbonize a 2-Billion-Ton Industry
Steel is everywhere. It’s in our cities, vehicles, infrastructure, and daily lives. But few people realize it’s also responsible for roughly 10 percent of global CO₂ emissions. In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy
How Jeremy Teresinski Is Scaling Utility-Scale Solar Construction at Qcells
What does it take to scale utility-scale solar construction fast, safely, and at gigawatt scale?In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, Wes Ashworth sits down with Jeremy Teresinski, Vice President of...
Why Renewable Projects Struggle Without Community Buy-In and How to Fix It
What if the biggest reason renewable energy projects fail has nothing to do with technology or capital... and everything to do with trust?In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down w...
The Future of Home Value, Climate Risk, and Resilience with Climative CEO Winston Morton
Climate change is no longer a distant or abstract issue. It is rapidly becoming a financial reality embedded in home values, insurance premiums, mortgage risk, and long-term affordability.In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Ren...
Up and to the Right: Marty Rogers on Leadership, Storage, and the Future of Solar
The solar industry has never been simple, and few leaders understand its full arc better than Marty Rogers.In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, Wes Ashworth sits down with Marty Rogers, General Manager for ...
Portable Power and the Future of Grid Flexibility with SparkCharge's CFO David Piperno
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, Wes Ashworth sits down with David Piperno, CFO of SparkCharge, to explore how portable energy solutions are reshaping EV charging, fleet electrification, and grid stab...
Small Change, Big Impact: How Joe Adiletta and Volexion Are Redefining Battery Breakthroughs
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down with Joe Adiletta, CEO of Volexion and a veteran of the battery world, to explore what it really takes to commercialize deep tech innovation in on...
Winning in Global Solar with Mike Silvestrini: Inside the Markets Shaping Renewable Energy
What if the strongest opportunities in renewable energy aren’t in massive utility projects, but in the overlooked middle of the market where disciplined operators consistently outperform?In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Ren...
Can Horizontal Boreholes Solve Nuclear's Biggest Problem? Rod Baltzer Thinks So
What if the key to unlocking nuclear energy’s future has been buried all along?In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth dives into one of the most overlooked and misunderstood challen...
The Truth About Solar Panel Waste: Inside the Recycling Revolution with Dr. Janette Freeman
Most conversations about solar focus on growth, installation, and deployment. Far fewer address the reality on the other end of the lifecycle: what happens to millions of solar panels once they’re damaged, decommissioned, or reach the end of th...
Leading Through Uncertainty: Kimberlee Centera on Power, People, and Resilience
When policy shocks hit and the ground shifts beneath an entire industry, real leadership is revealed.In Episode 78 of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth welcomes back Kimberlee Centera, Founder an...