A Wind Pioneer’s Big Gamble
Michael Skelly is the former president and co-founder of Clean Line Energy Partners, a company that attempted to build a cross-country power line to s...
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Illuminators is a show about the people and the forces transforming the business of energy. Businesses and industries regularly face sweeping transitions. Those transitions are now getting more frequent and volatile as technology cycles speed up. We'll tell stories about how businesses or industries have managed disruption throughout history. This show will help energy experts learn from the wider world of business, and help business learn about the unique world of energy.
The Tough Job of Closing Down Coal
In this episode: how one CEO was forced to reckon with her roots in coal country, change her view on climate change, and reorient her utility to embra...
The Birth (and Near Death) of Demand Response
Tim Healy co-founded EnerNOC in 2001. EnerNOC was one of the companies that turned demand response from an obscure, low-tech process into an automated...
How Trust in Companies Is Changing Rapidly
Rachel Botsman is a trust expert. She predicted the rise of the sharing economy and wrote two books about trust — Who Can You Trust and What’s Mine is...
From Dotcom Bust to Clean Energy Visionary
Michael Liebreich is the founder and former CEO of New Energy Finance, a research and analysis firm that was acquired by Bloomberg in 2009. It’s becom...
An ‘Intrapreneur’ Driving the Corporate Clean Energy Revolution
Miranda Ballentine is the CEO of the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance, a group that helps companies like Apple, Google, Disney, GM, Citigroup ink wind...
How Failed Green Jobs and Energy Poverty Shaped This Founder
In this episode, an entrepreneur who’s applying community organizing tactics and data crunching to clean energy in inner cities: Donnel Baird. Donnel ...
Origins of the Modern Battery Storage Business
Welcome to our second season! Over the next eight episodes, we’ll hear from people who’ve scaled new clean energy technologies, built market-changing ...
We're Coming Back for Season 2
We're coming back for a new season of ILLUMINATORS!In our first season, we told stories of disruption in other industries and then applied them to ene...
Reflections on Utility Disruption With Adrian Tuck
Over the last four episodes, we’ve detailed the history of corporate innovation, wins and fails in customer strategies, the winding path of technology...