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As the energy grid faces unprecedented changes, local energy solutions are increasingly needed. Hosted by Elisa Wood, an experienced energy journalist, The Energy Changemakers Podcast brings you into the heart of these transformations. Each episode features in-depth discussions with industry leaders pioneering the move toward a decentralized grid. From technological innovations to policy changes — discover actionable insights to help your company leverage emerging opportunities. Join us at The Energy Changemakers Podcast and be part of the conversation that shapes our energy future.
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Signup to Generate a PitchAs the energy grid faces unprecedented changes, local energy solutions are increasingly needed. Hosted by Elisa Wood, an experienced energy journalist, The Energy Changemakers Podcast brings you into the heart of these transformations. Each episode features in-depth discussions with industry leaders pioneering the move toward a decentralized grid.
Energy Changemakers Podcast is hosted by Energy Changemakers. The show has published 61 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "John Berger Is Back, and Betting on Solar’s Biggest Blind Spot." (14 October 2026, 45 minutes), "The DER-Utility Standoff, and a Way Out" (30 September 2026, 58 minutes), and "The Grid Isn’t Ready for Robots on Wheels" (17 September 2026, 42 minutes).
Energy Changemakers Podcast publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 38 minutes across 61 episodes.
Booking probability for Energy Changemakers Podcast is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Energy Changemakers Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Energy Changemakers Podcast's contact route on record: public web form.
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Episode #58
John Berger has won big and lost big. He founded Sunnova out of his Houston apartment in 2012 and grew it into one of the largest residential solar companies in the country, before it ended in bankruptcy. Now he’s back...
Episode #57
Utilities and distributed energy companies often talk past each other, and each side blames the other for the stalemate. Navneet Trivedi, co-founder and COO of Vrinda Inc., has spent more than three decades working with...
Episode #54
Autonomous vehicles are more than cars without drivers. They’re “robots on wheels” — and they will need enormous amounts of electricity at the grid edge. In this episode of the Energy Changemakers Podcast, host Elisa...
Episode #55
What if the model to solve many of our biggest electricity problems already exists—we've just never used it to its full capacity? In this episode, Keith Taylor, a UC Davis institutional economist, makes the case that...
Episode #54
Most people in solar assume the industry started with the trade-show boom of 2006–2007. It didn't. It started decades earlier, in the logged-over hills of Humboldt County, California, where back-to-the-land hippies were...
Episode #53
From homeowners to businesses to AI data centers, customers are investing in distributed energy for their own reasons — and collectively rewiring how the entire electric system evolves. Recorded live to open The Great...
Episode #53
Wildfires, record heat, and a grid under more strain than ever have turned “resilience” from a buzzword into one of the fastest-growing categories in energy technology. Host Elisa Wood talks with Julia Hamm — who spent...
Episode #52
Plug-in solar — widely known as “balcony solar” — is one of the fastest-growing entry points into clean energy, and it is finally gaining a legal foothold in the United States. In this episode, host Elisa Wood talks...
Episode #49
<p>Produced in partnership with Xendee, this podcast explores the market dynamics that led the company to create a free, non-commercial gathering for the microgrid industry. In their conversation, Elisa Wood and Xendee...
Episode #47
<p>What does it take to build a billion-dollar biofuels company from inside one of energy’s most durable entrepreneurial firms?</p><p>Michael Bakas has spent 25 years at Ameresco — and now he’s leading Neogenyx Fuels, a...
Episode #48
<p>Produced in partnership with Xendee, this podcast explores the market dynamics that led the company to create a free, non-commercial educational gathering for the microgrid industry.</p><p>In their conversation...
Episode #44
<p>This episode revisits one of the most-listened-to conversations in Energy Changemakers history—a three-way dialogue between Kay Aikin (CEO of Dynamic Grid, Maine), Lorenzo Kristov (independent grid market architect...
Episode #47
<p>The Pew Charitable Trusts has released a long-awaited policy playbook for scaling distributed energy resources (DERs) across the United States. In this episode, host Elisa Wood sits down with the two co-chairs of the...
Episode #48
<p></p><p>The US grid is under pressure — surging demand from data centers, EVs, and industrial expansion is forcing expensive infrastructure upgrades. But what if a significant share of that relief could come for free...
Episode #43
<p></p><p>Montgomery County, Maryland — located just outside Washington, D.C. — has emerged as one of the most ambitious local governments in the United States when it comes to distributed energy, microgrids, and clean...
Episode #42
<p></p><p>For years, utilities and the distributed energy industry fought bitter battles over net metering, revenue erosion, and who controls the grid. Now, something has shifted. In this episode of the Energy...
Episode #42
<p>Distributed wind has long played third wheel to solar and storage — but new market conditions may be opening the door to a comeback.</p><p>In this bonus episode, Elisa Wood speaks with analyst Peter Asmus about...
Episode #40
<p>According to Markus Virta, Co-Founder of Cascadia Renewables, the answer has almost nothing to do with solar panels and batteries—and everything to do with listening.</p><p>In this episode, Markus—who has spent 16...
Episode #40
<p>In Episode 40, host Elisa Wood sits down with Ben Brown, CEO of Renew Home, to explore how millions of ordinary homes are being quietly transformed into virtual power plants (VPPs) — aggregated, AI-coordinated, and...
Episode #39
<p>Jigar Shah is one of clean energy's most influential — and outspoken — figures. In this episode, he takes a surprising stand on a utility battery program that has the distributed energy world divided, makes the case...
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former New York Public Service Commission Chair, Australian Energy Market Operator
Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, Economic Development Corporation of Jefferson County
former director of DOE Loan Programs Office, U.S. Department of Energy
Director of Client Services in Herbein’s Human Capital & HR Consulting practice, Oconee County Emergency Services
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