The Renewable Generation

In this episode of The Renewable Generation... Kelly explains her latest endeavors as an elected official for the city of Issaquah, as well as her re-election campaign! For more information visit: kellyjiang.com Steve references his Illinois debt raise, which was fully maxxed out before the publishing of the episode. Luckily, Enterprise Energy has a new Minnesota investment fund offering, just fol...

It's been three years since our last episode, and a lot's... changed. Steve co-founded a solar company called Enterprise Energy, and today, you get to meet the Partners. What is community solar? What is the state of the solar industry as of September 2024? What is it like to start a company? The Renewable Generation is back for a special one-time episode exploring these topics and more.   Plug: kn...

Welcome to the Season Finale of The Renewable Generation! 10 episodes up, 10 episodes down! Joining us this week is Mara Midiere: a Master in Sustainability, Science and Policy from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, and a junior project leader at diep working on 5th generation district heating and cooling. We hear about her journey, breaking into the climate space with a liberal arts backg...

This week, we are graced with an expert young person - Benny Corona! Benny has a Master of Public Policy coming from UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy, and has represented California's Central Valley in various capacities at the federal, state, and local level.  Agriculture makes up about 10% of all GHG emissions. California's Central Valley is one of the most agriculturally productive...

In this episode, Steve and Kelly chat with Bonnie Gurry and Elizabeth Landau, co-founders of GreenPortfolio, a tool that helps individuals use their financial portfolios to support climate action. We chat about how Bonnie and Elizabeth got started in sustainability, their journey to founding a company, what it's like to be a female founder, and much more.  Learn more about GreenPortfolio by visiti...

You know it, you love it.. no not slam-dunking the political left, it's Lithium-Ion batteries!   This week we are soaking up the sun... and wind.. and hydro... and dirty energy as well?? Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are a keystone technology that helps solve renewable energy's intermittency problem. But batteries are not strictly clean energy devices. They also help support the grid in te...

This week on The Renewable Generation, Kelly and Steve cover "Biden Bucks" and a $1 trillion infrastructure package that stands as the US’s last chance to pass meaningful climate policy for a decade.

And we're back! Introducing Season 3 of The Renewable Generation, now with an official sponsor from Bright Power, Inc. There are quite a few changes with our lies, the show, as well as with the state of climate action since we last spoke.   This week, Steve and Kelly lead with science. The new IPCC report has come out, which represents the absolute best data and models to predict what's to come in...

This week on The Renewable Generation... the gang discusses the Blockchain, NFT's, Bitcoin, and other popular cryptocurrencies in regards to their environmental and economic impact. 

In this episode of The Renewable Generation... the gang talks about MEAT, its relation to culture and masculinity, and its impact on our environment.

In this episode of The Renewable Generation, the gang delves into the energy crisis in Texas and receives a SHOCKING call from a SURPRISE guest.

In this episode of The Renewable Generation, the gang comes back after a two-month hiatus to discuss the climate-related executive orders passed under the Biden-Harris administration thus far. They also delve into further policy action that can be taken by our leaders in congress and introduce a new segment.

This week the gang discusses their thoughts and emotions regarding the US presidential election. Then, they say goodbye for a while...

In this episode, Steve, Kelly, and policy expert Peter Cavan unpack the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's recent passing of Order 2222: The DER Order.

This week on The Renewable Generation: Steven takes a front seat to detail the recent surge in wildfires, particularly on the West Coast of the United States. 

In this week's episode, Steven is on vacation, which gives Evan the perfect opportunity to tricky Kelly into talking about Hollywood with him for half an hour. Kelly also pitches her reality TV show with a sustainable twist.

In this episode, Steven and Kelly enter the thunderdome to battle it out regarding Steven's Elon infatuation. We try to keep this episode on the rails by framing this debate through the future of transportation.

In this week's episode of The Renewable Generation we discuss diversity in the energy business from ethics, economic, and political perspectives. Somehow amongst all of this we find time to bring up Zac Efron and, yet again, Elon Musk.

In this episode, the gang discusses what it means to be a company leading on sustainability in 2020, which companies are earning their stripes, and which have some work to do.

This week on The Renewable Generation, the gang discusses the Democrats' attempts to bring progressive and centrist members of the party together with the Biden - Bernie climate coalition. The gang also discusses the recent successes in halting further pipeline construction, particularly the Dakota Access Pipeline which was controversially set to be built over Sioux land. 

In this episode, we discuss complex feelings in regard to our nationality as Americans. The conversation feels chaotic throughout, but moments of insight and clarity shine through every so often. What's more American than that?