Energy Transition Solutions

In this episode, our host Joe Batir talks communications with Mike Casey, President and Founder of Tigercomm. The discuss how and why Mike started Tigercomm, why the clean economy isn’t growing the way it needs to, and how Tigercomm is attempting to solve that. Mike’s book recommendation: The Tiger by John Vaillant Mike’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikecaseytigercomm/ […]

In this episode, our host Joe Batir talks with Alex Richter, Founder of ThinkGeoEnergy and Head of Business Development at Innargi. They discuss how ThinkGeoEnergy was started as a side hobby out of the financial crisis of 2008, how news has changed since 2008, where geothermal energy is going especially in the current energy and societal […]

In this episode, our host Joe Batir talks with Rich Craig, Vice President of Regulatory Affairs of the Compressed Gas Association. They discuss what the CGA is and take a deep dive into the Hydrogen ecosystem. They discuss why and how regulation and establishment of industry standards would advance and expedite the growth of the Hydrogen […]

In this episode, our host Joe Batir talks with Piper Wilder, Found and CEO of 60Hertz about their maintenance management software. They discuss what this software is, when this idea originated for microgrid management in Alaska, and how 60Hertz and their software improves performance, and where they expect maintenance management software to be as part of […]

In this episode, our host Joe Batir talks with Dr. Ken Anderson and Dr. Scott Hamilton-Brehm from Thermaquatica about Carbon Capture using a process called Oxidative Hydrothermal Dissolution (OHD). In this show, they discuss what OHD is, how this process can capture significant amounts of carbon, and how this can become a truly carbon negative technology. […]

In this episode, our host Joe Batir talks with Michael McAdams, President of the Advanced Biofuels Association. They discussed what advanced biofuels are, how advanced biofuels are different from what most of us may think, and what these biofuels mean for energy and food security, and how simple the transition to advanced biofuels could be. Michael’s […]

In this episode, our host Joe Batir talks with John Kotek, Senior Vice President for Policy Development and Public Affairs at the Nuclear Energy Institute. They discuss what nuclear power is, what it isn’t, why and how it will play an important role in the energy transition, and where it is going in the next 20 […]

In this episode, our host Joe Batir talks with Nicole Sullivan, Director of Climate Services at CarbonBetter. They take a deep dive into the definition of the voluntary carbon market, generation of carbon credits, and why net zero may not be the best end goal for companies. Nicole’s book recommendation: A Sand County Almanac by Aldo […]

In this episode, our host Joe Batir talks with Katja Akentieva, Vice President of New Energy Solutions, Western Hemisphere of TGS. They discussed the work that TGS is known for, that being oil and gas data and data insights, and how that work has led TGS to the growing market of renewable energy data and data […]

In this episode, our host Joe Batir answers questions from the internet! Pulled from friends, family, and social media, Joe answers those questions that people wanted to ask, but never knew who to ask. National Renewable Energy Lab wind maps: https://www.nrel.gov/gis/wind.html  Nature article “Hydrogen technology is unlikely to play a major role in sustainable road […]

In this episode, our host Joe Batir talks with Mike Matthews, Senior Vice President of Data Gumbo. They cover the origin of the name Data Gumbo, the start of Data Gumbo, how smart contract enable trustworthy transactions and accounting, what Carbon Credits are, and how smart contracts are a necessary part of what could be a […]

In this episode, our host Joe Batir talks with Frode Odegard, founder and CEO of the Post-Industrial Institute. They discuss what Post-Industrial is and how the new business landscape requires new management strategies and new thinking. They also talk through what this means as companies, energy assets, and manufacturing become more decentralized. Frode’s book recommendations: […]

In this episode, our host Joe Batir talks with Ali Haji, CEO and Director of Ion Energy Ltd. They discuss Ion Energy’s Lithium exploration efforts in Mongolia and discuss Ion Energy’s holistic approach to the resource extraction business. Ion Energy’s approach means local improvement of life through hiring local talent for resource extraction and global […]

In this episode, our host Joe Batir talks with Peter Black, President and Managing Director of EnergySys. EnergySys is a low code software development platform that is cloud native, hosted on AWS. Here, Joe and Peter discuss what low code means, why it is important for this platform to be cloud native, and how EnergySys is […]

In this episode, our host Joe Batir talks with Rob Klenner, Senior Energy Transition and Strategy Leader at Baker Hughes. Joe and Rob discuss the multiple facets of the Baker Hughes Innovation Center including, but not limited to “digital”, additive manufacturing, ESG, edge computing, and more. Rob’s Book Recommendation: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr Rob […]

In this episode, our host Joe Batir gives a recap of his experience at Earthx2022 – the largest Earth Day gathering in the world. Topics he discusses include who was at Earthx, who wasn’t at Earthx and why that matters. The Earthx Book Recommendation: In This Together by Trammell Crow and Bill Shireman Earthx website: […]

In this episode, our host Joe Batir talks with Moji Karimi from Cemvita Factory. These two walk through the story of how Cemvita was founded as a result of DNA sequencing meeting the oil and gas industry. From the Cemvita origin story, Joe and Moji discuss how Cemvita is developing gold Hydrogen and underground chemical factories, […]

In this episode, our host Joe Batir talks with Andy Bennett, CEO of mPrest. They discussed distributed energy resources (DERs) and why utilities need a management system (DERMS) for these resources. Through the conversation, Andy shares how mPrest went from defense contractor to developing a DERMS and the necessity of DERMS for future US energy grid […]

Welcome to the Energy Transition Solutions podcast — brought to you on the Oil and Gas Global Network. This episode is made possible by AWS Energy. In this episode, our host Joe Batir talks with John Berger, CEO and Founder of Sunnova Energy Corporation. They discuss the residential solar market, the new innovations in energy […]

Welcome to the Energy Transition Solutions podcast — brought to you on the Oil and Gas Global Network by AWS Energy. In this episode our host Joe Batir talks with Kirk Coburn from Eleox. They discuss the traditional way natural gas was traded, why it needs to be updated, and how that led to Eleox. From […]

Welcome to the Energy Transition Solutions podcast — brought to you on the Oil and Gas Global Network by AWS Energy. This week our host Joe Batir talks with Minister of Mines and Energy for Colombia, Diego Mesa. They discuss what the minister does, his success in completing all primary objectives during his term, and what is […]

Welcome to the Energy Transition Solutions podcast — brought to you on the Oil and Gas Global Network by AWS Energy. This week our host Joe Batir talks with Hassane Kassouf, Head of Energy Innovation Programs at Amazon Web Services (AWS), about the Clean Energy Accelerator 2.0. As we see the world wanting to move more […]

Welcome to the Energy Transition Solutions podcast — brought to you on the Oil and Gas Global Network by AWS Energy. This week our host Joe Batir talks with John Belizaire, CEO of Soluna Computing. Joe and John discuss Soluna Computing’s modular data centers and how they are paired with renewable energy to utilize wasted energy […]

Welcome to the Energy Transition Solutions podcast — brought to you on the Oil and Gas Global Network by AWS Energy. This week our host Joe Batir talks with Amelia Letvin and Ann Robertson-Tait from the professional organization Women in Geothermal – WING. They discuss the geothermal industry and how it has changed in the past 30+ […]

Welcome to the Energy Transition Solutions podcast — brought to you on the Oil and Gas Global Network by AWS Energy. This week our host Joe Batir talks with Dr. Gary Rochelle, Chemical Engineering Professor at University of Texas at Austin, and Ben Owens, Vice President and General Manager of Honeywell Sustainable Technology Solutions. The three […]