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Energy Terminal
by Michael Wood, Hope Pratt, and Chloe Young
A platform dedicated to building the next generation of energy leaders.Energy Terminal seeks to build connections between energy experts and the next generation of energy leaders through conversations focused on career paths and advice. Each episode, we’ll bring on an expert in the industry to talk about their career, where they think the industry is heading, and what advice they have for those just getting started.Energy Terminal is sponsored by Energy Dialogues.
Episodes
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SPARK Episode 31: Praveen Gorakavi
Centamil AI is building AI-embedded microreactors that enable process industries to transform their facilities for higher-intensity workloads. The company recently launched its Hayagreeva HEx, a cold plate that enables data centers to accommodate higher density GPUs driven by the AI revolution....
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SPARK Episode 30: Emily Tench and Camila Nicollier
PermitPal is a community and political intelligence platform designed to make permitting predictable and efficient by providing actionable insights. Catering to the utility-scale renewables and AI infrastructure industries, PermitPal has built AI agents that analyze local zoning codes, planning...
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SPARK Episode 29: Anurag Kamal
Anurag Kamal is the Co-Founder and CEO of ElectricFish Energy, an energy storage and infrastructure provider. ElectricFish provides EV charging and grid resiliency services to its customers and has deployed its infrastructure at installations across the United States. The company is backed by...
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SPARK Episode 28: Stwart Pena Feliz
Stwart Pena Feliz is the Co-Founder and CEO of MacroCycle, a hard tech startup developing novel PET and polyester waste upcycling technologies. Stwart, along with his Co-Founder Jan-Georg Rosenboom, started MacroCycle while they were students at MIT. MacroCycle has received the backing of...
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SPARK Episode 27: Navy McKee
Navy McKee is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kai Pono Solutions, the developer of a patented wastewater treatment system that removes trash, chemicals and sediment from stormwater runoff. Navy founded Kai Pono Solutions during her Senior year at San Diego State University after realizing the role that...
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SPARK Episode 26: Dylan Gretok
Dylan Gretok is Founder and CEO at Seagull EcoChem, while also earning his degree in chemical engineering, economics, and entrepreneurship at North Carolina State University. Inspired by his passion for the environment, Dylan is building a more sustainable future by commercializing a...
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Episode 53: The Missing Marketplace - How to Unlock Distributed Energy Flexibility
James Johnston is a PhD-turned-entrepreneur who has spent the last 12 years building toward a single thesis: that energy markets need to be redesigned from the ground up for a distributed future. This venture, Piclo, is the first Distribute Energy Resource (DER) flexibility marketplace in the...
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SPARK Episode 25: Adam Cowie-Haskell
Adam Cowie-Haskell is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), where he focuses on electricity markets within BPC's Energy Program. His energy interest is in improving regulation, enhancing efficiency and lower costs in wholesale electricity markets throughout the United...
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SPARK Episode 24: Eshaan Agrawal
Eshaan Agrawal is a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Co. who formerly served in the Office of Technology Transitions at the Department of Energy (DOE). His energy interest is routed in climate impact, and he started off in college by focusing on environmental actions related to air pollution in his...
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52. Materials Innovation for the Energy Transition
Bryan Hassin is a serial energy entrepreneur with multiple successful exits. His latest challenge? Creating high-performance materials for a low-carbon world as the CEO of DexMat. The global energy transition is not just about deploying renewables and electrifying everything—it's also about...
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SPARK Episode 23: Gabe Malek
Gabe Malek describes himself as a passionate Texan focused on a transition to a more sustainable economy. And as a rapidly-rising young professional in the energy industry, he's certainly living up to that description and more. Originally from Houston, Texas, Gabe grew up around the energy...
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Episode 51: Fostering Collaborative Conversations on the Energy Transition with Mona Dajani
Today, we are thrilled to welcome the incredible Mona Dajani to the show. Mona serves as the Global Co-head of Energy, Infrastructure, Hydrogen, Mobility, Renewables, and Water at Baker Botts. She is also an ambassador for the US Department of Energy's C3E initiative and a regular news...
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SPARK Episode 22: Sam Beskind
Sam Beskind is an Investor and Chief of Staff at Floodgate, a VC firm backing Prime Movers across numerous different industries. Before this role, Sam completed his undergraduate and first masters degree at Stanford and followed this with a Masters in Advanced Energy Systems at the Colorado…
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Episode 50: Building Heavy Duty EV Infrastructure at Data Center Scale with Neha Palmer
50 episodes later… Thank you all for joining us on this journey. We are so pleased to celebrate this milestone by hosting Neha Palmer, CEO and Co-Founder of TeraWatt Infrastructure! Neha Palmer's career in energy is extensive, with experience in utilities, finance and technology. In her role most...
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SPARK Episode 21: Matthew Koh
Matthew Koh, Co-founder of Sequestor, is combining his dual passions of finance and sustainability by building the copilot for carbon markets. Growing up in Singapore, Matthew quickly found a passion for finance. In high school, he founded an investment platform that equips Gen Z with the tools…
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Episode 49: Nuclear to Scale with Joe Klecha
In the last 20 years, the United States has only successfully built one nuclear energy project. So how does startup The Nuclear Company plan to turn the industry on its head? In this episode, we are joined by Joe Klecha, Chief Nuclear Officer of The Nuclear Company, to discuss the startup's...
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SPARK Episode 20: Jacob Mansfield
Jacob Mansfield is the CEO & Co-Founder at Tierra Climate, a startup whose mission is to accelerate grid-scale battery deployment by unlocking and monetizing grid decarbonization services. Before pursuing his MBA and starting Tierra Climate, Jacob began his career as a rotational analyst at Citi…
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48. FOAK: The Future of Cleantech
First time is a charm, right? For many climate technologies, building a first-of-a-kind (FOAK) project is a major barrier to widespread adoption and commercialization. The ecosystem of early-stage climate tech funding, such as venture capital and grants, is well-known and used to taking…
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SPARK Episode 19: Lamisa Chowdhury
Lamisa Chowdhury, University of Kansas grad and current Patagonia Program Officer, has dedicated the early years of her career to investigating energy justice. Lamisa walks us through her path to the energy transition, including why the built environment stands out to her, and why storytelling…
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Episode 47: Issues with Interconnection
The US's grid is expansive and complicated. To break it down we are featuring guest Tyler Norris, former VP of Development at Cypress Creek Renewables and current Duke PhD student in Energy Systems. He walks us through the nuances of the issues surrounding transmission and interconnection. Join…
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SPARK Episode 18: Will Phelan
Today we spoke with Will Phelan, a graduate of Rice University working in Corporate Development at Electric Hydrogen Co. Will begins the episode by telling us how he got his start in energy, and more specifically, green hydrogen. He shares a useful exercise to help students pick their vertical…
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Episode 46: Building Impactful Careers with Katie Kross
Join us for an engaging discussion with Katie Kross, sustainability champion from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, as we uncover the secrets to building impactful careers in energy and climate. With over 15 years of experience in this space, Katie understands the importance of building...
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SPARK Episode 17: Hazel Horvath
Hazel Horvath is the Founder and CEO of Ecolytics, a business management tool that streamlines sustainability work for companies so that impact is easily trackable and better business decisions can be made using these metrics. Her environmental work began in high school during a formative...
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45. Net Power's Net Zero Natural Gas with Scott Martin
In this episode, we are joined by Scott Martin, CTO of Net Power, an innovative company revolutionizing carbon capture technology. NetPower's technology focuses on capturing emissions while producing power from natural gas, addressing the challenge of decarbonization of fossil fuels. We explore...
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REWIND: SPARK Episode 3: McKenna Dunbar
McKenna Dunbar is a recent college graduate, founder of MOCOKONO and the Ecological Justice Initiative, and Building Electrification Lead at the Sierra Club. When they were young, they had a passion for robotics and technology, which then grew into a desire to be involved in energy. We begin by...
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44. Energy Workforce Development: Upskilling, Diversity, and the Next Generation with Katie Mehnert
Throughout her career in the oil & gas industry, Katie Mehnert became used to sometimes being the only woman in the room in a male-dominated industry. Unaccepting of the status quo, Katie Mehnert sought to create change in the energy industry that she loved by creating opportunities for women and...
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SPARK Episode 15: Hope Pratt
Today, we got to speak with the Co-Founder of Energy Terminal, Hope Pratt! Hope is a senior at Duke University studying Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, but her passions lie within sustainability and energy. Hope tells us about how she first got her start in energy…
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43. Climate Tech: Venture Capital, Innovation, and Data with Kim Zou
Over the last several years, climate tech has emerged into the spotlight as more than $120B in venture capital funding has poured into the sector and interest for decarbonization solutions have surged. Through it all, CTVC has tracked, analyzed, dissected, and reported on the biggest news and…
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SPARK Episode 14: Charles Hua
Charles Hua is a recent Harvard graduate now working as a Senior Policy Advisor for the U.S. Department of Energy Loan Programs Office (LPO). At a young age, the importance of addressing climate change and taking initiative were instilled in him, and these values have guided Charles ever since.…
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Episode 42: Energy Education for the Future with Ben Abram
Dive into the importance of energy education with Benjamin Abram, an energy innovator and venture capitalist. Benjamin Abram, CEO of Modern Energy, started his career as a venture capital investor with the Westly Group during the gold rush of Cleantech 1.0. From there, he founded energy…
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SPARK Episode 13: Grace Stanke
What do Miss America 2023 and a nuclear engineer have in common? Well…they're both Grace Stanke! A recent nuclear engineering graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Grace's journey has been all but ordinary. At the age of 14, she began competing in pageants to improve her performance...
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Episode 41: Unlocking the Power of Distributed Energy Resources with David Villagra
On this episode we feature David Villagra, CTO of EverBright, a clean energy software and financing platform. David's been active in the energy space since 2013, when he co-founded Sighten, EverBright's predecessor. He's a big believer in the power of distributed energy, and walks us through the...
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SPARK Episode 12: Rostam Reifschneider
Rostam Reifschneider is a 776 Fellow and the Co-Founder of Hydrova, a startup turning waste byproducts of aluminum recycling into valuable products and clean energy. He started Hydrova while studying Mechanical Engineering at MIT, and since graduating, has taken on the company full-time as CTO....
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Episode 40: Energy and Climate Security with Sherri Goodman
Today, we are joined by the founder of the field of climate security, Sherri Goodman. In this episode, she explains what climate security is, why it's necessary, and how the establishment of climate security has changed U.S. and international military operations. Climate security has changed a…
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SPARK Episode 11: Edward Chiang
On today's episode, we spoke to Edward Chiang, Co-Founder & CEO at Moment Energy. Moment is a Vancouver-based company that repurposes end of life electric vehicle batteries to provide clean, affordable, and reliable battery energy storage systems. Eddy walks us through the process of starting...
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Episode 39: Equity and the Energy Transition with Lauren Shum
How do we ensure the energy transition we have is equitable? Why is this a piece of the transition that is so frequently left out of the conversation? In this episode, join Lauren Shum as she talks about the many different ways equity needs to be addressed. Lauren --- who's recently published…
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SPARK Episode 10: Lisa Wang
Lisa Wang recently graduated from Harvard with a degree in Environmental Science & Engineering. During her undergrad, she started the Harvard Undergraduate Clean Energy group, conducted a lot of research on decarbonization and other related topics, and had numerous internships, such as with CTVC,...
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38. The Radical Middle with Scott Tinker
How do we balance clean energy with energy that is secure, available, and affordable? One idea is the "Radical Middle," a concept pioneered by Dr. Scott Tinker to encourage people to find the middle ground in addressing energy challenges of today and of the future. Dr. Tinker, better known by…
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SPARK Episode 9: Corey Donovan
Today we spoke with Corey Donovan, a recent graduate from Rice University now working as a Financial Analyst at Cemvita, a biotech startup creating nature-inspired solutions to empower the energy transition. Corey told us all about how he got to where he is now, from the process of picking his...
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37. Energy Investment Banking with Mark McDonald
What is Energy Investment Banking? In this episode with Mark McDonald, Director at Marathon Capital, we learn why investment banking is different from other forms of finance, and how necessary it is in the energy transition. Mark walks us through a deal, describes how the current socio-economic...
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SPARK Episode 8: Samir Chowdhury
Samir Chowdhury is a junior at Stanford University studying Management Science & Engineering. In 2020, he founded the Youth Climate Action Team, a global 501c4 climate justice advocacy nonprofit that focuses on community organizing and the power of young people. He initially dedicated himself to...
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36. Freeing Energy: The Shift to Local Energy with Bill Nussey
Imagine a world where microgrids rule and businesses and communities generate their own energy onsite–that's the world that our guest on this episode envisions for the future of energy. Joining us on the show is Bill Nussey: serial entrepreneur, fellow energy podcaster, author of Freeing Energy…
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SPARK Episode 7: Arina Khotimsky
Arina Khotimsky recently finished her undergraduate degree at MIT, where she studied Material Science & Engineering with a focus on climate and energy. She served as the Co-President of the MIT Energy and Climate Club, the organization which runs MIT's EnergyHack, Energy Conference, and many…
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35. Energy Transition vs. Emissions Transition with John Clark
For the last 70 years, Jones Power has been a leader primarily for midstream oil & gas projects, but now, they're diving headfirst into renewable development and emerging as a top company for renewable project construction. John Clark, CEO of Jones Power, joins us on the show to talk about the...
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SPARK Episode 6: Mudit Agrawal
Today we spoke to Mudit Agrawal. Aside from being Energy Terminal's Director of Programs, Mudit's experience in startups and clean energy is extensive. His energy journey began in climate advocacy, but then when he got to Duke he began getting involved in energy startups like Joules Accelerator,...
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34. Investing in a Changing Energy Industry with Wil Vanloh
"The energy transition is by far the largest mobilization of capital and the largest use of capital the world has ever seen." Wil Vanloh, Founder and CEO of Quantum Energy Partners joins us on the show to tell us not just why the energy transition is revolutionizing energy finance, but how to…
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SPARK Episode 5: Casey Goldstein
Casey Goldstein is a student at Duke University with experience in climate tech and venture capital. He first got involved in entrepreneurship as a high school student, and he shares how skills can be transferred from any experience into the professional world. He then went on to work with…
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33. Energy Poverty Roundtable with Choir and Ecliptic Capital
When you think of energy poverty, you probably think of rural areas far off the grid or halfway across the world. However, the often unseen reality is that there are people right here in the U.S., in our own communities, who struggle to keep the lights on in the face of surging energy prices. In...
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SPARK Episode 4: Promise Nwogu
What would you do if your power went out for 3 months? Or if you had to time your studying to when the electricity grid was most reliable? These real-life experiences inspired Promise Nwogu to found African Youths in Energy Network, an organization with the mission to put young people at the…
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32. Creating Cross-Functional Partnerships with Monika Simoes
Partnerships, and often unconventional ones, are at the heart of meaningful progress in the energy transition. And what better way to explore this topic than with Monika Simoes, Founder and CEO of Energy Dialogues, Energy Terminal's founding podcast sponsor and long-time partner. Monika's work at...
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A platform dedicated to building the next generation of energy leaders.Energy Terminal seeks to build connections between energy experts and the next generation of energy leaders through conversations focused on career paths and advice. Each episode, we’ll bring on an expert in the industry to talk about their career, where they think the industry is heading, and what advice they have for those just getting started.Energy Terminal is sponsored by Energy Dialogues.
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Michael Wood, Hope Pratt, and Chloe Young
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