In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth welcomes Emily Easley, Founder and CEO of NOVUS Energy Advisors, for a powerful look at how oil, gas, renewables, real estate, and AI are colliding to define the next era of energy. Emily’s career bridges both sides of the energy spectrum. A sixth-generation Texan who built her career in Washington, DC, she has spent more than 20 years translating the language of policy, power, and investment for companies across t...
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In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth welcomes Emily Easley, Founder and CEO of NOVUS Energy Advisors, for a powerful look at how oil, gas, renewables, real estate, and AI are colliding to define the next era of energy. Emily’s career bridges both sides of the energy spectrum. A sixth-generation Texan who built her career in Washington, DC, she has spent more than 20 years translating the language of policy, power, and investment for companies across t...
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth welcomes Emily Easley, Founder and CEO of NOVUS Energy Advisors, for a powerful look at how oil, gas, renewables, real estate, and AI are colliding to define the next era of energy. Emily’s career bridges both sides of the energy spectrum. A sixth-generation Texan who built her career in Washington, DC, she has spent more than 20 years translating the language of policy, power, and investment for companies across t...
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, Wes Ashworth sits down with Justin Rangooni, President and CEO of Energy Storage Canada. With a background in law, policy, and government relations, Justin has become a leading voice in one of the most dynamic and consequential sectors of the clean energy transition: energy storage. From the early days of pilot projects to today’s grid-scale deployments, energy storage has gone from peripheral to pivotal. Justin offers a rare inside...
What does responsible growth really look like in one of the world’s most competitive industries? In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down with Andrew Moles, Vice President and General Manager of PCL Solar, the powerhouse EPC that’s helped deliver over 12 gigawatts of solar capacity across North America and Australia. Andrew shares a refreshingly candid look at how PCL Solar has managed to scale across three continents without sacrificing the one...
Why is hydrogen still missing from most clean energy conversations and what will finally unleash its full potential? In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, we sit down with Brian DeBruine, founder of the Colorado Hydrogen Network and host of the Hydrogen NowCast podcast. After a 36-year career at Honeywell Aerospace, Brian stepped out of retirement to help solve one of the energy transition’s most overlooked bottlenecks: the absence of a hydrogen market. From building ou...
The energy transition is colliding with unprecedented demand from AI data centers, fleet electrification, and fast-moving policy shifts. But are developers and operators truly prepared to make projects both technically sound and financially viable? In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, Wes Ashworth sits down with Jae Choi, VP and Head of Global Operations at ArkN, a subsidiary of SK Group. With nearly 20 years of experience spanning energy storage, fleet charging, and m...
Industrial heat is one of the biggest blind spots in the energy transition, yet it represents nearly 40% of all industrial emissions. From oil sands and refineries to food processing, pulp and paper, and chemicals, the challenge of decarbonizing heat is enormous. But where most see complexity, Jan Poetsch, Founder and CEO of Arder Energy, sees opportunity. With nearly two decades of international experience in LNG and senior leadership roles at Shell and PetroChina Canada, Jan brings a deep c...
Batteries are the hidden bottleneck in electrification and AI. While chips get the headlines, the energy powering our devices, vehicles, and infrastructure is what ultimately sets the pace of innovation. In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down with Jorge Diaz Schneider, CEO of ION Storage Systems, and Todd Crescenzo, Managing Partner & CIO at Clear Creek Investments, to explore how ION is breaking through decades of stalled promises in batt...
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, Wes Ashworth sits down with Meghan Milo, Director of Energy Solutions, Curriculum and Instruction at Madison Energy Infrastructure, to explore how solar energy is transforming far more than just rooftops. From budget relief to career readiness, schools across the country are discovering that solar can power a whole new vision of what's possible in education. Drawing from her unique background, Meghan shares how Madison’s work with s...
The renewable energy industry has never been a smooth ride. Policy swings, financing hurdles, shifting market sentiment, what many call the “solar coaster.” Few leaders know this rollercoaster better than Brad Stutzman, CEO of O3 Energy, a Dallas-based company pioneering commercial and industrial solar solutions. Since founding O3 Energy in 2011, Brad has helped the company evolve from financing projects in a shaky middle market to launching innovations like the Solar Split model and O3 Asset...
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, Wes Ashworth sits down with Scott Therien, Director of Strategic Partnerships at REC Solar, to explore what long-term success really looks like in commercial solar. Scott isn’t just a veteran of the solar coaster. He’s a grounded, clear-thinking voice who has helped REC Solar evolve from a contractor into a national independent power producer. Over the past 15 years, he’s seen policies change, markets swing, and companies rise and f...
Home energy storage is often misunderstood, expensive, and out of reach for most, until now. In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, Wes Ashworth sits down with Vinnie Campo, Co-Founder and CEO of Haven Energy, to explore how his team is flipping the traditional model of battery ownership on its head. Drawing from his experience scaling tech and energy companies like Uber and Bulb, Vinnie is building a platform that makes resilient, decentralized power available to the ma...
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down with Owen Barrett, clean tech entrepreneur, investor, and Founder & President of Shine to talk about the overlooked frontier in renewable energy: multifamily housing. With over a decade of hands-on experience deploying solar PV, energy storage, LED lighting, and HVAC optimization, Owen has scaled multiple ventures from idea to eight-figure revenue. He’s seen the clean energy industry from the inside, ...
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down with Jim Boyle, CEO and founder of Sustainability Roundtable Inc. (SR Inc.), a Boston-based firm that has helped nearly 100 Fortune 500 companies advance toward sustainable high performance. Boyle brings a rare trifecta of experience: high-level public service under Senator John Kerry and Vice President Al Gore, real estate advisory at Trammell Crow, and two decades leading corporate sustainability at SR ...
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down with Nasreddine Guerfala, Executive Vice President of Growth & DERs at Edgecom Energy and one of Canada’s 2025 Clean50 Emerging Leaders. With a career that spans continents and disciplines from engineering and legal strategy to policy influence and AI-driven energy management, Nasreddine brings a uniquely global and cross-functional lens to the clean energy transition. From growing up in Tunisia, wher...
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down with Shanelle Montana, Chief Development Officer at Arevon. As one of the country's largest utility-scale renewable energy developers and operators, Arevon has nearly 200 solar, storage, and hybrid projects across the U.S. Shanelle brings two decades of experience spanning Capitol Hill, ethanol, wind, solar, and storage. She now leads a 9+ gigawatt and growing development pipeline and one of the most acti...
In Episode 61 of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down with Daniel Mello Guimaraes, SVP North America at Above, a pioneer in solar asset intelligence transforming how solar assets are built, monitored, and sustained. Daniel shares his remarkable journey from high-stakes finance in London to leading Boston Solar and now spearheading Above’s expansion into North America. He explores why the solar industry remains “drowning in data but starving for insights,” and ...
How do we electrify 60 million American homes without armies of contractors driving hours for in-home visits? This week on Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down with Grant Gunnison, founder and CEO of Zero Homes, a climate tech startup reshaping how homeowners upgrade their homes for a cleaner future. Grant’s career spans designing satellite laser communication systems for NASA and MIT, running his family’s contracting business, and now leading Zero Homes. That...
The electric grid we rely on was designed for a world that no longer exists. Aging infrastructure, surging demand from AI and electrification, and multi-year wait times for grid interconnection have collided to form a perfect storm. In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, Wes Ashworth sits down with James Richmond, CEO of e2 Companies, to explore why the grid is breaking and how his company is leading the charge toward Grid 3.0. With over 30 years in power systems and eng...
What if the biggest threat to the clean energy transition isn’t technology, but lack of coordination? In this powerful episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down with Mats Larsson, founder of the Global Energy Transformation Institute, to explore why electrifying global transportation requires the kind of top-down coordination we saw in the Apollo program, not just market-driven innovation. For over two decades, Larsson has been warning that electrificati...
What if the biggest bottleneck in clean energy wasn’t technology or financing, but how we develop and deliver projects? In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth sits down with Daniel Dus, Founder & CEO of Cleantech Industry Resources (CIR) and a two-decade veteran of the solar sector, whose leadership spans over $1 billion in renewable energy projects across 23 states. Daniel is also the co-founder of Solar Fight Night, the solar industry’s most iconi...
In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth welcomes Emily Easley, Founder and CEO of NOVUS Energy Advisors, for a powerful look at how oil, gas, renewables, real estate, and AI are colliding to define the next era of energy. Emily’s career bridges both sides of the energy spectrum. A sixth-generation Texan who built her career in Washington, DC, she has spent more than 20 years translating the language of policy, power, and investment for companies across t...
