Scaling Clean is the podcast for renewable energy leaders, investors, and advisors. Think of this as a cross between NPR's "How I Built This" and The New York Times' "Corner Office." Host Melissa Baldwin interviews CEOs, founders, and executives across solar, wind, storage, EVs, and more. Guests share founder journeys and insights on fundraising, M&A, retention, marketing, and hard-earned lessons on building resilient, profitable companies in the clean economy. Produced by Clare Quirin and powered by Tigercomm, the leading U.S. cleantech communications firm.
Scaling Clean
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Scaling Clean is the podcast for renewable energy leaders, investors, and advisors. Think of this as a cross between NPR's "How I Built This" and The New York Times' "Corner Office." Host Melissa Baldwin interviews CEOs, founders, and executives across solar, wind, storage, EVs, and more. Guests share founder journeys and insights on fundraising, M&A, retention, marketing, and hard-earned lessons on building resilient, profitable companies in the clean economy. Produced by Clare Quirin and powered by Tigercomm, the leading U.S. cleantech communications firm.
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Recent Episodes
July 8, 2026
Episode 60: Yann Brandt on Why Solar Needs Bigger Ideas, Better Advocacy, and More People Willing to Take Risks
Host [Host Name] interviews solar industry veteran Yann Brandt on fostering innovation, advocating for policy, and embracing risk to accelerate clean energy growth.
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Episode 59: Marco Krapels of Enphase on EVs, VPPs, and Unlocking America's Hidden Energy Capacity
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May 11, 2026
Episode 58: Daniel Dus, CEO of Cleantech Industry Resources, on Reinventing Clean Energy Project Delivery
<p>Most clean energy companies fit into a category: developer, EPC, IPP.</p><p>My latest Scaling Clean guest, Daniel Dus, has spent his career working across all of them.</p><p>Daniel is the CEO of Cleantech Industry Resources and co-founder of one of our industry’s famous social gatherings: Solar Fight Night.</p><p>CIR is an on-demand operating system for clean energy project delivery, providing service to developers wherever they need it: everything from diligence to asset management.</p><p>We talk about why Daniel believes the future of the industry depends as much on community and storytelling as it does on technology.</p><p>Here are three takeaways from our conversation:</p><p>🔹 The traditional development model is under pressure. Daniel argues that many developers built for a different market environment. Today, variable project pipelines, tighter margins and permitting delays are forcing companies to rethink how they staff and execute projects.</p><p>🔹 AI is becoming an accelerant, not a replacement. CIR uses AI and software tools to advance nearly every workflow. But Daniel emphasized keeping the “human in the loop” still matters, especially when billions of dollars and critical infrastructure are involved.</p><p>🔹 Clean energy needs better storytelling. One of the strongest themes in our conversation was communication. Daniel believes the industry is losing ground to misinformation, despite having a fundamentally better story to tell around affordability, reliability, and energy independence. His latest initiative, cleantechfactcheck.org, is designed to help the industry respond faster and more effectively with a robust database of myth busters, videos, job boards and more. </p><p>We also talked about:</p><p>⚡ Why procurement inefficiency is costing the industry millions</p><p>⚡ What developers get wrong about operational scaling</p><p>⚡ Why community and relationships still matter in an AI-driven industry</p><p>⚡ How Solar Fight Night became one of clean energy’s biggest networking events</p>
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