Dissecting Google's Clean Energy Investment Strategy

The Energy Gang

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🗓️ 20 January 2014

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Google has invested billions of dollars in clean energy projects and startups. Is the internet giant positioning itself to be the next energy giant? In this week's show, we'll look at Google's cleantech investment strategy and ask what the end game may be. Then, we'll examine the recent rise U.S. CO2 emissions, and ask if the global coal industry has reached its peak. The Energy Gang is produced by Greentechmedia.com. The show features weekly discussion between energy futurist Jigar Shah, energy policy expert Katherine Hamilton and Greentech Editor Stephen Lacey. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	For the week of January 20th, 2014, this is the Energy Gang Podcast from Green Tech Media. media.
0:19.0	Welcome, great to have you with us this week. I'm Stephen Lacy, a senior editor with Green Tech Media
0:22.0	in our nation's capital of Washington, D.C.
0:25.0	And it is the highlight of my week when I get together with my two favorite energy pundits,
0:30.0	and we become an entity greater than the sum of its parts, the Energy Gang.
0:34.3	Also here in Washington is Catherine Hamilton, the founder of the Clean Energy Public Policy
0:39.0	Consulting Firm 38 North Solutions.
0:41.7	Catherine, anything interesting happened in the last week?
0:44.0	Yeah, but we're going to talk about it on the podcast, so everybody sit tight.
0:48.0	So everything interesting for you is energy then.
0:51.0	You got that right. That's kind of my life I'm afraid. And in New York it is Jiggers Shaw, an energy
0:58.1	futurist and author of the book Creating Climate Wealth. In rushing from a morning meeting meeting he got 30 seconds to sit down and here he is. Hey Jigger. Hey how are you doing?
1:08.0	Excellent. And you know we were sending some emails around today about this live show that we're doing at the Department of Transportation at the beginning of February and you sent like I don't know five or six headshots. I didn't realize how many bio-picks you have.
1:23.4	Well, you know, that's what comes when you're standing in the wake of Richard Branson.
1:29.1	I want to post him to the website and have our audience vote on which one they like best so then maybe you can choose one.
1:38.0	That would be very useful for me.
1:40.0	All right, well we've got another great roundup of topics this week.
1:45.0	First, we're going to talk about Google.
1:47.0	Google has made a splash in clean tech investment,
1:50.0	including the recent 3.2 billion dollar acquisition of Nest.
1:55.0	Nest is a company that has made thermostats and smoke detectors sexy,
1:59.0	or at least tried to,
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