From Shell to SolarWorld: The Technology Stages of Solar

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🗓️ 21 April 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Terry Jester started her solar career in 1979 as the VP of engineering at ARCO Solar, one of the early oil companies investing in photovoltaics. Over the years, the company was sold to Siemens, Shell and SolarWorld -- and Jester stayed through it all. Jester, who has also worked for SoloPower and SunPower, is now CEO of a solar-grade silicon manufacturer Silicor. We'll talk with her about the early days of solar, how the upstream business has changed, and discuss the future of solar production. In the second half of the show, we'll discuss a comprehensive bipartisan energy bill passed by the Senate this week. We'll end with the legacy of Rhone Resch, who is retiring as president of the solar industry’s national trade group after 12 years. Make sure to buy tickets for our upcoming live event on May 4: http://www.cleanecnyc.org/next-event/ 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 April 20th, 2016, this is the Energy Gang from Green Tech Media. Today a conversation with a female pioneer in the solar industry. We'll talk about the early days of solar, how to close the gender gap in science and technology
0:24.1	and discuss the future of solar manufacturing. After that we move on to a
0:28.1	wide-ranging national energy bill that rose back from the dead and was passed by
0:31.8	the Senate yesterday.
0:33.4	And we end with the legacy of Roan Wresh,
0:35.4	who's retiring as president of the Solar Industries National Trade Group
0:38.6	after 12 years.
0:40.5	I'm Stephen Lacey in Boston. Welcome to the show. Catherine Hamilton is with me in
0:44.6	Washington DC. Hello Catherine, how are you? I'm great and I got to bump into
0:49.0	Jigger yesterday in New York City. It was wonderful. Jigger? Was it as wonderful for you?
0:54.0	Oh, always.
0:56.0	Although, Catherine actually like, you know, was paid the respect of actually having a badge waiting for her at the conference and I had to sneak in in the end because they couldn't get their stuff together.
1:07.6	They didn't recognize the puffy vest? They did not recognize the puffy vest.
1:12.0	I didn't think either of you even needed badges.
1:15.6	Unacceptable. So a final reminder to listeners we're all going to bump into each other on the week of the fourth.
1:24.0	We've sold a bunch of tickets to our live show in New York City on May 4th of the WNYC performance space.
1:29.0	We've got a handful left. This is the last reminder you're going to get we are off next week the
1:35.2	next time you'll hear from us will be at that live show so go to clean enyc.org
1:41.6	slash next dash event I know that's a mouthful
1:45.0	that's a mouthful you can just follow the link from our website at green tech media
1:48.0	if you're on your phone right now listening you can see the link right there in the show notes.
1:52.5	Click it, secure your spot.
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