How One of the Most Successful Wind Tycoons Stayed Ahead of the Energy Markets

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🗓️ 3 June 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Two years after Michael Polsky moved from Soviet Ukraine to the U.S. in 1976, America passed a law allowing independent developers to own power plants. He knew he needed to get in on the action. Polsky eventually became one of the most successful energy developers of all time -- building multiple successful businesses around cogeneration, natural gas and wind. Polsky is now the president and CEO of Invenergy, a company with nearly 14,000 megawatts of wind, solar, natural gas and energy storage projects operating or under construction in the U.S., Canada and Europe. He joins us this week to talk about what he foresaw before most others -- and what he sees as the future of energy. In the second half of the show, we'll discuss Donald Trump's energy speech in North Dakota last week. And we'll end with a quick look at the latest global investment figures for renewable energy. 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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0:42.0	I'm Stephen Lacy, welcome.
0:44.0	In this episode, a step-by-step guide to becoming a clean energy billionaire.
0:53.5	Okay, not really, but we will talk to one of the most successful wind tycoons of all time
0:58.5	in Venergy CEO Michael Polsky about his bet on the technology before it was the popular thing to do.
1:05.0	Then we'll analyze Donald Trump's big energy speech in North Dakota from last week
1:09.0	and we will finish the look at the latest figures on global renewable energy investment as Asia Booms, Europe Falls.
1:16.6	With me are my regular co-hosts, Catherine's in Washington, D.C. Hello? Hi, how are you doing?
1:24.0	Good, how are you?
1:25.0	Great, just got back late last night from Stanford,
1:27.0	where it's gorgeous, and I see why people live out there.
1:30.0	Were you there for an event?
1:32.0	I was there for a conference. I'll talk to you guys about it more at the end of the show.
1:37.0	Okay, we'll wait for that.
1:39.0	And with us normally from New York in San Francisco, fresh off an airplane is Jigger Shaw. Hey Jigger, how are you?
1:45.5	Doing well. Cofied up. Excellent. That's what we need to get this show going.
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