Making Sense of Donald Trump

Energy Gang

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🗓️ 4 February 2017

⏱️ 73 minutes

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This week, we’re live from Columbia University’s Energy Symposium in New York City. The Gang was joined by former NRG CEO David Crane for a lively conversation about Trumpland. We start the conversation off with a look at the turbulent first weeks of the Trump Administration. We’ve had nominations, executive orders, blackouts, bans, proposed budget cuts, resignations, rogue twitter accounts and growing protests. We’re just 14 days into the Trump Administration – what can we expect for the next 100 days? Then, we turn the mic around on David Crane. In 2014, while CEO of NRG, he wrote a letter to shareholders saying the power provider needed to become the google, apple or amazon of the energy sector. It didn’t take long for shareholders to sour on that vision –- so what does this say about how hard it is to transition from brown to green? Finally, how to get a job. We go through many of the questions that people ask us when looking for a job in cleantech, and we’ll try to pass on some advice worth following. This podcast is sponsored by KACO New Energy, a leading solar inverter company with superior engineering and unmatched customer service: http://kaco-newenergy.com/ 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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0:46.8	From Green Tech Media, this is the Energy Gang,
0:49.4	a weekly digest on energy
0:55.0	and the environment. I'm Stephen Lacey and this week we are coming to you live morning, at least for the first part of the show, we're going to focus mostly on disruption.
1:15.2	We've been doing this podcast for three years now, and the past two months have brought the most
1:22.0	frenzied and manic news cycle that we've ever faced.
1:25.0	A lot of people are searching for answers in this very confusing time and so we're
1:29.3	going to do our best to give you as much context as possible about the deluge of news affecting the energy
1:34.6	and clean tech sectors.
1:36.7	Hearing our desperate cries for help and sanity, three experts have emerged from the chaos
1:41.8	and gathered on stage.
1:43.7	Catherine Hamilton, you know she is the partner with 38 North Solutions.
1:48.1	She comes to us from the swamp of Washington, D.C.
1:51.2	Have you drained the swamp yet? I grabbed my wallet and dressed like a woman and took the
1:56.1	452 train up. And the train was broken so you literally just ran on the door before we took
2:01.9	the stage.
2:03.0	All right, well Jigger Shaw is here on his home turf, as always in his bubble vest.
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