Tribal Warfare and Energy Liberty: A Republican Take on the Energy Transition

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🗓️ 26 February 2015

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Former Congressman Bob Inglis has a tough job. As one of the only prominent Republicans talking about climate change, he’s been trying to give the rest of his party the courage to offer conservative solutions to the challenge. Three years after founding the Energy and Enterprise Initiative, there’s still a deep freeze in Congress on climate issues. But Inglis is gathering more allies in his fight for a carbon tax, and believes that the 2016 elections will force national candidates to recognize the challenge. In this week’s podcast, we’ll talk to Inglis about changing dynamics in the Republican party. We’ll also discuss how tribal politics and local fights over “energy liberty” are impacting momentum. Later in the show, we’ll assess earnings from a few leading solar companies, and talk about the proposed YieldCo from First Solar and SunPower. Finally, examine about how race is becoming a factor in the rhetorical skirmishes over rooftop solar. This podcast is sponsored by Kaco New Energy, a leading manufacturer of solar PV inverters for every size and module type. The Energy Gang is produced by Greentechmedia.com. The show features weekly discussions between energy futurist Jigar Shah, energy policy expert Katherine Hamilton and Greentech Media 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	This Podcast is brought to you by Kako New Energy, one of the top manufacturers of solar inverters in the world with operations in 16 countries.
0:09.0	Kako has been making solar inverters since 1999 and offers products for every size installation.
0:16.0	To find out more, visit Kakonewenergy.com.
0:20.2	For the week of February 26th, 2015, this is the Energy Gang from Washington, D.C. I'm Stephen Lacey, a senior editor with Green Tech Media.
0:41.0	Welcome to the show.
0:42.5	In our program this week, what should a Republican climate and clean energy plan look
0:46.8	like?
0:47.8	Former South Carolina congressman and free market climate champion Bob Inglis joins us to lay it out. Then it is
0:54.1	earning season and we'll peek at the performance of a few leading solar
0:57.4	companies. Lastly we'll talk about how race is becoming a factor in the
1:01.2	rhetorical skirmishes over distributed energy and we'll also talk
1:04.7	about some trends in solar jobs while we're at it. Jigger Shaw and Catherine Hamilton are here with me every step
1:09.2	of the way. Jigger's a clean tech investor based in New York City.
1:12.8	How are you this week?
1:14.0	I'm great.
1:15.0	I, uh, it was a very energizing week.
1:18.0	In what way?
1:19.0	I was in Minnesota and it is just amazing to see that they already have 400 megawatts of
1:26.1	community solar garden applications and Excel is just beside themselves because
1:31.8	they know that this has so much public support
1:34.8	but they don't want to do that much solar. Well to be fair Excel has come out
1:39.6	publicly supportive of a lot of solar. No, no, I'm not saying that.
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