Year in Review: A Look at the Biggest Clean Energy Stories of 2013

The Energy Gang

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🗓️ 20 December 2013

⏱️ 42 minutes

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We may not have been able to predict Time Magazine's person of the year, or Google's most searched term of 2013. But the Energy Gang was on top of the big happenings in cleantech this year. In our year-end podcast, we'll outline our favorite stories of 2013 and make predictions for the coming year. 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 December 20th, 2013, this is the Energy Gang Podcast from Green Tech Media. media.
0:15.0	Hello and welcome Stephen Lacey here, senior editor with Green Tech Media in Washington, D.C. as usual. With me also from this Fair Capital City is my co-host
0:26.7	Catherine Hamilton. She's a partner at the Clean Energy Public Policy Consulting Firm 38 North
0:31.5	Solutions. Catherine, how are you today?
0:34.0	Just great, just winding down all my shopping for those solar chargers that,
0:39.0	and earrings that Jigger suggested for my 85,000 relatives.
0:44.0	Speaking of your relatives, we were talking before the show and you got a nice surprise.
0:48.0	Your son was studying in Vienna this last semester and he told you he was interested in a career in renewable
0:54.2	energy finance. Yeah I was I was stunned it didn't take him going to another
0:59.0	hemisphere to figure it out. You didn't push him? I didn't at all, no, but I'm really happy that he wants to do that.
1:05.0	Well I guess it runs in the family then. And in New York, it's our other co-host, Jigger Shaw. He's a clean tech investor and author of the book
1:13.2	Creating Climate Wealth. So Jigger you are a renewable energy investor. What else do you
1:18.1	want to be when you grow up? Well I want to learn how to make cocktails.
1:21.4	I'm like you know I'm obsessed with being in I want to learn how to make cocktails.
1:22.6	I'm like, you know, I'm obsessed with being a McDonald's
1:25.8	now.
1:26.1	I've been drinking cocktails in New York City
1:28.2	and it's actually fascinating how they mix
1:30.8	different types of drinks and different types of things that you don't
1:33.6	think would ever go together. Like for instance this I just had this pepper infused
1:38.8	vodka and it's extraordinary. The mixology scene is blowing up.
1:44.0	I had a bacon and egg martini recently too, which was unbelievably good.
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