Leaders in Cleantech

Leaders in Cleantech is a clean energy business show with a founder-to-founder feel. David Hunt leads conversations with people building companies across storage, renewable heat, energy efficiency, AI optimization, and power-market flexibility. The show favors specifics. It spends time on how products reach customers, how teams sharpen focus, and how markets change beneath a startup’s feet. A Mixergy conversation revisits the company years after an earlier appearance and follows its shift toward specification-led opportunities in new build, social housing, commercial projects, and licensing beyond the UK. That episode is less about a single product than about finding a scalable route through regulation, channels, and hard-won experience. The terralayr discussion moves into energy storage infrastructure. It looks at Germany, the UK, Eastern Europe, and Southern Europe through deployment speed, investor confidence, asset transactions, and the early shape of battery markets. The enspired episode brings flexibility trading into sharper view. AI and machine learning are treated as working tools rather than decoration, with attention to market design, transparency, utilities, infrastructure funds, talent, and the difficulty of explaining what sits under an AI label. The vilisto conversation brings the lens back to buildings. Renewable heat, commercial heating efficiency, energy systems education, Silicon Valley exposure, hackathons, and company formation all become part of the story. Across the recent episodes, the show keeps returning to the same core tension: cleantech needs rapid deployment, but companies still have to survive messy markets, complex regulation, funding cycles, and organizational growth. It is not a hype show. The register is measured, curious, and commercially literate. Guests are given room to explain tradeoffs in detail. The result is useful for people who care about the energy transition as a set of companies, assets, policies, and decisions rather than as a broad ideal.