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The energy transition, explained by the people running companies.
Mike Nemer, CEO of eRenewable, talks with the people running companies in carbon removal, battery storage, nuclear construction and insect farming on food waste. His questions are practical, such as whether a company owns its insect farms, or whether storage batteries tend to fail before or after a five-year warranty.
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The Green Insider Powered by eRENEWABLE is an interview show made by a company, and it says so openly. Mike Nemer, CEO of eRenewable, is the host. Before the conversation, Ann, the company's COO, gives a brief pitch for its sustainability and ESG services, and the sign-off sends listeners to eRenewable.com. The introduction also states the show's purpose plainly: education. The substance comes from guests who run or build companies, and Nemer gives them room to explain. The range is wide. Carbon removal sits next to nuclear construction, hospital air quality next to insect farming, and battery diagnostics next to the legal fine print of wellhead access. With Pankaj Tanwar, Managing Director of Climate Services at Carbon Better, the talk turns to how carbon actually leaves the air: a chemical process pulls CO2 out so it can be stored or put to use, while a growing tree does similar work naturally. Nemer uses that moment to point back to earlier renewable natural gas episodes and to the anaerobic digesters that turn landfill waste into energy. Jake Jurowicz, co-founder and CEO of Blue Energy, argues for moving nuclear plant construction into shipyards and fabrication yards. His case rests on the factory floor: an experienced workforce, existing steel supply, cranes and automated welding, and partners willing to sign fixed-price or guaranteed-maximum-price contracts so sections can be built in parallel. Renee Jacobs, Healthcare Business Development Manager at Distech Controls, explains that healthcare building design is meant to protect occupants from infection, and that during the pandemic air quality went from a subject of discussion to the main focus. Jason Allait, founder of InsectFlux, describes grocers giving surplus food away just to get rid of it, and a model in which his tech company enables decentralized insect farms rather than running its own. The host's questions are the most useful part. He asks Allait outright whether InsectFlux owns the farms. With Leonard Henricks, Executive Vice President and General Manager Americas at Twice, he brings up the five-year battery warranty and asks whether problems tend to appear after it ends. The answer goes the other way: the first two years carry the most catastrophic failures, because that is when manufacturing and integration problems surface. One conversation was recorded at a conference in Houston, where returning guest Grant Gibson of Iron Root Development compares lease and wellhead access in Texas and Oklahoma with Ohio, where his work is focused. That episode is titled 'Inside the Race to Make Methane Credits Work'. The register is businesslike and conversational, full of trade vocabulary like KPIs, state of charge and EPC. For a first listen, 'Battery Analytics Are Transforming Energy Storage' shows the format at its best: a pointed question from the host and a specific, unexpected answer from the guest.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants the commercial and operational side of sustainability, such as carbon credits, battery warranties, nuclear construction contracts and building air systems, explained by the executives involved. It fits someone comfortable with a company-branded show and a good deal of industry vocabulary.
What sets it apart: The interviewer runs a sustainability company himself, so his questions lean toward what an operator or buyer would ask, like who owns the assets and when equipment actually fails. The trade-off is openly branded framing, with the company's own pitch before the conversation.
The Green Insider Powered by eRENEWABLE focuses on one of the most exciting and important aspects of the world economy and arguably the key to Earth’s future and survival – Sustainability. Each week, Mike Nemer talk with the leaders and disruptors pacing The Energy Transition and are changing the way the world gets its energy and resources.
A nuclear plant gets a mortgage analogy; your curiosity gets the shipyard tour.
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A practical look at the energy and air-quality demands shaping healthcare facilities.
The Green Insider frames a familiar healthcare facilities problem with useful clarity: protecting patients, occupants, and staff while air handling units account for around 30% of facility energy use.
A practical look at nuclear finance through factory yards, contract certainty, and construction discipline.
Project financing comes through as an engineering problem with a balance sheet attached. Mike Niemer and Jake Jurowicz, co-founder and CEO of Blue Energy, focus on how nuclear plants could become more financeable if more work moved into existing fabrication yards and shipyards,…
A measured look at InsectFlux's platform model for moving grocery surplus through insect farms and into uses such as fertilizer.
Food waste is treated here as raw material for a different kind of protein system, with InsectFlux presenting insect farming as part of a circular supply chain.
Battery analytics give operators clearer leverage when storage performance and warranty accountability get disputed.
Battery storage performance is often treated as a warranty problem, but The Green Insider usefully reframes it as a visibility problem. Mike Niemer talks with Leonard Henricks, Executive Vice President and General Manager Americas at Twice, about software that delivers corrected…
BloombergNEF analysts explain the numbers behind the energy transition.
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
An interview with Grant Gibson about legal aspects of renewable energy development at a carbon conference.
Mike Niemer of The Green Insider, powered by eRenewable, interviews Pankaj Tanwar, Managing Director of Climate Services at Carbon Better, after meeting him at the B-Carbon Methane Abatement Conference.
Mike Niemer hosts Renee Jacobs, Healthcare Business Development Manager at Distech Controls, and she traces her path from construction sites to a Greenfield Hospital project in Kansas City and then to 20 years in healthcare organizations.
Mike Niemer interviews Jake Jurowicz, co-founder and CEO of Blue Energy, about unlocking private financing for nuclear power and why he says the real obstacle is project finance, not reactor theory.
Jason Allait says InsectFlux is a Canadian startup building a global one-stop shop for the agri-food and insect-farming industries, and he is 26 years old with a politics-and-economics background.
Mike Niemer speaks with Leonard Henricks, Executive Vice President and General Manager Americas at Twice, about battery energy analytics and why operators need a second source of truth on storage assets.
Kemp Gregory, a former Shell petroleum engineer, says Renewal Energy turns idle wells into gravity-based energy storage by raising and lowering a 30,000-pound, 2,000-foot weight on a one-inch steel wire rope.
Erica Ocampo of The Metals Company (TMC) describes how a collector vehicle lifts polymetallic nodules from 4,000 meters deep in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone and sends them up a riser to a surface vessel.
This episode features an interview with Travis Nicholson, Director of Strategy for Riverwild, discussing the renewable energy and sustainability space.
An interview with the CEO of Rev L&G about renewable energy and sustainability.
Mike Niemer interviews Bronson Hill about his background and renewable energy investing.
Mike Niemer interviews Jason Stanley from Position Green at the Offshore Technology Conference about the changing environment with the new U.S.