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There’s no shortage of talk about the hardware and AI-driven transformations that will define the grid of the future. However, the true driver of success is about a strategic mindset that’s focused on change management, which is inherently more about people and process than it is technology and tools. Andy Quick lived and enabled this reality during a nearly 30-year career at Entergy, a journey that culminated in him serving as the utility's first-ever Chief AI Officer. Today, he’s taken that experience to the grid edge as Senior Industry Advisor for Noteworthy AI, where he helps utilities define and redefine their transformation roadmaps.

We caught up with Quick to talk through how he helps utilities navigate the "how" and "when" of tech integration, what it means to move past the hype to make difficult choices about which tools will truly modernize legacy processes, the importance of an organization's willingness to transform its human-centric workflows, and much more.

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This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey.

This week's episode features special guest Jeff St John from Canary Media, who reported on a 21 gigawatt solar and battery storage project in California, which is potentially the largest project of its kind in the world.

This week's "Cleantechers of the Week" are Tim Sahay and Kate Mackenzie, hosts of the brand new podcast, The Polycrisis. This podcast will cover geopolitics, climate change, finance and industry.

This Week in Cleantech — April 03, 2026

1. What Americans Really Pay For Electricity — Heatmap News
2. Top energy developer warns on overbuilding power supplies for AI — The Financial Times
3. US AI Data Center Expansion Relies on Chinese Electrical Equipment Imports — Bloomberg
4. A Winter Without Snow Depletes Europe’s Clean Energy Reservoir — Bloomberg
5. ‘We’re harvesting the sun’: A huge solar project grows in California — Canary Media

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This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey.

This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is Robert Piconi, CEO of Energy Vault. This week, the company officially acquired the 175 MW McMurtre battery storage project in ERCOT North, taking its global portfolio of owned, operating, and under-construction assets to 715 MW. Congratulations, Robert!

This Week in Cleantech — March 27, 2026

1. Could a global economy dependent on renewable energy see less war? Experts explain — ABC News
2. Asia Turns Back to Coal as War Chokes Off Natural Gas — The New York Times
3. JPMorgan Warns Aging US Power Grids Pose National Security Risk — Bloomberg
4. How to get Big Tech to pay your energy bills — The Washington Post
5. Britain responds to Iran war energy shock by requiring solar panels and heat pumps in all new homes — CNBC

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