7th Cleantech Editors & Reporters Roundtable: Our Big Three Points

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If you listened to our 7^th quarterly Cleantech Editors and Reporters Roundtable, you got what I think is one of the best overviews of cleantech available anywhere.

In part that’s because this was the best Roundtable we’d had to date. But it’s also because these convenings assemble journalists at the top of their game who track hundreds of companies in multiple sectors.

When their views come together, you get a confident picture of our professional landscape. You get a mosaic.

#cleantechers, if staying on top of sector developments is important to you professionally, it’s hard for me to identify a better view than what these Roundtables provide. (Yes, I’m partial.)

Thanks to our returning regulars:

• Darius Sniekus of Recharge
• Heather Clancy of GreenBiz
• Zach Shahan of CleanTechnica
• Tim Sylvia of pv magazine
• Iulia Gheorghiu of Utility Dive

And to our new panelists:

• Jeff St. John of Canary Media
• John Engel of Clarion Events (Renewable Energy World)
• Dan Gearino of InsideClimate News

There was a lot to cover – continued advancements in clean energy scaling, tariffs, ruthless dictators, global supply chain disruptions, and more progress in the Wild West of storage and transmission. This was a tough Roundtable to boil down to our standard, “B3Ps,” or Big 3 Points.

Here’s our take:

1. What’s standing in the way of major wind and solar deployment? As we’ve seen recently, it’s supply chain shortages and grid fragility that loom large on clean energy’s horizon.