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What was it like to found an onshore wind development firm & develop a pipeline of 8 GW in a few short years? I spoke with Kenneth Labeja, CFO & Co-Founder at Triple Oak Power, about this, Triple Oak’s recent acquisition by private equity fund ECP (Energy Capital Partners) & onshore wind development challenges. Labeja also shared tips for building a diverse & inclusive workforce, as well as about his support of the Energy Scholars Mentorship Program (https://t.ly/Z4T7W), a joint initiative between LevelTen Energy, GridStor, Energy GPS LLC, Microsoft, University of Washington Clean Energy Institute & Vestas. Energy Scholars is helping to address the energy sector’s opportunity gap by providing college students from underrepresented backgrounds with an immersive, fully-paid educational experience in the clean energy & cleantech space. Thank you again to American Clean Power Association (ACP) for hosting this episode recording at the Cleanpower PowerCasts stage! Listen to the full Green Light podcast episode: • Apple Podcasts: https://t.ly/HKZv2 • Spotify: https://t.ly/aZCB0 • YouTube: https://t.ly/a-e8d If you’re a cleantech employer & need help scaling your workforce efficiently with top tier candidates, send me or Aimee Bigwood a message directly. If you’re looking for your next role in cleantech, take a look at the latest job openings at industry-leading companies: bit.ly/dg_jobs. #cleantech #cleanenergy #renewables #renewableenergy #windpower #windenergy #solarpower #energystorage #jobs #hiring #greentech #greenenergy #sustainability

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What are the top challenges that you're facing in onshore wind projects and how are you overcoming them? So the biggest challenge we face as a industry, I think as as I'm sure has been mentioned at nauseam at this conference is, is the lack of transmission. Our strategy as an onshore wind developer is the site, our projects near retiring coal farms. So a number of our projects are in proximity to return code forms. Specifically we have an Arizona project that is close to returning cold farm. A second issue we face as a developer, which is kind of a good issue is we face. There's a land grab going on in the industry. So we're, we, we, we now as a, as an onshore wind developer have other developers competing for the same land that we're trying to get. So we, we go up against competition. The earth third, a third thing we compete for is employees. And as we all know, like the employees are the engine that that builds the project, that develops the projects and gets them from an idea to being something that's constructible. And we try and we overcome that. But with our with our culture, which is really built around again, transparency, meaning we're very transparent on decision making with our employees. And then again on diversity of thinking, diversity of, of people on the team and then on blending experienced people with with junior folks who. Want to be in the industry?

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Dylan Green

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Thank you for sharing your insights, Labeja! We are excited to see what's next for Triple Oak Power.

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Aimee Bigwood

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Kudos on the success of the mentorship program & your work with Triple Oak Power, Labeja!

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