{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Nelder Notes Podcast - Free","title":"NN#9: Organizing for Power","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":6371,"description":"In NN#9, we welcome Steve McBee, founder of AMPED, “the political and cultural infrastructure the clean energy industry never built.” We discuss how the clean energy industry needs to organize to do battle with the fossil fuel industry and win on every level—from popular opinion to federal policy. \n \nBio\n \nSteve McBee is a longtime energy strategist who previously served as CEO of NRG Home, which was a consumer product arm of NRG, a large utility serving the northeastern US. It included one of the largest retail energy providers in the US deregulated energy market and a portfolio of green growth distributed energy businesses serving solar, EV, and energy efficiency markets. Since then, he has been the founder and CEO of Huck Capital, a San Francisco-based investment platform financing and building sustainable energy businesses that accelerate the energy transition. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of McBee Strategic Consulting, an advisory platform based in Washington, DC.\n \nSources\n \nAMPED\n \nSteve McBee’s profile page at Huck Capital\n \nSteve McBee, “Paying Our Way,” Amped, September 10, 2026. \n \nSteve McBee, “Building Clean Energy’s Powerbase,” Amped, September 8, 2026. \n \nSteve McBee, “The Messaging Gap: Building the Machine to Win,” Amped, August 26, 2026. \n \nSteve McBee, “Stuck in the Queue: Why Cheap Power Can’t Get Onto the Grid,” Amped, August 13, 2026. \n \nSteve McBee, “Clean Energy’s Missing Powerbase,” Amped, August 7, 2026. \n \nSteve McBee, “The Messaging Gap: Why Clean Energy Is Losing the Narrative It Should Be Winning,” Amped, August 3, 2026. \n \nSteve McBee’s post about launching AMPED, LinkedIn, May 19, 2026. \n \nIngmar Rentzhog, “Why The 89% Climate Majority Keeps Losing,” Forbes, August 16, 2026. \n \nDebra Kahn, “New clean energy advocacy firm mounts ‘challenge to the groups in Washington’,” PoliticoPro, May 19, 2026.\n \nDebra Kahn, Jacob Wendler and Daniel Barnes, “A new player in clean energy advocacy,” Politico, May 19, 2026. \n \nJulian...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/FR66s2YmlqYi3l3WxqAq-Q-u-jPpDawrqERSb-jDhx4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85MTMw/Y2Q3YTJjNTZiOTYx/YWQyYzZlZjNkZjRk/MzdlNS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}