The Past, Present, and Future of Renewable Energy — Interview with LandGate CEO Yoann Hispa

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Last Updated on: 2nd February 2025, 11:36 am

Renewable energy has clearly turned a corner and hit the inflection points that so many pundits have forecast for so long. Since the invention of the solar panel more than 70 years ago through 2022, the world added 1 terrawatt of solar energy production capacity. From 2022 through the end of 2024, a mere 2 years later, we added another 1.1 terrawatts. The exponential nature of growth in the industry is redefining the world and its power systems.

We’ve seen a couple of shifts that will continue to define the world as we know it going forward. One of these is AI. The infrastructure needed to support an AI world is massive. AI uses a lot of energy. The offtake capacity, the fiber optic connections, and the permitting for data centers will become an industry of its own. The second is the global shift toward a decentralized work environment — COVID accelerated a trend that was already taking place of workers going remote. And the third, of course, is the renewable energy revolution.

So, how do these monumental shifts in the global marketplace intertwine to create a future?

In this episode of CleanTech Talk, I sat with LandGate CEO Yoann Hispa to discuss these powerful forces and get his perspective on how it’ll all play out. LandGate is a cleantech company reinventing the process of renewable energy development. Hispa points out that the energy ecosystem of the past meant literally going around knocking on hundreds of doors to ask permission to explore, build, drill, mine, etc. on parcels of land near connection points to the grid. LandGate is redefining this process through data analytics, making the process much smoother from inception to completion of a renewable energy project, with a win-win approach that incentivizes landowners and renewable energy developers to get things done.

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