VX News is the editorial voice of the annual VerdeXchange Conference, featuring in-depth interviews with industry leaders and policymakers driving innovation in clean energy, water, transportation, and climate policy.
Water’s Global Challenge: Booky Oren on De-Risking Innovation to Scale Implementation
Water doesn’t fail for lack of technology—it fails for lack of implementation. In this VX News interview, Booky Oren, former executive chair of Israel’s national water utility and CEO and founder of Booky Oren Global Water Technologies, explains why scaling proven water solutions remains so difficult, what utilities actually need to manage risk, and how global knowledge-sharing can accelerate resilience.
VX Excerpt: Jigar Shah on the Climate Tech Recalibration — Risk, Resilience & Bargain Hunting
As clean energy investment slows and startup valuations fall, seasoned investors are repositioning — not retreating. VX News excerpts the latest episode of Open Circuit by Latitude Media, focusing on the contributions of climate finance veteran Jigar Shah, as he describes how a market once bloated by hype is now ripe with more disciplined opportunity.
EPRI Current Excerpt—Battery Energy Storage Systems: Lessons in Safety, Risk, and Deployment
With the causes and impacts of the Eaton & Palisades Wildfires in Los Angeles and Moss Landing fire bringing into sharp focus both the resilience opportunities that Distributed Energy Resources affords as well as safety concerns surrounding battery deployment in communities, VX News shares this excerpt from a recent episode of the EPRI Current podcast elaborating on the evolving safety protocols, research and resources—including EPRI’s Battery Electric Storage System Failure Incident Database and Analysis on Failure Root Cause—informing operational best practices for deployment of battery and energy storage technologies.
