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Quantum Quote: \u201cYou miss 100% of the shots you don't take.\u201d - Dave Belote

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Clean energy isn\u2019t just good for our environment; it\u2019s good for our economy - and it\u2019s essential to our national security.

Climate change and dependence on fossil fuels are creating additional instability around the world - and threatening US military bases everywhere.

If you want to know how supporting renewable energy also secures national defense, this episode is for you.

Dave Belote is a retired Air Force colonel and, since 2017, the managing partner of DARE Strategies LLC, an energy and defense consulting firm that advises renewable energy developers on Federal and state-level siting policy and legislative strategy.\xa0

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He has served as an installation commander, Pentagon senior executive, and energy developer, and was the founding executive director of the Department of Defense Siting Clearinghouse.\xa0\xa0

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Dave has earned two Bronze Stars, two Legion of Merit awards, and White House recognition as a Champion of Change:\xa0 Veteran Advancing Clean Energy and Climate Security.\xa0 He is also a five-time Jeopardy! champion.

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In this episode, Dave shares his efforts to deliver clean, renewable power to federal customers and promote renewable energy solutions on military bases, public lands, and the outer continental shelf. Through DARE Strategies LLC, he continues to work at the intersection of his twin passions: Defense and Renewable Energy.\xa0

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SuperNova #1. \u201cMy unique little niche is help utility scale wind and solar developers deal with the Pentagon and figure out how close you can put wind turbines to a radar, how many wind turbines you can put close to a military training area for flight training, how close you can put solar panels to a runway or a control tower.\u201d

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SuperNova #2. \u201cI had no thought during my 25 years in uniform that I'm going to get into renewable energy. But once I was there, I was thrilled at trying to leave the place a little better than I found it, trying to help the planet get towards a clean energy future.\u201d

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SuperNova #3. \u201cI am incredibly proud that as a consultant, I had a lot of involvement with what is I think, still the Army's largest and perhaps the Department of Defense's only hybrid project: 15 megawatts of solar on-base at Fort Hood, and 50 megawatts of off-base wind in Floyd County, about 50 miles away.\u201d

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SuperNova #4. \u201cThe biggest thing that's happening right now is wind turbines are getting taller - and both wind and solar prices are coming down - because the technology is getting better.\u201d

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Worst Clean Energy Moment: The day when a political appointee and a three star Admiral overturned years of work for an offshore wind project for California.

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Ah-Ha:\xa0 \u201cThe biggest challenge, especially in my niche of trying to make sure that the military and the renewable energy industry coexist peacefully, is to explain and translate to people on both sides the languages and experiences that they don't really get.\u201d

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Best Advice he\u2019s ever received: \u201cLove your people. If you want to accomplish anything, invest yourself wholly in the team that you are part of, or have a chance to lead. And then get out of the way and watch good things happen.\u201d

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Personal Success: \u201cCuriosity. And trying to always ask the underlying question and recognizing the mental biases that make us leap to lots of conclusions.\u201d

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Internet Resources:\xa0 DOD Siting Clearinghouse

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Book Recommendation: Once An Eagle by Anton Myrer

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Magic Wand: Batteries or storage.

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One thing that Energizes today:\xa0 An incoming administration that is going to prioritize climate and renewable energy sources.

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WTF or F:\xa0 Fudge: Getting caught in a squall while sailing in Florida.

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Parting Advice: Don\u2019t get into ridiculous arguments, follow the market and let the investment flow to where it\u2019s obviously going.

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Connect:\xa0

• Email: dave@darestrategies.com
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-belote-23ba257/\xa0

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