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Drew Price
President & Chief Development Officer and co-founder of Hexagon Energy, a Charlottesville, VA-based renewable energy developer (solar, storage, geothermal).
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Oct 29, 2026
980: From Policy to Power: What It Takes to Get Energy Built
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Nico JohnsonHOST
What do you feel is still very much within the control of the developer right now?
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33:10Drew PriceGUEST
I think, you know, how we engage, and it kind of picks up on things that Robin and Carlispa said, like how we engage with communities, how we engage with the public is still very much in our control, and it matters, right? Sure.
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33:22Drew PriceGUEST
what how we interact and the the rapport we build the trust we build like that amplifies and we've seen lessons when we don't do that about like how that takes time to overcome that i think that's still very much in our control and then how we approach these as developers like building portfolios that are resilient that are balanced that enable you to absorb the uncertainties is is to me a key part of being a developer these days.
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33:48Drew PriceGUEST
You probably never had the luxury, but you certainly don't have the luxury anymore of having one or two or three projects you really love and holding onto those things.

Nico JohnsonHOST
What do you feel solar solar developers right now consistently misunderstand about the local resistance to these projects? And can you enunciate the variables that you're working to overcome in those markets?
Hexagon – Entering Geothermal in a Big Way with Drew Price | Ep 251
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Joe BatirHOST
What are the challenges that you're anticipating associated with this new direction going into geothermal compared to what you were doing previously?
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9:40Drew PriceGUEST
Yeah, I'll start and you can take that in different directions if I'm not going where you want to go.
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9:46Drew PriceGUEST
But yeah, I think we are very comfortable and feel like we have a really strong track record of knowing how to work through the elements of power projects that are kind of common no matter the source.
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10:01Drew PriceGUEST
secure the land? Can you permit the project? Can you get it interconnected to the grid? Can you sell that power? Yeah, there's in the solar world, you have a pretty good understanding that the sun is going to shine a certain amount of the year and you have a pretty good understanding how much power that's going to make.
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Joe BatirHOST
Walking through any type of problem solving, you see something, you solve it, usually it causes or creates another discovered problem and then you just have to fix that one and I think that's