Sep 18, 2026 · 48 min · 12 segments
In this episode, Gil Jenkins and Guy Van Syckle speak with John Hensley, Senior Vice President – Markets and Policy Analysis for the American Clean Power Association (ACP). We dig into how clean…
John HensleyGuest
Gil JenkinsHostGuy Van SyckleHost
I sort of hate to admit how long I've been in the industry at this point, but we just came back from Clean Power, which is a big flagship conference.
So I've been in this space for quite a while, but essentially I lead all of our analytical work for the Trade Association, American Clean Power Association, and by default for the industry, right? So we do everything from trying to understand what's happening in the policy and regulatory environment and converting that to what does it mean for the industry? How is it going to impact deployment? How is it going to industry is affecting the economy.
And of course, then we use all that information and good data to tell the story about the impact that the clean energy industry is having or how, you know, in the case of what we think are bad policy and regulations, how those are going to impact all those great benefits that we as an industry are bringing.
But we're also kind of the curator of the information about the industry, right? We build the statistics that help to tell the story of what the industry is bringing to the economy, to the country, how we are helping to build out the power sector, who the big players are, where they are building projects, how those projects are delivering clean, affordable, reliable electricity across the country.
So we really help to inform a lot of the advocacy and policy work that we're doing so that we can tell a better story and really help people to understand the impact that this industry is having.
I sort of hate to admit how long I've been in the industry at this point, but we just came back from Clean Power, which is a big flagship conference.
So I've been in this space for quite a while, but essentially I lead all of our analytical work for the Trade Association, American Clean Power Association, and by default for the industry, right? So we do everything from trying to understand what's happening in the policy and regulatory environment and converting that to what does it mean for the industry? How is it going to impact deployment? How is it going to industry is affecting the economy.
And of course, then we use all that information and good data to tell the story about the impact that the clean energy industry is having or how, you know, in the case of what we think are bad policy and regulations, how those are going to impact all those great benefits that we as an industry are bringing.
But we're also kind of the curator of the information about the industry, right? We build the statistics that help to tell the story of what the industry is bringing to the economy, to the country, how we are helping to build out the power sector, who the big players are, where they are building projects, how those projects are delivering clean, affordable, reliable electricity across the country.
So we really help to inform a lot of the advocacy and policy work that we're doing so that we can tell a better story and really help people to understand the impact that this industry is having.
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