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Andrew Beebe

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Andrew brings to Obvious Ventures a lifelong passion for building companies around sustainable systems and people power. For nearly two decades, Andrew has focused on clean technology and clean energy solutions.

Andrew brings to Obvious Ventures a lifelong passion for building companies around sustainable systems and people power. For nearly two decades, Andrew has focused on clean technology and clean energy solutions. He started down the clean tech path with Energy Innovations in 2003, which he grew from a business plan to a major solar developer serving customers like Google, Disney, Sony Pictures, and British Telecom. After selling the company to Suntech in 2008, Andrew served as Chief Commercial Officer at Suntech as well as Vice President of Global Product Strategy. During his tenure, Suntech became the largest solar company in the world. After leaving Suntech, Andrew spent two years as Vice President of Distributed Generation for Nextera Energy, the largest clean energy developer in the U.S. Before his clean tech career, Andrew spent a decade building companies in the early days of “Web 1.0.” In 1998 Andrew co-founded Bigstep.com, an e-commerce platform designed to serve the needs of small businesses entering the Internet age.

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A tale of two cities, 2030 edition

May 6, 2019

By Andrew Beebe and Di-Ann Eisnor
A great migration forces an existential question for the modern metropolis: how might entrepreneurs upgrade urban living over the next 10 years?
  • Cities
  • Transportation & Mobility
  • Buildings

Cultivating an environment to unleash innovation

To unleash global innovation, think locally

September 18, 2017

WithJohn Picard, Brian Janous, Dave Bartlett and Andrew Beebe

Innovation is needed to bring America, and the world, across the renewable energy finish line. How do you cultivate an environment where utilities, regulators and buyers will increase their risk appetite? Start with local solutions to the energy transition. 

  • Renewable Energy
  • Climate Tech
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The death of 'alternative energy'

August 16, 2017

By Andrew Beebe
Remembering the days when that term referred to clean coal and fracking.
  • Renewable Energy
  • Leadership

Cultivating an environment to unleash innovation

Cultivating an environment to unleash innovation

July 7, 2017

WithAndrew Beebe, Brian Janous, Dave Bartlett and Rich Wacker

While there is no shortage of clean technology innovations, political and social will remains a barrier for many of these promising solutions. What is needed to cultivate an environment where utilities, regulators and buyers will increase their risk appetite?

Jigar Shah and Andrew Beebe dish the dirt on a clean energy future

Jigar Shah and Andrew Beebe dish the dirt on a clean energy future

September 28, 2016

WithJigar Shah and Andrew Beebe

The outspoken, often contrarian clean energy entrepreneur Jigar Shah and the visionary cleantech investor Andrew Beebe spoke at VERGE 16 to explore such provocative questions as when residential solar might make economic sense in the U.S.; whether distributed solar and distributed storage are friends, foes or both; and whether Elon Musk’s vision for an electrified future is brilliant or diabolical.

  • Renewable Energy
  • Climate Tech

Andrew Beebe on solving the world’s biggest problems

Andrew Beebe on solving the world’s biggest problems

July 12, 2016

WithAndrew Beebe

Andrew Beebe, managing director of Obvious Ventures, talked about his transition from tech entrepreneur to clean-tech venture capitalist, and the proposed (and as of late, rejected) utility merger of NextEra and Hawaiian Electric (HECO) at the VERGE Hawaii 2016 conference.

  • VERGE
  • Climate Tech

Andrew Beebe: A new model for future-proof investing

A new model for future-proof investing

July 7, 2016

WithAndrew Beebe
Here's a presentation delivered in emojis.
  • Finance & Investing

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