The Electric Home Show is produced by CleanTechnica, one of the world’s largest clean energy news media companies. CleanTechnica has been covering the clean energy transition for more than 15 years, and had over 200 million unique visitors to its website during that time.
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Scott Cooney is a serial eco-entrepreneur. He has been the solo founder of four mission-driven startups. Scott helped found CleanTechnica in a windowless office in the Mission District of San Francisco in 2009. In 2013, Scott started a home energy efficiency company called Pono Home, which has, by the end of 2024, performed efficiency retrofits on more than 18,000 homes and small businesses in Hawaii, reducing carbon pollution by more than 28M pounds annually, saving more than 550M gallons of water per year, and saving Hawaii homeowners and renters more than $8 million a year on their utilities. Pono Home was selected by the Elemental Excelerator as one of the most creative startups that could help move Hawaii off fossil fuels. After 9 years at the helm, Scott gifted this business into native Hawaiian ownership, passing the company to a long-time employee, inspired by a vision of the local Sierra Club chapter that native Hawaiians should have a stronger seat at the table of the clean energy transition in Hawaii. Scott was a finalist in the Hawaii Venture Capital Association’s Clean Tech Entrepreneur of the Year in 2016, featured in the Blue Planet Foundation’s WeAre100 campaign, a showcase of the people and organizations creating a sustainable and equitable future for the state of Hawaii, was the Green Business Leader of the Year in 2019 (Hawaii Business Magazine Editor’s Choice) and won a Small Business Administration award for Innovation. Previously, Scott was an adjunct professor of Sustainability in the MBA program at the University of Hawai’i, a green business startup coach, and author of Build a Green Small Business: Profitable Ways to Become an Ecopreneur (McGraw-Hill).
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Zach Shahan is tryin’ to help society help itself one word at a time. He spends most of his time on CleanTechnica as its chief editor, one of its main writers, and the company’s CEO. He has been running the news & analysis site since 2010.
Zach is recognized globally as an electric vehicle, solar energy, and energy storage expert. He has presented about cleantech at conferences in India, the UAE, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, the USA, Canada, and Curaçao. If you would like him to speak at a related conference or event, connect via CleanTechnica‘s contact page. You can follow Zach on X @zshahan3.
Advisory Board
Shannon Wilson is the program manager for ElectrifyPDX, a nonprofit that promotes efficient electrification. Shannon also works with Electrify Now and New Builldings Institute to produce a series of webinars about residential and commercial electrification. Previously she worked for digital agencies and as a freelance consultant, helping myriad non-profits as a product designer, information architect, content strategist, and project manager. Shannon is passionate about fighting climate change and bringing about change in our local community and beyond.
Joe Wachunas works at the nonprofit New Buildings Institute where he primarily focuses on the Advanced Water Heating Initiative, which seeks to decarbonize water heating through heat pump water heaters. He believes that electrifying everything, from transportation to homes, is the quickest path to an equitable, clean energy future. Joe also volunteers for the educational organization Electrify Now, sits on the board of the nonprofit PACE Ghana and contributes to the blog CleanTechnica. Joe and his family live in an all electric, net zero energy home.
