From Blueprint to Reality: Clean Energy, AI, and the People Connecting the Dots ~ Hands-On Heroes Ep12 w/ Julia Weigel

What does it take to turn a complex clean energy idea into something that actually gets built? In this episode, host Valerie Crafton sits down with Julia Weigel — Founder and Principal of Plexura Advisory to find out.Julia is a clean energy strategist and climate policy navigator with a background in engineering. She's spent her career doing the rare and difficult work of translating between worlds: technical and non-technical, policy and product, big-picture vision and on-the-ground execution. Whether she's building decarbonization frameworks from scratch or helping organizations move past the "infinite planning loop," Julia brings both rigor and creativity to the clean energy transition.In this conversation, Valerie and Julia dig into some of the most pressing questions shaping the field right now: How do we harness innovative clean tech in an era of AI-driven energy consumption? How do we build products and policies that accelerate progress rather than slow it down? And how do you lead across teams when everyone speaks a different language?If you've ever wondered what it looks like to be the person who makes the complex stuff actually happen — this one's for you.