Kiran Bhatraju grew up in a town dominated by the coal industry as the son of a doctor who had immigrated to the United States from India.
He watched his father treat front-line coal workers suffering from black lung disease and other illnesses related to their work. That experience shaped his view of how necessary clean energy is to the health of a community.
Bhatraju now serves CEO of Arcadia Power Inc., a D.C. clean tech company that works with energy entrepreneurs and consumers to fight climate…