How We (Literally) Take Our Power Back: Sean Garren Decray

Aaron talks with Sean Garren DeKrey, Chief Program Officer at Vote Solar, who leads the state-level solar policy and advocacy work in more than two dozen states.If you feel powerless when you think about clean energy and how much needs to be done, this is the episode for you.Listen to this episode here, or on:YouTubeApple PodcastsSpotifyConnect with Sean on LinkedIn here.Learn more about Vote Solar at votesolar.org.Expect to learn:Why roughly 70% of this century’s carbon reduction came from state and local policy (not the federal policies we’re so busy arguing about)How ordinary people can actually sway state legislators and energy regulators (and why it’s a smaller pond than you think)Why the solar transition is already past the tipping point, and how we’re going to have a “two-way relationship” with electricity in the future. This Week In Solar is always brought to you by Exact Solar, your locally owned, twenty-year-old solar installer for Pennsylvania and New Jersey. And we have a special bonus for This Week In Solar listeners.For a limited time, we’ll pay you $1,000 if you refer a friend and they go solar. (We only install in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, so please don’t refer anyone outside those states.)Here’s how to claim the bonus: Click the “Refer a Friend and earn $1000” button below.Fill in your information (we need your address to mail you a check if your friend goes solar).Select Aaron Nichols as the sales representative.Add your friend’s name, address, and contact info.Get a check mailed to you if your friend goes solar with us!Refer a Friend and Earn $1,000Quote from the episode:“The clean energy economy isn’t a tiny seed we’re still watering. We’re one of the big trees in the forest now, and we’ve got to start playing like that.”— Sean Garren DeKrey