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980: From Policy to Power: What It Takes to Get Energy Built

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979: The Scariest Question in Solar Finance: What If Your EPC Fails? | Gage Kellogg

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978: Solar + Farming, Part 2: How Developers Earn Lasting Community Trust | Lauren Glickman

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977: Solar + Farming, Part 1: How Solar Can Help Save American Farmland | Lauren Glickman

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976: AI Can Pay 100X More for Power. Is This Clean Energy's Moment? | Hans Royal, David Siap, & Peter Kelly-Detwiler

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975: Powerful Branding: How to Build a Brand Your Team Can Actually Use | Aimee Tuck

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974: How to Make the Case for Solar + Storage to People Who Don’t Speak Energy

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973: 11 Years of SunCast: What Changed, What We Missed, What’s Next | Nico Johnson & Josh Beck

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972: How Smart Solar Developers Treat Land as Growth Capital | Laura Pagliarulo

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971: The Hidden Bottleneck Slowing Solar Automation | Nick de Vries, Matt Campbell & Frédéric Laure

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970: 11 Years, 3 Pivots, and a Successful Exit | Jason Kaminsky

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969: Could Data Centers Pay for Your Rooftop Solar? | Barry Cinnamon

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968: How to Make Better Building Technology Investable | Dermot & Aiden Sweeny

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967: Why U.S. Solar Costs 2–3x More Than Australia | Barry Cinnamon

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966: When Solar Works But the Savings Don’t | Charlotte Meerstadt

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965: 3 Lessons From Germany’s Plug-In Solar Boom | Stephan Scherer

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964: Why the Best Energy Technology Doesn't Always Win | Sass Peress

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963: How Exact Solar Keeps Growing in a Shrinking Market | Aaron Nichols

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962: What If We Paid Households to Power the Grid? | Ari Matusiak

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961: Latinoamérica 2026: Dónde Poner Tiempo, Capital y Capacidad de Ejecución (Español)

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960: Why Good Companies Still Struggle to Get Noticed | Melissa Baldwin

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959: The Argument for Automation: Making Solar Construction More Predictable | Cody Houser, FTC Solar

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958: Australia’s Second Act: Building the Solar Service Economy | Daniel Lazarus, Industrias

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957: How Do You Plan a Grid You Can’t Predict? | Xcel, ComEd & Ameren

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956: How Do You Prepare a Family Business for Its Next 100 Years? | Jake Pepper

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955: Why Some Companies Last and Others Don't | Marc Lopata

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954: Can Clean Energy Build Mythic Power? | Tom Matzzie

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953: The Hardest Part of Solar Isn't What Most People Think | Jeff Spies

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952: Plug-In Solar Is About to Change Everything | Stephan Scherer

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951: Most Solar Problems Start Before the Install | Greg Smith

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950: Dell's Big Bet on AI and the Future of Energy | with David Holmes

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949: The Missing Step in Battery Recycling | Sheeba Dawood

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948: Why Solar’s Speed Is Winning Over Washington | Heather Reams

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947: The Leadership Habit Fighter Pilots Never Skip | Jason Knapp

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946: What Nobody Tells You About Operating Battery Storage | Ty Fenton

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945: We're Not Alternative Energy Anymore. It's Time to Lead. | Dan Shugar & Jigar Shah

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944: The Grid's Biggest Challenge Isn't More Power. It's Timing. | Sean Kelly

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943: The Data Center Deal That Could Transform Energy Affordability | Molly Bauch

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942: What Hundreds of Inspections Reveal About Battery Safety | Kathleen McCaffrey & Jeff Zwijack

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941: Why America Can't Build Big Things Anymore | Tom Fanning

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940: FTC Solar CEO Anthony Carroll on Scaling, Automation, and What's Next

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939: Former EPA Chief Michael Regan on Clean Energy and Public Health

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938: The Rare Earth Problem Nobody Talks About | Mark LaVerghetta

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937: What a 4-Star General Knows About Risk That Most Leaders Don't | Gen. Robert Neller

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936: Which Solar Risks Actually Matter? | Jason Kaminsky, kWh Analytics

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935: How (and Why) Clean Energy Wins In Red States | Monika Gerhart

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934: What Makes Companies Investable Now | David Kirkpatrick

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933: Why Facts Don’t Sell Clean Energy | Jessica Fishman

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932: The Battery Storage Mistakes Installers Must Avoid | Sam Buffington

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931: Inside New York's $150B Energy Bet — And It's Bigger Than Data Centers | Doreen Harris

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930: Why AI Data Centers Demand a Responsive Grid | Jon Parrella & Anna Siefken

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929: How Kraken Is Turning Grid Chaos Into Coordination | Devrim Celal

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928: Why U.S. Solar Costs 2–3x More Than Australia | Barry Cinnamon

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927: Everyone Built Modules. He Built Cells. | Alex Zhu, ES Foundry

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926: Are Data Centers Bypassing the Grid? | Michael Thomas, Cleanview

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925: Ahmad Chatila & Jigar Shah on Solar’s Capital Problem

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924: From Parts to Platform: Building Solar Without Friction | Create Energy

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923: Plug-In Solar Is Moving Fast… But Who Sets the Rules? | Electrical Code Experts Weigh In - with Rebekah Hren & Patrick Barney

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922: From One Engineer to 1 in 6 Utility-Scale Projects | Tyler Nelson, Revamp

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921: Data Won’t Move Lawmakers—Stories Will | John Szoka & Jigar Shah

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920: Say Less. Close More. | Fixing Solar Messaging with Spenser Meeks

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919: Why Smart Developers Are Betting on Batteries | Emilie Flanagan

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918: Is Storage The Catalyst That Finally Unlocks C&I Solar? 4 Expert Opinions

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917: What Happens When Your Market Disappears? (The Story of Small Wind) | Michael Bergey

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916: Where Solar Contractors Are Losing (and Finding) Margin | ABC Supply

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915: 100-Hour Batteries, State of Flow, and the Future of Grid Resilience

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914: The Real Reason Farmers Are Turning to Solar | Rebekah Pierce

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913: The Real Toll AI Data Centers Are Taking on the Grid (and how to fix it) | with Jon Parrella

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912: How Energy Narratives Shape Capital -A Former WSJ Reporter’s Perspective | Russell Gold

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911: Why Most C&I Solar Projects Don’t Succeed (It’s Not the Solar) | Aaron Wilson, Solar One

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910: Clean Energy Is Winning on Cost — So Why Is It Losing the Narrative? | Sammy Roth

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909: The Energy Signals the Industry Is Missing | with Darrell Proctor, Julian Spector & Sammy Roth

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908: How Real Energy Investors Think About Risk, Capital, and Scale | with Brendan Bell, Aligned Climate Capital

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907: Amy Harder on the New Rules of Power

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906: Solar Revolution: Abby Hopper's Transformative Decade at SEIA

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905: SEIA’s Next Chapter | Darren Van’t Hof on Solar, Storage and Focus for 2026

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904: How the Biggest EPCs Keep Energy Projects on Track | Brandon Moss, Shoals

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903: T.J. Rodgers’ 13-Minute Management Masterclass

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902: Why Most Grid-Scale Batteries (BESS) Underperform - And How to Fix It Before It Costs Millions

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901: Google Didn’t Buy Intersect for Solar. Here’s Why. | Sheldon Kimber

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900: T.J. Rodgers’ Billion-Dollar Playbook | Building Companies That Last

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899: Everything You Need to Know Before Intersolar 2026

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898: What Comes After the Acquisition | Andy Klump

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897: The Bamboo Strategy: Building Flexible, Scalable Teams in Clean Energy | Adam James, Energy Innovation Partners

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896: The Solar Industry’s Unfinished Business | with Suvi Sharma, SolarCycle

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895: What Elite Climbing Taught Alex Honnold About Focus, Fear, and Legacy

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894: Why Clean Energy Should Be Easy to Finance - But Isn’t | with Alfred Johnson, CEO of Crux

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893: Data Centers Aren’t the Problem: Grid Fitness Explained by Tyler Norris & Nelson Abramson

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892: Is Octopus Energy a Utility or a Tech Company? Nick Chaset Has the Answer

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891: How Silicon Carbide is Revolutionizing Renewable Energy | with Infineon Technologies’ Daniel Dalpiaz and Navid Riaz

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890: NVIDIA and the Grid: How AI Is Shaping Clean Energy | Marc Spieler

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889: Why Co-ops and Public Utilities Are Winning the Load Growth Race

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888: 2025 Highlights w/Alex Honnold, Jigar Shah, & Dean Solon

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887: The Four Rules of Storytelling | with Aaron Nichols

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886: A Very SunCast Christmas: Our Top Moments, Trends & Hopes for 2026

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885: Houston’s $95 Billion Energy Bet: Jane Stricker on the New Clean Energy Capital

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884: Clean Energy's Next Chapter: Automation, Grid Innovation, and Resilient Design

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883: Half of the Existing Solar Arrays Might Fail by 2030? Cesar Barbosa Thinks So

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882: Semiconductors, Solar, and the ‘Beautiful Bill’ That’s Reshaping Energy

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881: AI Pressure Is Breaking the Grid - Doug Banty on What Happens Next