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880: Why Smart Homeowners Are Choosing Flexible Backup Power

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879: “Speed to Power” is the new race — but can the grid keep up? Hugo Mena, Electric Power Engineers

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878: Three Ways to Make Real Climate Impact This Giving Tuesday

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877: Frustrated by Permit Delays? How SolarAPP Provides Immediate Solutions

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876: This Startup Is Reinventing Rare Earth Refining - Without New Mines

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875: Inside Fluence’s Bold Battery Bet: Domestic Content, AI, and Grid Resilience

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874: Building Solar as a System: Inside Nextpower’s Integration Playbook

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873: From Backup to Backbone: How Batteries Are Reshaping the Grid

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872: The Landfill Explosion That Changed Tesla’s Fire Strategy

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871: 10 Years Later - Adam James on Building Teams, Time & Impact

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870: How FEOC Rules Are Reshaping Solar Procurement in 2025 | 4 Experts Weigh-in

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869: How Two Unlikely Founders Are Rewiring the Way Solar Gets Built | Ben Callam & Maksim Markevich of PVFarm

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868: Roofing and Solar Are Merging, Is This the Future of Residential Solar? | James Mason, ABC Supply

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867: How Energy Aid Is Rescuing 185,000 Orphaned Solar Homes | Nick Sherman

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866: Are Batteries the New Substations? | Wärtsilä’s Bold Vision for Grid-Scale Storage

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865: This Could Unlock Solar for 23 MILLION Property Owners (and Renters)

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864: Michael Chanin: Building a 100-Year Clean Energy Company

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863: Unlocking Tesla's Secrets to Battery Firefighting: An Insider's Story

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862: Debunking Battery Myths: How Software-Driven Innovations Will Power the Future

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861: 1 in 5 Solar Panels Are Failing — Here’s Why

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860: Why Natural Gas is Surging Again (and What It Means for Solar); Justin Locke | Global Energy Monitor

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859: Patrick Crane’s Plan to Cut Solar Costs in Half

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858: This Nonprofit is Revolutionizing Solar Permitting | Nick Josefowitz

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857: The Unofficial Playbook to NYC Climate Week | Silas Mähner & Steven Zhang

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856: Ending Energy Poverty: Nedjip Tozun’s Vision to Reach 1 Billion Lives

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855: Jigar Shah on <$2.50/Watt Solar + Storage, and Resisting Trump’s Anti-Renewable Push

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854: RE+ Day 3: Dean Solon, American-Made Inverters, Clean Tech for Native Americans, and More!

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853: RE+ Day 2: SEIA Politics, Long-Duration Storage, Future Homes, String Inverters & More

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852: RE+ Day 1: Jigar Shah, Storage Tech, New EVs, Steel Manufacturing and Much More

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851: Batteries vs. Peakers: [Revisiting] How Fluence Is Redefining the Grid

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850: RE+ 2025 Survival Guide: What You Need to Know Before You Get to Vegas (with 6 expert insiders!)

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849: From Solar to Storage: Jigar Shah’s VPP Vision Revisited

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848: Can America Lead Solar Cell Manufacturing? Arndt Lutz, EliTe Solar

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847: The Startup Disrupting HVAC Like Tesla Disrupted Cars | Stephen Lake of Jetson

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846: Balancing State Energy Goals with Federal Uncertainty | Doug Scott, Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) Chair

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845: How to Build Influence in a $1 Trillion Industry

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844: When Solar Systems Break: Who Really Pays? | Dean Chiaravallotti of Solar Insure

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843: The Real Reason Residential Solar Is Still Too Expensive (in the US) | OpenSolar’s Andrew McGuigan

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842: Out-Innovating China in Critical Minerals: ReElement’s Bold U.S. Strategy

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841: From 3 Weeks to 3 Days: Accelerating Solar with Drones | Jason Steinberg, Scanifly

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840: Rethinking Battery Storage: Domestic BMS, Cybersecurity & Geopolitics | Michael Worry of Nuvation Energy

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839: BREAKING: Nextracker Just Bought This AI Robotics Company: OnSight Technology - (here’s why)

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838: Cutbacks, Consolidation & Energy Chaos: Will Solar and Batteries Survive 2025? With Barry Cinnamon

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837: MET Stations... the Secret Weapon For Solar Energy? Ann Will | GroundWork

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836: The Battery Paradox: Why C&I Solar Isn’t Installing Battery Storage

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835: Nextracker Is Rewiring Utility-Scale Solar | Jonathan Eastwood

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834: The New Solar Standard You Should Know About | w/Amanda Bybee & Karo Fernandez

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833: 73% of Solar Damage from One Threat? Inside Solar Risk Assessment with Jason Kaminsky

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832: Solar After the Megabill: Tax Credits, Tariffs & What’s Next |Christian Roselund

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831: Saving Your Solar Project From Cancellation, with Amanda Foley of Kiterocket

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830: Inside the AI Power Race: How Data Centers & Renewables Will Shape the Grid [Expert Panel]

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829: Dean Solon Unfiltered: What the Shoals Founder Will Create Next Is Unprecedented

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828: Why The Grid’s Not Ready for Renewables - And What ABB Is Doing About It

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827: Can Microsoft Solve Solar’s Hardest Problems with AI?

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826: Behind the Scenes of Electrical Code Writing: An Expert's Perspective

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825: How Interest Rates, Tariffs, & Utility Rates Impact Commercial Solar

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824: Sheldon Kimber on Data Centers, Hybrid Renewables & The Next Energy Boom

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823: The Battle for AI Power: Data Centers vs. The Electric Grid

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822: Unlock National Media Coverage with These Storytelling Secrets from a PA Solar Firm

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821: AI and Solar Power: Making Renewable Energy Available 24/7 | Martin Hermann of BrigthNight Power

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820: Trevor Noah On Why Comedy Might Be The Key To Saving Democracy And The Planet

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819: Why Commercial Solar Hasn’t Taken Off—Until Now | Josh Goldberg, Sunstone Credit

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818: Era Of Easy Money Ends: Prepare For A New Financial Landscape | Rob Sternthal On What To Expect

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817: Turn Your Roof into a Money Machine: How to make as much as $32/Hour with Solar + AI Compute power! | Karl Andersen of Lektra

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816: Load Shifting, AI, and DC-Coupling: The Future of Residential Energy Storage | Terahive’s Ram Bhat

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815: Can Your EV Really Power Your Home? Barry Cinnamon Says “Yes!”

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814: Zero-Cost Home Batteries? How Haven Energy Cracked the Code

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813: The Interconnection Crisis: Why the Distribution Grid Is Holding Back Clean Energy | Samantha Weaver, CCSA

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812: The Real Cost of Tariffs: What’s Stalling U.S. Solar Deployment | Andrew Birch & Kerim Baran

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811: The EV Tsunami Is Here. Are Utilities Ready? With Rachel Bryant | GridX

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810: Inside Texas’ Renewable Energy Boom—and the Policy Risks Ahead | Doug Lewin & Nico Johnson

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809: Storytelling > Specs: How To Sell Anything Better In 2025

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808: Solar Loans Are Broken — Atmos Has The Fix

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807: Say Goodbye to 'Virtual Power Plants' — Embrace Demand Flexibility

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806: Inside MIT’s Solutions Factory: Scaling Climate Tech 2.0 | Ben Downing, The Engine

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805: Why Energy Storage Is the Linchpin of America’s Clean Energy Future | Joan White, SEIA

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804: From DOE to IREC: Maria Robinson’s Mission to Modernize Energy Access

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803: Is C&I The Solar Market Savior In 2025? With John Carroll Of Solaredge

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802: 12,000x Faster: Why Xendee is the new Microgrid standard, with CEO Adib Nasle

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801: This $389M Deal Proves Clean Energy Isn't Waiting on Washington|Encore Renewable Energy’s Chad Farrell

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800: What 800 Episodes Taught Me About Clean Energy & Leadership, with guest Host: Lisa Ann Pinkerton

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799: State of the Solar Industry 2025: Inside Intersolar with 3 Industry Experts (and podcasters) | Joe Ordia, Chris Crowell, Sean White

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798: The Hidden Goldmine in Commercial Solar—And How to Tap Into It; with Claire Broido Johnson

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797: How Solar Can Revitalize America's Rural Heartland

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796: The $1 Per Watt Energy Shift That Could Upend Utilities

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795: The Truth About Community Solar & How It’s Changing the Game | Aviv Shalgi

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794: Solar Will Be 50% of Global Primary Energy by 2035 – Here’s How According to Birchy

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793: Atmospheric Water Generation (AWG) Explained... Free Water?

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792: What Is Distributed Generation? [Jorge Vargas, Aspen Power]

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791: Why Hydrogen (+Solar) Can Replace Natural Gas

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790: Jigar Shah On His Next Chapter & Clean Energy’s Future

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789: Heading to InterSolar North America 2025? Listen to This First!

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788: Solar = Hydrogen? Can Erthos Use Ultra-Low-Cost Solar To Unlock Hydrogen? Jim Tyler’s Convinced

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787: What Makes A Great Solar Design Engineer, And Why We Need More Of Them! Phil Hofmeyer, New Leaf Energy

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786: Energy Storage: Policies, Tech & Trends Moving The Market

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785: The 74MW Solar Farm in My Backyard

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784: This Chip Could Save Billions in Energy | Udi Daon of Daanaa

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783: How AI and India Shape Solar and Hydrogen Futures, with Daniel Dus | Cleantech Industry Resources

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782: The Art of Strategic Business Exits, with Mike Miskovsky (Zep, Ojjo, Tiveni)

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781: AC Vs DC-Coupled Battery Systems with Adam Knudsen Of Dynapower