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cleanpowerhour.comCan Microgrids Solve America’s AI Power Crisis? | Lester Crafton #379
The U.S. is facing a major energy challenge. AI data centers are driving electricity demand higher, grid infrastructure takes years and billions of dollars to…
cleanpowerhour.comBuilding the World’s First Utility-Scale Solar Plant Designed for Cattle. #378
Can you put cattle beneath solar panels without damaging the equipment or driving up project costs? Silicon Ranch set out to answer that question, and the…
cleanpowerhour.comTennessee’s Nuclear Renaissance Needs Solar Now | Cortney Piper
America’s nuclear renaissance is gaining momentum, but new nuclear power plants can take around a decade to build. With electricity demand rising and the grid…
cleanpowerhour.comBatteries vs. Gas Peakers, China’s Solar Export Restrictions, and the Future of Clean Energy
Solar and battery storage are reshaping the energy industry, but policy uncertainty, grid constraints, manufacturing challenges, and equipment reliability…
cleanpowerhour.comThe Business of Solar EPC: Profitability, Policy Risks, and Project Delivery #376
Solar EPCs face growing pressure to deliver projects on time, manage costs, secure financing, and navigate changing energy policies. So how can smaller…
cleanpowerhour.comHow to Make Affordable Housing Solar Work | Resonant Energy #375
A 100 kW rooftop can be a meaningful source of energy savings—and a difficult project to finance. How do you make solar work for affordable housing, churches…
cleanpowerhour.comTVA’s Grid Is Under Pressure. Solar, Storage and Microgrids Could Be the Answer #374
Rising electricity demand and prolonged outages are pushing the Tennessee Valley to rethink how it builds and operates the grid. Where do solar, batteries, and…
cleanpowerhour.comCalifornia Just Changed the Game for Solar & Batteries
Solar and storage are moving into a new phase, and this week’s Clean Power Hour Live covers the technologies, policies, and market shifts shaping that…
cleanpowerhour.comWhy Batteries Are the Key Technology Behind the Next Energy Economy with Simon Engelke #373
A battery only earns its keep when it can connect to the grid and get to work. What does it take to turn better battery technology into a viable energy…
cleanpowerhour.comThe Battery Boom Is Moving Beyond EVs
Grid storage is growing faster than the industry expected. EVs accounted for more than 70% of global battery deployment in 2025, down from almost 80% in 2024…
cleanpowerhour.comInside a 365 kW Commercial Solar Project: First Solar Series 7 + Custom Racking #372
How do you take a 365 kW commercial solar project from a customer conversation to steel in the ground? In this episode of the Clean Power Hour, Tim Montague…
cleanpowerhour.comThis Startup Pays You to Run AI on Your Solar Power #371
What if your solar system could earn far more by powering AI compute than by selling electricity back to the grid? In this episode of Clean Power Hour, Tim…
cleanpowerhour.comThe U.S. Needs 230 GW of New Power. Where Will It Come From? #370
America may need more than 230 GW of new power capacity through 2030. Regulated utilities are expected to deliver only about 93 GW. So where does the rest come…
cleanpowerhour.comSolar, Vanadium Flow and a Flywheel: Inside G&W’s Microgrid #369
G&W Electric’s vanadium flow + flywheel microgrid matched a full year of frequency regulation revenue in under three months Vanadium flow batteries…
cleanpowerhour.comHow Do You Get 20 MW When the Utility Offers 7? #368
Speed to power: Bala Ramamurthy of Critical Loop on cutting grid connection from years to days with modular microgrids. Speed to power is the problem Critical…
cleanpowerhour.comSection 232 Is a Price Floor, Not a Tariff: Solar Module Prices Explained.
Section 232 tariffs are reshaping solar module pricing across the United States. Tim Montague and co-host John Weaver sit down with returning guest Chris…
cleanpowerhour.comDerek Hansen on what makes a solar company great, not just good
Clean energy company culture is what separates good solar EPCs from great ones, and Mynt Systems CEO Derek Hansen has a name for how he builds it: inspire…
cleanpowerhour.comWhat does it take to build solar that lasts 30+ years? #366
Solar asset management inside a 35-year ownership model: CJ Colavito and Jay Smith of Standard Solar explain what it actually takes to own distributed…
cleanpowerhour.comForeign Inverter Ban Hits US Solar: Here’s What Changes
The Federal Communications Commission’s new ban on foreign-produced solar inverters left the industry without clear answers on warehoused stock, firmware…
cleanpowerhour.comHow to Build a Great Solar Company: Lessons from LightWave Solar CEO Chris Koczaja #365
Chris Koczaja grew LightWave Solar to 30 million dollars by refusing to chase every deal. This is the discipline that got him there. Chris Koczaja is the CEO…
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Dual-use solar financing in action: Sunrise Solar’s Richard Stoltzfus built a 700 kW behind-the-meter array for Harbor Sales Company. The build stacks a USDA…
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Enhanced rock weathering pulls carbon dioxide from the air using crushed rock. Jim Mann, CEO and founder of Undo, explains how the process works and why the…
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Enhanced rock weathering pulls carbon dioxide from the air using crushed rock. Jim Mann, CEO and founder of Undo, explains how the process works and why the…
cleanpowerhour.comHow do we Remove 1.7 Trillion Tons of CO₂? #364
Enhanced rock weathering pulls carbon dioxide from the air using crushed rock. Jim Mann, CEO and founder of Undo, explains how the process works and why the…
cleanpowerhour.comCommercial Solar Reality: A 700 kW Project, 5 Years in the Making #363
Dual-use solar financing in action: Sunrise Solar’s Richard Stoltzfus built a 700 kW behind-the-meter array for Harbor Sales Company. The build stacks a…
cleanpowerhour.comGeorgia’s Data Center Boom Is Straining the Grid. Here’s How Solar Fits In #362
Georgia is the second-largest data center market in the country, and its grid is straining under load growth no one predicted five years ago. Michael Chanin…
cleanpowerhour.comWhy 80% of Grid-Ready Devices Are Still Sitting on the Sidelines? #361
The U.S. needs 400 GW of new capacity over the next two decades. Michael Grasso, CEO and founder of Grid Rails, tells Tim Montague that roughly twice that much…
cleanpowerhour.comWildfire Smoke Cuts New England Solar Output by 40 Percent
Wildfire smoke from Canada cut solar production across New England by as much as 40 percent, according to ISO New England, a loss of 2,500 megawatts at peak…
cleanpowerhour.comThe Grid Can’t Keep Up. Can Linear Generators Solve the Power Crisis? #360
Power generation is changing fast. As utilities struggle with interconnection delays and growing electricity demand, businesses are looking for faster, more…
cleanpowerhour.comThe Grid Was Built Over a Century Ago. Here’s How We Fix It. #359
America’s electric grid wasn’t built for AI, electric vehicles, battery storage, or the rapid growth of renewable energy. So how do we modernize a…
cleanpowerhour.comSwift Solar’s Plan to Close the 10x U.S. Solar Cell Gap
What does it take to turn next-generation solar technology into a bankable commercial product? Swift Solar is closing the U.S. heterojunction and perovskite…
cleanpowerhour.comLives Saved: The Case for Community Microgrids #358
Community microgrids saved lives during a PG&E shutoff in Humboldt County. Lisa Cohn of Microgrid Knowledge has tracked every project getting built in…
cleanpowerhour.comCarport Solar Done Right: Engineering, Pricing, and Building for the Long Haul #357
Solar carport installation costs can swing by 12 cents per watt before a single panel goes up. Kyle Sinclair, CEO and co-founder of SDE (Sinclair Designs and…
cleanpowerhour.comCATL’s Sodium Ion Battery Could Last 30 Years: Rebuild Your Storage Model Now
CATL unveiled its TENER Sodium energy storage system at Intersolar Europe in Munich, rated for 15,000 cycles to 70 percent state of health at room temperature…
cleanpowerhour.comThe Engineering Gap Costing Solar Companies A Fortune #356
A single design error on a commercial solar project can cost $60,000 to $70,000 to fix. Scott Wyssling and Catherine Kelso of Wyssling Consulting explain what…
cleanpowerhour.comBattery Storage Fires: Myths, Facts, and What Actually Happens #355
Battery energy storage fire safety is one of the most urgent permitting challenges facing solar and storage developers in 2026. Mike Nicholas, Energy Storage…
cleanpowerhour.comSolar Safe Harbor Court Ruling: What Developers Need to Know Now
A US federal court just ruled the IRS acted in an “arbitrary and capricious” manner on solar and wind safe harbor rules, shaking up project…
cleanpowerhour.comThey Put Solar on the White House. Here’s What Solar Design Associates Learned #354
Solar & storage pioneers Solar Design Associates share 50 years of firsts on the Clean Power Hour. They put solar on the White House in 1979 and built the…
cleanpowerhour.comClean Coalition’s Craig Lewis on Microgrids, VPPs, and the Resilience Gap #353
Community microgrids and virtual power plants are two of the most misunderstood concepts in clean energy, and the gap between them is where billions of dollars…
cleanpowerhour.comCan Homeowners Finally Afford Whole Home Backup? #352
Energy resilience for homeowners is the mission behind Energy Access Innovations, a multi-brand clean energy company building an end-to-end ecosystem for solar…
cleanpowerhour.comPerovskite Tandem Solar: Breaking the 30% Efficiency Limit #351
Silicon solar is approaching a hard physical efficiency ceiling at 30%. Perovskite tandem solar is the only proven path through it. Joel Jean, CEO of Swift…