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The Clean Power Hour podcast is speeding the clean energy transition. Tim Montague and John Weaver highlight clean energy innovations shaping the next generation of renewable energy sources. We discuss the latest solar PV, battery storage, wind, water, wave, and other low-carbon technologies. We answer the question: How can we decarbonize the economy? We promote the economic opportunity of electrifying everything - transportation, energy, industry, and the built environment. Let's speed up the clean energy transition together. Join the movement - www.CleanPowerHour.com
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- Can America Compete with China in Solar Manufacturing? | Ryan Kennedy & Finlay Colville #381 · 42 minCan America build a competitive solar manufacturing industry, or will China continue to dominate the global solar supply chain? In this episode of the Clean Power Hour, Tim…
- How KUB Saved Customers $4.7 Million With Clean Energy #380 · 34 minWhat happens when a utility faces rising electricity demand, growing customer expectations, and pressure to keep power affordable? In 2022, Winter Storm Elliott forced rolling…
- Sodium-Ion Is Coming: The Next Wave of Battery Storage · 54 minBattery storage is moving fast, and the numbers keep getting bigger. In this episode of the Clean Power Hour live, Tim Montague joins John Weaver from Melbourne, Australia, after…
- Can Microgrids Solve America’s AI Power Crisis? | Lester Crafton #379 · 34 minThe 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 expand, and…
- Building the World's First Utility-Scale Solar Plant Designed for Cattle. #378 · 35 minCan 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 result is what Matt…
- Tennessee’s Nuclear Renaissance Needs Solar Now | Cortney Piper #377 · 19 minAmerica’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 under pressure…
- Batteries vs. Gas Peakers, China's Solar Export Restrictions, and the Future of Clean Energy · 56 minSolar and battery storage are reshaping the energy industry, but policy uncertainty, grid constraints, manufacturing challenges, and equipment reliability remain major issues. In…
- The Business of Solar EPC: Profitability, Policy Risks, and Project Delivery #376 · 30 minSolar EPCs face growing pressure to deliver projects on time, manage costs, secure financing, and navigate changing energy policies. So how can smaller companies grow while…
- How to Make Affordable Housing Solar Work | Resonant Energy #375 · 57 minA 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, and nonprofits? In…
- TVA’s Grid Is Under Pressure. Solar, Storage and Microgrids Could Be the Answer #374 · 37 minRising electricity demand and prolonged outages are pushing the Tennessee Valley to rethink how it builds and operates the grid. Where do solar, batteries, and community-scale…
- California Just Changed the Game for Solar & Batteries · 48 minSolar 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 transition. Tim Montague…
- Why Batteries Are the Key Technology Behind the Next Energy Economy with Simon Engelke #373 · 44 minA 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 project? In episode 373 of…
- The Battery Boom Is Moving Beyond EVs · 50 minGrid 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, according to the…
- Inside a 365 kW Commercial Solar Project: First Solar Series 7 + Custom Racking #372 · 51 minHow 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 goes behind the…
- This Startup Pays You to Run AI on Your Solar Power #371 · 42 minWhat 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 Montague talks with…
- The U.S. Needs 230 GW of New Power. Where Will It Come From? #370 · 54 minAmerica 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 from? Tim Montague…
- Solar, Vanadium Flow and a Flywheel: Inside G&W's Microgrid #369 · 42 minG&W Electric's vanadium flow + flywheel microgrid matched a full year of frequency regulation revenue in under three months Vanadium flow batteries rarely anchor a commercial…
- How Do You Get 20 MW When the Utility Offers 7? #368 · 33 minSpeed 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 Loop was built to…
- Section 232 Is a Price Floor, Not a Tariff: Solar Module Prices Explained. · 54 minSection 232 tariffs are reshaping solar module pricing across the United States. Tim Montague and co-host John Weaver sit down with returning guest Chris Lettman, a solar module…
- Derek Hansen on what makes a solar company great, not just good #367 · 47 minClean energy company culture is what separates good solar EPCs from great ones, and Mynt CEO Derek Hansen has a name for how he builds it: inspire, empower, support. Company…
- What does it take to build solar that lasts 30+ years? #366 · 59 minSolar asset management inside a 35-year ownership model: CJ Colavito and Jay Smith of Standard Solar explain what it actually takes to own distributed generation projects for…
- Foreign Inverter Ban Hits US Solar: Here's What Changes · 55 minThe Federal Communications Commission's new ban on foreign-produced solar inverters left the industry without clear answers on warehoused stock, firmware updates, and grid…
- How to Build a Great Solar Company: Lessons from LightWave Solar CEO Chris Koczaja #365 · 52 minChris 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 of LightWave Solar…
- How do we Remove 1.7 Trillion Tons of CO₂? #364 · 37 minEnhanced 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 technology scales…
- How a 700kW Commercial Solar Project Saves $3M+ Over 25 Years #363 · 38 minDual-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 REAP grant with a…
- Georgia's Data Center Boom Is Straining the Grid. Here's How Solar Fits In #362 · 41 minGeorgia 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, CEO of Cherry Street…
- Why 80% of Grid-Ready Devices Are Still Sitting on the Sidelines? #361 · 40 minThe 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 flexible capacity…
- Wildfire Smoke Cuts New England Solar Output by 40 Percent · 43 minWildfire 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 hours compared to the…
- The Grid Can't Keep Up. Can Linear Generators Solve the Power Crisis? #360 · 32 minPower generation is changing fast. As utilities struggle with interconnection delays and growing electricity demand, businesses are looking for faster, more reliable ways to…
- The Grid Was Built Over a Century Ago. Here's How We Fix It. #359 · 40 minAmerica'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 system that was built and…
- Swift Solar's Plan to Close the 10x U.S. Solar Cell Gap · 1 h 2 minWhat does it take to turn next-generation solar technology into a bankable commercial product? Swift Solar is closing the U.S. heterojunction and perovskite tandem solar cell…
- Lives Saved: The Case for Community Microgrids #358 · 27 minCommunity microgrids saved lives during a PG&E shutoff in Humboldt County. Lisa Cohn of Microgrid Knowledge has tracked every project getting built in America right now. She…
- Carport Solar Done Right: Engineering, Pricing, and Building for the Long Haul #357 · 57 minSolar 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 Engineering), James…
- CATL's Sodium Ion Battery Could Last 30 Years: Rebuild Your Storage Model Now · 59 minCATL 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. CATL frames that…
- The Engineering Gap Costing Solar Companies A Fortune #356 · 45 minA 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 quality design…
- Battery Storage Fires: Myths, Facts, and What Actually Happens #355 · 52 minBattery energy storage fire safety is one of the most urgent permitting challenges facing solar and storage developers in 2026. Mike Nicholas, Energy Storage Specialist and Fire…
- Solar Safe Harbor Court Ruling: What Developers Need to Know Now · 51 minA US federal court just ruled the IRS acted in an "arbitrary and capricious" manner on solar and wind safe harbor rules, shaking up project timelines for developers racing toward…
- They Put Solar on the White House. Here's What Solar Design Associates Learned #354 · 30 minSolar & 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 first community solar…
- Clean Coalition's Craig Lewis on Microgrids, VPPs, and the Resilience Gap #353 · 1 h 22 minCommunity 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 in grid value are…
- Can Homeowners Finally Afford Whole Home Backup? #352 · 54 minEnergy resilience for homeowners is the mission behind Energy Access Innovations, a multi-brand clean energy company building an end-to-end ecosystem for solar and battery…
- Perovskite Tandem Solar: Breaking the 30% Efficiency Limit #351 · 47 minSilicon 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 Solar, explains the…
- US Solar Has a Quality Problem: What Buyers Need to Know · 46 minA new report from Clean Energy Associates found that some solar module factories in their first year of production are hitting yield rates as low as 30%. That means 70% of…
- Why Community Microgrids Are Illegal in Most of the US #350 · 51 minCommunity microgrids are functionally illegal in most of the United States, yet climate-driven outages are getting worse. Cameron Brooks of Think Microgrid explains why wires…
- Why Utility-Scale Solar Is Quietly Failing in 2026? #349 · 27 minAmerican solar manufacturing is getting a reboot. Dean Solon, founder of Create Energy and formerly of Shoals Technologies, sold 1 GW of product in Q1 of this year alone. In this…
- SDE's Approach to Solar Racking: What DG Installers Need to Know #348 · 45 minSolar racking is one of the lowest-cost line items on a DG project and one of the highest-risk failure points. Kyle Sinclair, Co-founder and CEO of SDE (Sinclair Designs and…
- LG Energy Solution Targets 50 GWh With 5 US Battery Factories · 45 minLG Energy Solution plans to bring over 50 gigawatt hours of annual battery manufacturing capacity online in the US by the end of 2026 across five facilities (MI, IL, AZ, OH, GA)…
- This Microgrid Model Pays Businesses to Go Solar #347 · 35 minSan Diego pays the second-highest electricity rates in the United States, trailing only Hawaii, and peak-hour pricing from 4 pm to 9 pm runs up to triple morning rates. In this…
- Why Most Battery Developers Fail at Zoning? #346 · 45 minEighty-five towns across New York state sit under battery storage moratoriums right now, and two of three Westchester County towns where Joe Tassone Jr. built successful battery…
- California Batteries Just Killed Negative Daytime Solar Prices · 45 minJohn Weaver calls California's daytime pricing shift the story of the year. Battery demand has pushed wholesale solar prices from negative five cents per kilowatt hour up by 4.2…
- Women in Solar Construction: Why the Industry Is Failing Them? #345 · 41 minOne large solar company reported less than 1% of its field employees were women. The solar industry overall sits at 25 to 30% women across all roles, but the construction side…
