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While SunCast began as the first-ever podcast focused on solar energy for emerging markets back in 2015, it is now a go-to resource for entrepreneurs and sales professionals alike in the renewable energy space.  Today, SunCast is downloaded more than 20,000 times per month by energy & cleantech professionals seeking insight into how to grow their personal and professional skills and business. 

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The show is mostly interview style, and provides valuable insight into the personal and professional lives of industry executives and icons like Jigar Shah (Generate Capital & a few other well-known solar companies), Dan Shugar (PowerLight, SunPower, Nextracker), Mary Powell (SunRun), Abby Hopper (SEIA), Heather Zichal (American Clean Power), George Hershman (SOLV/Swinerton), and more than 400 other intrepid leaders on the front lines of the energy transition.  We discuss where the markets are going, and how you can best position yourself to win based on the collective learning of our guests and host Nico Johnson's own insights from over a decade selling, investing & advising in the Solar industry.

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Data centers need power fast — and the fastest way to get it might be sitting in your driveway. Ari Matusiak, co-founder, president and CEO of Rewiring America, sits down with Nico Johnson to make an audacious case: while a new gas power plant takes five years to build, a single home's solar, battery, and heat pump system can go in within a week — and at scale, tens of thousands of homes can add capacity faster than any hyperscaler's turbine. Ari walks through the math: the same $3,000 per kilowatt utilities pay for a gas turbine, spent instead on households, buys roughly $30,000 of rooftop solar, batteries, and heat pumps per home — at infrastructure pricing instead of retail. He breaks down why the grid's 25-year equilibrium broke around 2020, who's already making this work (Google and Xcel Energy, Google and Voltus in PJM, and emerging policy in Virginia, New Jersey, and Illinois), and why he thinks a household-as-infrastructure model could replace the "community benefits" playbook developers have leaned on for decades. If data centers are going to keep eating the grid's headroom, should your next heat pump be part of the deal? And is $30,000 of infrastructure-priced equipment in every American home actually more realistic than another gas plant? Chapters 00:00 Why the Grid Isn't Working Anymore 07:31 Bring Your Own Power 09:13 Same Dollars, Invested in Homes 13:48 The Missing Middle & Speed to Power 17:45 Replacing the Community-Benefit Deal Find all of our past SunCast podcast episodes here: https://www.suncast.media/media/podcast Listen to SunCast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/393EtixYJ7mvRZA7fwei8o?si=715964a5a8c941f7 Listen to SunCast on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/suncast/id1045871373 This content was brought to you for FREE thanks to our sponsors, check them out here: https://www.suncast.media/ytsponsors
Private video
20:00

Private video

Data centers need power fast — and the fastest way to get it might be sitting in your driveway. Ari Matusiak, co-founder, president and CEO of Rewiring America, sits down with Nico Johnson to make an audacious case: while a new gas power plant takes five years to build, a single home's solar, battery, and heat pump system can go in within a week — and at scale, tens of thousands of homes can add capacity faster than any hyperscaler's turbine. Ari walks through the math: the same $3,000 per kilowatt utilities pay for a gas turbine, spent instead on households, buys roughly $30,000 of rooftop solar, batteries, and heat pumps per home — at infrastructure pricing instead of retail. He breaks down why the grid's 25-year equilibrium broke around 2020, who's already making this work (Google and Xcel Energy, Google and Voltus in PJM, and emerging policy in Virginia, New Jersey, and Illinois), and why he thinks a household-as-infrastructure model could replace the "community benefits" playbook developers have leaned on for decades. If data centers are going to keep eating the grid's headroom, should your next heat pump be part of the deal? And is $30,000 of infrastructure-priced equipment in every American home actually more realistic than another gas plant? Chapters 00:00 Why the Grid Isn't Working Anymore 07:31 Bring Your Own Power 09:13 Same Dollars, Invested in Homes 13:48 The Missing Middle & Speed to Power 17:45 Replacing the Community-Benefit Deal Find all of our past SunCast podcast episodes here: https://www.suncast.media/media/podcast Listen to SunCast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/393EtixYJ7mvRZA7fwei8o?si=715964a5a8c941f7 Listen to SunCast on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/suncast/id1045871373 This content was brought to you for FREE thanks to our sponsors, check them out here: https://www.suncast.media/ytsponsors

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