Podcasts about Valence

Could the land beneath your solar project help finance the next one, without giving up equity in your company?Laura Pagliarulo, CEO and co-founder of SolaREIT™, returns to SunCast to share what six years of financing solar and battery real estate have taught her about how developers grow without overextending themselves. Her company has financed real estate beneath projects representing nearly $8 billion in total value.Laura explains how land purchases, lease purchases and land loans can provide flexible capital without selling equity in the developer's company. She describes repeat partners planning transactions six to eighteen months before a portfolio closes, with proceeds supporting interconnection deposits and other pipeline needs.Expect to learn:

If robotic automation is becoming inevitable in utility-scale solar, where does that thesis run into the realities of actually building a power plant?That's the question behind today's episode.We start with Nick de Vries, CTO of Silicon Ranch, to ask what an owner actually wants from automation. Nick's answer sets the standard: the technology matters only if it improves safety, quality, repeatability, and the performance of an asset Silicon Ranch expects to own for decades.Then Matt Campbell, CEO of Terabase, takes us into the field, where his team is applying manufacturing principles to solar construction. That's where an important constraint emerges. Robots can move and place modules remarkably well, but some of the work that experienced crews make look simple becomes much harder when every action has to be repeatable.One deceptively small interface keeps surfacing: the point where the module actually attaches to the structure.That leads Nico to Frédéric Laure, VP of Diversification at ARaymond North America, to understand why fastening, tolerances, torque, and component design become different problems once machines enter the workflow.The bigger lesson isn't simply about robots or fasteners. It's about constructability.If what we are seeking is manufacturing-level throughput in the field, more of the variability may need to be engineered out long before construction begins.Listen in to hear where solar automation is working, where the real-world constraints still live, and what the industry may need to redesign next.Paid partnership: This Tactical Tuesday was produced with support from ARaymond.Are there other technologies you've scouted on the frontlines of the Clean Energy Revolution that you think we should be covering here on SunCast? Hit us up - team@suncast.me with your feedback & recommendations.You'll find more resources and learn about SunCast's guest(s), recommendations, book links, and more than 850 other founder stories and startup advice at www.mysuncast.com.You can learn more about partnering with SunCast here: https://mysuncast.com/sponsorsYou can connect with me, Nico Johnson, on:Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/nicomeoLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickalusSubscribe to Valence, our weekly Linkedin Newsletter, and learn the elements of compelling storytelling: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/valence-content-that-connects-7145928995363049472/(00:00) Rethinking Utility-Scale Solar Construction and Robotics(02:37) An Owner's Perspective on Jobsite Automation(05:21) Lessons from 20 Years of Module Automation(07:20) Targeting True Limiting Factors in Solar Design(09:41) Installation Speed vs Long-Term Fastener Reliability(13:39) Eliminating Field Variability Through Upstream Engineering(15:39) Overcoming Construction Labor Shortages with Field Factories(18:40) Standardizing Mega-Projects Through Digitalization(20:33) Solving the Module Attachment Automation Bottleneck(23:45) Integrating the Supply Chain for Robotic Assembly(28:46) Redesigning Fasteners for Automated Construction(32:54) Clip-Based Attachment Systems vs Threaded Bolts(36:37) Designing for Assembly Across the Clean Energy Ecosystem(40:22) Key Takeaways: Repeatability, Interfaces, and Upstream Fixes

La préparation de Yohan Durand monte en puissance à l'approche du marathon de Valence. À Font-Romeu, le meilleur coach de France enchaîne les séances et dépasse désormais les 10 heures d'entraînement hebdomadaire.Mais en altitude, les repères changent : les allures sont moins importantes que les sensations et la fréquence cardiaque. Avec Joseph Mestrallet, nous analysons ses séances de 400 mètres, son travail autour du SV2 et la gestion de la fatigue. Alice Michel nous explique également comment adapter son alimentation aux journées d'entraînement, entre glucides avant l'effort, protéines après la séance et boissons de récupération.Enfin, Anna Delahaie nous raconte le quotidien d'un couple d'athlètes de haut niveau et le rôle essentiel du soutien des proches dans un projet marathon. RMC Running vous emmène au cœur de la préparation de Yohan Durand pour sa dernière danse à Valence.

Après une première médaille internationale sur 5000 mètres et un semi-marathon des Mondiaux marqué par une chute, Étienne Daguinos n'a pas encore terminé sa saison 2026. Le Français annonce dans RMC Running un immense défi : son premier marathon, à Valence, le 6 décembre prochain. Une nouvelle distance, une préparation différente et un véritable saut dans l'inconnu pour cet athlète habitué aux efforts rapides et aux grandes courses sur piste. Comment va-t-il apprendre à encaisser le volume et les longues sorties ? Quelle place la nutrition et le vélo vont-ils prendre dans sa préparation ? Comment se baser sur un chrono sans avoir aucune référence ? Avec sa coach Emanuelle Roux, Yohan Durand et Benoît Boutron ; Étienne Daguinos nous raconte les coulisses de ce projet hors norme.

What does it actually take to build a company someone else eventually wants to buy?For Jason Kaminsky and kWh Analytics, the answer was 11 years, three major pivots, a transition from COO to CEO, difficult layoffs, plenty of capital, and learning when to stop chasing good ideas so the company could execute on the right one.Jason returns to SunCast after kWh Analytics' acquisition by Beazley to unpack the entrepreneurial journey behind the announcement. He shares how the company evolved from data and software into the Solar Revenue Put, then made the pivotal move into renewable energy property insurance.But this isn't really an episode about selling a company. It's about building one.Expect to learn:

Data centers need enormous amounts of power, and apparently they need it fast. What if some of the outrageous sums of money they're willing to spend to get that power went directly toward putting solar and batteries on homes and businesses?That's the idea Barry Cinnamon wants to pressure-test in today's Tactical Tuesday on SunCast.Last week, Barry compared the dramatically different costs of solar and storage in Australia and the U.S. This week, he moves from diagnosing the problem to proposing a solution: use data center demand as a new source of capital for distributed energy.His concept is a behind-the-meter feed-in tariff that would allow data centers to help fund rooftop solar and storage. Customers get a faster payback. Data centers get access to new, dispatchable capacity. And more power gets built without relying entirely on the traditional utility infrastructure pipeline.It's still a concept, and Barry is clear that the regulatory and market mechanics still need to be worked out. But the question underneath it is worth exploring: Could one of the biggest new sources of electricity demand also become a catalyst for distributed energy?Expect to learn:

Après une semaine d'acclimatation à Font-Romeu, Yohan Durand attaque les choses sérieuses dans sa préparation pour le marathon de Valence ! 110 kilomètres de course à pied, 81 kilomètres de vélo, du travail au seuil ventilatoire et une nouvelle organisation avec son entraîneur Yannick Duplouy : le maître Yodu entre progressivement dans le dur. Comment son corps s'adapte-t-il aux 1 800 mètres d'altitude ? Comment travailler la fatigue musculaire pour mieux finir les marathons ? Et comment gérer ses douleurs aux tendons tout au long de cette dernière danse ? RMC Running vous emmène au cœur de la préparation de Yohan Durand, à 11 semaines de son grand objectif.

Buildings consume an enormous amount of energy. We have plenty of technologies that could make them perform better. So why is the real estate industry often so slow to adopt them?Dermot Sweeny has spent decades confronting that problem from the architect's side. When he couldn't convince clients to try a radically different approach to office design, he bought an older building and proved it himself. More than 7 million square feet later, that willingness to test ideas in real buildings has become central to how Dermot and his son Aiden evaluate new technology.In this episode, Nico explores how they turn promising ideas into technologies that developers are actually willing to use, including:

durée : 00:05:30 - De plus en plus de post appelant à une mobilisation citoyenne le 17 octobre prochain, notamment contre le prix des carburants, circulent sur les réseaux sociaux. Alex Compère, un ancien porte-parole des "gilets jaunes" à Valence relaie ces appels sur Facebook et participera à cette journée. Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

In Australia, residential solar and storage can be installed for about $2 a watt. In the U.S., a comparable system can cost more than twice that.Why?Barry Cinnamon was curious enough to go to Australia and investigate. What he found challenges the simple explanation that America's solar price gap comes down to permitting, labor, and other “soft costs.”Australia offers a useful counterfactual: what can solar cost under a very different set of market and policy choices? And which of those choices would we actually want to make in America?In this Tactical Tuesday, Barry and Nico unpack the cost stack and the tradeoffs behind it, from tariffs and domestic manufacturing to financing, interconnection, incentives, and policy stability.Expect to learn:

Leader Spotlight host Annette Klososky and producer/co-host Annie introduce a season focused on applied AI implementation and interview Chloe Duckworth, co-founder and CEO of Valence AI AI. Duckworth, who started the company at 19 while on a pre-med track at USC and graduated in two and a half years, explains Valence AI's real-time vocal emotion infrastructure for voice AI, which analyzes tone and prosody to help human agents or AI voice agents route calls, de-escalate, and improve outcomes in enterprise contact centers and regulated industries. When this podcast was recorded, Valence AI AI announced a $5M seed round after 18 months on the market and reports production results including ~30% reduction in average handle time. Duckworth describes modeling brain-like signal transduction, addressing the “uncanny valley,” building representative language/demographic emotion datasets, and creating customer personas, while also sharing her AI tool usage and reading recommendations. Show Notes / Timestamps 00:00 MCAT To Startup Hook 00:47 Show Intro And Season Focus 03:37 Meet Chloe And Valence AI 07:24 Chloe Origin Story USC 09:13 AI Background And Approach 10:43 What Valence AI Builds 12:56 Seed Round And Traction 15:29 Founder Confidence And Mentors 18:25 Neuroscience Of Emotion AI 23:08 Personas And Data Diversity 26:40 Staying Focused And ROI 31:39 How Chloe Uses AI Daily 33:08 Recommendations And Wrap Up 36:12 Outro And Resources 54:44 How Support Helps Now 58:25 Closing and Call to Action Connect with Chloe Duckworth: Social Media LinkedIn X Website Valence AI

J-82 avant le marathon de Valence, il est temps de passer aux choses sérieuses pour Yohan Durand ! Maitre Yodu vient d'arriver à Font-Romeu pour de longues semaines de préparation, pour monter en puissance en vue du 6 décembre prochain. Dans ce nouvel épisode de RMC Running, Benoît Boutron, Yohan Durand et Joseph Mestrallet d'Enduraw, décryptent les résultats de leurs tests d'effort. À quoi servent les seuils ventilatoires 1 et 2 ? Comment définir ses allures d'entraînement ? Pourquoi la VO2max n'est-elle pas la seule donnée importante ? Les profils de Yohan et Benoît sont très différents : l'un doit développer son endurance autour du SV1, tandis que l'autre doit repousser son SV2 pour gagner en marge sur marathon.Direction le marathon de Valence, le 6 décembre, avec également un point sur la fatigue, l'acclimatation à l'altitude et l'utilisation des données de sommeil et de saturation en oxygène. RMC Running vous aide à mieux comprendre votre moteur pour mieux préparer votre prochaine course.Et pour tout comprendre de ces tests physiologiques, vous pouvez également retrouver les briefs de Yohan, Benoit et toute l'équipe qui les entoure (Enduraw et Alice Michel) dans des épisodes additionnels sur notre chaine Youtube !

durée : 00:04:19 - À Valence, Solène Jardin a créé Soriade, une gamme d'outils pour faciliter l'organisation quotidienne des familles. Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

Toute l'actu des sélections nationales et des championnats anglais, espagnol, italien et allemand avec nos légendaires "Drôles de Dames" : Julien Laurens, Edgar Groleau, Daniele Manusia et Polo Breitner.

5ème journée de la Liga 2026/2027, ce dimanche 13 septembre 2026 . Le FC Barcelone se déplaçait à Valence contre le Levante UD. Une victoire 4-2 avec un relâchement en seconde période mais les Catalans assurent leur position de leader du championnat. Le résumé de la rencontre dans notre émission 100 % Barça.Crédit photo : Frédéric Bonet

When Charlotte Meerstadt put solar on her Amsterdam home, the numbers made sense.Then Charlotte moved to the U.S. and rented out the apartment. The solar panels kept doing exactly what they were supposed to do: producing cheap, clean power. But, while the tenant received the lower utility bill, Charlotte still owned the panels and had no clear way to capture the savings her asset was creating.That mismatch revealed a bigger problem hiding across rental housing and distributed energy: the person who can invest in clean energy is often not the same person who gets the financial benefit.Under 1% of rental rooftops have solar.Now put that next to 49 million rental units in the U.S., including roughly 23 million apartments, and you start to see the size of the opportunity Charlotte Meerstadt stumbled into.In this episode, Charlotte, Founder and CEO of Fram Energy, joins Nico to explain how she turned that insight into a company helping property owners, developers, and energy asset owners measure, bill, and collect the value their projects produce.She also shares how early customer conversations shaped the product, why real-world complexity can become a moat, and what she had to unlearn as an engineer to become a founder.Expect to learn:

À 87 jours du Marathon de Valence, Yohan Durand poursuit sa préparation pour le dernier marathon de sa carrière au plus haut niveau. Comment gérer la montée en charge après une blessure au tendon d'Achille ? Pourquoi intégrer progressivement les séances d'intensité, le renforcement musculaire et l'allure marathon ? Avec Benoit Boutron et Anthony Saliou d'ENDURAW, RMC Running vous emmène dans les coulisses de cette préparation pas comme les autres. Au programme également de cet épisode, Anthony Saliou détaille les grands leviers de la performance marathon : volume et temps d'exposition, fréquence d'entraînement, renforcement lourd, intégration de l'allure spécifique, nutrition et gestion des conditions météorologiques.

Germany has turned plug-in solar from a fringe idea into a mainstream energy product found in millions of homes. And the biggest lessons for the U.S. aren't really about solar panels.They're about making solar easier.In this Tactical Tuesday, CraftStrom Co-Founder and CEO Stephan Scherer shares what nearly a decade in the European plug-in solar market taught him about how a new energy category actually scales.Simplicity matters as much as technology. Germany had to simplify registration and remove requirements that made a supposedly plug-and-play product harder to adopt.Policy needs to separate different problems. Electrical safety inside the home and how much power a system exports to the grid aren't the same thing—and Stephan argues that conflating them could unnecessarily limit the U.S. market.And perhaps most importantly, the category scales when it becomes easy to buy and easy to understand. In Germany, plug-in solar eventually moved beyond specialist channels and onto mainstream retail shelves.This is a focused excerpt from my longer SunCast conversation with Stephan. If you want to understand who's actually buying plug-in solar in the U.S., why the ideal customer surprised even him, and whether solar could eventually become something we buy like an appliance, the full episode goes much deeper.Episode 952: Plug-In Solar Is About to Change Everything | Stephan SchererAre there other technologies you've scouted on the frontlines of the Clean Energy Revolution that you think we should be covering here on SunCast?Hit us up - team@suncast.me with your feedback & recommendations.If you want to connect with today's guest, you'll find links to their contact info in the show notes on the blog at https://suncast.media/episodes/.Our Platinum Presenting Sponsor for SunCast is CPS America!You can learn more about all the sponsors who help make this show free for you at www.suncast.media/sponsors.Remember, you can always find resources, learn more about today's guest and explore recommendations, book links, and more than 950 other founder stories and startup advice at www.suncast.media.We'd love if you'd leave us a 5 ⭐ rating & review and it's never been easier: https://www.ratethispodcast.com/suncastSubscribe to Valence, our weekly LinkedIn Newsletter, and learn the elements of compelling storytelling: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/valence-content-that-connects-7145928995363049472/You can connect with me, Nico Johnson, on:Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/nicomeoLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickalus(00:00) The Scale of German Plug-In Solar(00:16) How Germany Scaled Balcony Solar(01:50) The Direct-to-Consumer Plug-In Model(02:15) Establishing European Plug-In Regulations(02:53) The Rapid Market Adoption Curve(04:22) Selling Solar in Everyday Supermarkets(04:48) Simplifying Utility Registration Processes(06:52) Eliminating Locking Plug Interconnection Barriers(08:22) Accelerating Adoption with Zero Sales Tax(09:11) Democratizing Solar Through Mainstream Retailers

Vainqueur 5-0 sur la pelouse de Valence dimanche après-midi, le FC Barcelone a enchaîné un deuxième match en inscrivant cinq buts. C'est même la troisième fois en quatre journées que les hommes de Hansi Flick marquent autant dans un match, après déjà un 5-0 lors de la première journée à Elche. Jérôme Rothen voulait recenir sur le début de saison parfait du Barça.

Episode 151 – Arousal, Valence and links to Behavioural Signs and Treatment   This episode is inspired by a listener request for me to have a chat about emotional arousal, valence and how these relate to behavioural signs and treatment strategies. I love this topic, which is why I have designed a resource, which you can find in the Trinity Professional Guides E-Book, that talks about exactly this – The Canine and Feline Circumplex of Emotions.   Here's what you'll learn: ·         Definitions of arousal and valence as they relate to Veterinary Behaviour Medicine and The Circumplex of Emotions. ·         Why this resource is a brilliant visual guide for Caregivers and Professionals alike. ·         How we can recognize extremes of arousal and valence and their impact on welfare and wellbeing. ·         Neurotransmitter considerations within this model. ·         How this model can guide our pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment choices.     Find The Canine and Feline Circumplex of Emotions as well as many other useful resources in the Professional Guides E-Book here: https://katrin-jahn.mykajabi.com/trinity-ebook   If you liked this episode of the show, Veterinary Behaviour Chat, please LEAVE A 5-STAR REVIEW, like, share, and subscribe!   Facebook Group: Join The Veterinary Behaviour Community on Facebook   You can CONNECT with me: Website: Visit my website Trinity Veterinary Behaviour Instagram: Follow Trinity Veterinary Behaviour on Instagram Trinity Veterinary Behaviour Facebook: Join us on Trinity Veterinary Behaviour's Facebook page Trinity Veterinary Behaviour YouTube: Subscribe to Trinity Veterinary Behaviour on YouTube LinkedIn Profile: Connect with me on LinkedIn   Thank you for tuning in!

L'OM s'est incliné sur la pelouse du Vélodrome face au Paris FC (2-3) et un triplé de Lassine Sinayoko. Les hommes de Bruno Genesio compte trois points au classement après trois journées avant de se déplacer à Rennes et recevoir le PSG. Avec une Coupe d'Europe à jouer, zéro recrue lors du mercato et le début de saison délicat, la saison de l'Olympique de Marseille est-elle déjà fortement compromise ? Retour sur OM - PFC dans le mag du WFC. En Premier League, Arsenal a assumé son statut de champion d'Angleterre en dominant Chelsea à l'Emirates (2-1) grâce à des buts de Havertz et Odegaard alors que Rogers avait ouvert le score en tout début de match. Le WFC revient sur la belle victoire des Gunners et le nouveau carton du Barça à Valence (0-5) avec un doublé de Lamine Yamal et la première titularisation de Rodri.Ce podcast est hébergé par Podcastics, la plateforme pour créer et diffuser votre podcast facilement.

The best technology does not always win.Sass Peress has spent nearly four decades learning why. Since entering solar in 1988, he has built companies, introduced new technologies, sold hundreds of thousands of solar products, backed ideas that worked, backed at least one that did not, and learned firsthand what separates an exciting invention from something customers will actually buy.One of his most useful distinctions is between “bleeders” and “leaders.” Being first can mean paying for every lesson the rest of the market gets to learn from you. The companies that survive know how to stay tenacious without becoming stubborn, change direction when the evidence demands it, and stop falling in love with their own technology.Sass and Nico dig into the early entrepreneurial experiences that shaped him, why “claims are packaging,” what selling 250,000 solar chargers taught him about finding the right customer, and why great salespeople sell outcomes rather than features or pain.They also explore supercapacitors, the changing power needs of AI data centers, and why evaluating any energy technology requires asking a deceptively simple question: under what conditions does this actually work?Ultimately, Sass keeps returning to an even simpler standard for entrepreneurs:Say what you know to be true.If you build, sell, finance, or evaluate emerging energy technology, this conversation is full of lessons earned the expensive way.Are there other technologies you've scouted on the frontlines of the Clean Energy Revolution that you think we should be covering here on SunCast?Hit us up - team@suncast.me with your feedback & recommendations.If you want to connect with today's guest, you'll find links to their contact info in the show notes on the blog at https://suncast.media/episodes/.Our Platinum Presenting Sponsor for SunCast is CPS America!You can learn more about all the sponsors who help make this show free for you at www.suncast.media/sponsors.Remember, you can always find resources, learn more about today's guest and explore recommendations, book links, and more than 950 other founder stories and startup advice at www.suncast.media.We'd love if you'd leave us a 5 ⭐ rating & review and it's never been easier: https://www.ratethispodcast.com/suncastSubscribe to Valence, our weekly LinkedIn Newsletter, and learn the elements of compelling storytelling: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/valence-content-that-connects-7145928995363049472/You can connect with me, Nico Johnson, on:Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/nicomeoLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickalus(00:00) Outsized Growth in a Defensive Solar Market(01:54) The No Shortcuts Strategy and Response Speed(04:58) Building Content for a Forever Company(06:56) Using Content and AI for Internal Operations(12:57) Quality Execution and Answering Real Customer Questions(14:39) Speed to Response and Post-Install Engagement(17:09) Structuring High-Value Customer Referral Programs(21:46) Community Partnerships and Content Recycling(25:52) Strategic Policy Adaptation and Safe-Harboring Supply(31:42) Bringing Meta Ad Strategy In-House(36:56) Multi-Channel Syndication and Executive Thought Leadership(39:30) AI Integration Versus Original Human Creativity(49:04) The Actionable Customer Story Assignment

Tout s'est joué sur deux grands week-ends : celui du 21 août, autour duquel La France insoumise a réuni ses militants à Valence, pendant que Les Ecologistes faisaient la même chose à Grenoble, et le PCF à Toulouse ; puis les 28 et 29 août, avec le Parti socialiste qui a pris ses quartiers d'été à Blois.Alors que les candidatures à la présidentielle se multiplient, ces rassemblements ont lancé la rentrée politique à gauche. Les grandes thématiques étaient l'unité impossible ; le doute des Ecologistes, courtisés ; et la primaire, qui agite les socialistes et Place publique, le mouvement de Raphaël Glucksmann.Quelles dynamiques apparaissent lors de ces week-ends ? Qu'est-ce qui rassemble la gauche… et qu'est-ce qui la divise ? Et comment « lit »-on une université d'été, avec ses mises en scène, ses codes et ses sous-entendus ? Réponses avec Robin Richardot, journaliste au service Politique du Monde, qui s'est rendu à plusieurs de ces grands rendez-vous de la gauche.Un épisode d'Audrey Travère. Réalisation et musiques : Amandine Robillard. Présentation et rédaction en chef : Thomas Baumgartner. Dans cet épisode : reportage d'Hélène Bekmezian pour « L'Heure du Monde » à Blois, captation sonore de Sandrine Cassini à Valence.Cet épisode a été mis en ligne le 3 septembre 2026.---Soirée podcast en live ! Assistez à un enregistrement de L'Heure du Monde, à l'occasion du Festival du Monde. Une soirée autour de cette question : "Pourquoi fait-on moins d'enfants ?". Chaleur Humaine sera là aussi : "La bataille pour le climat est-elle féministe ?". Ce sera le 17 septembre à 18h à l'auditorium du Monde, à Paris, et vous pouvez réserver vos places sur le site evenements-abonnes.lemonde.fr Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Il enfile ses baskets et attache ses lacets pour un dernier grand frisson. Yohan Durand, notre maitre Yodu national, se lance dans le dernier grand défi sur route de sa carrière. Objectif : une vraie performance au marathon de Valence, le 6 décembre prochain ! RMC Running va vous faire vivre cette aventure dans sa nouvelle opération : "La dernière danse". Durant ces nombreuses semaines de préparation, Yohan va pousser sa préparation au maximum pour aller chercher un chrono énorme à 41 ans. Et pour cela, RMC Running l'encadre d'une grande équipe : Alice Michel notre diététicienne-nutritionniste, les laboratoires Enduraw spécialisés dans l'optimisation de la performance par la DATA et Lucis, organisme spécialisé dans les bilans des traitements sanguins. Rien ne sera laissé au hasard ! Mais évidemment Yodu ne fera pas ça tout seul, Benoit va également se livrer au jeu et pousser tous les curseurs à fond !

While many solar companies are fighting to stay afloat, Exact Solar is flying.After growing 23% and then 50% in the previous two years, the Pennsylvania installer says it's up another 73% so far this year. That kind of growth in this market raises an obvious question: what are they doing differently?Aaron Nichols joins Nico once more to unpack the answer, and it isn't just one clever marketing tactic.Exact has built a growth flywheel around learning. Completed projects become proof the sales team can use. Customer questions become content. Pleased customers become referral sources. Advertising results inform the next campaign. And years of accumulated experience are increasingly becoming searchable institutional knowledge that helps the team respond faster and sell smarter.Aaron breaks down exactly how Exact brought more of its advertising in-house, built systems to stay in front of past customers, turned community partnerships into new opportunities, and used AI to make what the company already knows dramatically easier to find. He also explains how that same bias toward learning and adaptation helped Exact respond when the policy landscape changed directions right beneath them.The bigger lesson goes well beyond solar marketing: the better Exact gets at learning from what works, the easier it becomes to keep growing.Expect to learn:

America needs more power. Data centers are accelerating demand, utilities are planning billions of dollars in new infrastructure, and households will ultimately help pay for much of it.But what if we invested some of that money in the households themselves?Ari Matusiak, co-founder and CEO of Rewiring America, makes the case that homes can become a meaningful part of America's energy infrastructure—and that households should be compensated for the value they provide to the grid.In this wide-ranging conversation, Ari and Nico explore the rise of Homegrown Energy, why the old equilibrium between utilities and customers is breaking down, how hyperscalers could help fund household energy upgrades, and where regulators and utilities are already testing what's possible.They also get into the harder question underneath all of it: who gets to participate in the value created as we build out the grid?For Ari, the opportunity is bigger than electrification. If households can provide real value to the grid, the question becomes whether we continue treating them primarily as customers, or start investing in them as part of the solution.That could create a very different deal: more capacity for a power-hungry economy, more flexibility for the grid, and tangible value flowing back to the households helping make it possible.Are there other technologies you've scouted on the frontlines of the Clean Energy Revolution that you think we should be covering here on SunCast?Hit us up - team@suncast.me with your feedback & recommendations.If you want to connect with today's guest, you'll find links to their contact info in the show notes on the blog at https://suncast.media/episodes/.Our Platinum Presenting Sponsor for SunCast is CPS America!You can learn more about all the sponsors who help make this show free for you at www.suncast.media/sponsors.Remember, you can always find resources, learn more about today's guest and explore recommendations, book links, and more than 950 other founder stories and startup advice at www.suncast.media.We'd love if you'd leave us a 5 ⭐ rating & review and it's never been easier: https://www.ratethispodcast.com/suncastSubscribe to Valence, our weekly LinkedIn Newsletter, and learn the elements of compelling storytelling: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/valence-content-that-connects-7145928995363049472/You can connect with me, Nico Johnson, on:Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/nicomeoLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickalus(00:00) The Fastest Path to Power(00:12) Meet Ari Matusiak, Rewiring America's Founder(03:17) The Thread Behind a Career of Big Problems(09:42) Winning an Affordable Housing Bond in Rhode Island(22:47) Rewiring America and the 42% Emissions Insight(27:06) Reframing Households as Energy Infrastructure(29:57) Why the Grid's Political Economy Just Shifted(41:13) Energy Value vs. Community Benefit Payouts(42:30) Building the Missing Middle Market(48:47) The Slow Start of Homegrown Energy(55:31) Data Centers, Grid Distortion, and Homeowners(1:00:25) Illinois as the First Domino(1:05:23) Answering the Subsidy Critique(1:15:13) Dignity, Shared Winning, and What's Hardest

Pour ce podcast inédit, direction le sud de la France… Le 25 septembre 2023, devant la Cour d'Assises de la Drôme. Un procès sous haute tension s'ouvre à Valence. Et nous y étions… Dans le box, un homme de 58 ans. Son nom ? Raymond Touillet. Il est accusé du meurtre sauvage de Chantal de Chillou, une mère célibataire sans histoires, il y a plus de 20 ans. Son corps dénudé et mutilé avait été découvert en août 2001 en pleine forêt. Seuls indices retrouvés sur la scène de crime : Un mégot de cigarette et les traces de pneu d'une Renault 21… Malgré des recherches importantes et des dizaines de pistes explorées, le meurtre de Chantal de Chillou est resté impuni pendant deux décennies… Alors comment la vérité a-t-elle éclaté ? Et que vont décider les jurés ? La réponse dans ce nouveau podcast de Chroniques Criminelles, raconté par Jacques Pradel.Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

En Latinoamérica, la oportunidad no siempre está donde se anuncia más capacidad, sino donde existe una combinación real de demanda, capital comprometido y capacidad de ejecución.Nico Johnson conversa con Juan Manuel Carbajosa, Director de Ventas para Latinoamérica de Shoals Technologies, y Mario Gomez, Presidente de TCI GECOMP. Juntos aportan dos perspectivas complementarias para entender el mercado: la de un responsable global de desarrollo de negocio que habla con decenas de operadores y la de un operador regional con décadas de experiencia construyendo proyectos en varios países.A partir de esa experiencia combinada, la conversación aborda algunas de las decisiones que hoy más importan para desarrolladores, IPPs, EPCs e inversionistas:

Should workforce transformation belong to HR? Bettina Dietsche, Group Chief People and Culture Officer at Allianz, doesn't think so. Bettina leads the people agenda for around 156,000 employees at Allianz. She came to HR after 25 years in IT and digital transformation, picking up the people function while serving as COO of Allianz Commercial during a company turnaround. That background shapes her view that HR's job is to challenge and push transformation onto the business agenda - not to own it.In this episode, David and Bettina discuss: Why she believes HR should challenge and nudge workforce transformation, while ownership sits with the businessHow 25 years leading IT and digital transformation, including a COO turnaround, shaped her approach to the CPO roleWhy she runs regular sessions with more than 60 CEOs across Allianz, and what that partnership actually looks like in practiceHer test for a healthy culture - what people do when no one's watching - and why she calls culture "the hardest currency"How Allianz builds daily AI habits into leadership, from "AI gem sessions" to asking each morning what AI can help with firstWhy she sees AI creating as many new early-career roles as it displaces, and how Allianz is reshaping graduate hiring around that This episode is sponsored by Valence. Nadia, Valence's AI coaching platform, connects talent strategy to the work employees are actually doing — offering coaching from the frontline to the boardroom, and surfacing organisational insights that weren't visible before.As the most widely deployed coach in the Fortune 500, Nadia is already helping global leaders like Nestlé, Delta, CVS, and Kraft Heinz transform talent at scale.Learn more at valence.co/insight222 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

L'info du matin - Quelle est la ville la moins stressante de France ? Le winner du jour - Quittée sept jours avant son mariage, elle maintient la fête. - Ivre en télétravail, il s'endort pendant une visio. Tu te souviens ? - Nouvelle chronique dans le Double Expresso RTL2 cette saison : "Tu te souviens !". Une chronique pleine de nostalgie qui va nous ramener à une autre époque, que les plus jeunes ne connaissent pas, chaque jour dans un domaine différent. Aujourd'hui, on commence avec une question d'actualité : comment faisait-on avant pour survivre aux longs trajets en voiture sur la route des vacances, sans les tablettes et les smartphones ? Les savoirs inutiles - Savez-vous où est né le tout premier office de tourisme de France ? À Gérardmer, dans les Vosges ! La chanson du jour - Imagine Dragons "On Top Of The World" Tendances - Dans cette chronique consacrée aux dernières tendances utiles, étonnantes, bizarres ou futuristes, focus ce matin sur une tendance tourisme : visiter les supermarchés locaux quand on part en vacances. Cela porte même un nom : le tourisme de supermarché. Le jeu surprise (le blindtest) - Sarah d'Ajaccio repart avec un sac à dos Eastpak. La Banque RTL2 - Chloé de Tourcoing gagne 300€. - Cindy de Cornas vers Valence gagne un MacBook Air. Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

durée : 00:15:31 - Les journaux de France Culture - Jean-Luc Mélenchon a clôturé les universités d'été des Insoumis près de Valence, devant plusieurs milliers de militants. Une édition record pour les Amfis, avec 10 000 participants revendiqués par LFI et un discours largement consacré au climat. - équipe : La Rédaction de France Culture, Thomas Cluzel, Aloïs Guérin Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

durée : 00:15:31 - Journal de 12h30 - Jean-Luc Mélenchon a clôturé les universités d'été des Insoumis près de Valence, devant plusieurs milliers de militants. Une édition record pour les Amfis, avec 10 000 participants revendiqués par LFI et un discours largement consacré au climat. - équipe : La Rédaction de France Culture, Thomas Cluzel, Aloïs Guérin Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

À huit mois de l'élection présidentielle, c'est l'heure de la rentrée pour La France insoumise : le mouvement de gauche radicale tient ses universités d'été de jeudi à dimanche, un rassemblement qui sera conclu par un discours de son candidat Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Plus de 6.000 militants insoumis sont attendus dans la Drôme, à Châteauneuf-sur-Isère, près de Valence. Une participation "exceptionnelle" selon LFI. L'événement a notamment été marqué par un débat entre le banquier d'affaires (et possible candidat à la présidentielle) Matthieu Pigasse et le coordinateur Insoumis Manuel Bompard. Et, année présidentielle oblige, c'est Jean-Luc Mélenchon qui prendra la parole dimanche pour le discours de clôture.Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Good companies don't automatically get noticed. And doing good work isn't enough to ensure that customers, investors, journalists, communities, or increasingly AI systems understand why your company matters.Melissa Baldwin has spent more than 20 years exclusively in energy and climate communications. As Senior Vice President at Tigercomm and host of the Scaling Clean podcast, she's had a front-row seat to what helps companies earn attention and trust, and what causes otherwise strong companies to remain largely invisible.Melissa and Nico dig into why communications is routinely underfunded, why executive silence is itself a strategic choice, and what the best companies do differently to become useful sources of information for their markets. Melissa shares examples from Zillow and Redfin, explains why proprietary data can create authority far beyond traditional promotional content, and makes the case for giving CEOs a much larger role in telling the company story.Then they turn to a rapidly changing question: what happens when discovery moves from Google search results to AI-generated answers? Melissa explains how longer, more specific prompts are changing search behavior, why mentions and credible third-party sources increasingly matter, and how companies can begin auditing whether they even show up when an AI system is asked who matters in their category. The conversation also explores why community engagement should be treated as project risk management and why developers need to begin earning local trust long before they need an approval.Expect to learn:

durée : 00:15:01 - Le journal de 18h00 - Coup d'envoi des universités d'été. Les formations politiques font leur rentrée. A gauche, la France insoumise se réunit près de Valence dans une atmosphère déjà très optimiste. - équipe : La Rédaction de France Culture, Jean-François Braun, Caroline Bennetot Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

durée : 00:15:01 - Les journaux de France Culture - Coup d'envoi des universités d'été. Les formations politiques font leur rentrée. A gauche, la France insoumise se réunit près de Valence dans une atmosphère déjà très optimiste. - équipe : La Rédaction de France Culture, Jean-François Braun, Caroline Bennetot Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

Solar construction has always depended on experienced crews adapting to whatever the jobsite throws at them. But what happens when the industry needs to build more projects than its best crews can possibly cover?Cody Houser has spent much of his career on the other side of that problem. Before becoming Director of EPC and Constructability at FTC Solar, he spent eight years running his own construction company, driving piles, building trackers, managing crews as large as 250 people, and experimenting with automated pile driving years before today's wave of solar robotics.His argument for automation starts with something more fundamental than replacing labor: predictability.Robotics can give EPCs a more reliable baseline for daily production. But Cody also explains why the opportunity starts upstream, with trackers and construction workflows designed to make installation simpler and more repeatable, whether the work is performed by humans today or increasingly automated tomorrow. FTC says its Pioneer tracker is already producing 15% faster mechanical installation by human crews, an example Cody uses to show how constructability can translate directly into EPC economics.This conversation explores the shrinking pool of experienced field labor, safety, constructability, AI, and what Cody believes the increasingly autonomous solar jobsite could look like over the next decade.The bigger question isn't what robots can do. It's what happens when we design solar construction around greater consistency from the start.Are there other technologies you've scouted on the frontlines of the Clean Energy Revolution that you think we should be covering here on SunCast?Hit us up - team@suncast.me with your feedback & recommendations.If you want to connect with today's guest, you'll find links to their contact info in the show notes on the blog at https://suncast.media/episodes/.Our Platinum Presenting Sponsor for SunCast is CPS America!You can learn more about all the sponsors who help make this show free for you at www.suncast.media/sponsors.Remember, you can always find resources, learn more about today's guest and explore recommendations, book links, and more than 950 other founder stories and startup advice at www.suncast.media.We'd love if you'd leave us a 5 ⭐ rating & review and it's never been easier: https://www.ratethispodcast.com/suncastSubscribe to Valence, our weekly LinkedIn Newsletter, and learn the elements of compelling storytelling: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/valence-content-that-connects-7145928995363049472/You can connect with me, Nico Johnson, on:Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/nicomeoLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickalus

Dr. Ralph Adolphs, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biology at Caltech and a leading expert on the science of human emotions. We discuss how emotions shape our attention and decision-making, whether emotions are truly “stored” in the body, and whether facial expressions are truly reliable signals of emotion. We also cover tools for improving emotional regulation, including cognitive reappraisal and deliberate cold exposure. This episode provides a modern scientific explanation of how emotions are created and regulated in the brain and body, their many impacts on other aspects of brain function, and practical tools for improving emotional wellbeing and processing. Get tickets to Huberman Lab live events: https://www.hubermanlab.com/events Pre-order Andrew's book Protocols: https://protocolsbook.com Thank you to our sponsors AG1: https://drinkag1.com/huberman Function: https://functionhealth.com/huberman Helix Sleep: https://helixsleep.com/huberman LMNT: https://drinklmnt.com/huberman Rorra: https://rorra.com/huberman Timestamps (00:00:00) Ralph Adolphs (00:02:54) Emotions; Qualities of Emotions: Priority, Valence (00:10:00) Qualities of Emotions: Scalability, Persistence (00:15:25) Sponsors: Helix Sleep & Rorra (00:18:17) Do Animals Have Emotions?, Conscious Experience (00:22:58) Monitoring & Regulating Emotions; Emotional Granularity (00:31:22) Emotional Regulation, Tools: Situational Avoidance, Ice Baths (00:37:11) Ultramarathons, Perseverance, Adversity; Awe (00:45:04) Sponsor: AG1 (00:46:17) Perception of Emotions, Amygdala & Fear, Facial Expressions (00:51:59) Interpreting Others' Emotions, Prediction (00:57:52) Emotions as Adaptations to the Environment, Types of Fear (01:00:13) Feeling Emotions in the Body, Pain, Insula (01:08:05) Brain & Body Connection; Marketing & Emotion (01:12:34) Sponsor: Function (01:14:11) Art, Music & Emotion (01:17:43) Interpreting Facial Expressions, Developing Emotions, Flexibility vs Reflexes (01:25:11) Emotional Intelligence, Context-Dependent Social Intelligence; Autism (01:33:31) Sponsor: LMNT (01:34:51) Autism & Social Dynamics, Eye Contact (01:42:01) Change Your Personality?, Body Movement & Thought, Social Interaction (01:47:18) Emotion Regulation, Tool: Training Mental Stillness (01:53:46) Task Switching, Tool: Meditation, Breathing Techniques (02:02:07) Illness, Diagnosis & Emotions, Gratitude & Awe (02:06:52) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube, Spotify & Apple Follow, Reviews & Feedback, Sponsors, Protocols Book, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter Disclaimer & Disclosures Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Australia has spent years ahead of many markets on the distributed solar adoption curve. Now it is giving the rest of us an early look at what happens when millions of those systems move from installation into decades of ownership, maintenance, repair, replacement, and eventually recycling.Daniel Lazarus, co-founder and CEO of Industrias Services Group, has built his company around that second act. After years in solar construction, he saw an enormous need for maintenance but also discovered why relatively few companies have figured out how to deliver it profitably at scale.In this conversation, Daniel shares what his team is finding on aging solar assets, from missing documentation and preventable design problems to a 400-kilowatt commercial system that had fallen to essentially zero production. But the larger story is about the business being built around those problems.Daniel explains how Industrias developed a national service network, why process and data matter more than another piece of software, how EPCs and other partners use Industrias behind the scenes, and why maintenance relationships can eventually create opportunities for system replacement and new construction.For solar founders, EPCs, asset owners, and operators, Australia may offer an early preview of the service economy that follows widespread deployment, and what it actually takes to build for it.Expect to Learn:

Utilities used to plan around relatively predictable demand. That assumption is disappearing.In this opening keynote from Intersolar & Energy Storage North America Midwest, Nico Johnson sits down with 3 utility executives; Bria Shea of Xcel Energy, Andy Plenge of ComEd, and Brice Sheriff of Ameren Illinois to examine what happens when electricity demand can arrive faster than the infrastructure needed to serve it—and distributed energy resources increasingly change how power moves across the grid.The conversation explores the difficult balance between reliability, affordability, and investment; what rising electricity costs actually reflect; the practical constraints to deploying more DERs; and how utilities are rethinking planning for a system with far more uncertainty than the one they inherited.Three utilities operating in different markets arrive at a similar reality: planning the next grid will require more flexibility, better coordination, and new ways of thinking about both customers and the resources connected to the system.Are there other technologies you've scouted on the frontlines of the Clean Energy Revolution that you think we should be covering here on SunCast?Hit us up - team@suncast.me with your feedback & recommendations.If you want to connect with today's guest, you'll find links to their contact info in the show notes on the blog at https://suncast.media/episodes/.Our Platinum Presenting Sponsor for SunCast is CPS America!You can learn more about all the sponsors who help make this show free for you at www.suncast.media/sponsors.Remember, you can always find resources, learn more about today's guest and explore recommendations, book links, and more than 875 other founder stories and startup advice at www.suncast.media.Subscribe to Valence, our weekly LinkedIn Newsletter, and learn the elements of compelling storytelling: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/valence-content-that-connects-7145928995363049472/You can connect with me, Nico Johnson, on:Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/nicomeoLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickalus

Pepper Construction has survived the Great Depression, World War II, multiple recessions, and a global pandemic. As the family business approaches its 100th anniversary, its next challenge is not simply surviving another disruption. It is pursuing new opportunities without losing the culture, discipline, and sense of responsibility that carried it this far.Jake Pepper is part of the fourth generation preparing to lead Pepper into that next chapter. His path into the family business was anything but automatic. He resisted joining, studied building science, traded natural gas options, and earned an MBA before returning with a deeper understanding of both the company and the complicated dynamics of a multigenerational enterprise.Jake went on to build Pepper Energy from an initial construction-only solar project while helping the broader company expand into batteries, powered land, and hyperscale data centers. He and Nico explore how new businesses earn trust inside an established company, why each generation may get only one consequential risk, and how leaders protect the core while adapting to markets that can change almost overnight.Expect to Learn:

After building and selling multiple companies, Marc Lopata has learned that the decisions that shape a business are rarely the ones people celebrate. They're the small decisions, made consistently over time, that ultimately determine whether a company lasts.In this conversation, Marc shares the operating philosophy he's developed through decades of building companies, leading teams, and mentoring the next generation of entrepreneurs. From hiring the engineering intern who eventually bought his company to thinking about exit strategies before starting a business, resisting the lure of venture capital, and building teams that don't depend on the founder to succeed, Marc's stories come from solar—but the lessons apply to anyone responsible for leading people, managing risk, and building something meant to last.Expect to learn:⚡ What separates companies that endure from those that don't⚡ Why Marc interviewed 45 candidates before hiring the intern who eventually bought his company⚡ How to think about partners, succession, and exit planning long before you need them⚡ Why Marc considers chasing venture capital one of his biggest business mistakes⚡ How decades of building solar and storage projects shaped his approach to technology, risk, and leadershipWhether you're building your first company or leading an established team, Marc offers practical wisdom earned through experience, mistakes, and decades of disciplined execution.Are there other technologies you've scouted on the frontlines of the Clean Energy Revolution that you think we should be covering here on SunCast?Hit us up - team@suncast.me with your feedback & recommendations.If you want to connect with today's guest, you'll find links to their contact info in the show notes on the blog at https://suncast.media/episodes/.Our Platinum Presenting Sponsor for SunCast is CPS America!You can learn more about all the sponsors who help make this show free for you at www.suncast.media/sponsors.Remember, you can always find resources, learn more about today's guest and explore recommendations, book links, and more than 875 other founder stories and startup advice at www.suncast.media.Subscribe to Valence, our weekly LinkedIn Newsletter, and learn the elements of compelling storytelling: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/valence-content-that-connects-7145928995363049472/You can connect with me, Nico Johnson, on:Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/nicomeoLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickalus

We know how to build power. Every day, the clean energy industry builds more of it.But there's another kind of power that's far more difficult to generate—and arguably even more important.The kind that determines whether an industry continues to grow regardless of who's in office. The kind that shapes public opinion before a project is ever proposed. The kind that makes policymakers think twice before standing in your way.Tom Matzzie has spent his career building both.Before founding CleanChoice Energy, he spent fifteen years building political movements. Today, he's helping build something the clean energy industry has historically lacked: the institutions, relationships, and long-term political capacity that make an industry durable.In this conversation, Tom introduces a phrase I hadn't heard before but haven't stopped thinking about since: mythic power.It's a simple idea with profound implications.What if the real measure of our industry's success isn't how many gigawatts we deploy......but whether we've built enough influence that our progress no longer depends on the outcome of the next election?Whether you're a founder, developer, investor, policymaker, or simply someone who wants to see the energy transition succeed, this conversation will challenge how you think about what it really takes to build an industry that lasts.In this episode:What "mythic power" means - and why Tom believes every mature industry eventually develops it.Why the crypto industry offers an unexpected lesson for clean energy.Why political durability is built long before a crisis arrives.Why institutions may matter as much as innovation in the next chapter of the energy transition.After listening, I'd love to hear your answer to the same question I found myself asking:Can clean energy build mythic power?Are there other technologies you've scouted on the frontlines of the Clean Energy Revolution that you think we should be covering here on SunCast?Hit us up - team@suncast.me with your feedback & recommendations.If you want to connect with today's guest, you'll find links to their contact info in the show notes on the blog at https://suncast.media/episodes/.Our Platinum Presenting Sponsor for SunCast is CPS America!You can learn more about all the sponsors who help make this show free for you at www.suncast.media/sponsors.Remember, you can always find resources, learn more about today's guest and explore recommendations, book links, and more than 875 other founder stories and startup advice at www.suncast.media.Subscribe to Valence, our weekly LinkedIn Newsletter, and learn the elements of compelling storytelling: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/valence-content-that-connects-7145928995363049472/You can connect with me, Nico Johnson, on:Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/nicomeoLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickalus

Few people have had a front-row seat to the evolution of the modern solar industry quite like Jeff Spies.Over four decades, Jeff has helped shape the industry as an engineer, educator, trainer, and founder of Planet Plan Sets, working alongside installers and EPCs to solve the technical and permitting challenges behind thousands of solar and storage projects. That perspective gives him a unique vantage point on how the industry has changed—and what hasn't.In this conversation, Jeff shares lessons from a lifetime in solar, including:⚡ How the earliest days of residential solar still influence the industry today⚡ Why every solar project presents a different challenge—and why experience still matters⚡ What the rapid growth of battery storage means for installers and system designers⚡ Why permitting, engineering, and interconnection remain some of the industry's biggest hurdles⚡ How decades of industry evolution have shaped Jeff's perspective on where solar goes nextWhether you're designing systems, running an installation business, or simply trying to better understand the forces shaping the solar industry, this conversation offers the perspective of someone who has spent a lifetime helping it grow.Are there other technologies you've scouted on the frontlines of the Clean Energy Revolution that you think we should be covering here on SunCast?Hit us up - team@suncast.me with your feedback & recommendations.If you want to connect with today's guest, you'll find links to their contact info in the show notes on the blog at https://suncast.media/episodes/.Our Platinum Presenting Sponsor for SunCast is CPS America!You can learn more about all the sponsors who help make this show free for you at www.suncast.media/sponsors.Remember, you can always find resources, learn more about today's guest and explore recommendations, book links, and more than 875 other founder stories and startup advice at www.suncast.media.Subscribe to Valence, our weekly LinkedIn Newsletter, and learn the elements of compelling storytelling: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/valence-content-that-connects-7145928995363049472/You can connect with me, Nico Johnson, on:Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/nicomeoLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickalus

How do you bring AI into an organisation without losing what's made it work for 150 years? In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green is joined by Eric Dozier, Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer at Eli Lilly, to explore what it takes for HR to lead AI and workforce transformation at enterprise scale. Join them, as they discuss: Why HR has to transform twice over in the AI era, first as a function, then as an organisation What prompted Lilly's AI journey, and how the friction points that came up shaped the approach going forward How the role of the manager is changing as AI becomes part of everyday work What separates AI capability from simply increased AI usage The principles guiding Lilly's approach to responsible AI, including where it supports leadership judgement and where it shouldn't How employee feedback has reshaped Lilly's AI strategy, and what Eric believes HR leaders should prioritise as they lead their own transformations This episode is sponsored by Valence. Nadia, Valence's AI coaching platform, connects talent strategy to the work employees are actually doing — offering coaching from the frontline to the boardroom, and surfacing organisational insights that weren't visible before. As the most widely deployed coach in the Fortune 500, Nadia is already helping global leaders like Nestlé, Delta, CVS, and Kraft Heinz transform talent at scale. Learn more at valence.co/insight222 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Plug-in solar has the potential to change far more than how or where we install solar panels. I believe it could fundamentally change who gets to participate in the energy transition.I recently sat down with Stephan Scherer, Co-Founder and CEO of CraftStrom, who's spent nearly a decade helping pioneer the plug-in solar market—first in Europe, and now here in the United States. Stephan didn't simply watch this category emerge. He helped move it from a niche idea to a product you can buy off-the-shelf in mainstream retail stores like Aldi and Lidl.In this conversation, Stephan shares what his customers taught him as the market evolved, why the U.S. is now wrestling with many of the same questions Europe faced years ago, and what policymakers, utilities, retailers, installers, and manufacturers should be paying attention to as this category begins taking shape here at home.We also explore one of the biggest surprises from CraftStrom's own customer base: the people buying these systems aren't always who the solar industry expected. That raises a much bigger question about who traditional rooftop solar has been leaving behind—and whether plug-in solar could become an entirely new on-ramp to energy independence.Whether you're writing policy, designing energy products, selling residential solar, or simply curious about where customer-owned energy is headed next, this conversation offers a rare opportunity to learn from someone who's helped build this market from the very beginning—and why he believes plug-in solar is about to change everything.Are there other technologies you've scouted on the frontlines of the Clean Energy Revolution that you think we should be covering here on SunCast?Hit us up - team@suncast.me with your feedback & recommendations.If you want to connect with today's guest, you'll find links to their contact info in the show notes on the blog at https://suncast.media/episodes/.Our Platinum Presenting Sponsor for SunCast is CPS America!You can learn more about all the sponsors who help make this show free for you at www.suncast.media/sponsors.Remember, you can always find resources, learn more about today's guest and explore recommendations, book links, and more than 875 other founder stories and startup advice at www.suncast.media.Subscribe to Valence, our weekly LinkedIn Newsletter, and learn the elements of compelling storytelling: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/valence-content-that-connects-7145928995363049472/You can connect with me, Nico Johnson, on:Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/nicomeoLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickalus

The most expensive mistakes on a solar project usually aren't made during the install. They're made long before anyone arrives on site.Greg Smith has spent nearly two decades helping installers avoid those mistakes. As one of the solar industry's most respected trainers and educators, and the author of a practical guide to energy storage, he's helped thousands of professionals understand what it takes to build reliable solar and storage systems that perform as intended long after the installation is complete.In this live conversation from the NABCEP conference, Greg and Nico Johnson explore why communication has become the industry's number one service call, how better system design prevents costly callbacks, and why setting realistic homeowner expectations is just as important as selecting the right equipment. Along the way, Greg shares the simple disciplines that separate installers who are constantly troubleshooting from those who build systems that simply work.Expect to learn:

What if the resistance you're seeing from your team isn't opposition at all? David Green is joined by Travis Hahler, who leads global strategy and transformation at Salesforce and is also the founder of Neurological Nomad, where he applies neuroscience and neuropsychology to how leaders manage change. Travis is the author of the new book Rethink Resistance, and his central argument reframes almost everything: resistance isn't personal, it's protective. Why resistance to change should be read as information, not opposition: The six neurological barriers to change, and why leaders need to understand each one How routine and old habits quietly pull people back toward what made them successful before, even when they're not against the future Why cognitive load and pacing determine whether people actually learn through a transformation, or just survive it What employees are really losing in change that's genuinely good for them, and why leaders often miss it How to apply these insights practically to workforce transformation and AI adoption Whether you're leading a transformation right now or preparing for one, this conversation will change how you think about the resistance you're seeing. This episode is sponsored by Valence. Nadia, Valence's AI coaching platform, connects talent strategy to the work employees are actually doing — offering coaching from the frontline to the boardroom, and surfacing organisational insights that weren't visible before. As the most widely deployed coach in the Fortune 500, Nadia is already helping global leaders like Nestlé, Delta, CVS, and Kraft Heinz transform talent at scale. Learn more at valence.co/insight222 Additional resources: Rethink Resistance: Embracing Neuroscience to Lead Transformational Change Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

David Holmes has spent decades at the intersection of energy and technology, giving him a front-row seat to one of the biggest shifts our industry has ever faced.As Global Industries CTO at Dell Technologies, he works with utilities, hyperscalers, developers, and data center operators who are all asking the same question: how do we power the rapid growth of AI?But David argues that's only half the story.The bigger opportunity is using AI to make our energy system itself more intelligent. From flexible compute and workload orchestration to long-duration storage, demand response, and the idea of "maximizing every electron," this conversation explores how the relationship between electricity and compute is being fundamentally rewritten.Along the way, David explains why energy has become a board-level conversation inside technology companies, why decades of conventional data center thinking are being challenged, and why the next generation of infrastructure may be defined less by building more generation than by making better use of what we already have.Expect to Learn:

Battery recycling is about to become one of the most important pieces of the clean energy transition. But before we can build a true circular economy, there's a problem hiding in plain sight.Today's recycling process often starts by shredding batteries with different chemistries into the same stream, creating inconsistent feedstock that's harder to refine, harder to value, and harder to return to the supply chain.Sheeba Dawood, CEO and co-founder of Minerva Lithium, believes the missing step comes before the shredder. Her team has developed battery chemical fingerprinting technology that identifies battery chemistry before processing, creating more consistent feedstock, improving traceability, and unlocking more value from recycled materials.Along the way, we also explore Sheeba's journey from nanoscience researcher to entrepreneur, why she was carrying business cards as a PhD student, and what motivated her to turn laboratory research into a commercial technology.Expect to learn: