Podcasts about Valence

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:

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:

durée : 00:04:32 - À Die, l'incendie est limité au massif de Justin depuis ce mardi. Le feu a parcouru 4.400 hectares. Les communes drômoises s'entraident après le passage de ce feu gigantesque. La solidarité s'organise, explique Nicolas Daragon, maire de Valence et président de l'association des maires de la Drôme. Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

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:

Is your HR function organised the way employees actually experience it, or just the way it's always been done? In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green is joined by Tony Truong, VP of People Strategy, Operations, Technology and Analytics at Chime, to unpack why most HR functions are still organised in silos, by specialty, while employees experience work as a series of moments: getting hired, being onboarded, going for a promotion. Tony has spent the last two years closing that gap, rebuilding Chime's people function from the ground up as the company has scaled into a public company. In this episode, David and Tony discuss: Why the real limitation holding HR back is fragmentation, not ambition What it's taken to rebuild a people function from the ground up at a newly public company How AI has reshaped recruiting at Chime, cutting a process that used to take days down to hours Tony's three-stage framework for thinking about AI's role in the business: assistance, automation, and orchestration What it actually looks like to move people analytics from the periphery of HR to the centre of how a business makes decisions 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: Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends 2026 Report Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Essayer 1 mois offert chez NOLIO avec le code EXTRATERRIEN : https://www.nolio.io/account/signup/?utm=extraterrien2h09'21 au marathon, 23 selections en equipe de France et une carriere qui touche a sa fin dans quelques mois : Yohan Durand livre ici l'interview la plus franche de sa carriere. Marathonien du Bergerac Athletique Club, 11e performeur francais de tous les temps sur la distance, il est aujourd'hui consultant pour RMC Running et cofondateur de l'academie My Running Club. Dans cet episode, il raconte l'entrainement a la kenyane qui a change sa vision de la course a pied, le jour ou il a craque en pleine preparation d'un marathon, son operation du tendon d'Achille, et la question qu'il se pose a six mois de la retraite : doit-il tenter une methode d'entrainement qu'il n'a jamais essayee pour sa derniere grande course a Valence. Une plongée sans filtre dans les coulisses du haut niveau, entre plaisir, blessures et lucidité sur la fin d'une carrière._Chapitrage_00:00 - Intro et methode kenyane04:12 - Craquer en pleine preparation07:00 - Chaussures carbone et blessures11:12 - Pourquoi Valence explose15:04 - Tenter le double seuil norvegien21:00 - Data, lactate et sensations25:16 - Performance ou reseaux sociaux31:10 - Nutrition et ravitaillement marathon38:14 - Le vrai metier de lievre45:16 - Tendon d'Achille et 4 questions__⚔️ Notre Programme Rox Evolution : https://bit.ly/roxevolution-podcast

En pleine vague de chaleur et dans un contexte de sécheresse exceptionnelle, les feux d'artifice du 14 Juillet ont été jugés trop dangereux dans de nombreux départements et de nombreuses villes. Le risque élevé de départ de feu a conduit les autorités à annuler plusieurs spectacles pyrotechniques, une décision qui suscite la frustration des professionnels du secteur. C'est le cas à Valence (Drôme). Écoutez le maire Nicolas Daragon, également vice-président de l'Association des maires de France.Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Heather Reams spends her days at the intersection of clean energy and public policy, helping shape conversations with lawmakers about how the U.S. meets rapidly growing electricity demand. As President and CEO of Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions (CRES), she brings an insider's perspective on the political shifts redefining how Washington talks about solar—and why those shifts matter far beyond Capitol Hill.In this conversation, Heather explains why affordability has become the dominant energy issue in Washington, why permitting reform remains one of the biggest barriers to building new infrastructure, and why solar's greatest political advantage today may be something much simpler than subsidies or ideology: it's ready to be built. Along the way, we explore how Republican engagement with solar is evolving, what changed after the debate over federal tax credits, and why the industry's long-term success still depends on educating policymakers and communities alike.Expect to Learn:

One of the most common assumptions in business is that responsibility should be earned only after years of experience.After more than two decades as a Navy F/A-18 fighter pilot and instructor, Jason Knapp came to a different conclusion: capability often follows responsibility, provided organizations are willing to invest in training, honest feedback, and continuous learning.That philosophy shaped his transition into clean energy, where he worked across battery manufacturing, supply chains, and policy advocacy, helping lawmakers better understand the technologies shaping America's energy future. Now, after years of advocating from outside government, Jason is running for Congress because he believes the people writing energy policy should understand the technologies, industries, and communities those decisions affect.This isn't a conversation about politics. It's about leadership, organizational culture, and why expertise belongs in the rooms where important decisions get made.Expect to learn:

A single battery cell can shut down an entire storage plant.It's one of the many operational realities that make battery storage fundamentally different from solar, and one of the reasons software, analytics, and automation are becoming just as important as the batteries themselves.Ty Fenton, Director of Data Analytics at FlexGen, joins Nico Johnson to explore what really happens after a battery project is commissioned. From managing thousands of individual cells to processing enormous volumes of operational data, Ty explains why operating battery storage requires a completely different mindset than operating solar. They also explore how AI data centers are creating new demands for battery storage and why operators are rethinking the role batteries will play in supporting the next generation of digital infrastructure.Expect to learn:

How do you tell the difference between AI that's genuinely transforming HR and AI that's just a slide in a vendor deck? In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green is joined by Parker Mitchell, Founder and CEO of Valence, the team behind the AI coaching platform Nadia, to discuss what it really takes for HR to prove value in an increasingly crowded AI market. Join them, as they discuss: How to separate genuine AI capability from marketing claims in an increasingly crowded marketWhy AI budgets are increasingly coming from the C-suite rather than HR, and what that means for how HR shows up in these conversationsWhat CHROs should be asking before choosing between an AI-native provider and a legacy platform with bolted-on AI featuresHow the best people analytics teams are proving ROI from AI coaching, beyond adoption metricsWhat it looks like to make performance management continuous rather than a once or twice-a-year processWhy frontline and operational workers need a different approach to AI coaching than knowledge workersValence's recent partnership with Microsoft and what it signals about where AI coaching is heading 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.

Direction Font-Romeu pour le maître Yodu... Bienvenue dans le journal de bord ! Alors que le Tour de France va passer tout proche de l'endroit où il se trouve, Yohan Durand débriefe le début de son stage en altitude ! Enormément de vélo et très peu de running pour le moment, le temps de s'acclimater et de se mettre en jambe, toujours en écoutant son corps et en faisant attention aux douleurs récurrentes. L'objectif, dérouiller les jambes, monter progressivement en charge et en tempo. En attendant début septembre et le début réel de la préparation pour le marathon de Valence, que tout RMC Running va vous faire vivre à fond ! Sans oublier le 20km de Paris, on lance le concours ! Direction Instagram pour vous inscrire !

durée : 00:05:47 - Des agents du conseil départemental de la Drôme manifestent ce vendredi matin à Valence devant leur lieu de travail. Ils dénoncent une réorganisation qui risque de mettre à mal le travail des agents ainsi que leurs champs d'action. - invités : Julie Tezkratt Journaliste. Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

Last year, solar and storage accounted for more than 80% of all new power generation capacity added in the United States.So why does our industry still behave like the underdog?In this special collaboration between SunCast and Energy Empire, Nico Johnson and Jigar Shah sit down with Dan Shugar, one of the most accomplished entrepreneurs in solar, to explore a question that reaches far beyond technology, manufacturing, or policy.Perhaps our biggest challenge isn't building projects......it's learning how to lead?Dan has spent four decades helping shape the modern solar industry. In this candid conversation, he explains why solar has already won on economics, why domestic manufacturing became a strategic imperative long before it became political, and why the industry's greatest opportunity now is changing how it communicates with policymakers, communities, and the public.The conversation also explores the leadership principles that have kept Dan's core team together across multiple companies, how semiconductor thinking helped him see around corners before the rest of the market, and why culture remains one of the most durable competitive advantages in business.Jigar adds another important dimension, arguing that clean energy's biggest challenge is no longer proving the economics.It's winning the narrative.Together, they make the case that the next decade won't be defined by better technology.It will be defined by better leadership.Expect to learn:

For decades, the energy industry has treated its biggest challenge as building more power.Sean Kelly thinks that's the wrong question.As CEO and co-founder of Amperon, Sean spends his days helping utilities, traders, generators, and some of the world's largest electricity users anticipate what's coming next. And what he's learned is surprisingly simple: the grid's biggest challenge isn't producing enough electricity. It's knowing when, where, and how demand, weather, and renewable generation will collide.That shift is changing everything.In this Tactical Tuesday conversation, Sean explains why Amperon is moving beyond traditional deterministic forecasting toward probabilistic forecasting, giving customers a range of possible outcomes instead of a single answer. More importantly, he makes the case that the future of the grid won't be won by building for all 8,760 hours of the year. It will be won by managing the handful of hours that matter most.Expect to learn:

What would your organisation look like if it worked more like an octopus — distributed, adaptive, and capable of sensing and reacting without waiting for instructions from the centre? In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green is joined by Phil Lebrun and Jana Werner, Executives in Residence at Amazon Web Services and authors of The Octopus Organization, to explore why so many transformations fail to stick — and what a more adaptive, human approach to change actually looks like. Join them as they discuss:What the octopus organisation metaphor is, and why it offers a different model to the traditional, hierarchical "Tin Man" organisation The three themes — clarity, ownership, and curiosity — that separate organisations that adapt well from those that don't Why transformation can no longer be treated as a one-time event HR's evolving role in driving and supporting transformation How to measure whether change is actually working, beyond vanity metrics Real examples of leaders and organisations putting these ideas into practice 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/insight222Resources:The Octopus Organization by Phil Lebrun and Jana Werner Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This AI:AM highlights cut brings together Cameron Berg, David Duvenaud, Michiel Bakker, Shawn “swyx” Wang, and Bing Xu to examine what we understand about frontier AI systems and what happens as more decisions move into their hands. Berg grounds model-consciousness debates in experiments on architecture, agency, valence, and welfare, while Duvenaud argues that even well-aligned AI could gradually disempower humans through ordinary economic choices. Bakker frames Europe's AI challenge as a sovereignty problem, and swyx turns to practitioner stakes around agents, evals, maintainable code, and who owns the system of record. Xu closes the loop at the infrastructure layer, arguing that self-improving compute and GPU-kernel automation may deepen rather than weaken the CUDA moat. For full show notes, links, and references, read the episode page:https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/ai-am-4-cameron-on-model-consciousness-duvenaud-s-gradual-disempowerment-swyx-s-ai-eng-alpha/ Mercury: Command is Mercury's new conversational interface, giving you natural-language access to your finances and helping you take actions within your existing permissions and approval policies. Visit https://mercury.com to learn more and apply online in minutes. Sponsor: Claude: Claude by Anthropic is an AI collaborator that understands your workflow and helps you tackle research, writing, coding, and organization with deep context. Get started with Claude and explore Claude Pro at https://claude.ai/tcr CHAPTERS: (00:00) About the Episode (00:38) Special Sponsor (02:26) Model consciousness indicators (10:47) Valence inside models (Part 1) (17:09) Sponsor: Claude (19:01) Valence inside models (Part 2) (19:01) Misalignment and uncertainty (25:16) Gradual disempowerment threat (35:10) Slow zones and successors (47:41) Europe's AI bind (55:13) Frontier code benchmarks (01:01:59) Routing and memory (01:10:42) Agent infrastructure strain (01:16:25) Self improving infrastructure (01:27:56) Routing compute costs (01:35:39) Sovereign AI financing (01:42:24) Judging AI judges (01:47:26) Building AI DNA (01:52:38) Episode Outro (01:55:09) Outro PRODUCED BY: https://aipodcast.ing SOCIAL LINKS: Website: https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai Twitter (Podcast): https://x.com/cogrev_podcast Twitter (Nathan): https://x.com/labenz LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nathanlabenz/ Youtube: https://youtube.com/@CognitiveRevolutionPodcast Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/the-cognitive-revolution-ai-builders-researchers-and/id1669813431 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6yHyok3M3BjqzR0VB5MSyk

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Everyone agrees we need more distributed energy. The harder question is: who pays for it?That's the question Molly Bauch has been wrestling with.As North American Connected Energy Lead at Accenture, Molly helped develop a new model that connects one of the fastest-growing sources of electricity demand with one of the country's biggest energy challenges.The idea is surprisingly simple.Data centers need community support and faster paths to power. Millions of low-income households need access to affordable solar and storage. What if those two needs could solve each other?In this conversation, Molly explains how Accenture, Grid Alternatives, and a growing coalition of partners are creating a playbook that helps data centers invest directly in distributed energy, lowering energy costs for families today while laying the foundation for tomorrow's virtual power plants.If it scales, this isn't just another financing model. It could reshape how we think about paying for grid infrastructure altogether.Expect to learn:

L'Europe comme une fournaise. La vague de chaleur qui sévit en France, en Espagne, au Royaum- Uni est en train de se déplacer vers l'est de l'Europe... La Pologne, la Croatie ou l'Autriche se préparent... C'est pour jeudi. Alors que la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique a disparu des discours publics, place à l'adaptation.   Comment gérer les 40 degrés ? En Espagne, on connait ces extrêmes... Les entreprises, les écoles ont même des horaires d'été. Mais, c'est depuis les terribles inondations de Valence que l'État a créé un congé climatique de quatre jours. Pas encore activé sous la canicule, Diane Cambon. Et en Belgique, où là aussi les températures atteignent des records historiques, des chercheurs de l'université de Louvain ont évalué les effets d'une solution originale : repeindre les toits en blanc ! Et c'est efficace, Jean-Jacques Hery. À écouter aussiÀ la Une: la canicule en Europe de l'Ouest L'après Orban en Hongrie... Le nouveau Premier ministre Peter Magyar cherche à faire tomber « les marionnettes de l'Ancien régime », comme il les appelle. Mais certains, comme le président de la République, s'accrochent. Sa fonction reste essentiellement protocolaire, mais il peut gravement retarder le travail du Parlement. Et alors que le pays attend de pouvoir enfin toucher les aides européennes bloquées, c'est plus qu'une épine dans le pied. Reportage à Budapest de Florence Labruyère.    À lire aussiEn Hongrie, le Parlement inscrit la limitation du mandat de Premier ministre dans la Constitution Des protections menstruelles gratuites en Écosse C'est une révolution en douceur, mais une révolution de société majeure... Depuis 2022, l'Écosse est la première nation dans le monde à offrir des protections hygiéniques gratuites à toutes les femmes. Des distributeurs qu'on trouve partout dans les toilettes des collèges, lycées, universités, piscines, musées… ou les pharmacies. Ce qui devait être, au départ, une mesure de lutte contre la pauvreté, s'est depuis élargie à tout le pays, à toutes les entreprises. Reportage à Aberdeen de Thomas Harms. À lire aussi«Je mets des couches à la place»: face à la précarité menstruelle, certaines femmes sont contraintes au système D La chronique musique de Vincent Théval  Canicule oblige, un groupe au nom très rafraichissant, le groupe danois Iceage 1835. 

L'Europe comme une fournaise. La vague de chaleur qui sévit en France, en Espagne, au Royaum- Uni est en train de se déplacer vers l'est de l'Europe... La Pologne, la Croatie ou l'Autriche se préparent... C'est pour jeudi. Alors que la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique a disparu des discours publics, place à l'adaptation.   Comment gérer les 40 degrés ? En Espagne, on connait ces extrêmes... Les entreprises, les écoles ont même des horaires d'été. Mais, c'est depuis les terribles inondations de Valence que l'État a créé un congé climatique de quatre jours. Pas encore activé sous la canicule, Diane Cambon. Et en Belgique, où là aussi les températures atteignent des records historiques, des chercheurs de l'université de Louvain ont évalué les effets d'une solution originale : repeindre les toits en blanc ! Et c'est efficace, Jean-Jacques Hery. À écouter aussiÀ la Une: la canicule en Europe de l'Ouest L'après Orban en Hongrie... Le nouveau Premier ministre Peter Magyar cherche à faire tomber « les marionnettes de l'Ancien régime », comme il les appelle. Mais certains, comme le président de la République, s'accrochent. Sa fonction reste essentiellement protocolaire, mais il peut gravement retarder le travail du Parlement. Et alors que le pays attend de pouvoir enfin toucher les aides européennes bloquées, c'est plus qu'une épine dans le pied. Reportage à Budapest de Florence Labruyère.    À lire aussiEn Hongrie, le Parlement inscrit la limitation du mandat de Premier ministre dans la Constitution Des protections menstruelles gratuites en Écosse C'est une révolution en douceur, mais une révolution de société majeure... Depuis 2022, l'Écosse est la première nation dans le monde à offrir des protections hygiéniques gratuites à toutes les femmes. Des distributeurs qu'on trouve partout dans les toilettes des collèges, lycées, universités, piscines, musées… ou les pharmacies. Ce qui devait être, au départ, une mesure de lutte contre la pauvreté, s'est depuis élargie à tout le pays, à toutes les entreprises. Reportage à Aberdeen de Thomas Harms. À lire aussi«Je mets des couches à la place»: face à la précarité menstruelle, certaines femmes sont contraintes au système D La chronique musique de Vincent Théval  Canicule oblige, un groupe au nom très rafraichissant, le groupe danois Iceage 1835. 

What determines whether a battery project performs safely over its lifetime?According to Kathleen McCaffery and Jeff Zwijack, the answer has as much to do with process, preparation, and quality assurance as it does with the battery itself.In this special live SunCast broadcast, Nico Johnson sits down with Kathleen McCaffery, retired Battalion Chief and former Global Fire Liaison for Tesla, and Jeff Zwijack, Associate Director of Energy Storage at Clean Energy Associates, to discuss what hundreds of inspections reveal about battery safety, operational readiness, and risk management across the energy storage industry.Drawing from hundreds of factory inspections and years of real-world fire response experience, Kathleen and Jeff explore the lessons the industry is learning as battery projects grow larger, more complex, and increasingly important to grid reliability.From supplier selection and factory acceptance testing to emergency response planning and long-term asset management, this conversation highlights the systems and processes that help prevent problems before they become operational, financial, or reputational risks.Expect to learn:

Comment optimiser une double préparation avec seulement 10 semaines d'intervalle ? Dans cet épisode du cabinet de Maître Yodu, Grégory s'interroge sur la manière d'aborder ses échéances futures : du 50km de Nice le 26 septembre au marathon de Valence le 6 décembre. Comment intégrer le dossard trail en pleine prépa marathon ? Comment organiser et gérer l'entraînement ? Comment écouter et gérer son corps ? Comment faire la transition entre les deux, anticiper l'effort marathon, qui est complètement différent de celui du trail ? Comment bien récupérer ? Ne pas reprendre trop vite ? Et puis surtout, comment garder l'envie jusqu'à la fin de l'année ? Yohan Durand lui apporte un maximum de conseils pour optimiser ces deux objectifs. Avec une question de la plus haute importance : comment faire du trail en Belgique et comment trouver du dénivelé sur les terres du plat pays ?

Leadership transitions reveal what companies value most.When FTC Solar recently tapped Anthony Carroll as the new CEO, they chose someone who has spent more than two decades helping build some of clean energy's most recognizable companies. From helping scale Power Electronics from a small Spanish manufacturer into a global powerhouse, to leading Powin during a period of extraordinary growth, Anthony has experienced both the excitement and the hard lessons that come with building businesses in rapidly evolving markets.Now, after stepping away from the industry to lead automated manufacturing initiatives outside of energy, he's back with a new mandate: help guide FTC Solar through its next phase of growth.In this conversation, Anthony shares lessons from across his career, why this is the right next opportunity for him, and why he believes execution, trust, and innovation will determine which companies thrive in the years ahead.Expect to learn:

Objectif commun pour Benoit et Yodu, le We Run Paris... Bienvenue dans le journal de bord ! Benoit a eu la chance d'aller reconnaître le parcours : 10km difficile, parcours exigeant, points de vigilance, le kiff à la fin. Quelle stratégie aborder ? La difficulté au début, un mal pour un bien ? De son côté, Yohan se transforme petit à petit en coureur cycliste, malgré une petite alerte au tendon. L'objectif, poser les fondations d'une nouvelle saison qui va l'emmener jusqu'au marathon de Valence. La préparation continue !

What if the most compelling case for clean energy isn't climate change, economics, or energy independence?What if it's public health?Former EPA Administrator Michael Regan has spent his career connecting pollution, environmental protection, and energy policy to the everyday health of American communities. In this special collaboration between SunCast and Energy Empire, Nico Johnson and Jigar Shah sit down with Regan to explore why he viewed the EPA as a public health agency first, and what today's clean energy leaders can learn from communities demanding a greater voice in decisions that affect their lives.From North Carolina's landmark coal ash settlement to EPA's Journey to Justice initiative, Regan shares how listening to communities reshaped the way he approached enforcement, regulation, and environmental protection. The conversation also tackles one of the industry's most pressing challenges: how to build the infrastructure America needs while maintaining public trust amid rising concerns over affordability, data centers, and rapid load growth.For developers, investors, policymakers, and industry leaders, this episode offers a timely reminder that successful energy transitions depend not only on technology and capital, but on people.Expect to learn:

L'info du matin - Les animaux sont parfois meilleurs que nos applis météo. Le winner du jour - Il met la carte grise de sa voiture au nom de sa fille de 9 ans, elle reçoit 5 000 euros de PV à l'âge adulte. - Le mystérieux message du Crédit Agricole qui a semé la panique ce mardi. Le flashback du jour - Août 2001 : Un jeu télé culte pour commencer ce flashback, créé par Kader Aoun et Alain Chabat : Burger Quiz ! Ensuite, l'album qui occupait encore et toujours la première place des ventes, c'était "... Próxima Estación ... Esperanza" de Manu Chao. Les savoirs inutiles - On parle d'un instrument de musique aussi étrange que fascinant : l'harmonica de verre. Il a été inventé par Benjamin Franklin, qui a également participé à la Déclaration d'indépendance des États-Unis ! La chanson du jour - The Last Dinner Party "Nothing Matter" 3 choses à savoir sur Ray Charles Qu'est-ce qu'on regarde ? - La sortie ciné du jour, c'est le 37ème long métrage de Steven Spielberg : "Disclosure Day !". - Un film français sort sur Prime Video vendredi : "Une famille de bâtards !". Une comédie de Mourad Winter, avec un gros casting : Florence Foresti, Laura Felpin, Hakim Jemili, Kad Merad et Benjamin Tranier. Le jeu surprise (1,2,3,4) - Nicolas de Tours repart avec un Shark Aqua Blue Edition de Richard Orlinski. Les coffres à jouets RTL2 - Maxence, 9 ans, de Bourg-lès-Valence vers Valence gagne un séjour 2J/1N en famille au Parc Astérix. La Banque RTL2 - David de Sentheim vers Mulhouse gagne 750€.Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Rare earths are having a moment. And if you work anywhere near clean energy, batteries, EVs, data centers, defense, or domestic manufacturing, this conversation should be on your radar.And, when it comes to rare earths (aka critical minerals), it seems everyone talks about mining.But according to Mark LaVerghetta, that's not where the real critical minerals challenge lies.Nico got a chance to sit down with Mark, co-founder of ReElement Technologies, in person finally, and learned that the true bottleneck in the clean energy transition is refining. You can dig rare earth elements out of the ground, but they still need to be separated, purified, and transformed into the high-purity materials used in batteries, EVs, defense systems, data centers, and advanced electronics.Today, much of that refining capacity remains concentrated overseas (yes, largely China), creating vulnerabilities that extend far beyond clean energy. As AI accelerates demand for advanced materials and geopolitical tensions reshape global trade, domestic refining has become a matter of economic resilience and national security.Mark explains why ReElement is pursuing an "innovation, not imitation" approach to rare earth processing, using chromatography to create a more flexible and scalable refining platform designed to respond quickly to shifting market needs.Expect to learn:

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Risk looks different depending on where you're standing.In Episode 936 (Jason Kaminsky & 2026 The Solar Risk Assessment), we explored risk through the lens of data, operations, and asset performance.Today's episode looks at it through the eyes of someone who spent four decades preparing organizations for uncertainty, disruption, and worst-case scenarios.General Robert Neller served as the 37th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, leading one of the world's most respected organizations through an era of rapid technological change, evolving threats, and global instability.In this conversation, General Neller joins Nico to discuss how great leaders think about risk before it becomes a crisis, why resilience is more than a buzzword, and what the energy industry can learn from organizations that operate where failure is not an option.Along the way, the conversation explores cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, energy resilience, military innovation, entrepreneurship, and the leadership principles that matter when the stakes are high.Expect to learn:

Solar projects are increasingly being financed and operated as long-life infrastructure assets. That means the industry can no longer rely on assumptions about risk—we need evidence.In this episode, Jason Kaminsky, CEO of kWh Analytics, walks us through what the latest Solar Risk Assessment reveals, and answers a deceptively simple question: Which solar risks actually matter?Drawing on dozens of partners' fleet-scale operational and underwriting data, Jason explains how the industry is moving beyond anecdotes to identify the risks that have a measurable impact on long-term performance, resilience, and project finance.Expect to learn:

A solar moratorium nearly shut down Alabama's emerging solar market before most of the industry even saw it coming.For years, the prevailing assumption has been that clean energy growth would be concentrated in politically progressive states while places like Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi lagged behind.But that's not what Monika Gerhart is seeing (and doing!) on the ground.As Executive Director of the Gulf States Renewable Energy Industries Association (GSREIA), Monika operates at the intersection of policy, infrastructure, resilience, and market development across some of the most politically and operationally complex energy markets in America. And increasingly, she says the future of clean energy growth is being shaped locally — through trust, coalition-building, reliability concerns, and resilience planning.In this conversation, Nico and Monika unpack the fight that nearly derailed Alabama's solar market before most of the industry even noticed, how Hurricane Ida transformed the conversation around distributed energy and microgrids in Louisiana, and why resilience infrastructure is rapidly becoming a life-safety issue across the Gulf Coast.They also explore:why state-level advocacy increasingly determines whether markets survive long enough to maturehow local relationships shape energy policy more than national narrativesthe emerging role of neighborhood-scale resilience planning and community microgridswhy lawmakers are becoming more open to renewables as electricity demand acceleratesand what developers, manufacturers, investors, and operators should understand about building durable markets in politically complicated regionsThis is a conversation about far more than solar policy.It's about how energy markets are actually built — and why some of the industry's most important battles are happening far from the headlines.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!SunCast is also sponsored by Nextpower!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

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Climatetech is entering a different phase.The era of easy capital, oversized narratives, and growth-at-all-costs expectations is giving way to something more demanding: disciplined execution, durable business models, strong commercialization pathways, and teams that can scale proven solutions in real markets.In this live conversation, Nico Johnson sits down with longtime investor David Kirkpatrick, Managing Director at SJF Ventures, to unpack what experienced investors are actually paying attention to now and why the companies attracting long-term conviction may not be the ones making the loudest headlines.David has spent decades investing across renewable energy, efficiency, industrial innovation, resilience, and sustainability. He has watched the industry evolve from early-stage optimism into a global market measured in gigawatts, infrastructure, and real deployment. That long view makes this conversation especially timely for founders, operators, developers, policymakers, and anyone trying to understand how the market is maturing.This episode is less about chasing the next shiny technology and more about what it takes to build companies that can survive, scale, and create lasting value.Expect to learn:

Clean energy has made tremendous progress on technology.Solar is cheaper. Batteries are scaling. Virtual power plants are becoming real grid assets. Electrification is accelerating.But many people still do not understand why these technologies matter to them personally — or whether they are actually worth the cost.So what's missing?In this conversation, Nico sits down with Jessica Fishman to explore why the next phase of the energy transition may depend less on technical innovation and more on public understanding, trust, and emotional connection.Jessica shares lessons from nearly two decades working across solar, storage, policy, and communications, including what the industry can learn from the Inflation Reduction Act, why facts alone rarely change minds, and how clean energy companies can better connect their work to the things people already care about: affordability, resilience, independence, and economic opportunity.Expect to learn:

Battery storage is becoming one of the most complicated sales conversations in residential solar.Installers are now navigating different sizing requirements, shifting homeowner expectations, changing utility rate structures, evolving battery chemistries, and a flood of new products entering the market at wildly different price points.And underneath all of it is a harder question:Who can you actually trust to still be standing behind these systems years from now?Sam Buffington, Business Development Manager at Pylontech, joins Nico Johnson for a deeply practical conversation about what installers should actually be paying attention to as batteries become a core part of the residential energy system.Sam has worked across modules, distribution, and storage, and he's even built his own off-grid home by hand. That gives him a rare perspective on how solar-plus-storage systems behave in the real world and where installers most often create long-term problems for themselves.Expect to learn:

Electricity demand is rising fast. But New York is asking a different question than most states:What kind of demand is actually worth building for?In this live conversation from IESNA 2026, Nico sits down with Doreen Harris, President of NYSERDA, to explore how one of the largest economies in the country is preparing for 20–25% electricity load growth over the next 15 years. From AI infrastructure and semiconductor manufacturing to distributed solar and storage, New York is making major investments while trying to ensure growth also creates long-term economic value.Doreen explains why durable policy signals matter, why transmission remains central to the next phase of grid buildout, and why "business as usual" already requires massive infrastructure investment.Expect to learn:

AI data centers are changing more than electricity demand. They are changing how the grid itself has to operate.Legacy data centers behaved with relatively flat, predictable load profiles. But giga-scale AI campuses introduce rapid swings in demand that can stress substations, destabilize generation assets, and expose the limits of infrastructure designed for a very different era.In today's episode, Nico Johnson sits down with Jon Parrella, CEO of Terraflow, and Anna Siefken, Director of Policy & Markets at the Long Duration Energy Storage Council (LDES), to explore what this shift means for storage, grid reliability, and the future of energy system design.Together, they unpack why batteries may need to evolve from simple energy storage assets into active infrastructure that stabilizes and buffers the grid itself.Expect to learn:

The grid is getting more crowded.EVs. Heat pumps. Batteries. Rooftop solar. Flexible demand.What used to be a system built around a few thousand centralized assets is rapidly becoming a network of millions of connected devices interacting with the grid in real time.That changes everything.In this episode, Nico sits down with Devrim Celal, Chief Flexibility Officer at Kraken, to unpack why the future grid is becoming a software coordination problem, and how Kraken is helping utilities orchestrate distributed energy at massive scale.But this conversation goes far beyond software.Devrim shares the entrepreneurial journey that led him from software engineering and consulting to ultra-distance running, real estate, reinsurance, and eventually Upside Energy, the company that evolved into Kraken through its acquisition by Octopus Energy.Expect to learn:

Australia is installing solar and batteries for about $2 a watt.In the U.S., it's closer to $5.50.So why do we still have this huge gap?Barry Cinnamon went to Australia to find out. What he discovered challenges one of the industry's favorite explanations. Even if you remove permitting delays and other “soft costs,” the U.S. still doesn't come close.Today's Tactical Tuesday breaks down the real drivers behind [residential] solar pricing, from federal manufacturing policy and tariffs to financing structures and regulatory friction. Then we take it a step further, exploring a new hypothesis Barry has been modeling: using data center demand to help fund rooftop solar and storage.Expect to learn:

Radio Foot internationale, deux émissions en direct ce mardi à 16h10 T.U. et 21h10 T.U. Au sommaire de la 1ère : - Prix Marc-Vivien Foé RFI/FRANCE 24 édition 2026, du 11 de départ, il ne restera que 3 finalistes. ; - Demi-finales retour de C1, Arsenal et l'Atlético de Madrid dos à dos. ; - Premier League, les Cityzens espéraient rentrer victorieux de leur virée liverpuldienne contre Everton, mais ne sauvent qu'un point. - Prix Marc-Vivien Foé RFI/FRANCE 24 édition 2026, du 11 de départ, il ne restera que 3 finalistes Christophe Jousset, chef du Service des sports de RFI, nous dévoilera leurs noms à 16h10 T.U. Qui sera l'élu lundi prochain (11 mai 2026) ? Les portraits des joueurs du 11 initial sont à retrouver sur le site rfi.fr.    - Demi-finales retour de C1, Arsenal et l'Atlético de Madrid dos à dos Qui sera au rendez-vous de Budapest le 30 mai 2026 ? Le nul des Gunners à Madrid mercredi dernier, (29 avril 2026), une bonne base pour permettre aux Londoniens de l'emporter chez eux avec le soutien de leur 12è homme ? Sur les 15 derniers matches à domicile face à des clubs espagnols, les Canonniers n'ont perdu qu'une fois (contre le Barça lors de la saison 2015-2016). Les Colchoneros avaient été sèchement battus en phase de Ligue, le 25 octobre 2025, par les Rouge et Blanc (4-0). L'équipe d'Arteta qui tient le cap en championnat, aura-t-elle un supplément d'âme après le faux pas de Manchester City hier à Everton ? Les Rojiblancos vainqueurs à Valence, ce week-end, n'ont plus le championnat à l'esprit, mais comptent bien disputer une 4è finale dans la compétition, et espèrent cette fois-ci atteindre le Graal. Le résultat de l'aller n'est pas un problème pour les Ibériques qui se sont qualifiés dans 6 des 10 précédentes doubles confrontations européennes après un nul à l'aller. Forces et faiblesses des effectifs. Saka de retour et en forme, Julian Alvarez tiendra-t-il sa place de titulaire côté madrilène ?  - Premier League, les Cityzens espéraient rentrer victorieux de leur virée liverpuldienne contre Everton, mais ne sauvent qu'un point. Les Mancuniens, qui ont encaissé 3 buts en un peu moins d'un quart d'heure, connaissent un sérieux contrecoup dans la course au titre, et n'ont plus leur destin en main. Avec Annie Gasnier : Chérif Ghemmour, Bruno Constant et Jean-Philippe Bouchard. Technique/réalisation : Laurent salerno. -- David Fintzel/Pierre Guérin.

Radio Foot internationale, deux émissions en direct ce mardi à 16h10 T.U. et 21h10 T.U. Au sommaire de la 1ère : - Prix Marc-Vivien Foé RFI/FRANCE 24 édition 2026, du 11 de départ, il ne restera que 3 finalistes. ; - Demi-finales retour de C1, Arsenal et l'Atlético de Madrid dos à dos. ; - Premier League, les Cityzens espéraient rentrer victorieux de leur virée liverpuldienne contre Everton, mais ne sauvent qu'un point. - Prix Marc-Vivien Foé RFI/FRANCE 24 édition 2026, du 11 de départ, il ne restera que 3 finalistes Christophe Jousset, chef du Service des sports de RFI, nous dévoilera leurs noms à 16h10 T.U. Qui sera l'élu lundi prochain (11 mai 2026) ? Les portraits des joueurs du 11 initial sont à retrouver sur le site rfi.fr.    - Demi-finales retour de C1, Arsenal et l'Atlético de Madrid dos à dos Qui sera au rendez-vous de Budapest le 30 mai 2026 ? Le nul des Gunners à Madrid mercredi dernier, (29 avril 2026), une bonne base pour permettre aux Londoniens de l'emporter chez eux avec le soutien de leur 12è homme ? Sur les 15 derniers matches à domicile face à des clubs espagnols, les Canonniers n'ont perdu qu'une fois (contre le Barça lors de la saison 2015-2016). Les Colchoneros avaient été sèchement battus en phase de Ligue, le 25 octobre 2025, par les Rouge et Blanc (4-0). L'équipe d'Arteta qui tient le cap en championnat, aura-t-elle un supplément d'âme après le faux pas de Manchester City hier à Everton ? Les Rojiblancos vainqueurs à Valence, ce week-end, n'ont plus le championnat à l'esprit, mais comptent bien disputer une 4è finale dans la compétition, et espèrent cette fois-ci atteindre le Graal. Le résultat de l'aller n'est pas un problème pour les Ibériques qui se sont qualifiés dans 6 des 10 précédentes doubles confrontations européennes après un nul à l'aller. Forces et faiblesses des effectifs. Saka de retour et en forme, Julian Alvarez tiendra-t-il sa place de titulaire côté madrilène ?  - Premier League, les Cityzens espéraient rentrer victorieux de leur virée liverpuldienne contre Everton, mais ne sauvent qu'un point. Les Mancuniens, qui ont encaissé 3 buts en un peu moins d'un quart d'heure, connaissent un sérieux contrecoup dans la course au titre, et n'ont plus leur destin en main. Avec Annie Gasnier : Chérif Ghemmour, Bruno Constant et Jean-Philippe Bouchard. Technique/réalisation : Laurent salerno. -- David Fintzel/Pierre Guérin.

Rebuilding solar manufacturing in the U.S. is not just about capital or policy. It is about making the right bets at the right time.It comes down to timing, experience, and the critical decisions.Alex Zhu has spent nearly two decades inside the global solar manufacturing system—from the early rise of Chinese production to failed U.S. factory attempts, and now to building one of the few solar cell manufacturing facilities in America through ES Foundry.In this conversation, Alex explains why he focused on solar cells instead of modules. Module assembly scaled quickly after the IRA. Cell manufacturing remained limited, even though it sits at the center of the supply chain. But that gap is precisely where Alex recognized his greatest strength.Experience.But the ensuing decisions (bets) he made carry real risk.He is betting that the U.S. cannot sustain a domestic solar industry without cell production. He is also building on proven PERC technology, even as the global market moves toward TOPCon. And he is relying on speed, execution, and hard-won experience to make that strategy work.We also get into how his past shaped these decisions, what has changed since earlier U.S. factory failures, how the IRA shifted the economics, and what it actually takes to build a factory, from permitting and infrastructure to workforce and community impact.Expect to learn:

Are data centers starting to bypass the grid?A growing share of planned projects are pairing with behind-the-meter generation, and the shift has happened quickly. At the same time, there's still real debate about how much of this will actually materialize.Michael Thomas, founder of Cleanview, tracks what moves through interconnection queues, permitting timelines, and development pipelines. His data highlights how developers are responding to rising demand, tighter timelines, and increasing grid constraints.In this conversation, Michael shares what he's seeing in the data, where demand is growing fastest, and how different generation strategies are being considered to meet it.If you're trying to understand how data center growth is shaping project decisions, this episode offers a grounded look at what's emerging.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!SunCast is also sponsored by Nextpower!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

Most people [who have been in the industry awhile] have opinions about SunEdison.This is one of the first times Ahmad Chatila and Jigar Shah have sat down together to compare notes on how it actually played out.Both were inside it.Both made the bets.Both saw things others didn't.In this conversation, the two leaders who helped build one of solar's most ambitious companies sit down to examine how it actually worked and why it did not hold.They walk through the operating logic that made SunEdison so competitive. Using semiconductor-style cost modeling to see price declines before the market. Making audacious bets on equipment inputs. Structuring deals that looked aggressive at the time but consistently won.Ahmad explains how lessons from silicon manufacturing shaped that thinking and created a real edge.But they also get clear on what ultimately determined the outcome.The strategy worked.The cost curve was real.The execution was there.What broke was the financial architecture behind it.A capital structure that depended on continuous demand.A global footprint that introduced currency and market friction.And a model that moved faster than investors were willing to follow.In this live conversation, Ahmad Chatila joins Jigar Shah and Nico Johnson for a candid look at the decisions, convictions, and missteps that helped shape one of the most consequential chapters in clean energy history.This is not a sanitized founder story. It is a rare, honest reflection on what worked, what failed, and why the hardest problem in clean energy may still be capital formation, not technology.You will hear how Ahmad anticipated solar cost declines years ahead of the market, why he determined that owning the PPA mattered more than owning construction, and how TerraForm Global became the critical fault line in SunEdison's collapse.The conversation also reaches far beyond the past, into the future of India, currency risk, and the global financing models that still need to be built if clean energy is going to scale where it is needed most.It's one of the most fascinating conversations Nico has had the opportunity to co-lead (and eaves-drop on!)Solar may be cheap, but capital still decides what gets built.If you're trying to scale projects, raise money, or understand where deals actually break, this is worth your time.Press play and decide what you would have done differently.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!SunCast is also sponsored by Nextpower!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

Dean Solon has always been a pattern matcher.Across projects, conversations, and time in the field, he's constantly picking up on what's changing — where pressure is building, where systems start to strain, and where the next opportunity is taking shape.But seeing the pattern is only half the story.Joseph Fahrney is the one who has to turn those signals into real products, real partnerships, and real projects — while protecting focus and making sure the right ideas actually get built.Live from Intersolar, Dean and Joe join Nico Johnson for a conversation about what they're both seeing right now — and how they're acting on it.From integrated system design to plant-wide control, from 10-year warranties to robotics in the field, this is a look at what happens when you trust your read on the market enough to start building ahead of it.Some might call it a crystal ball.The difference is — they're already building what others are just starting to react to.Expect to learn:

You can now plug solar panels into a wall outlet in some states.No permits. No installer or electrician even required?Just… plug it in.So who's responsible when that system starts sending power back into your home, or the grid?Plug-in solar is moving faster than the standards designed to govern it. And right now, the rules are still being written.In this conversation, Nico Johnson sits down with two experts at the center of the process. One is helping shape the National Electrical Code, the other bringing products to market. Together, we unpack what actually needs to happen for this category to scale safely.This isn't just a new product [category], it's a new edge case for the entire ecosystem, one where DIY meets infrastructure, and where the lines between safety, enforcement, and responsibility all begin to blur.Expect to learn:

What does it actually take to earn trust at the highest levels of utility-scale solar?Tyler Nelson has a perspective few in the industry can claim. As founder of Revamp Engineering, his team has been embedded in the design and execution of a massive share of utility-scale solar and storage projects across the U.S. — working alongside the developers and EPCs shaping the grid in real time.But this conversation isn't about scale for the sake of scale.It's about how that kind of trust is built.We dig into Tyler's early career at SunPower and how that experience carried forward into the founding of Revamp. He shares how the company landed its first anchor clients, what actually drives credibility in this industry, and why engineering is often the difference between a project that works on paper and one that works in the field.We also explore a different kind of founder mindset — one that isn't oriented around an exit.Tyler recently transitioned Revamp into an employee-owned company, reinforcing a long-term vision centered on culture, accountability, and durability.Along the way, Tyler offers a clear-eyed view into how the market is evolving, where complexity is increasing, and what teams consistently underestimate as projects scale.Expect to learn:

Most energy professionals believe the data will win.John Szoka did too.After a career in the military and time in the North Carolina legislature, Szoka followed the facts and became a clean energy advocate. But what he learned next is what matters.Data might change your mind.It doesn't change most people's.In this special conversation, **Jigar Shah and I co-host a discussion with Szoka on how decisions actually get made in energy—from state legislatures to local communities—and why storytelling, trust, and timing often matter more than the numbers.This is the first episode in a set of conversations we recorded live at the UNC Cleantech Summit. Additional interviews from this series will be released across both SunCast and Jigar's Energy Empire podcast—including a conversation with Tom Fanning (CEO, Southern Co) also dropping this week.To hear the full set, you'll want to follow both shows.You can find Energy Empire here: https://www.energyempire.fm/episodesKey takeaways from John: