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Three Ways to Make Real Climate Impact This Giving Tuesday
Season 17 Episode 878
This Giving Tuesday, SunCast brings you three powerful stories of how clean energy is transforming communities, saving lives, and unlocking …
3 months, 1 week ago
Frustrated by Permit Delays? How SolarAPP Provides Immediate Solutions
Season 17 Episode 877
Can getting a solar permit be as fast as ordering takeout?
Permitting may be the most boring part of solar, but it's also the biggest bottlen…
3 months, 1 week ago
This Startup Is Reinventing Rare Earth Refining - Without New Mines
Season 17 Episode 876
America’s about to make a big bet on critical minerals and rare earths. In case you missed it, the DOE just reorganized and announced a majo…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Inside Fluence’s Bold Battery Bet: Domestic Content, AI, and Grid Resilience
Season 17 Episode 875
In 2008, Fluence installed one of the first lithium-ion battery systems ever connected to the U.S. grid. Back then, the idea of a domestic b…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Building Solar as a System: Inside Nextpower’s Integration Playbook
Season 17 Episode 874
Most solar projects are still built the hard way—treating structure, electrical, and software as separate scopes that have to be stitched to…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
From Backup to Backbone: How Batteries Are Reshaping the Grid
Season 17 Episode 873
Batteries aren’t just supporting the grid anymore, they are defending the grid.
Chris Finley, CCO of TruGrid, joins Nico on stage at PowerUp …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Landfill Explosion That Changed Tesla’s Fire Strategy
Season 17 Episode 872
A Powerwall delivery truck flipped. No fire. No smoke. Seemed safe.
They tossed those Powerwalls into a landfill. Four days later—explosion!
T…
4 months ago
10 Years Later - Adam James on Building Teams, Time & Impact
Season 17 Episode 871
This episode marks ten years of SunCast - and the return of its very first guest.
In 2015, a young GTM Research analyst named Adam James joi…
4 months ago
How FEOC Rules Are Reshaping Solar Procurement in 2025 | 4 Experts Weigh-in
Season 17 Episode 870
“Is your project really compliant?”
That’s the billion-dollar question developers across the U.S. are asking as Foreign Entity of Concern (FE…
4 months, 1 week ago
How Two Unlikely Founders Are Rewiring the Way Solar Gets Built | Ben Callam & Maksim Markevich of PVFarm
Season 17 Episode 869
What happens when a builder and a coder decide to fix solar’s biggest disconnect?
In this episode, SunCast host Nico Johnson sits down with M…
4 months, 1 week ago