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Why is USA Residential Solar So Expensive? The Real Reason Behind this ! Solar modules once cost $8 per watt. Geoff Greenfield bought his first panels from a classified ad in Home Power magazine. Twenty-six years later, he leads an EPC division building 67 MW projects and negotiating 100 MW…

Residential installers moving into commercial solar are walking into a different business. Different equipment. Different modules. Different inverters. Different racking. Different proposal software. Different design tools. Different audience. Hervé Billiet, CEO of Sunvoy, puts it bluntly: explore commercial, but be careful. Your cash flow is completely different on C&I. Your…

Grid congestion is forcing a shift in how solar and storage connect. Wes Kennedy at Qcells explains that when AC capacity at the point of interconnection is constrained, the answer is DC coupling: connecting solar and storage on the DC side. Coupling is how solar and storage are electrically connected.…

Hervé Billiet, CEO of Sunvoy, has a clear position on O&M: do the work yourself. If you outsource everything, you don't learn. It stays a black box. You can't professionalize what you can't see. If you do it in-house, you learn. You take some risk. But you keep your price…

What's the difference between a vendor relationship and a true integration partnership? Doug Macmillan from Portside Systems described how his team works with Denowatts. It's not a vendor-consumer dynamic. Portside functions as the system integrator for the Denowatts platform, involved from the design phase through commissioning. That model cuts friction…

Don't outsource essential work. Doing it in-house builds knowledge, controls costs, and fuels growth. Open the 'black box' of operations and learn it yourself. #OperationsManagement #InHouse #BusinessGrowth #Learning

A 10-person, three-month estimating process. Compressed into 12 hours by a single AI agent. That is what Jesse Anglen, co-founder of Ruh AI, is building for construction and solar companies right now. In this episode of The Clean Power Hour, host Tim Montague sits down with Anglen to break down…

Tired of sifting through data for every support ticket? This solution consolidates info from 10+ sources onto one screen, enabling instant troubleshooting. No more hunting for customer or installation details. #SupportTickets #CustomerService #DataManagement #Efficiency #Troubleshooting

Demystifying energy accounting by breaking it down into understandable buckets. Identify climate factors, modeling issues, external influences, or controllable commercial elements. Understanding these distinctions makes solar energy more reliable. #EnergyAccounting #SolarReliability #SustainableEnergy #EnergyManagement

This is Part 6 of a 6 part series recorded live at RE+ Boston with the team at CPS. One CPS customer retrofitted a one-megawatt project from central to string inverters and hit all-time production highs, even with decade-old panels. Luke Schlicte, Utility Account Manager, and Andrey Malyshev, Applications Engineer…

Denowatts tackles solar unpredictability with 'energy accounting.' Identify losses, optimize recovery, and ensure investor returns. It's time to modernize solar data management. #SolarEnergy #EnergyManagement #RenewableEnergy #TechInnovation

Create Energy picked up 600 megawatts of orders in January 2026 alone. Trackers, EBOS, and a growing list of products, all from a company most people in solar have never heard of. In this episode, Tim Montague sits down with Dean Solon, founder of Create Energy, at InterSolar San Diego…

Corporate America often overcomplicates messages, leading to missed connections. Rule #1: Lead with ONE story. In the clean energy sector, a focus on complex data can alienate audiences, especially when facing opponents skilled in emotional appeals. Simplicity wins. #StorytellingTips #CorporateCommunication #BusinessStrategy #CleanEnergy

See how a compelling story about solar energy, organic produce, and community impact landed politicians, local organizations, and eventually national NPR attention. This is the power of narrative. #Storytelling #MediaRelations #CommunityImpact #SolarEnergy #Publicity

A single mother's struggle with soaring energy bills after funding cuts resonated more than job loss statistics. Personal stories connect people to action, driving elections. #Storytelling #PoliticalInfluence #EnergyBills #VoterMotivation

This is Part 5 of a 6 part series recorded live at RE+ Boston with the team at CPS. Community solar and commercial energy storage are two of the fastest-growing segments of the U.S. solar industry. At RE+ Northeast in Boston, Tim Montague sits down with Brian Baxter, Director of…

Join us this Friday XXXX at 1 PM ET as we cover the latest solar & storage news and analysis. Co-hosts Tim Montague, solar business coach and John Weaver, the Commercial Solar Guy, solar developer and PV Magazine author, reflect on the latest solar and storage news, tools, technologies, and…

Billion-dollar weather emergencies hit the United States every 19 days. In the 1980s, they came every 90 days. The grid is still running, but communities are paying the price when it fails. Elisa Wood, founder of energychangemakers.com and host of the Energy Changemakers podcast, joins Tim Montague on The Clean…

This is Part 4 of a 6 part series recorded live at RE+ Boston with the team at CPS. Adding a battery to a commercial solar system delivers ROI in three and a half to four years, sometimes under three. Joe Ross, Director of Channel Sales and National Accounts at…

Revenue from aging solar assets can now more than double through redevelopment. Matt Murphy, CEO of Flux Energy, joins Tim Montague on The Clean Power Hour to explain how. Murphy, a 20-year solar industry veteran and former Greenbacker executive, launched Flux Energy to focus on repowering and redeveloping existing solar…

This is Part 3 of a 6 part series recorded live at RE+ Boston with the team at CPS. In high-labor markets like New York and the Northeast, field construction costs eat into solar project margins. Brian Baxter, Director of Sales for the East at CPS America, and Andrey Malyshev,…

Benoy Thanjan has been in solar for 17 years. He thought the roller coaster would end by now. It has not. It keeps getting more complicated. In this episode, Tim Montague sits down with Benoy Thanjan, founder and CEO of Reneu Energy and host of the Solar Maverick podcast, at…

Some solar developers are paying for 35% domestic content when their project only needs 7%. That pricing gap costs real margin on every project. In this episode, Tim Montague sits down with Chris Lettman from Imperial Star Solar at InterSolar San Diego 2026. Imperial Star manufactures FEOC-compliant solar modules at…