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	<title>The Engineering Gap Costing Solar Companies A Fortune #356</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[A single design error on a commercial solar project can cost $60,000 to $70,000 to fix. Scott Wyssling and Catherine Kelso of Wyssling Consulting explain what quality design actually looks like, why AI cannot replace a licensed engineer reviewing plans, and how battery integration really fits into commercial solar today. In this episode, Tim Montague...]]></description>
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	<title>Battery Storage Fires: Myths, Facts, and What Actually Happens #355</title>
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	<title>Solar Safe Harbor Court Ruling: What Developers Need to Know Now</title>
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	<title>They Put Solar on the White House. Here&#8217;s What Solar Design Associates Learned #354</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Solar &#38; storage pioneers Solar Design Associates share 50 years of firsts on the Clean Power Hour. They put solar on the White House in 1979 and built the first community solar garden in America. Haskell Werlin and Steven Strong trace solar&#8217;s fall from $16 to $1 per watt, explain why the battery cost curve...]]></description>
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	<description><![CDATA[Community microgrids and virtual power plants are two of the most misunderstood concepts in clean energy, and the gap between them is where billions of dollars in grid value are being left on the table. Craig Lewis, Founder and CEO of the Clean Coalition, returns to The Clean Power Hour to break down how community-scale...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Community microgrids and virtual power plants are two of the most misunderstood concepts in clean energy, and the gap between them is where billions of dollars in grid value are being left on the table. Craig Lewis, Founder and CEO of the Clean Coalition]]></itunes:subtitle>
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	<title>Can Homeowners Finally Afford Whole Home Backup? #352</title>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Energy resilience for homeowners is the mission behind Energy Access Innovations, a multi-brand clean energy company building an end-to-end ecosystem for solar and battery storage. Nicole Tomasin, Chief Commercial Officer at EAI, joins Tim Montague to ex]]></itunes:subtitle>
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	<title>Perovskite Tandem Solar: Breaking the 30% Efficiency Limit #351</title>
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	<title>US Solar Has a Quality Problem: What Buyers Need to Know</title>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A new report from Clean Energy Associates found that some solar module factories in their first year of production are hitting yield rates as low as 30%. That means 70% of modules coming off certain lines require rework before they ship. The finding applies directly to US manufacturers, most of which are still in early...]]></itunes:summary>
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