853: RE+ Day 2: SEIA Politics, Long-Duration Storage, Future Homes, String Inverters & More

Straight from Day 2 at RE+ 2025, this replay of the PowerUp Live Morning Show and Daily Round Up continues our mission to bring you insights from the leaders shaping the clean energy transition.

Nico Johnson, Lisa Ann Pinkerton, and Sylvia Martinez welcome industry voices who share fresh perspectives on the policies, technologies, and strategies pushing renewable energy forward. From SEIA’s advocacy work to storage breakthroughs and how homes can become part of the grid, this episode captures the fast-moving conversation in Las Vegas.

• Stephanie Bosh – SEIA
• • How clean energy leaders can shift the political balance of power
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• Daniel Dus – Cleantech Industry Resources
• • Development-as-a-Service for solar + storage
• • Solar Fight Night — the wildest debate in renewables
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• Molly Bales – Wood
• • Long-duration storage’s rise beyond lithium-ion
• • How Trump-era policies reshaped the supply chain
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• Laura Cornish – Uplight
• • What it takes to turn every home into a mini power plant
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• Melissa Baldwin – Tigercomm
• • The mistakes developers can’t afford to keep making
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• Derek Mast – derek the solarboi
• • A cheeky quiz on oil, Trump, and the future of energy
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• Pier LaFarge – Sparkfund
• • Why utilities are ditching generation for procurement power
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• Bryan Wagner – CPS America
• • Why string inverters could outpace central in the U.S. market

This isn’t just a recap — it’s a front-row seat to the debates and ideas driving clean energy’s next chapter.

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