ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Every week Barry hosts The Energy Show, a 30 minute informative talk show that covers a broad variety of energy related topics spanning technology, economics, policy, and politics that are shaping the future of how we generate and consume electricity, along with practical money-saving tips on ways to reduce your home and business energy consumption.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 9 days
Average audio length:
29 minutes
Guest interviews
Has sponsors
English
United States
124 episodes
since May 4, 2013
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
This week on The Energy Show, Barry sits down with Anoushka Tamhane, an MIT Climate Systems Engineering student who's researching battery storage and exploring an ingenious approach to geothermal heating and cooling. The technology is brilliant. The politics? Not so much.
While students at MIT a…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
This week on The Energy Show, Barry Cinnamon sits down with Tom Werner, who led SunPower from 2003 to 2020 and helped build it into one of the world's largest solar companies.
Tom has ridden the solar coaster through booms, busts, policy changes and technology revolutions. And his assessment of 20…
This week on The Energy Show, Barry Cinnamon sits down with longtime solar industry leader Tom McCalmont, CEO of Paired Power and president of McCalmont Engineering, to talk about one of the biggest challenges facing electrification: how do we add massive new electrical loads when there simply isn’…
Solar Is Installed. Now Who Keeps It Running?
There are millions of solar panels, batteries, EV chargers and other energy systems installed on homes and businesses around the world.
There's just one little problem:
Someone has to keep all that stuff working.
This week on The Energy Show, Barry …
With the 30% residential solar tax credit gone, the industry entered the year expecting installations to fall by as much as 20–30%. But rising electricity rates, cheaper batteries, new financing products and an increasingly unreliable grid are changing the math yet again.
This week on The Energy S…
2025 was a record year for residential solar and batteries.
2026 is shaping up to be a record bad one.
The 30% homeowner solar tax credit is gone ... is residential solar in serious trouble? Not so fast.
This week on The Energy Show, Barry sits down with Raghu Belur, co-founder and Chief Product …
With the 30% residential solar tax credit gone, the effective cost of going solar has jumped dramatically and residential installations are already down roughly 20–25%. For installers that historically relied on cash sales, the drop can be even worse.
But before we start writing solar’s obituary, …
Utilities, finance companies, and software aggregators have suddenly discovered something valuable:
Your battery.
Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) promise easy money by letting utilities tap into thousands of home batteries during periods of high demand. Sounds great... until you discover who actually…
Everyone wants lower utility bills. Unfortunately, many homeowners start with expensive projects that deliver disappointing returns.
That's because most energy audits focus on generic recommendation not the upgrades that make the biggest difference for your home.
This week on The Energy Show, Bar…
If you're considering solar, adding battery storage, or simply preparing for the next outage, this episode could save you thousands of dollars and a lot of frustration.
Battery ads make everything look simple: backup power, lower bills, AI-powered energy management, and easy savings.
Reality? Not…
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