{"podcast":{"title":"SunCast","slug":"suncast-47961","podcast_index_feed_id":47961,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/suncast/","website_url":"http://www.mysuncast.com","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/d35d69ce-3d46-4480-811f-75c88b4e0724/dZzXRIw7DbI8WmJioGhtg8Aq.png","author":"Nico Johnson","episode_count":955,"summary":"Nico Johnson takes you into conversations with those at the forefront of Renewable Energy. SunCast gives an inside look into what is happening in renewable energy. From conversations with the biggest Solar Panel manufacturers in the world to the small startups creating the future of renewable energy, such as carbon capture and battery technology breakthroughs. SunCast is dedicated to providing the knowledge, research, tools and expert guidance you need to understand, grow and be ahead of the curve in the fastest-growing markets in the world. Featuring over 800 conversations, Nico has interviewed people from Tesla, SolarCity, Trina Solar, Meyer Burger, Conergy, SunEdison, Energy Vault and even the US Government... to name a few. Covering topics such as Solar Power, Wind Energy, Batteries, Electric Vehicles, Carbon Capture, Finance, Hydrogen, and more. You can watch SunCast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SunCastMedia ...or view the full archive of SunCast episodes here: https://www.suncast.media/media/podcast","last_synced_at":"2026-07-07T18:19:28.354895+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/suncast-47961"},"episode":{"title":"935: How (and Why) Clean Energy Wins In Red States | Monika Gerhart","slug":"935-how-and-why-clean-energy-wins-in-red-states-monika-gerhart","published_at":"2026-05-28T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/suncast-47961/935-how-and-why-clean-energy-wins-in-red-states-monika-gerhart","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/suncast-47961","url":"https://resourcelabs.co/suncast-episodes/935-how-and-why-clean-energy-wins-in-red-states-monika-gerhart","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/4425b8d5-025f-43df-bab6-754e41a78fdf.mp3","summary":"A solar moratorium nearly shut down Alabama’s emerging solar market before most of the industry even saw it coming. For years, the prevailing assumption has been that clean energy growth would be concentrated in politically progressive states while places like Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi lagged behind. But that’s not what Monika Gerhart is seeing (and doing!) on the ground. As Executive Director of the Gulf States Renewable Energy Industries Association (GSREIA), Monika operates at the intersection of policy, infrastructure, resilience, and market development across some of the most politically and operationally complex energy markets in America. And increasingly, she says the future of clean energy growth is being shaped locally — through trust, coalition-building, reliability concerns, and resilience planning. In this conversation, Nico and Monika unpack the fight that nearly derailed Alabama’s solar market before most of the industry even noticed, how Hurricane Ida transformed the conversation around distributed energy and microgrids in Louisiana, and why resilience infrastructure is rapidly becoming a life-safety issue across the Gulf Coast. They also explore: why state-level advocacy increasingly determines whether markets survive long enough to mature how local relationships shape energy policy more than national narratives the emerging role of neighborhood-scale resilience planning and community microgrids why lawmakers are becoming more open to renewables as electricity demand accelerates and what developers, manufacturers, investors, and operators should understand about building durable markets in politically complicated regions This is a conversation about far more than solar policy. It’s about how energy markets are actually built — and why some of…","meta_description":"A solar moratorium nearly shut down Alabama’s emerging solar market before most of the industry even saw it coming. For years, the prevailing assumption h…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3295,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/suncast-47961/episodes/935-how-and-why-clean-energy-wins-in-red-states-monika-gerhart/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/suncast-47961/935-how-and-why-clean-energy-wins-in-red-states-monika-gerhart.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}