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This week’s show is about TAXES! I know, try to contain your excitement. It’s been 32 years since President Reagan pushed through the last comprehensive tax reform bill.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 makes similar huge changes in the ways that individuals and businesses pay their taxes. These tax changes are going to have impacts throughout the economy and basically impact everything businesses and individuals do regarding economics.

So join us on this week’s Energy Show, as we discuss what the tax changes mean for solar for your home, solar for your business, and solar financing.

Energy efficiency in our homes has improved steadily over the millennia. Now while I’m counting a cave as a home, luckily we no longer have to sleep on the floor of a smoke filled cave. But even a home built 25 years ago are not as energy efficient as current homes.

So on this week’s Energy Show we look at home energy efficiency from two perspectives. One, what are the technologies that should go into a brand new home so you can spend less money on energy? And second, how can you improve your existing home?

Regardless of your home energy efficiency budget, Listen Up to the Energy Show to get tips on how you can save money on your home energy costs.

Businesses use leasing to finance their buildings vehicles and equipment all the time. The key advantage of a lease is businesses can reduce their operating expense purchasing and owning assets and without taking on personal debt.

Leases also make sense for commercial solar and energy storage installations. So my guest this week is Stan Fishbein with Cleanview Capital.  CleanView Capital is an equipment finance company specializing in making ownership of clean energy systems affordable and profitable for commercial and industrial companies nationwide. 

Listen up to this week’s Energy Show, as Stan shares his insight on commercial solar and energy storage project leasing, and how Cleanview Capital structures their leases to help customers reduce cash flow and maximize deductions.

Many solar contractors are getting into the battery storage installation business. When I think about it, it’s like the early days of solar circa 2000, there’s a lot to learn, and a lot to get excited about but the equipment is still in at the early stages, so it takes time to design and install these systems.

Nevertheless, many of the integrated systems that are out there are reliable and most importantly, because there is high electric rates, backup power needs, and some good incentives, businesses and homeowners can save money now.

Listen up to this week’s Energy Show as we go into the details behind a successful battery storage installation.

The economics of energy have changed drastically over the past dozen years because of new energy generation technologies like wind and solar and new energy saving technologies like heat pumps and Electric vehicles, LED lighting and lithium-ion batteries. The combination of these new technologies to generate, store and the way we consume electricity has changed. So Listen Up to this week’s Energy Show as we talk about 10 Energy Saving Myths.

Barry Cinnamon shares his 2018 predictions for the rooftop solar industry.

My guest on this week’s Energy Show is Neil Maguire, CEO of Adara Power. Adara is a Silicon Valley company that integrates battery and inverter technology with software to reduce peak demand charges, maximizes the value of net metering and also provides backup power.

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