The Energy Show
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.
Episodes
Since our worldwide economy depends on a steady supply of fossil fuels — oil, gasoline, natural gas, LNG, jet fuel — even the mere threat of disruption can cause a large and long-term increase in energy costs. Especially energy that is generated from burning hydrocarbon molecules, which have to be physically transported in pipelines and tankers. But not so much for energy that is generated from photons (I bet you know where I’m goi...
In this week’s episode of The Energy Show, Barry Cinnamon talks with Sean Gallagher (Senior VP of Policy, SEIA) about the new market reality after recent federal changes. As well as the financing tools, state policies, and grid programs that can help homeowners and installers move forward.
In this episode:
• How installers are adapting to the end of the residential tax credit with leases, PPAs, and newer financing structures
• What to...
After more than four decades in the solar industry, Barry Cinnamon breaks down the most common mistakes made by solar installers and homeowners and how to avoid them to ensure long-term performance, savings, and peace of mind.
In this episode of The Energy Show, you’ll learn:
• The installation mistakes that can cause leaks or system failures
• Why some systems are oversized or undersized
• How shading, roof orientation, and design...
In this episode of The Energy Show, Barry Cinnamon breaks down the science, economics, and practicality behind the proposed Trillion Trees Act — and asks the big question: Will it actually make a meaningful difference?
Trees absolutely help remove carbon from the atmosphere through natural carbon sequestration. But when you look at the numbers — global CO₂ emissions, land requirements, cost, and timing — the reality becomes clear: p...
Consider the poor photons! If your panels are dirty you are causing trillions of premature photonic deaths when they collide with dirt molecules. Please give those photons the chance to knock an electron loose from an eager semi-conductor. Instead of being converted to heat and banished to quantum hell.
Save The Photons. Clean Your Solar Panels
After just a week, your panels might look slightly dusty. But a light coating of dust does...
Unfortunately, there are a few "quick buck" solar companies that take advantage of unsuspecting homeowners. These ten tips will help you avoid these scam artists -- and get the best solar and battery installation for your home or business.
1. Beware of the word “Free”
2. Beware of TGTBT pricing and financing
3. Don’t sign up on the spot
4. Do not trust quotes generated completely online
5. Beware of “free maintenance and ...
This week on The Energy Show, we’re talking about solar + battery systems not just the equipment, but the customer service and troubleshooting that keeps these systems performing year after year.
Traditional “solar-only” systems can be wonderfully simple and reliable. But when you add batteries (plus transfer switches, CTs, load management, apps, and firmware), you also add more moving parts and that means it’s helpful to know what’...
Rooftop solar, net metering, and clean energy policies are being dismantled across the U.S. From the effective cancellation of the Inflation Reduction Act to broken contracts and financial clawbacks, fossil-fuel interests are pushing hard to regain control of our energy system.
This week on The Energy Show, Barry Cinnamon is joined by Bernadette Del Chiaro, Senior Vice President at the Environmental Working Group (EWG) and former Ex...
On this week’s episode of The Energy Show, Barry Cinnamon is joined by Carl Guardino, a longtime leader in government affairs and public policy, to explain how smart advocacy, trust, and relationships shape the laws and regulations that impact our energy future.
Carl has helped guide policy from every angle — from leading the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, to expanding clean-energy markets at Bloom Energy, to bringing high-speed b...
Nietzsche must have been referring to clean energy. Not even Nostradamus could have predicted this much turmoil in the energy sector in 2025. Nevertheless, Barry predicts steady clean energy progress due to lower solar, battery and heat pump costs.
1) Bad news - expect a record number of clean energy bankruptcies in 2026
2) AC2HP reach codes for homes will take off
3) Utilities will lie every time they say that the data center buildou...
AI and data centers are driving unprecedented demand for power. At the same time, federal clean-energy support is being rolled back, leaving households and businesses exposed to higher costs and grid instability.
So where does that leave us?
In this episode of The Energy Show, Barry Cinnamon is joined by Sachu Constantine, Executive Director of Vote Solar, to break down what’s really happening behind the scenes — and why state-level ...
In this week’s Energy Show, Barry talks with Panama Bartholomy, Founder and Executive Director of the Building Decarbonization Coalition, about how heat pumps, induction cooktops, better incentive programs, and smart building codes are transforming homes and businesses across the U.S.
• Heat pumps are 400% efficient, yes that's thermodynamically possible.
• Learn about the new heat pump water heaters that plug into the wall
• Home coo...
On this week's Energy Show we’re tackling one of the biggest challenges in America’s energy future: powering the exploding growth of AI data centers without causing electric rates to skyrocket even more. And without waiting 5-10 years for utilities to build new power plants and long distance transmission lines.
Here’s how: instead of building giant power plants hundreds of miles away, we can install new power capacity much closer to...
Barry exposes political, corporate, and global climate failures — and explains why solar, wind, and batteries remain our only practical way forward.
Episode Highlights:
• How Donald Trump’s policies are gutting clean-energy investments and reversing progress on solar and wind.
• Why corporate giants are abandoning their sustainability promises.
• Why the UN Climate Conferences have become dominated by fossil-fuel interests.
• Why even B...
This week Barry sits down with Gary Lam, CEO of
Franklin WH. A New Jersey native who’s now building
batteries in Santa Clara, California, Gary has led
Franklin from startup to one of the top-selling
whole-home batteries in the U.S.
In this episode:
• OBBB explained: Why 2026 pricing changes and
financing shifts.
• Franklin’s edge: The A Power 2 battery, new A Power
S (battery + inverter), the Hub load-shedding
controller, and meter-coll...
The 30% residential solar credit ends on Jan 1, 2026 but performance still wins. Barry talks with Brian Ghiglia about how REC’s Alpha Pure-RX (HJT, G12, half-cut) squeezes more energy from tight roofs, why hair-thin wiring (no hot-spot solder points) improves longevity, and how installers/homeowners can navigate 2026 with smarter financing and ops.
Episode Highlights
• REC tech explained: HJT + G12 (210mm) + half-cut architecture; co...
The 30% residential tax credit is ending in 2026—and the rules around commercial credits, domestic content, and safe harbor are tightening. What now? Aurora Solar’s CEO & Co-founder Chris Hopper joins Barry to lay out a practical plan for installers and homeowners: cut soft costs with software, speed up project cycles, and choose financing that fits the new reality.
What you’ll learn
- Why lease/PPA will surge in 2026—and how ...
RE+ (formerly Solar Power International) brought together over 40,000 energy enthusiasts in Las Vegas this year. From cutting-edge home batteries to balcony and plug-in solar systems, the industry is buzzing with products that are practical, reliable, and ready for homeowners now.
On this week’s Energy Show, Barry Cinnamon shares his Top Product Picks from RE+ 2025 — technologies that check all the boxes: affordability, reliability,...
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