Tim Pawlenty on the US Solar Industry

Solar and storage account for 70% of all new capacity added to the electric grid in the first half of 2026, and the US now has enough solar capacity to power more than 50 million American homes, according to a recent report from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie. On this week’s episode of the Sustainability Currents podcast, Tim Pawlenty, former governor of Minnesota and current president and CEO of SEIA, joins Eric Kane, Bloomberg Intelligence director of sustainable finance research, to discuss key findings from the group’s U.S. Solar Market Insight report. They discuss the strategic road map for scaling American solar and storage, bipartisan market reform, soaring power demand from data centers, grid interconnections and much more

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