<p>What if solar panels on your roof, a home battery in your garage, and the EV in your driveway could together make you money — while simultaneously solving the grid capacity crisis?</p><p>This week on <em>Everybody in the Pool</em>, Molly sits down with Marco Krapels, SVP and Chief Marketing Officer of Enphase Energy, to discuss what surging data center energy demand means for the future of residential clean energy — and why Enphase thinks the answer is turning millions of American homes into a distributed, AI-optimized virtual power plant.</p><p><br></p><h3>We talk about:</h3><ul><li>Why the AI energy crisis might be the thing that finally scales residential solar and batteries</li><li>How Enphase's software turns rooftop solar, home batteries, and EV chargers into smart, dispatchable grid assets</li><li>The virtual power plant model, and why utilities are finally on board</li><li>How Green Mountain Power in Vermont and Octopus Energy in the UK have already proven this works at scale</li><li>Why adding solar and a 10 kWh battery to less than 10 million homes could solve the U.S. capacity crunch</li><li>The bi-directional EV charger that's coming later this year and why it's a 7x multiplier on home battery capacity</li><li>What a future where homeowners get paid by hyperscalers and utilities — instead of paying for their electricity — could actually look like</li><li>Why clean, distributed energy is the fastest path to winning the AI race</li></ul><p><br></p><h3>Links:</h3><ul><li>Enphase: <a href="https://enphase.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://enphase.com/</a></li><li>All episodes: <a href="https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/</a></li><li>Subscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: <a href="https://www.mollywood.co/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.mollywood.co/</a></li><li>Become a member for the ad-free version of the show: <a href="https://everybodyinthepool.supercast.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://everybodyinthepool.supercast.com/</a></li></ul><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>