<p>Home batteries are having a moment, but for years, getting one meant cobbling together a solar panel from one company, an inverter from another, a smart panel from a third, and hoping they'd all play nice. This week on <em>Everybody in the Pool</em>, Molly takes a field trip to Mountain View, California, to visit Lunar Energy, where founder and CEO Kunal Girotra has built the fully integrated solar-plus-battery ecosystem he always wished existed.</p><p>Plus: a tour of Lunar's working showroom, where we flip a breaker, watch the app react in real time, and find out what happens when you leave the oven on during a power outage.</p><p><br></p><h3>We talk about:</h3><ul><li>Why Kunal left Tesla Energy to build a fully integrated home energy ecosystem</li><li>How Lunar's modular, stackable battery blocks work (think Lego bricks for your garage wall)</li><li>The real math on savings: how a solar and battery system can cut your bill by $2,000/year, and Lunar's AI adds another $500 on top</li><li>How "virtual power plants" are actually very real, and why Lunar wants to rename them "distributed power plants"</li><li>Why Northeastern states are leading on VPP policy, and what utilities in other regions need to change to keep up</li></ul><p><br></p><h3>Links:</h3><ul><li>Lunar Energy: <a href="https://www.lunarenergy.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.lunarenergy.com/</a></li><li>Sunrun (Lunar's leading VPP partner): <a href="https://www.sunrun.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.sunrun.com/</a></li><li>Green Mountain Power: <a href="https://greenmountainpower.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://greenmountainpower.com/</a></li><li>All episodes: <a href="https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/</a></li><li>Join our Discord! <a href="https://discord.gg/2EsDhwQC2z" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://discord.gg/2EsDhwQC2z</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 (and support future field trips): <a href="https://everybodyinthepool.supercast.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://everybodyinthepool.supercast.com/</a></li></ul><p><br></p><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>