E135: The Battery That Pays You Back with Lunar Energy

About this episode

Molly Wood visits Lunar Energy to explore their integrated solar-plus-battery ecosystem and discuss energy savings and technology.

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 Everybody in the Pool , 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. 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. We talk about: Why Kunal left Tesla Energy to build a fully integrated home energy ecosystem How Lunar's modular, stackable battery blocks work (think Lego bricks for your garage wall) 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 How "virtual power plants" are actually very real, and why Lunar wants to rename them "distributed power plants" Why Northeastern states are leading on VPP policy, and what utilities in other regions need to change to keep up Links: Lunar Energy…

People in this episode

Host: Molly Wood

Guest: Kunal Girotra

Topics covered

• home batteries
• solar energy
• energy savings
• virtual power plants
• technology integration

Keywords

• home batteries
• solar panel
• energy ecosystem
• savings
• virtual power plants

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Lunar Energy, Tesla Energy, Sunrun, Green Mountain Power

Places: Mountain View, California

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