E127: Your House as a Power Plant with Enphase's Marco Krapels

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?

This week on Everybody in the Pool, 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.

We talk about:

• Why the AI energy crisis might be the thing that finally scales residential solar and batteries
• How Enphase's software turns rooftop solar, home batteries, and EV chargers into smart, dispatchable grid assets
• The virtual power plant model, and why utilities are finally on board
• How Green Mountain Power in Vermont and Octopus Energy in the UK have already proven this works at scale
• Why adding solar and a 10 kWh battery to less than 10 million homes could solve the U.S. capacity crunch
• The bi-directional EV charger that's coming later this year and why it's a 7x multiplier on home battery capacity
• What a future where homeowners get paid by hyperscalers and utilities — instead of paying for their electricity — could actually look like
• Why clean, distributed energy is the fastest path to winning the AI race

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