Solar Isn’t Enough: Ron Kamen on Policy, Heat Pumps, and What’s Really Holding Back the Clean Energy Transition

In this powerful episode of Off the Grid, On the Record, host Yarek Matacz sits down with Ron Kamen, founder and CEO of EarthKind Energy Consulting, to pull back the curtain on the real bottlenecks behind small solar’s slow growth—and why tech isn’t the problem.

With decades of experience in policy, program development, and large-scale project consulting, Ron explains how local permitting, outdated regulation, and fragmented energy strategies are still holding back otherwise capable developers and communities.

From New York’s billion-dollar NY-Sun program to performance-based incentives and community coalitions, this episode is a masterclass in how clean energy actually gets deployed—and what needs to change to scale it.

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