Decentralized Energy: Solar, Home Batteries & Virtual Power Plants | Jason Badeaux, Daylight (#70)

Explore how decentralized energy is transforming the power grid — rooftop solar, home batteries, virtual power plants, and on-chain financing. This is the new DePIN-powered energy economy.In this episode, Tom Trowbridge (co-founder of Fluence) talks with Jason Badeaux, co-founder of Daylight Energy — one of the fastest-growing decentralized energy networks in the world.Daylight recently announced a $75M funding round, combining venture capital with project finance to deploy thousands of solar-plus-storage systems across the U.S. This episode breaks down why electricity demand is exploding, how decentralized energy solves the bottleneck, and why the future grid will be built at the edge — home by home, community by community.What we cover in this episode:

- Solar + battery systems becoming the new distributed power plants

- The energy crunch: AI, EVs, industry and the surge in electricity demand

- Virtual Power Plants as a scalable alternative to traditional utilities

- Energy subscriptions: zero-upfront solar & storage for homeowners

- DePIN incentives creating community-driven grid expansion

- On-chain financing and real-world yields through Daylight’s GRID token

- The roadmap to 1M decentralized energy homes and gigawatt-scale impactIf you want to understand how DePIN intersects with energy, why virtual power plants are the future, and how decentralized finance will fund the next wave of power infrastructure — listen now! 🎧